Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-04-04
NE WS NUGGETS.
Wirings From Eastern States
Briefly Told.

A slump OF cents occurred in oi
yesterday. The market was com
pletely demoralized.
F. A. Macy & Co., of New York
manufacturers of umbrellas, have
failed. Liabilities from $125, ZOO tc
$3.50, 900; assets, $40, 900.
The Citizens Municipal Ticket wal
elected yesterday at Milwaukee, ovel
the Union Labor party by majoritie,
ranging from 500 to 1000.
The National Conference OF Anti
Saloon Republicans will be held a
New York, May I'd, instead of the
date previously announced
Municipal elections were hello
throught Missouri to-day. Returns &c
far received show no special features
and have no political significance.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland was yester.
day elected President of the Eastern
Alumnal Association of the Wells
College at the annual meeting of the
association in New York city.
Noy Min Ding, Chinese butcher,
was shot and instantly killed By
Charles Carey at the Union stock
yards, Chicago, yesterday morning,
The shooting was without provoca-
tion. Carey has been arrested.
Jacob Greenbaum, the we'll kno VIZ,
California auctioneer, who died at the
Windsor hotel, New York. Friday
was buried yesterday in Cypress Hill
Cemetery. He was OH his way to
Europe on a visit when taken ill.
The Legislature of Maryland has nc.
pealed the charter of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Employees Relief
Association, to take effect April /,
1889. This action means the approval
of the new officers of the railroad CON-
pany.
The Jail at Friars Point, Tenn,
burned yesterday morning and five
prisoners perished in the flames. An
effort was made to rescue them but
without success. The jail is supposed
to have been fired by one of the in
mates, who was under sentence to the
peniteatiary.
Mrs. Tillie Sipp, aged 35, while in q
fit OF insanity, threw her 11-year-
son from the fourth story of a house
New York. She then jumped after
the child. The mother and son were
both seriously injured and will prob
ably die. The husband OF the woman
is a baker. He was not at home at
the time.
The steamship Comonas and
Olivia, both of which arrived at New
York yesterday, were detained at
quarantine for tho. ough fumigation.
The former carries 1853 and the lat
ter 900 immigrants. No sickness has
been reported on either vessel, but as
both come from infected ports, Glib
raltar and Marseilles. this precaution
was deemed advisable.
The election held yesterday in Chi
cago was devoid of any interesting
features. Aldermen were elected as
we'll as officers for the three Clowns.
The vote was decidedly light, only fifty
per cent being cast. In the town
officers the Republicans retain all
they held heretofore, the Democrats
only holding one man. There were no
surprises worthy of mention in the
Aldermanic contests, and neither
party can be said to have made any
gains.
The great hotel Brighton at Coney
Island, structure $50 by 200 feet,
and weighing 5000 tons, was moved
back from the beach yesterday 120
feet, and will be taken 200 feet
farther. The building rests on 120
fiat cars running on "a tracks, and is
moved by six heavy locomotives. The
great building has been moved with
out crack or jar. The removal was
necessitated by the encroachment OF
the sea, and is considered a great feat
of engineering.