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Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-29
The worlds Tobacco Yield,

The worlds annual output of tobacco
is increasing, perhaps more rapidly than,
that of either wheat or corn.
Kentucky is the greatest factor in the
tobacco market, and her product steadily
grows. That of Virginia does likewise,
and several Of the Northern States are
cultivating it successfully. Cuba has
long been famous for her cigar wrappers,
and in many parts of the island the
planters are abandoning sugar and turn
ing their attention to tobacco, finding
the latter much more profitable. Even
Germany is endeavoring to raise it.
But the greatest efforts to extend the
cultivation of tobacco are being made IN
the East Indies Both the soil and the
climate of the great islands near the
Asiatic coast are admirably adapted to
the weed, and it has long been success
fully grown there, but not until recently
have attempts been made to produce it
on such large scale. Both the Dutch
and the English are heavily interested.
and the industry is not conducted by
small farmers as here in Kentucky, but
by great companies on immense planta.
tons, working thousand or more Cool
les and Malays.
The most prosperous of the companies
are located in Batavia and Sumatra. and
their tobacco is frequently shipped to
American markets. The last issue of
the London Financial News quotes the
stock of five of these corporations as fol-
lows: 351, 351, 1886, 429 and 61O. They
have advanced about ninety points each
in the last three months, and are among
the most highly priced shares of the
London Exchange Courier j Journal.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-29
STORM INCIDENTS.
Result of the Big Storm that Del.
uged Chicago.

CHICAGO, July 28-From all accounts
received today and this evening, last
ngh''s storm was one of the worst ever
known in the history of the city, both
tor amount of rainfall and damage done.
Aside from the awful catastrophe at
Twenty.first and Leavitt streets, where
eight people were killed by falling
house, three lives are known to have
been lost. One child was killed by
lightning, and two men, walking on the
railroad track, we're stunned by shock
and killed by passing train.
the damage to basement stores in the
business portion of the city ia very great,
and in the residence portion MANY
houses were more or less injured by
wind or lightning. All along the streets
in the outskirts of the city the storm NAV
be traced by fallen trees and wrecked
fences and outbuildings.
Among dozens of other casualties, a
case is reported OF a patrolman who.
while reporting to the station sergeant
over the patrol telephone, was knocked
senseless by shock of electricity and is
in very serious condition.
The tremendous rainfall raised the
Chicago river rapidly, and all last night
and today it has been fi)wing into Lake
Michipan at a speed of about six miles
an hour. 1t is reported that traces of
the filthy water can be discovered nearly
as far out as the crib, where Chicago's
water f1pply is taken in.
Telegraph and telephone wires through.
out the city and suburbs were badly
used up, and today large gangs of men
have been busily employed repairing the
damages.
City fire engines were to be seen at
many points in the heart of the city
pumping out the water from easements.
stores, restaurants and other places.
During the height of the storm last
night, the propeller Boston, of the New
York central line, grain laden, coming
down the south branch from the elevator,
became unmapagea le on account of the
swift current, and swung broadside to
against bridge. 1t was held in
that position until this evening.
Notwithstanding all efforts at release.
1t took two railroad engines on the shore,
two large tugs and an elaborate compli-
cation of tackle to release the big boat,
and in the meantime the river and rail.
road traffic in that vicinity was com.
pletely suspended.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-29
A FIELD DAY.
Saloon X eepers Resist the sunday
Law at Cincinnati.


CINCINNATI, July 2S.-Today was a
regular field day between the saloon
keepers and police. Of the 272 saloonists
who met last week, all, with the excep-
tion of about forty, tried to keep open.
In consequence there were about $50 ar
rests. By far the greater part of the
saloons were to all appearances closed
Over the Rhine two or three riots to- k
place this afternoon.
At Fifteenth and Pine streets, about 4
O'Clock, the police undertook to arrest
man for disorderly conduct. A crowd of
l,500, composed chiefly of the hoodlums
that infest the neighborhood, quickly
ga hered, and the cry of "Mob the
police !" was raised. The mob set upon
the police with clubs and fists, and one
policeman was badly beaten. his scalp
being cut, but he was not seriously in
juied. About a dozen policemen kept
the crowd back with clubs, while another
officer arrested the man.
On the corner of Walnut and Twelfth
streets, at Aif pger's saloon, an unsuc-
cessful attempt to resist the police was
made.
Three reporters who went over the
Rhine this evening to look up matters
had quite an adventure. They were sus-
pee ed of being spies, and the crowd de-
msnded that they give an account of
themselves. Two If them gave satisfac
tory reasons, but the third was obliged to
cut and run down Pine street, followed
by mob, and he only escaped serious
injury by being rescued by the police.
More saloons we're closed today than
on any previous Sunday since the at
tempt was first made to enforce the law.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-29
Unkin dest Gut of All.

An old ex.soldier was hobbling along
the north corridor of the Treasury De-
psrtment the other day, looking at the
different doors upon his right and left,
when he espied colored messenger to
whom he spoke and inquired the way to
the office of the Treasurer. Mr.. Impu.
dence Insolence Africanus replied: "Fol-
low your nose" Well, the mixed Irish
and American cursing that the old SOL
dier INDUCED in would have made a
pirate sad. He eventually reached
his destination and had his
pension check cashed, and then he
opened up for the benefit of the Treas.
urer. He took off his nose and then
removed silver plate from the top of
his head. and told the Treasurer that he
would strip, if it were not for decencv's
sake, and show him how he was shot to
pieces. 81 fought four years and have
suffered for twenty-five years to free the
ID naggur; then to have one of them
to insult me. If l had had my revolver
would have killed the impudent cur"
Alter thus delivering himself he went
away Washington Critic.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-29

THE Attorney General of the State OF
Minnesota holds the law which forbids
newspapers to publish details of execu-
tons to be constitutional. There is a
strong probability that this is case of
so much the worse for the constitution.
AS famous liberal professor Of the
ology in one of the German Universities
said, when confronted with verse from
the writings of the Apostle
Paul which was diametrically op-
posed to the tenets promulgated
by the professor, "That is where
l differ from the beloved Paulus;" 80 the
newspapers are likely to differ with the
constitution of She State. tits extremely
difficult to forsaulate any general rule
of cast-iron nature to fetter the press
in this country. Indeed it is difficult in
the extreme to restrain freedom of speech
on the part of private persons.
Mrs. Lucy Parsons, our ill-informed
darkey virago from Texas made Chicago
lurid with her unrestrsined lamentations
to riot yesterday. 1t would do more
harm to attempt, however wisely and
calmly, to shut her up than all her in.
temperate speech could do. Public
opinion is the only proper restraint to
put on the press. And even Lucy Par
sons kind will be allowed to go on talk
ing while anyone is foolish enough to
listen to her. But let it be seen
to that woe betide the wight
who puts any of her teachings into
practice. That is where liberty ends
and licentiousness begins. III Lucy can
talk in one State, the Pioneer Press might
be trusted to "gang its ain gate" in
another.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-29
We ARE told that there are sixty.four

We ARE told that there are sxty-four
millionaires in Cleveland, Ohio. The
list is beaded by John D. Rockefeller,
whose fortune is placed at the modest
figure OF s150,00O, 900. His income is
said to be $4,000, 900 year. He is the
King of the Standard Oil Company, most
of whose magnates are located at Cleve-
land, and whose mem mbership contributes
heavily TO the formidable eixty-four
aforesaid. Outside of Cleveland, there
are fully sixty four millions of people in
the United States whose incomes do not
amount toian average Of $500 year. 1t
is such pronounced inequalities in the
condition Of manAind that furnish the
problems for the political economist
How they can be adjusted with resultant
happiness to the individual and pi os-
perity to the Republic may we'll occupy
the best thought of the best minds of
the nation. Meanwhile this aggregation
of wealth is making of Euclid avenue
and Prospect street in Cleveland scene
of architectural and arboral and lawn
splendore not often seen on earth.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-29
A Beethoven Museum.

The people of Bonn have purchased
the house in which Beethoven was born
with the intention of converting it into a
museum of objects illustrating his life
and works. The house, which in recent
years has been both dancing saloon of
doubtful character and dime museum,
is to be restored as far as possible to the
condition in which it was in ITO, when
Beethoven was born. The committee
which has been formed to carry out the
project ask gifts. 1t ia sought to collect
busts and portraits Of Beethoven. manu-
scripts of his works, his letters, a collec-
ton OF all the books which have been
written about him and his compositions,
complete sets of the various editions of
his works and all other relics which can
possibly be obtained either by Gift or
purchase. Joachim has been elected
President for life of the museum.-(From
q Dresden letter.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-29
VINO did not at frat think the n

VINO did not at first think the PROPOSE
tion chimerieal when a great telescope
was talked of for Wilson's Peak above
Pasadena? But this section has a way
of "getting there" In the HERALD of
this morning may be read an excerpt
translated from Figaro, in which come
interesting data in reference to the big
lens is gived. Note it is the largest of
its kind ever cast. 1t is an era of big
things, that break all records, and Los
Angeles usually does little breaking
when she puts her hand to anything. A
road operated by stationery engine en-
the Peak will be built, and the big
telescope will sweep the empyrean from
its clear heights.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-29
EASTERN REPORTS.
Lucy Parsons Waving the
Red Rag.
INCIDENTS OF THE SUNDAY
Police MObbed by Hoodlums in the
City of POrk-The storm
at Chicago.

Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD
CHICAGO, July 2S-The hundredth an.
niversary of the storming OF the Bastile
was celebrated by the socialistic and an
srchistic societies in this city today. 1t
was jubilee day for the anarchists.
Mrs. Lucy Parsons, widow of the noted
anarchist, made an incendiary speech
that was loudly applauded. She said the
fall of the Bastile, while a blow to ty.
ranny, did not destroy economic slavery.
There must be another revolution-a
revolution against the "Bastiles of la
bor."
1.-THE people will rise and storm and
capture those Bastilee, aud they will
bear out the heads OF these devils, the
capitalists, on pixies and slaves. Vocif-
erous applause.
They presume to rule by the divine
right of the rifle and Gatling gun, the
moose and the prison. You must seizs
those rifles and Gatling guns, destroy the
gallows and storm the prisons. You
must not march in the street to be
bioNcu uOWu, Dut yOu nuSt gov WltHln
the walls and victory is yours.
81 say there will be revolution. say
you men are brave enough to rise and
put down the tyrants. If the revolution
comes, the red flag waves, the Bastile
falls, the common people are triumphant
and history repeats itself"
Tue crowd cheered itself hoarse at
the conclusion of Mrs. Parsons speech.
She was followed by Paul Grottkau, a
we'll known anarchist, who echoed the
sentiment 80 vehemently expressed by
Mrs, Parsons.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-29
THE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
what the Convention at Cincinns
VIII GOnAider


VIII Consider.
WASHINGTON, July 2S. = Chairman
Jones, of the National Greenback Com
mittee, will tomorrow issue a circular
letter in which he will say: SIN reply
to many inquiries from Prohibitionists,
Female Sutfragists and representatives
of other sentimental and semi-political
organizations, asking an admission as to
what action will be taken by the
coming Greenback Convention on
Tie questions they represent, I de-
sire to say, with due respect to
all who honestly advocat, such
doctrines, that is the unanimous opinion
among the National Greenbackers that
the National Greenback Convention, to
be held at Cincinnati, September 18th,
will define its declaration of principles to
the questions of restored fraternity
spirit of true American nationality
among the entire people; opposition to
the dangerous eectionallsm of a solid
North and solid South to the payment
of the public debt according to the
original contracts under which they we're
issued to money. land, transportation,
trusts, Board of Trade gambling on and
making prices for American farm
products; English control over the vol
ume of our money; English capital man.
ufacturing or handling the products OF
American labor, and to such other ques-
tions as affect the material interests OF
the American people and free govern
neut."
The letter then Gays trade and COM
merce is languishing for want of more
money, and declares that the application
of the Greenback principles would stim-
ulate business and increase the prosper
ity Of the laboring classes and of the
merchant and manufacturer.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-29
MONDAY, JULY go, 1859.
The Illustrated Herald on sale.


This morning, and hereafter until
further notice, the Los ANGELES Illus.
TRArEp HERALD will be for ssie over
the counters of our business office. 1t
realizes all that we have claimed for
1t, and it is, unquestionably, the hand
soonest publication of the kind ever
issued in California. In the artistic
character of the illustrations and the
value of the letter-press the Illus
TRATED HERALD is absolutely unique.
Everyone who can afford to do 30,
should send copy of it to his friends
In the East. 1t will do untold good.
The pictorial and statistical matter
will dc much to disabuse the minds
of the Eastern people of the stories
80 industriously circulated to the
prejudice of this section. We take
great pride in the fact that this
beautiful publications. miracle of the
art preservative Of all arts-was issued
from the HERALD Job Office.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-29

questions arising in the Scottish
Rite controversy, is stated to
be that the Cernean organization
has established relations of amitv and
Masonic correspondence with the Grand
Orient OF France, the governing body of
Masons in that country, which is under
the ban ofat least every English
Grand Lodge in the world, because the
Grand Orient has stricken the name of
God from its rituals. The Grand Lodges
of this country, it is said, have addi.
tional grievances against the Grand
Orient of France, because the latter per.
sists in recognizing the negro Grand
Lodges Of the United States.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-29

was to "blow it in." The really intelli-
gent and patriotic solution is to en-
ploy it in creating great govern
ment Navy Yards, where the United
States could build the vessels which are
required to maintain the national dig
nifty and assure the national safety. San
Pedro would be an excellent point for the
location of such navy yard. Fuel can
be landed there as cheaply as at any
point on the Pacific Coast, and the best
quality OF iron and other materials are as
accessible from San Pedro as from any
other point in California.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-29
sunday Law at Kansas Cttv

KANSAS Cry, July 28.-It having
been found inexpedient to make ar.
rests OF Sunday-law violators under the
Downing or State law, as the Police
Judges could not enforce some of its pro-
visions, the Commissioners hunted
around and found city ordinance ex.
aactly like the Downing law, and con-
ferrlDg proper powers upon the Police
Judges. The penalty of revocation of
license had its effect, and today the DO.
lice were able to arrest only seven vio-
lators of the law.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-29

TIE mercury during the past four days
has struck unexampled heights in Los
Angeles. Saturday was probably the
hottest day that has been recorded in
this section for ten years. By tomorrow
we shall be able to record decided
change for the better, as these meteor
logical extremes never last in Los An
geles over five days, and generally con-
tent themselves with three. Notwith-
standing the heat of the days, the nights
have been delightful. The climatic con
ditions here are regulated upon simple
and very delightful plan. During the
summer months the Colorado and Mo-
iave Deserts ars heated during the day
to an extreme, creating a vacuum, and
the denser and cooler air of the ocean
rushes in to fill the void, giving
US our delicious sea breeze, which
generally starts up about 10 O'Clock
in the morning. These same expanses
of desert cool off during the night, and
when the air is denser there and on the
mountains than on the uniform expanse
of the ocean, we have the land breeze to
make our nights exquisite, this latter
being created by the denser and heavier
inland air rushing in to fill the void
made by the rarefed air of the Pacific
We can be very we'll content to accept an
occasional heat dispensation when we
have such reliable and invariable allot-
ments Of fresh and alternating ocean
and mountain breezes to make our days
and nighta blissful.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-29

CHICAGO is this time the center OF the
sweeping storm which prostrates crops,
tears trees up by the roots, lays homes
low and jeopardizes property and life in
wholesale manner. 1t is a rare day
that brings no report Of these destructive
visitations from some part of the trans
mountain States of the Union. 1t may
be trifie nearer the tropics in tempera
ature with US here for day or two; but
even with the mercury up 10 the nineties
we can say ours is the finest climate in
the Union.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-29
Why the sewer Bonds Will MIS-.
carry,


The HERALD contains this morning
another batch of interviews on the out
fall sewer proposition. They all lean
strongly against the pass age Of the ordi-
nance, and they have been cleaned ab-
solutely without premeditstion, as were
those which appeared in Saturday morn
ing's HERALD. Our instructions were to
interview representative citizens pre-
cisely as they were encountered, without
the slightest idea Of coloring these ex.
pressions of opinion. We have gone far
enough, notwithstanding the authcrita-
tive opinions of our esteemed contem.
porsries, the Express and Tribune, to
satisfy us that the sewer ordinance will
not only not receive the two-thirds ma
jority needed to enact it into &
law, but that it will not re.
ceive even q majority of the pop.
ular vote. We charge our contenl-
poraries nothing for this information.
and We are wise in this because our
chance of reward would be small frem
journals that assumed to know it all from
the start. The chances of passing that
or any other ordinance requiring the ex-
penditure of large sums of money were
dwarfed from the day the Council had to
do its work all over again. The strong
est argument in favor of the outfall sewer
originally was that the sewer work, be-
gun under a liberal policy, would help to
fida tho nyfy l,,n
the case stands today an election cannot
possibly be held earlier than the 2Sth of
August, which will leave just three days
OF the current summer to be accounted
for. 1t would be months, were
the bonds adopted by the peo-
pie, before they could be negotiated
and work begun. This process would
land us in midwinter before there would
be a stroke of work. The present Coun-
Gil, unanimously Republican, began its
existence by doubling whether it was
legally constituted body, waiting for
weary weeks Tor a decision of the courts
which, out of decent respect to itself.
it ought to have assumed would be in its
own favor, and which the H8RALD all
along assured it would necessarily be in
its favor. Beginning by distrusting its
own legal constitution and powers, it
next made defective advertisement Of
the contemplated election, which had to
be advertised over again, with the result
OF throwing the whole scheme Of public
improvements over the summer into the
winter months. AS result, the people
are probably profoundly distrustful of
the wisdom of our City solons, and will
decline to intrust them with the disposi.
tion of large sums of the public moneys.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-29
MASONIC GRIEVANCES.
An Edict Concerning the Cernea N
Scottish Rite.

WASHINGTON, July 2S.-The contro-
versy which has been general in the
Masonic fraternity throughout the
country respecting the Cernean Scottish
r te, has eliminated here in the issue of
an edict by Harrison Dingman, Most
Worehipful Grand Master Of the Masons
OF the District Of Columbia, under date
OF July 25th. pronouncing the Cernean
organlzalion candestine, and warning
all members of that rite that they are
liable to discipline from the Grand
Lodge unless they at once withdraw
from the said Cernean body. The main
reason for the edict, aside from other
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-29

IT is an interesting subject of inquiry
to ascertain why it is that, with an enor-
nous surplus in the treasury Of the
United States, we are so remies in pro.
viding this country with an adequate
navy and with Notifications commensur.
ate with the extent and commanding
position of the United States. For
twenty years We have been taking des-
Perate chances. Mr.. Tilden signalized
the last days of his long and useful ca.
reer by pointing out to his countrymen the
exigent necessity of giving our coast de-
fences modern armament and equipping
a serviceable navy. Ii we remember
Alright, this letter was written in 1884
Yet his words fell unheeded. We have
devoted our attention exclusively to the
creation of few fast cruisers and few
dispatch boats, neither of any sig
nificance in case of war. Two
or three hundred millions Of
dollars might be very properly and
beneficiaRy employed in making up for
our laches in this regard. There is no
reason that we can see why we should
not also devote some of the national sur
plus to creating prosperous American
merchant marine. Great Britain built
up her shipping interests by a liberal
system OF bounties, which is continued
now where it is needed. To create the
plants required to cast the ordnance now
demanded in modern warfare would ia Ike
at least five years, and the sooner we be-
gin the business the sooner we shall re-
lieve ourselves from the imputation of
lunacy. Tom Fitch's solution
for the surplus during the last campaigal
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-29
A Schooner Seized.

VIoroRIA, B. c., July 28.-The Britieh
schooner Triumph arrived this afternoon
from the Behring Sea with the intelli-
gence that the American cutter Rush
selzed the British schooner Black Dia
mond In the Behring Sea. The Black
Diamond had taken 130 seals. A
prize crew, was put aboard and
she was ordered to proceed to Ounal-
aska forthwith. The commander of the
kush intended seizing the Triumph, but
iet her 60 as she had not taken any
skins. News OF the capture has caused
great excitement and further news lie
anxiously looked for.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-29
Coiored Women Poisoned.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, July 28.-Lucinda
Bedford. q wealthy colored woman, aged
50, and Emily Persons, her niece, aged
10, were poisoned yesterdy, poison being
put in their coffee by Catherine Small.
colored, who claims she wanted to kill
Mrs. Bedford's cook, Grace Hunter.
Mrs. Bedford is very ill but will recover.
Her niece died in the evening. The mo-
tive OF the Small woman for the poison
ing is not known.