davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Irish standard., 1889-06-15


tions are already under way. The pro-
ceeds will be given to orphan asylums
at Minneapolis. Further information
will be given in our next issue.
The monthly meeting Of the super
visors Of the poor was held Thursday
afternoon and Supt. Snyder presented
his monthly report. According to 1t
there was $539.Ol expended for grocer
les given to charity during May. On
Nav there were 81 patients in the diff
ferent hospitals, and there are So now.
The hospital expenses amounted to
$5O2,64, and the poorhouse expense
1851. Is; total expenses Of the depart
ment for May 81 1874 So.
Mrs. j. w, Nash, at her home, 825
Sixth street south, gave very enjoy
able progressive euchre party to num-
her of friends on last Tuesday evening
There were five tables in use for about
three hours and playing was lively and
interesting until twelve O'Clock. After
refreshments were served the prizes
were given to the following winners:
Head table. gents prize, P.J. Qualey;
head table, ladies' prize, Miss NJ. Nc
Carthy; foot prize, gents, John Don
nelly; foot prize: ladies', Mrs. Barry.
The Irish standard., 1889-06-15

HERE are some Suits
that are equal to any
garment sold at any
other house in the
United States for SIS.
Sacks or 4-Button
Getaways, handsome
patterns and perfect
ly made and trimmed.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-10-23

should be accorded, always with view
to the fact that successful intimidation,
throught the courts, of an honest and
reputable journal is the strongest possi-
BILE buttress of fraud and wrong.
Chauncey M. Depew, at the
laying Of the corner stone of the new six
teen story building of the New York
World, couple of weeks ago, said that
the two greatest things ever chronicled
on the American continent took place in
the seventeenth century, and almost con-
temporaneously, and they were the land.
ing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock
and the founding of the first newspaper
in New England. Thomas Jefferson
went much further than any of the
speakers at the laying of the Worlds
corner stone, when he said that, if he
were compelled to choose between gov
ernmens and free, unshackled press, he
would choose the latter unhesitatingly.
He put his judgment in language which
can't be misunderstood, and it ran thus
"As between a government without a
free press, and free press without q
government, would choose the latter
every time"
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-10-23

WHEN a few weeks ago the HERALI
drew public attention to the bids made
to supply three thousand desks to the
school department, and showed by
figures quoted from the prices current
elsewhere that they were very excessive,
there was great clatter about the bust.
ness standing of the bidders precludine
the idea that they would attempt to
cinch the city. In spite of all this, our
figures and comments had the effect oi
causing the Board of Education to rejec.
all bids and readvertise for others. The
result shows that the city will get its
desks much cheaper than if it had &C.
cepted the first bids. The first and sec-
ond bids of one of the firms that has
made bids on both occasions compare in
the total for the several sets as $27.10 is
to $23.40. But the new bidders that
came in all 60 below this, and are as fol.
lows for the several sets: 800 90; $22. 20
$22.75. 1t is to be noted, too, that the
condition Of the first bids (rejected) was
that the city should pay the freight from
the factory at the East; the last bids are,
delivered here free of freight charges.
We think that, all things considered, the
HERALD has done the city some service
in this matter.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-10-23
FOREIGN FINDINGS.
British Capital Trading in
Human Chattels.
THE SLAVE TRADE IN ZANZIBAR.
Opening of the German Reichstag.
Reading of the Speech from
the Throne.
| Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD. |

Associated Press Dispatches to the HEgALD,l
LONDON, October 22.-Letters from
Zanzibar received at the Office of the
AntiSlavery Society here, report that
the buying and selling of human chattels
in the streets of that city is being carried
on with scarcely any attempt at conceal
ment. Weekly markets are held, at
which the slaves are boldly exposed to
the gaze of intending buyers, and in
many cases each slave carries placard
suspended from his neck, upon which is
written the price at which he can be-
bought. The women are not usually
ticketed in this way, but are sold for
what they will fetch, the ordinary price
being e6 to e10 each, if young. The
merchants who carry on the traffic are all
Arabs, but it seems to be we'll understood
in Zanzibar that rich firms of English
traders furnish capital to continue the
business.
All the local officials in Zanzibar are.
said to be in the pay of this firm, who
purchase immunity by bribing the
authorities from the highest to Tie
lowest, and so complete is their influence
that complaint receives little attention.
To illustrate the openness with which
the trade is carried on, it is pointed,
out that the receipts of slaves every
week are publicly announced by placards
upon the walls of houses. The letters
complain that the representatives in
Zanzibar Of the different European gov
ernments appear to take no interest
whatever in these matters.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-10-23

THE death of Major Patrick Sarsfeld
O'Reilly, whose funeral took place yes
terday, ended the career of a gentleman
who, since the Pioneer period, has been
widely and favorably known in this
State. As he is comparatively a new
conner to Los Angeles, the circle of bis
acquaintances here was not very extern
sive; but in San Francisco, where he
spent nearly all the years of his man
hood, he was universally known and re-
spected for his staunch character and his
high principles of probity and honor.
He was man of excellent impulses and
of the most undaunted moral and
physical courage, and in the days
when personal intrepidity was of the
utmost Importance in individual char
acter in this State, the deceased enjoyed
the distinction which that quality i'm.
parted in the highest degree. During
the lifetime of Colonel Thomas Hayes,
of Hayes Valley, San Francisco, Major
O'Reilly was his confidential business
man, and managed his vast property in
terests with that fine business acumen
and sterling integrity for which he was
distinguished. 1t is sad to think that 80
valuable a life should have been sacri-
feed to miserable accident which per-
haps few well-driven nails would have
avoided.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-10-23
DEMOCRATIC CLUBS.
Democrats of the Empire state ON
a Solid Foundation.

New YORK, October 22.-The annual
convention of the State League of Demo
cratic Clubs met today. Governor Hill
made brief address, in which he said
the Democratic party stood just where it
did year ago. 1t pledged itself for
tariff reform and it reiterated that pledge.
The party did not advocate free trade,
and that was an accurate statement of
the platform. The longer the present
administration WAS in power, the more
it would be shown what wise admiE-
istration was that OF Grover Cleveland.
Within the last ten days the Republicans
had tried to steal the whole Democratic
vote of Montana. The Republican party
had violated every pledge it had made,
and Cabinet places had been sold to the
highest bidder.
A letter from ex.President Cleveland,
in which he said he was much pleased to
learn that the League intends to make
the organizations of which it is composed
permanent agencies for spreading and
illustrating the doctrines of the Demo-
cratic party at all times and in all Cir
cumstances. In conclusion he said: 81
look to an ascendency of the principles
upon which true Democracy rests, which
will be greatly aided by the activity of
leagues such as yours, to secure US from
wasteful extravaganza, from demagogic
pretense, from sectional bitterness, and
from widespread corruption of the suf-
frage."
Resolutions were adopted, reaffirming
the st. Louis platform; advocating q
proper reform of the ballot laws; con-
demDing tie Republican Administration
for the removal of the Chief Justice of
one of the Territories; denouncing the
project of the Republican party in SUBJ
sidizing steamship corporations; endors
ing the wise and economical administra-
tion Of Governor Hill, and renewing
congratulations to Grover Cleveland for
the wisdom and bravery with which he
fought the fight of tariff reform and true
Democracy in 1887 and 1888,
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-10-23

eketched the development of transporta-
ton in this country. He advocated the
union of our railways with those Of South
America by the subvention, if requisite,
OF International lines. He spoke of the
development of our commerce with
Mexico since the completion of rail con-
nection with that country, and said we
should push onward to greater results.
Less than sixteen hundred miles will
reach the Panama railroad, and four
four hundred more would unite our
States and the Mexican syetem with the
South American railroads. Mr.. Blanchard
spoke at length of the
DISPARITY OF OUR MERCHANT MARINE,
Showing its comparison with that of
England and other nations. He added
"If when our nation assisted internal
transportation, it had adopted broad
creed for aiding external transit, thou.
sands of millions more would now be in
our treasury. We woald have a firmer
hold upon the worlds markets, would
exercise more power and command more
legitimate instrumentalities of national
riches and securities. Let us prudently
but fearlessly award some Ct our unprece-
dented surplus to develop and retain ex.
ternal commerce. LII the South Amerl-
can States already have foreign purchase
markets which sell rival products cheaper
than we can, it is the more our duty to
encourage and equslize. But so far
be it to the credit of our guests, they
have done more than we to aid COM
mercial union, as witness the subsidies
they pay. We will find great difficulties
in recovering our carrying trade, need
lessly lost, from the old world, but we
should secure and hold fast the transit
lines with the lower half of our own
world. Canada gives vast bounties to
the Canadian Pacific railroad, partly to
divert our trade. Why should not this
rich nation give richly to divert British
trade and establish new commerce. Eng.
lands shibboleth is Free Trade, but TO
nation so we'll protects it's ships. Oul
tocsin has been Protection, but no nation
so neglects its ships. We spend vast
annual sums for rivers and harbors, some
OF which is money charged to dewy creeks
with apocryphal channels. Why not now
give the ocean some encouragement, and
pass bounty bill which allows rate
per ton carried TO competitive subsidies
ports?"
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-10-23

PEOPLE often refer to the fact that we
have no manufactures in Los Angeles
county. The charge in itself is untrue,
az We have growing manufactures in the
ordinary sense. Then the product of our
vineyards, as represented in our wines
and brandies, is manufacture and one
of q specially valuable kind. Of this
peculiar species Of manufactured goods,
in ten years from now, we shall probably
sell to the outside world ten million dol
lars' worth year. Raisins, crystalized
fruits, half dozen citrus specialties
which will be developed in the near
future, will help out the Los Angeles
county exhibit in the manufacturing
line. We might add that we are manu-.
featuring race horses at a wonderful
rate, and that it is species
Of manufactures that pays exceed.
ingly we'll. Mr.. L. J. Rose sent q
carload Of youngsters to New York and,
to his surprise, they brought $l1S, 200, his
most sanguine estimate baving placed
the returns at about 10000. This is q
kind of manufactures that will bring mil.
lions of dollars into Los Angeles county
yearly in ten years from today. The
stables of E. j. Baldwin and L. J. Rose
are rapidly making a market for this
stable local manufacture. In addition,
we shall throw in a smelling works, foun-
dries, machine shops, and other trifles Of
that kind, in consonance with the Eastern
ideas Of manufactures.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-10-23
THE FATHERLAND.
Opening of the Reich sHag-The
speech from the Throne.

BERLIN, October 22.-The Reichstag
opened today. Won Boetticher, Vice
President of the Prussian Ministry, read
the Emperor's speech from the throne.
The address says: "The active attention
OF the present Reichstag has been
especially directed to securing peace
abroad and at home, and the tasks of
the forthcoming session will be in the
same direction.
"When the Reichstag met in 1887 ity
foremost object was the consolidation of
the defensive powers of the Fatherland.
The Reichstag, with patriotic appreci-
alton OF the situation, applied itself to
this end. Your cooperation is again
claimed in order to develop the efficiency
Of the army. Its readiness for action in
accordance with whatever circumstances
may arise will thereby impart to the
efforts of the Emperor and his exalted
allies for the preservation of peace, the
weight which is their due in the counsel
of nations.
ga bill will be presented by the Govern.
ment amending the military lev of May
2, 1874. 1t will provide for fresh dis
tribution of the army, and liz intended to
read in the interest of the training and
conduct Of the army, and for correcting
the inequalities of organization which
nave arisen through the strength of the
army and the displacement of troops
from time to time. From this cause and
the corresponding expansion of the naval
power, arise additional expenditures set
forth in the budget.
1.-The financial statement to be submit
ted will present not uncomfortable in
crease in the matricu]ar contributions of
the several States to the army, compared
with those OF the current financial year.
Nevertheless, these contributions will not
greatly exceed the sums handed to the
Federal States from the imperial reye-
nue."
New socialist and banking bills were
also announced to be introduced,
The speech refers to the suppression of
the slave trade in East Africa and the
proposed abolishment OF slavery in Zan-
zibar. A special department to have
charge Of colonial affairs will be formed
to relieve the foreign Office of excessive
work,
The speech closed with the statement
that the hope expressed by the Emperor
to the Reichstag, November %, 1888,
that with Gods help the peace of Europe
would be sustained, has not only been
realized but gained strength as regards
the future, owing to personal relations
which the Emperor has since culti-
vated with the rulers Of friendly allies,
thereby helping to strengthen the conf
dence felt abroad in the honest love of
peace animating Germany's policy and
justifying the belief that European
peace, based on existing treaties, God
helping, will be maintained during 1880.
The budget shows total expenditure
of .2OS 644 739 marks.
The Progressives offered motion to
the Reichstag in favor of the reduction of
the tariff on swine and fresh pork.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-10-23


ONE OF the most usual and disagreeable
incidents in the daily life Of newspaper
is the liability to be sued by some fool
who has not the faintest idea of what the
functions OF daily journal are. The
threats to sue newspaper for libel are
sometimes 30 farcical as to be beyond
belief. Unquestionsbly, some news
papers ought to be sued for libel. Not only
that, but compounding libel and black
mail in one disgraceful whole, the jour.
nsls themselves should be obliterated
and their conductors killed outright or
ridden on a rail out Of selfrespecting
communities. But to responsibly con.
Quoted Newspaper, which is run in the
public interest, . very large latitude
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-10-23
Work for Judge Lynch,

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, October pa
special to the Age-Herald records crime
in Tallapoosa county that rarely has
been surpassed in horrible details
While Albert Smith and his three older
children were absent from home, five
negroes came to the house, and on being
refused food by Mrs. Smith, ranssckee
the house and afterwards set fire to il
They then caused the mother excruciat
ing suffering by tossing her babe into
the air repeatedly and letting it fall
back almost on the point OF q SHARP
knife, which they held under it. They
finally went away, leaving the mother
and child more dead than alive, and the
house, in ruins. Three of the negroes
have been CAPTURED.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-10-23
Eastern Echoes.

All East Tawas, Mich, the ground is
covered with snow.
A special from sedalis, Mo-, says Sem
ator Vest is seriously ill.
The first general convention OF the
Unitarian church began in Chicago Tues
day.
In the COLON case at Minneapolis the
necessary twelve jurymen have been
secured.
At Granger Crossing, Ind, Grand
Trunk engine exploded, instantly killing
Engineer Callahan and Fireman Mad
dox.
Governor Foraker was much improved
Tuesday night, and his physician stated
that he would be out of danger in few
days.
The annual convention OF the Mutual
Benevolent Association of United States
Railway Postal Clerks convened at New
Orleans this morning.
At Esston, Pa, the jury in the case Of
VIM. II. Bartholomew, charged with the
murder of Aaron billiard, returned YER
dict Of murder in the first degree.
William Reed Lewis, Consul to Mo.
rocco, has reported at the State Depart
ment at Washington to answer the
charges made against him by Benezuli.
Attorney. General Miller has received
the designations of W. @. Perry. United
States Attorney for the district of Kansas,
and Eugene Hogan, Assistant Attorney
for the same district.
Horace Phillips, formerly manager OF
the Pittsburg Baseball Club, who has
been confined in an insane asylum at
Merchantsville, N. j., for the past three
months, has entirely recovered.
Lord Hinton, son of the Earl OF
Poulett, after swindling book-makers and
others at Latonia out of $4,000, passed
through Louisville, Ky, on Sunday.
1t is supposed he was going south.
The Bowling Green, KY, accommoda-
ton train had its rear coach demolished
at Nolin, KY, by the fast mail from the
South. Three passengers we're seriously
injured and others badly shaken up.
President Spalding, of the Chicago
baseball club, says that unless the play
ers reserved by the club sign contracts
for the next year voluntarily, legal steps
will be taken to compel them to do SO.
Typhoid symptoms among Yale stu
dents are causing increased uneasiness.
Several men who showed symptoms of
typhoid in mild form and several suf.
fering from typhoid-malaria, have been
sent to their homes to recuperste.
At Wilkesbarre, Pa, while train
of coal cars and a truck was being
hoisted up Ashley plane, the wire cable
broke and the cars descended the plane
at frightful speed, and were dashed 10
pieces at the bottom. Three men on the
truck we're buried in the wreck. Two of
them will die; the third may recover.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-10-23

THE farmers, who are the ones most
directly interested in the weather, all
declare that the copious rains that have
visited us 60 early this season will be Of
the greatest advantage to the country.
They say that whatever little damage may
have been done to ungathered beans and
unpicked grapes will count as nothing to
the vast amount of substantial good that
will result from a downpour that in
eures a new crop of feed and so softens
the ground that early plowing will give
the seed sown the advantage of q long
wet season.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-10-23
Condensed CaSlegrams.


The death is announced of the Earl of
Orkney; also of John Ball, F. R. s.
The Earl of Devon and Melville died
from the effects of injuries received in the
recent carriage accident.
Charles Bradlaugh, the we'll known
Political and social reformer, is very ill,
1t is feared he is dying.
DR.. PHILIPPE Ricord, many years known
in Paris as the "Great American Doctor" ;"
is dead. He was born in Baltimore in
1900.
The Rome correspondent of Figaro
says General Ignatieff has arrived there,
bearing an autograph letter from the
Ger accepting the arbitration OF the
Pope on the Balkan question between
Russia and Austria.
Father Matthew Prior, of the Order of
Capuchins, at Cork, accompanied by
Father Mario, sailed for New York on
the Goth. They go to collect funds for
the completion of the Capuchin church,
being erected as memorial to the Tenn
perance Apostle.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-10-23
HE RAISED HIS PENSION.
History of the Case Which is Max.
ing SO Much Trouble.

SAN Francisco, October 22.-T. H.
Allen, United States Pension Agent in
this city, states that the case of Wells,
Fargo & Co., growing out of the fraudu-
lent raising of check by pensioner
which WAS reported in the dispatches
from Washington yesterday, is one oil
long standing, and that it is now pending
in the United States court here. Agent
Allen says he gave the check himself to
the pensioner three years ago, and that
it was drawn for $1S. The pensioner
erased the figures and substituted 81 200,
afterward presenting the check at the
Bank of Denver and drawing the money.
The check was sent on for collection to
Wells, Fargo & Co., this city, who OBJ
tanned the money from the Assistant
Treasurer of the United States here.
When the fraud was discovered, the
pensioner, whose name was Henry Met
calf, was arrested in Denver and con-
fessed his guilt. He is now serving a
sentence of five years. imprisonment at
Cheyenne for the offense.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-10-23

The total rainfall for the season in Los
Angeles up to date, IS recorded by the
United States Signal Service Bureau, is
$50 inches. The rainfall Of yesterday
was SO inches. This is not only the
largest rainfall ever recorded here by
official statistics, but the largest by more
than four hundred per cent. AS the ex-
hibit is entirely unprecedented there is
no use OF trying to argue out by analogy
the probable complexion of the coming
winter. If the rainfall had only been a
third of the actual figures. early rains of
that magnitude would have been rather
against the presumption OF wet year.
But these early rains have been SO
abundant as to constitute sort of season
by themselves. They exceed by nearly
an inch the total precipitation of the
famous dry year 1S76-77, during which
only 4,85 inches of rain fell in Los
Angeles county. The downpour has been
80 copious that, unless we shall have an
unusual number of violent north winds,
grass is already assured. This, of itself,
was the standard of prosperity in the
days when Los Angeles was "cow"
county. Any one who shall plow i'm
mediately following this storm is sure of
q crop. His only possible drawback will
be too rank growth, with possible rust
and lodgment. If we shall have our
normal winter rains the Signal Service
Bureau report for the last thirteen years
will establish the standard of Los Ange.
les county at rainfall considerably in
excess of that of the Sacramento valley.
This is fact not generally known. 1t
has been the fashion-a very misleading
one-of Jumping Los Angeles county as
to rainfall with such counties as San
Bernardino and San Diego.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-10-23
Battle For a Church.

WILKEsBARRE, Pa, October 22.-For
some time past the Polish Catholic ad-
herents of the suspended priest,
Warnegari, have held possession of the
church and parsonage here. Today
Bishop O'Hara, of Scranton, came here
to obtain possession of the property.
The aid of the police was secured. and in
an attempt to expel the usurpers, q fierce
fight ensued. The Chief of Police had a
leg broken, and number of other per-
sons wore hurt.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-10-23
MEXICO.
Those Stolen Bonds Turn Up All
Right.

Cry OF MEXICO, October 22.-Tele-
grams received here announce the
shooting Of several military chiefs who
took part in the present revolution
against the Barillas Government.
For the past few days the secret service
officers of this city have been busy haul
ing in the counterfeiting gang which has
been at work here. Nearly dozen men
have been arrested.
The supposed stolen bonds have turned
up all right. Through carelessness of
the clerk in the Treasury Department
the bonds had been taken to the Stamp
Printing Department come months ago
to be stamped. They were forgotten,
and were only brought to light yesterday,
by careful search.