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Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-10
THE BABY STATES.
Proceedings of the several COnstt~
tutfOnaI Conventions.

Sioux FALLS, S. Dak., July 9.-The
Constitutional Convention was in session
less than one hour. President Edgerson
announced the membership OF thirty
two standing committees averaging ten
each. The Committees on Apportion-
ment and on Submission OF the Corstitu-
ton number twenty-five each, or
one.third of the entire Convention.
The purpose is to do .the chief work OF
the body in committee. A petition was
received today from the naturalized
Russian Menonites, asking the insertion
of constitutional provision exemptipg
them from military service, as they left
the old country to escape such service.
The commission of seven to visit Bis
marck to assist in dividing the assets and
liabilities of the Territory between the
two States will probably start Thureday.
1t will be some time yet before the
proceedings Of the Convention will
smack of special importance, as the
grists of the committee mills will not be
ready. The functions of the Convention
are so limited by the Enabling Act,
that many fruitful questions will not
be considered. The Prohibitionists
have three fifths of the delegates; wo-
mans suffrage probably has majority;
the Farmers Alliance and labor organiz-
ations will likely muster two fifths, but
no manifestation of political division has
yet been observed except as Republicans
and Democrats, fifty-one to twenty four.
| BISMARCK, N. D., July 9.r-The Consti-
tutional Convention was not in session
today. The Democrats met in caucus to
prepare their slate. The President will
give them more than they asked for.
They will probably be given three or
four chairmanships, and their full
quota on twenty-three committeee.
The farmers are inclined to claim the
Committees on Corporations. Revenue and
Taxation, School Lands, Elective Fran
chise, Executive Department and Tenn
perance.
| HELENA, Mont, July 9.-In the Consti-
tutional Convention two resolutions we're
introduced in regard to the preamble to
the Constitution, and referred to appro-
pirate committees. Watson Fergus in
troduced resolution in regard to trusts
and combinations that they may raise or
control the prices of the necesearies of
life, that laws be enacted that may keep
these trusts or combinations under State
control.
OLYMPIA, w. T., July 9.-The first in
timation of fight in the Constitutional
Convention, on trusts and combinations,
was made today. John Kirmead, of Sc.
attic, being chairman of the Com
mittee on Corporations, introduced
a plainly worded resolution de-
nouncing trusts and combinations as
among the worst existing evils, and likely
to interfere with the industrial growth o
the new State.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-10

THERE will be another delay, both in
submitting the school bond proposition
and that of the bonds for the outfall
sewer to a vote of the people. As to
both these bonds, the Mayor has called
attention to the fact that the second ordi-
nance was passed at too long remove
from the first to be valid under the new
Charter. The law says that the second
ordinance n ust be passed at the next or
an adjourned meeting of the Council,
and our City Fathers chose to ignore this
provision. This involves several weeks
delay, both on the school and the sewer
bonds. 1t might be wiser to have Coun-
cilmen who know the law; but, as the
City Attorney, to whom the matter was
referred for decision, sustains the Mayor,
there will un ndoubtedly be the postpone.
ment involved in the republication ot
these ordinances for the required time.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-10

THERE is an imminent probability that
the Union Pacific Railway will have its
line running from Salt Lake to Los An
geles inside of a year. That powerful
corporation for some time past has had
disputes with the Oregon Navigation
Company which led its managers to make
arrangements for building their own line
into Portland. These controversies have
been adjusted, and the capital and en-
ergy which were to have been devoted to
the Portland enterprise will now be
directed to the Salt Lake extension. The
source from which the HERALD receives
this information says that the Union Pa
cific magnates have made arrangements
with the Santa Fe through which
they will be allowed the use of the latter
company's track from Barstow to Los
Angeles. The advent of the Union
Pacific to this city will be most import
ant factor in our development, none of
the least of its blessings being the cheap
| and abundant fuel with which it will
supply US.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-10
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EASTERN NEWS.
A Second JOhnstown in the
Empire State.
RUMORED BREAKING OF A DAM
Railroads Washed Out and Villages
Fl0Oded-Heavy Damages
Reported.
I Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD

1 Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD. |
SARATOGA, N. Y, July 9.-The tele-
phone people at Amsterdam state that a
washout at Aiken, N. Y, three miles
west of there, has torn up 400 feet of
track and cut off communication with the
west. Whether the washout was caused
by cloudburst atAken or by the break,
ing of dam at Johnstown, N. Y, as
rumored, cannot be ascertained.
New YORK, July 9.-Eforts to COM
municate with any point within the local
tiles of Johnstown, N. Y, and Amster'
dam, where rumors would lead to the
impression that there has been disaster
of no small proportions, are upavailing
on account OF the fact that the telegraph
wires throughout the section have beer
destroyed. Some reports have reached
here that cyclone caused the disaster
while more serious character is giveI
to the story by the indefinite and, as ye
unconfirmed, rumors that there has beer
considerable loss of life.
II WAS n NbOOb bbhpls
SCHENECTADY, N. Y, July ga cloud
burst washed away the Central railroads
tracks between Aiken and Tribes Hill
stations, about five miles west of Ameter
dam, this afternoon, causing another de
lay to all trains. 1t seems impossible tc
get any particulars here this evening al
TO how bad the break is, or how long i
will take to repair it. Some trains hurry
ing to make up lost time narrowly
escaped the cloud burst, but all die
escape. One house WAS partially washed
away, but no lives lost.
GREAT DAMAGE DONE.
Troy, N. Y, July 9.-The telephone
from Johnstown says: The town is il
total darkness and nine bridges were
washed away. The electric light plan
has been washed away, also three skir
mills at Gloversvile. One body has
been recovered. The water is three
feet deep in the town of Fonda.
At II O'Clock tonight rain is falling il
torrents in Johnstown and the flood is as
suming terrible aspect. Mills anc
sheds are being carried rapidly away
1t is beginning to rain here Troy and i
looks to be heavy storm.
ALBANY, N. Y, July "a epecia
from Schenectady to the Express tells o
the washing away of three bridges a
Johnstown. The rumors OF loss of life
the correspondent says, are withou
| foundation.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-10

THERE is no question of the fact that
the Southern country, although not yet
ready for a "boom," is getting into
splendid shape. Money is far easier
than it was year, or even six months
ago. While sales are not yet brick,
there is quite steady demand for real
estate bargains. The "soft snaps"
available to investors are becoming ex .
ceedingly scarce. They will become
scarcer in the future. During the next six
weeks the very last of them will be gath
cred in. From that tims forward real
estate revival will begin, founded upon
the fact that, with the most splendid
railway system on the American con.
tinent, with the most multiform and pro-
life production, the lowest prices of real
estate, with halfway commensurate ad-
vantages, prevail here. Put pin there
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-10

have whipped Sullivan yesterday. He
did not know at the end of the fight that
he had fought over half an hour.
He WAS as strong as when the fight
commenced, and could have fought
two hours longer if necessary. He re-
Trained from last, needless fighting by
my advice, as | did not want him to meet
with any accidents. l consider Kilrain
the greatest heavy weight fighter outside
of Sullivan. He is a game, determined
fellow, and | think if he hal fought ac-
cording to his own judgment, instead of
taking the cowardly and tricky advice OF
the men who were behind him, he would
not have been hissed by the people pres
ent, and the American public would have
had more to mire in him today than at
any time since he came into prominence.
l don't think he was in condition
for hardy fight in this
climate. He was trained too
fine and soon became very weak. | al
loved my man seven pounds to lose in
the fight, and after the fight was over he
was just six and a quarter pounds lighter
than when he ent red the ring. He was
not bit tired, was careful and in no way
injured. My advice to him is to live the
balar ce of his life slow and easy and
never again enter the ring as a principal.
He is now restored to perfect health and
may yet live long and enjoy good health
if he will only take care of himself. If he
fails to do that he has no one to blame
but himself. l have always been
anxious to prove to the public that he is
natural born fighter, and could fight
long and scientific battle if necessary,
providing he was properly handled and
put into condition. Now that | have
done that am through with all ring
fights forever. never again want to see
man knocked about and punished as
Kilrain was yesterday. l think boxing
grand exercise, and will do all l can tc
encourage it, but l think ring fighting toe
brutal and l want to see no more of it. )
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-10
THE ExTRADITION CASE.
Burke Identified as the Man Who
Rented the Carlson Cottage.

Rented the Carlson Cottage.
WINNIPEG, July 9.-In the Burke ex-
tradition case, today, Charles Carlson,
who arrived from Chicago by the noon
train, identified Burke as Frank Williams,
the man who rented the cottage where
Cronin was murdered. This wac the
point the prosecution desired to estab-
lish, namely, that Frank Williams and
Martin Burke were one and the same
same man.
Being cross examined, Carlson said he
had been taken out into the courthouse
yard by Officer Collins before coming in
to the court, to see if he could recognize
anybody coming out of the jail and he
had recognized Burke from a group pho
tographed in Chicago. MIR. Howell said :
"That's our case, your Lordship."
This announcement was received with
hum of satisfaction by all connected
with the case, even Burke gave sigh OF
relief. At the conclusion of the reading
of the evidence to the prisoner tonight,
Burke entered plea of "not guilty"
Arguments in the case will be heard
tomorrow.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-10

GEN. WIN. VANDEvER, the Republican
member of Congress from the Sixth Con-
gressional District, is at present in Los
Angeles. The old gentleman wears his
age well, and might we'll reckon on many
years of unimpaired health, judging from
his personal appearance. His good looks
are in no whit detracted from by his age,
which is seventy-two, and which he sus-
tains with the grace with which Gregory
the Great, Dandolo, the Emperor Will
helm, and other public men, even more
important than the Congressman from
this district, have maintained the public
honors that have been showered upon
them. AS no great political questions
are at stake just now we feel like suggest
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-10

SOME very queer financiering is shown
by the report made by City Treas
urer johnson on the Goth of June.
At that date there was only the
sum of $13,42s2O in the Cash
Fund, and we see by the proceed
ings of the City Council on Monday that
this had been reduced to $4 300. On the
date named the Sire It Sprinking Fund
had shrunk to $4.s9, and the Gas Fund
to $1,l05.97. The Fire Department had
then but a paltry 81 ,027 70 to the fore.
There is something radically wrong in a
system which allows such important
funds to run down to SO low a point at
this stage of the fiscal year. 1t would
almost tempt one to believe that the
purpose was to play into the hands of
those who discount warrants.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-10
Eastern Echoes.


President Scott, of the Colorado Mid
land, has rendered his resignation, to
take effect on or before July 25th.
Judge Cooley, of the Interstate Com
merce Commission, is en- route to Port
land, Oregon, on unofficial business.
The trial of Arthur ]. McQuade, one of
the New York Doodle Aldermen, began
at Ballston, N. Y, Tuesday morning.
The eighth National Convention of the
Christian Endeavor Society is in eesslca
at Philadelphia. Nearly five thousand
delegates are present, and more are ex-
pected. Rev. F. M. Clark, of Boston,
was elected President of the Convention.
AT Pittsburg, Pa, Richard Lewis, q
plasterer, fatally shot Mrs. Elmira
Moseby and her sister, Emeline Myers,
and then committed suicide. The cause
is shrouded in mystery. The parties
were all colored. Mrs. Moseby was a
widow, and Lewis boarded with her.
Frances E. Willard, President of the
Worlds W. G. T. u, has issued an adj
dress to officers and members of the
Association, eulogizing the character of
the late Mrs. ex-President Hayes, and
stating that no women ever lived who
did 30 much to discountenance the social
use of intoxicants. 1t requests memorial
services to be held by all local unions on
Sunday, July 2Sth.
At the meeting of the Western Freight
Association in Chicago, Tuesday, the
proposition of the Chicago & Alton to re-
duce the rates on cattle, dressed beef and
packing house products, from Missouri
river points to Chicago, was voted down.
The Alton thereupon gave ten days no.
tice OF its intention to put the reduced
rates into effect.
A bad freight wreck occurred at Will
merding, on the Pennsylvania Railroad,
Monday night. Two bodies have been
taken iiom the wreck. The train men
estimate the list of dead and injured at
sixteen. The train caught fire from
carload of whisky which ignited in an
unknown manner. The accident
was caused by broken axle, Thirteen
cars and the engine were totally wrecked.
The National German Teachers Asso-
citation is holding its nineteenth annual
convention in Chicago. The Association
is composed of teachers in Ger
man public and private schools,
and includes many prominent edu-
Gators. The President in his opening
address, stated that the object of the or.
ganization was not to make Germany
out OF America, but to preserve to Ameri-
cans OF German blood and to all Ameri-
cans, the ripe fruit of German thought
and culture, both in literature and in the
arts.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-10

Los Angeles, Car.LOad of Fruit
Sells for $1.2I2.

PHILADELPHIA, July 9.-The carload
of canned fruits donated to the Johns
town sufferers by the citizens of Los An
geles, Cal, which arrived here last
week, was disposed of at auction today
in small lots. The bidding was spirited,
and 81 ,212 was realized.
CREssoN SPRINGS, July 9.-Governor
Beaver and the State Board of Relief
Commissioners had a meeting here to-
day, and decided to distribute $500, 900
among the Johnstown sufferers.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-10
Kansas TRAGEDY.

LEAvENwoRTH, Kan, July 9.-Tonight
about 10 80 William Parish went to Mrs
Calahan's house and called Mrs. Callahan
to the porch. When she appeared he
drew revolver and fired, shooting her
in the left breast, killing her instantly.
Parish fed to a low dive, and later as the
officers were entering the house in search
of him, shot himself through the head,
dying instantly. William Parish was a
suitor for Mrs. Calahan's hand before
her marriage to George Callahan.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-10

THE recent assessment OF the City of
Los Angeles has developed fact which
is interesting as giving the real financial
status of this city. Our recorded in
debtedness is only eleven per cent. of the
official valuation of the municipality.
This is sound condition of things and
shows that our people are gu ite solid in
their money affairs.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-10
baseball Summaries.

WASHINGTON, July 9.-Washington, 2
Chicago, 10.
PHILADELPHIA, July 9.-Philadelphia
10; Indianapolis, 8.
BosToN, July 9.-Boston, Is; Cleve-
land, 5.
CINCINNATI, July 9.-Cincinnati, 16i
Columbus, 10.
New YoRK, July 9.-New York, 81
Pittsburg, O.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-10
TOO BRUTAL.
MuldOon Has Seen Enough of Ring
ElghIimg-Hls AdYiCe 10 Sullivan.

New ORLEANS, July 9.-William Mul
doom, the wrestler who trained Sullivan
for the fight, had this to say to an Asso-
ciated Press reporter today when asked
his opinion of the fight:
"My impression is that it was the
greatest fight that ever took place be-
tween hesvy-weights. The fighting was
fast and furious all through, and don't
think the man was ever born who could
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-10
WashtnetOn Notes.

WASHINGTON, July "a patent was
today granted to Charles j. Tarpenning,
of Los Angeles, for a toaster or broiler;
and to Walfred Burkman, assignor to @.
H. Frost, Los Angeles, for brick ma
chine.
All the officers who arrived recently at
San Francisco from Samoa, except Doc.
tors White and Norfeet, have been or
dered home.
Superintendent OF Census Porter says
no more applications for office in his
department will be considered, and no
more appointments made except those
already decided upon, until after the let
OF September.
APPOINTMENTS.
The President today made the follow
ing appointments:
Horace A. Taylor, Wisconsin, Coms-
missioner of Railroads.
Thomas G. Mendelhall, Indiana, Super
intendent United States Coast and Geo
detic Survey.
Henry w. Diederich, Indiana, Consul
at Leipsic.
Postmasters: BARLEY G. Eaton, at
Glenwood Springs, Col. James A. Mil.
ler, at Santa Maria, CAL; Fred W. Bier,
at Vancouver, Wash.
A MYSTERIOUS CONFERENCE.
A conference of more than an hours
duration was held at the office of the
Secretary of the Interior today, between
Secretary Noble, Assistant Secretary Bus.
sey, and Commissioner of Pensions
Tanner. These gentlemen are reticent
concerning the reason for this meeting,
but it to said that the condition of the
business in the Pension Office was the
subject OF discussion, Commissioner
Tanner having just returned from an alb.
sence OF ten days in the West.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-05-25
ATOMS OF ASTRONOMY.

IT has been calculated that not less than
2O,0O0,000 Of meteors, each large enough TO
be visible as "shooting star" enter our
atmosphere daily.
The bright star Canopus emits more than
one thousand five hundred times the light Of
our sun. Sirius is at such distance that
its light occupies nearly nine years in reach
ing us, and its real brightness is that Of
sixty-three suns.
AFTER careful investigation M. Ligner,
the Austrian meteorologist, has become as
sured that the moon affects the magnetic
needle. The disturbance is especially no.
ticeable when the moon Is near the earth,
when she Is passing TO first or last quarter,
reaches its maximum when the moon is in
the plane of the equator, and is greater
during the southern than during the north
ern declination.
FROM an exhaustive study of the large
collection of meteorites at Harvard College
the conclusion has been arrived at that
many OF the masses of meteoric IRON now
known are cleavage crystals, broken off
probably by the impact OF the mass against
the atmosphere. 1t is found that these
masses show cleavings parallel to the planes
of all the three fundamental forms OF the
isometric or regular system. From all that
appears, the theory has come to be enter
tained that the masses of meteorites were
thrown off from sun among the fixed stars,
and that they were slowly cooled while re-
v0lving In . zone OF intense heat
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-05-25
TOWN BURNED.
Seven Hundred Houses Destroyed
by the Flames.
Six Thousand Persons, Mostly of the La,
boring Glass, Rendered Homeless.

QUEBEC, May ia disastrous fire broke
out early yesterday morning In St Sau-
veur in the house of Mrs. McCann, on
Waiter street. The flames spread with
great rapidity through the wooden dis
trict which surrounded the place where
the fire originated. The people were
dismayed at the rapldity with which
the flames jumped from one wooden
building to another. Battery u was
called out and rendered valuable as
sistance in fighting the flames. While
the military were preparing to blow up
some houses to check the spread of the
flames premature explosion took place
in one of the houses, killing Major Short
and Sergeant Wallick, of Battery b. Both
were buried in the ruins. Tho body Of
Sergeant Wallick has been recovered. 1t
is horribly mangled. The insurance is
comparatively small. The principal prop
critics burned are those of DIR. Fiset, on
Waiter street, valued at $4,000, and in
sured for 50, 900; that of Mr.. Gngros, oc-
cupiod by Mr.. Martneau, uninsured; that
of George Paquet, occupied by Mr.. Lepine,
undertaken, insured for $1,000, and
those of Mrs. Mccain, insured in
the North British and Mercantile Com
pany. The larger number of the houses
destroyed were small wooden structures.
Major Shorts body was recovered about
noon. One leg and one arm had been torn
from the body by the explosion, and were
found at some distance from the trunk. ST.
Sauveur is separate municipality from
Quebec, but is separated from this city by
only the width of street. 1t has a popu-
lation of about $4,000. The fire burned it
self out after reaching the limits of st.
Sauveur. The district north and west of
Massua and st. Ambrose streets has been
swept clean, with the exception of a por-
tion of Waiter street. About 100
houses were burned. As many Of
them were tenements, the number
of families homeless is not loss than l, 200,
comprising 8, 900 to 6,O0O persons. Prom
inent men are interesting themselves in
behalf of the homeless people. Applica-
tion has been made to Sir A. p Caron for
the use of drill shed and other Govern
ment buildings to shelter those who are
yet camped out in the fields. The clergy
are distributing food, and steps are being
taken to organize u regular system of re-
lief. The majority of the people burned
out are of the laboring class, and, as in
surance rates were very high, few have
any thing TO fall back upon. The total
loss by fire is estimated at $500, 900.