Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-19
Eastern Echoes.

DR.. Mellow, the slayer of Captain Daw.
son, has been expelled from the South
Carolina Medical Society.
Extensive preparations are being made
for the thirteenth annual tournament OF
the Colorado and Wyoming Association
TO be held at Denver, August goth to 25th.
The New York YACHT Club has deter
mined to furnish no special prize for Lord
Dunraven's yacht to sail for, but all club
events are opened to him and his yacht
Arsenic was placed in the food of four
children of Joseph Hunter, painter,
living near Star City, Ark, on Tuesday.
Three have died. The criminal and the
motive are unknown.
The Virginia State Prohibition Con-
yention met at Lynchburg OH Thursday
and nominated full State ticket, at the
head of which, for Governor, is Hon.
Thomas E. Taylor. OF London county.
At Camden, N. j., Captain w. j.
Blake. of the schooner John II. Ford,
kicked Samnel Fisher, colored seaman.
Fisher, with clasp knife, stabbed Blake
three times, fatally. Fisher was ar
rested.
A boiler in the planning mill of the R.
B. Stone Lumber Company, at Chicago,
exploded, killing Jefferson King, en-,
eineer; A. Dollar, laborer, and Fred
Bethel, teamster. The entire building
was wrecked. Loss, $40 900.
The bodies Of Mrs. John McGregol
and two children were discovered in ter
inches of water in small creek neal
Youngstown, o. The woman first
drowned her children, then herself. Hel
husband had left her destitute.
At Patterson, N. j., more than 30(
operatives in the silk mills are on 6
strike because, owing to hard times, The
employers are forced to close or educt
the wages 10 per cent. A notice OF re
duction- was posted and the workers
struck.
Warrants have been sworn out at Chi
csgo for the arrest of Attorney Stepher
A. Douglass, Jr., @. D. Hooker and R
D. Davidson, a detective. They arr
charged with being involved in a ques
tionable real estate transaction by which
S., 900 was obtained from VIM. Rance.
At Johpstown, Pa, two unidentified
bodies we're recovered Thursday. One
hundred of the two-story houses which
contractor Hughes has engaged to erect
have been allotted, and he Will begin
building at once. He expects to COM
plete about ten houses day.
Joe Friedman, butcher at Carbon
Ariz., killed w. Miller with a cleaver
and mutilated the body terribly. Fried
man escaped to a passing freight train
but was thrown from the train at the de
mand of the police, and was arrested
Miller had made some comment on the
quality of Friedman's sausages.
In Green county, Ind, the twenty
year-old son of Hiram Camden was rid
ing a horse which was attached to {
plow. The animal became frightened
ard the young man was caught in thu
harness and dragged over the field, hi
head striking the ground with every leal
of the horse. The harness finally broke
releasing Camden. He lived but tw
hours.
It is learned that the best speed of tn
Petrol, at her latest trial, under forcet
drsught, was Is ZIG knots, or Is p stat
ute miles, for short time, while tn
average speed for four hours test Wa
only IL 7.10 knots, or Is 5.16 statut,
miles. 1t is thought that the low averag
OF speed is due to improper coaling, tn,
coal being of poor quality and the fire
being started long before the test.