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Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-09
CAPTAIN JOHN ERICSSON.
The Designer of the Famous IrOn-
Clad ssNEOnitOR7, Dead.

New York, March Captain John
Ericsson, the engineer who designed the
iron-clad Monitor, died this morning,
aged S6 years. He has been sick Only a
week.
week. Captain John Ericsson, at
the age of 10, constructed a miniature
sawmill and pumping machine that at
tracted great attention in Sweden at the
time. At II, he entered the Swedish
army as an Ensign, and rapidly received
promotion for the ingenuity he displayed
in getting up plans of Notifications and
maps. During his early life he was, TO
Europe, what Edison is to America. He
invented in three years forty different
mechanical contrivances, two-thirds of
which were patented. In 1889 he came
to America, and in 1841 began to build
the Princeton, the fret naval vessel
that ever carried her machinery under
the water line out of reach of
no tile shot. This vessel dictated the
reconstruc ion of the fleets of the world.
Such device as the United States turret
ship had been offered by Ericsson in
1854 to Napoleon Ill, and in the fall of
1861 Ericsson proposed it to our Navy
Department. By extraordinary energy
and executive skill the Monitor was
launched, with her steam machinery
complete, 100 days from the laying of the
keel-plate, and arrived in Hampton
Roads on March 8, 1862, just in time to
defeat the Confederate ironclad Merit
mac. But for the Monitor, the whole
aspect OF the war might have been
changed and European interference at
tempted.
The variety of Captain Ericsson's work
is only less remarkable than its intrinsic
His inventive genius has
brought out new discoveries in every de-
partment of mechanics, and he has re-
ceived honors from every country in the
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-09

AMERICA will rejoice this morning to
know that the man from Mains is at the
helm.-[ Tribune.
Well, the man from Maine has fine
chance now to show the stuff he is made
of. II the dispatch about the sinking of
the Nipsic is true, the people of the
United States will soon know whether
the new Secretary of States "jingoism"
is the real metal or only Blaine bluff.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-09
THE WEATHER.
Reports From Hound AbOut-The
Rainfall Here.

The Southern Pacific's weather re-
ports at 4 O'Clock yesterday afternoon
read as follows Cloudy and raining up
north; cloudy and calm in the Los Ange-
les, Santa Ana and San Fernando val
leys; rain during the day at Alhamb bra,
Monte, Puente. Spadra and Cucamonga
cloudy as far south as Ell Casco and clear
and calm from there to Yuma.
The rainfall in this city for the twenty
four hours ending at noon yester-
day is recorded by the different
guages as follows G. W. Bur-
toms, Is hundredths of an inch; Signal
Service. 19 hundredths; Germain Fruit
Company, 20 hundredths; Southern Pa
cific Com pany, 20 hnndredths.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-09
An Unexpected Retirement

Railroad men generally will be sur
prised to hear that Mr.. A. A. Gaddis, who
has hitherto filled the eposition of General
Superintendent OF the Atlantic and Pa
ciic has resigned. This is an outcome of
the visit here of Mr.. d. B. Robinson, the
Vice President of the road, who will con-
solldate a number of the principal posi-
tions and take good many duties on
himsalf
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-09
A CIue 20 the Murderer.

New YORK, March 8.-The police think
they have cleared up the mystery sur
the brutal murder of the drug
clerk, Guenther Weckrung, yesterday
William Krulitsen, the drug
clerks assistant, has been identified as
the purchaser of the hatchet with which
the murder was committed. Krulitsen
is II years If age. He maintains that
he is innocent, but makes many conflict
inc statements
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-09
For the Gold FteIds.

Edward Phelan of the police force,
leaves on Monday for the Santa Clara
district. Before his accession to the force
Mr.. Phelan had always followed mining
and was known on the coast as an expert.
His verdict will be of value.
u. McMara of Lancaster, goes with an
outfit to the new discoveries to-day.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-09

The State Board of Equalization will
soon have a representative at the new
mines. Los Angeles could better spare
the rest of the Board than the one who
has gone. Now, if County Assessor Ma
son can be induced to resign and 60 to
Santa Clara, the taxpayers of this county
would be happy.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-09
Contraband of war.

New York. March 8.-Haustedt, Con-
of the Provincial Govern
ment of Hayti, was to-day preparing a
protest to be laid before Collector Ma
gone tomorrow, requesting the custom
authorities to prevent the departure of
the steamer Andes for Hayti tomorrow,
He alleges that the steamer carries gun
powder and other munitions of war to
Legitime,
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-09
He Panied for Them.

John Higgins hired room at 1862
South Spring street and, being opposite
the proprietor's room, when the latter
went out for moment, bifurcated him
self in the landlords trousers. He was
arrested therefore and jailed.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-09

offered by the new road are fully
appreciated, as last Sunday it carried a
large number of pleasure-seekers to the
beach, and on week days its patrons are
fairly numerous.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-09
The samoa Rumor.

The Breslau dispatch published in
Herald excited general dis
cussion. The report that German vessel
had destroyed an American man-of-war
at Samoa seemed to be difficult to be-
lieve; yet, it was thought that some
thing must be back of it; and coming as
it did, On the heels of similar
rumor reaching us from kiel,
the impression obtained that some-
thing serious must have happened
at Apia. Late in the day we learned
that the information was discredited in
the most intelligent circles East. There
are many, however, who believe that the
aspect OF affairs, when reliable news was
last received from Samoa, was such that
collision of the kind reported was
very possible. The Breslau dispatch,
whether true or not, has had one good
effect. 1t has served to chow the very
helpless condition of our navy in case Of
trouble with first.elass power, and will
necessarily lead to an activity in con-
struction of armored vessels that will give
US a better chance in case of war than we
would now have.
The fact is, the weak point of the
United States at present is in the worth
less character of its navy. Some of the
insignificant powers even on this conti-
nent could slap us in the face with i'm
punity, if it depended upon our naval
strength to maintain our prestige.
This has been the case for a
decade and a half. Until the ac-
cession of a Democratic administration
to power, the Navy Department had been
given over to jobbers, and worthless
ships were built and vast sums wasted
in repairing old ones that were incon'
tinently condemned. Until Mr.. Whit
ney was placed at the head Of the Depart
ment, there had really been no honest
and intelligent effort to place oul
navy on a line with the modern
navies of the world. The work of build
ing iron-clads of the most approved mod
els was energetically commenced, ant
we shall soon have a small feet of excel
lent and serviceable vessels ready for use
The Charleston which is now ready
to take on her armament at Sar
Francisco, if she were ready fol
sea, would be worth a whole fieet
of Nipsics at Samoa in the present
emergency. If we had vessels in those
waters that would offset in strength
those OF the Germans, we could take g
far more positive and assertive attitude
than We have yet taken in our contro
versy with Bismarck. When a nations
talk is backed with the power to act, il
is apt to carry far more weight in an in
ternational discussion than when it ID
without the means behind it to enforce its
arguments. Bayard, doubtless, felt keenly
the disadvantage at which he was placed
in this respect; and whilst our naval
weakness was no excuse for the weakness
of his attitude in the negotiations, he
would doubtless have assumed frmer
and higher tone if he had had strong
navy behind him.
The country will probably awake to
| the humilisting figure it cuts in the
present controversy. 1t will realize that
if We intend to carry out policy of pro-
lection to Americans and American in.
terests in all parts of the world, we must
have a navy adequate in size and effect
i've in build and armament to cope with
the navies of other first-cass powers.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-09
The Pension Eorrer.

New YORK, March S.-Robert Siegel,
son of General Franz Siegel, who is
charged. with pension foreeries, to-day
waived further examination and was held
for trial in default Of SIS, 900 bail.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-09

JOB PRINTING DEPARTMENT-Owing to
our greatly increased facilities we are prepared
70 execute all kinds of Job work in superior
manner. Special attention will be given to
commercial and legal printing and all orders
win be promptly filed at moderate rates.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-09
The Gold Fever

Does not compare with the excitement over
our big discounts in fine clothing, etc.
MULLEN, BLUKTT & Co.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-09
Notice to Mail subscribers.

The papers of all delinquent mail subscribers
10 the Los Angeles DAILY HERALD will be
promptly discontinued hereafter. No papers
viii be sent to subscribers by mail unless the
same have been paid for in advance. This rule
SE inhexible. AYERS d LYNCH.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-09
FooIeA the Physicians.

P1rTsBuRe, March 8.-A dispatch from
Butler, Pa, says that the inspector OF
the Soldiers Orphans Home at Nc
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-09
DELIVERED BY CARRIERS
AZ SOc. per week. or soc. per Month


LOCAL CORRESPONDENCE from adjacent towns
specially solicited.
REMTTANcEs should be made by draft, check,
postOfice order or postal note. The latter should
% sent for all sums less than $5.
OrFIoR OF PUBLICATION, 1885 West Second
street, between Spring and Fort, Los Angeles.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-07-18

IT is gratifying to note that such in
fiuential papers as the EmpOria News
and the Wichita Journal appreciate the
folly of their Kansas contemporaries
who are engaged in writing down Kan
City. They ridicule the representa-
tions which the Topeka Capital, the
Leavenworth Times and tho Wichita
Eagle make of the declining prosperity
of this place, and venture the opinion
that there are few towns in the west
which would not rejoice to be ruined"
in the same way in which Kansas City
has been within the last five years.
The evidence of growth and CONNER
cial activity of Kansas City are appa-
rent to any person who walks on its
streets and nothing could be more alb
surd than to deny it In the face of
proofs which impress everybody who
visits the place. 1t would be a grea
thing for those towns which have con-
signed Kansas City to decay if the kind
of dry rot'' which prevails here were
contagious.-Kansas City Star.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-07-18
Double Tragedy.

Iowa, Mich, July 13.-This usually
peaceful town was disturbed by two
horrible tradedies yesterday. One in
the State Insane Asylum. The other
in the house of correction. Alf Al
gren an insane Swede seized a butcher
knife while in the asylum kitchen and
and stabbed James F. Jackson to the
heart. The wounded man falling dead
with the knife sticking in his heart.
Trouble ha long existed between Geo,
De- Weight and Chas. Stanley two men
confined in the house of correction.
Yesterday De-Weight approached
Stanley's usual working place
and hideUusly stabbed the
man in the back. A desper-
ate struggle ensued between the
wounded man and his assailant. The
noise of the struggle attracted a crowd
of convicts and several keepers whom
the Infatuated assassin held at bay fol
short time. Stanley, the wounded
man is not expected to live.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-07-18
a snhatItuta for a1as.-

The new translucent substance intend
ed as substitute for glass has been sat
isfactorily adopted in some Of the public
buildings in London, and various advan-
tages are claimed for it, among these
being such a degree of pliancy that
it may be bent backward and forward
like leather, and be subjected to very
considerable tensile strain with impunity;
it is also almost as translucent as glass
and OF a pleasing amber color. varying
in shade from a very light golden to pale
brown. The basis of the materials is q
web Of fine iron wire, with warp and
welt threads about one-tweIfth inch
apart, this being inclosed. like a fly in
amber, In a sheet of translucent varnish,
OF which the base is inseed oil. There
is no resin or gum in the varnish, and
once having become dry it is capable of
standing heat and damp without under
going any change, neither hardening nor
becoming sticky. Briefly, the manufac-
ture isaccomplished by dipping the sheets
edgewise into deep tanks of varnish and
then allowing the coating which they
thus receive to dry in a warm atmosphere.
It requires somewhat more than q dozen
OF these dips to bring the sheets to the
required degree of thickness, and when
this has been accomplished the material
is stored for several weeks to thoroughly
set.-Chicago Times.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-07-18
OLD SOL MILLER HITS OUT A LA


Discussing what he calls 1.-The grab
game of politics and the 'selhshness
and thanklesness of politician" Sol
Miller excoriates the latter mercilessly
in the following manner. He says
For instance, a man is elected to the
presidency. by means of money con-
tributed and labor performed by the
workers and managers of the party.
He straightway imagineS that he was
elected solely upon his own ability and
popularity, and turns his back upon the
men who made him. They have been
guilty OF improper and corrupt cleo
ton methods, and in the interest of
honesty and purity, cannot be recog-
niZed by the chief magistrate. But it
never occurs to him to refuse the Office
obtained through such methods. He
rejects the advice of the party leaders,
lest people say that somebody runs
him, and he appoints lot of high
toned pretenders to the important
offices, who never do party work, but
always stand ready to take in the bene-
fits. His own family relatives and per-
sonal cronies are quartered upon the
government, and namby-pamby nin-
compoOpS fill a majority of the foreign
missions, scarcely one of whom raised
voice or hand to assist in the cleo
ton.
He then takes up the party leaders,
who have been successful in securing
office, and Iashes them as being lin the
line of royalty and making ''vassals''
of ali whom they choose to favor, or
recommend for minor offices. The
cringing and fawning for Office of
these is odiOus in his eyes.
lie takes a whack at 1.-The family in
office" and says that the records show
that "a majority of the men holding
entire families quartered in positions
at liberal salaries. The fact is noted
that the governor sent a relative lately
imported from Ohio to the warden of
the penitentiary with note saying
that he would take it as favor if the
young man could be given a place. AS
the warden is a creature of the govern
or. the request was equivalent to a
command.
In conclusion he winds up by say
ing:
Brethren, are you not getting tired
of this sort of thing? Who is benefited
by any party? The men that gobble
up or trade in the offices. The people
fare just as well with one party in
power as with the other. Times are
no better now than they have been for
the past four years. Yet the people
are expected to below and paw up the
dirt for their respective parties. and
elect men to office who have no use for
them after the election. 1t is the old
story of the soldiers stOrming the bat
teries, and being slaughtered or wound
ed, while the officers receive the praise.
If the masses of both parties would re-
volt, they could effect a Wholesome
clearing out; but when one party
hangs to its organization, and presents
a united front, it forces the other party
TO do likewise, and the same old story
is repeatod.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-07-18

COLONEL ANTHONY of the Leaven-
worth Times rails like Thersites
against the tramp, and calls for law
to drive the creatures from the COM
munity. To be sure the tramp is a
nuisance, and his presence anywhere
is very much to be deplOred. But
what is to be done? Drive out those
we have and others will follow them.
In Illinois and Indiana, where several
thousand miners are idle and kept
alive byicontributions of the charitable,
the coal barons are turning out tramps
by the hundred of the most approved
pattern. Even Mr.. Carnegie with the
aid of the Pinkertons is manufactur-
ing few thousand at this moment
in Pennsylvania, who will soon be on
1.-The road" Would it not be more IA
tional to treat the cause rather thar
the symptoms of the disease? The
tramp makers, rather than the trampS
are the real enemies of society, just as
Colonel Anthony believes that saloons
are the cause of drunkards.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-07-18
THE WORLDS LARGE BELLS.

One That Weighs asa 600 Pounds, and 9th
ers Not to BE sneesed At.
For 900 years after the Bishop Of Eola
first set up his church bell in Campania,
no attempts were made at casting large
ones. The bell presented to the church
at Orleans In the Eleventh century
weighed but 1900 pounds, being then
the largest in the world. In the thir-
tenth century bells Of one, two and
three tons weight were not rare. In the
year 14O0 the Jacqueline was cast at
Paris, the first Of the great bells, weigh
ing, without the hammer, Ii, 600 pounds,
or seven and one half tons.
The rage for big bells soon became a
passion. Seventy-two years later Paris
almost doubled her first effort In the big
bell line by casting one of twelve and q
half tons. The big bell Of Rouen was
cast In 1901. It weighed 3d. 1874 pounds.
The largest ben in the world at the
present time, or that ever has been, is
the famous King Of Bells. now at Mos
COW, Russia 1t was cast In the year
1882, partly from fragments of another
great bell called the Giant, which was
broken In the early part OF the Seven
tenth century by falling from its sup
port
The Giant, although not as large as the
one Of which its fragments now form q
part, was, nevertheless, no pigmy, as the
reader may infer upon being informed
that its weight was not less than 2eS, 900
poundsi Its said tohave taken the COM
bined strength Of twenty-four men to
ring the Giant in his palmy days. The
King Of Bells, like the Giant, has had the
misfortune to get broken. Five years af-
ter it was cast, In 1877, during a great
fire, heavy timber fell against the King
and broke an immense three cornered
piece from its side. leaving gap wide
enough to admit twomenwalking abreast.
Il isnow ON the ground and is said tohave
been used about ten years ago as q place
OF worship, the gap IN the side serving as
means OF ingres and egrees. The wri-
ter Is aware that this sounds like fairy
story, but surely there Is nothing about
il In the least improbable, fnasmuch a.
the monster Is 10 feet inches In height
and 90 feet 8 inches around the mar
ginl The weight OF this colossal folly has
been variously given. but never less than
-, 900 poundsi Think Of Il, 290 tons. By
some gross caRelessneas several hundred
pounds Of gold were said tohaye ben
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-07-18

incorporated in its composition. Russia
leads the world in the matter of great
bells, Moscow also claiming second place
in the worlds championship in its ST.
Ivan's, which weighs 1877 $50 pounds. 1t
is 10 inches in thickness, and 40 feet 9
inches in circumference.
China has several large bells, for, ac-
cording to Father LIE Compile, Pekin has
seven bells, each of which weighs 100, 900
pounds.
The great bell at Vienna, Austria,
weighs 4O, 200 pounds. The largest bell
in Bohemia, that at Olmutz, weighs ex-
actly 10000 pounds. big Ben," the
pride of London, would look like g farm
house dinner bell compared with the
monster of Moscow above mentioned,
weighing but fifteen tons "Big Ben"
is not the largest bell Of London, how
ever, st. Paurs cathedral having one
which weighs SO, 40 pounds. The larg-
est bell on that wonderful piece of archi-
lecture, st. Peters cathedral at Rome,
weighs but 1900 pounds; hardly two
thirds the size Of tbs largest bell In
America, that at Montreal, which weighs
H3,660.-John w. Wright In st. Louis
Republic
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-07-18
UAn, INJURES CEOPs.
DeeIlned 60 Issue the writ.

CHICAGO, July 12'-Judge Horton of
the criminal court to-day heard argu-
ments for and against the issuance of
a writ habeas corpus looking to the
release of John F. Beggs on bail.
Beggs is the chief officer Of camp
20, Grammatical and is under indict-
ment for conspiracy to murder DR.. Gro
min. The arguments were concluded
late this afternoon and Judge Horton
declined to issue the writ, holding that
the Indictment was sufficient presump-
ton of guilt to warrant the holding of
the prisoner without bail. He did not
require the state to disclose the evil
dence on which the Indictment was
found. It was claimed that the appli
cation was partly with a view to learn
ing what evidence the state has in or.
der that it might be used to assist
Martin Burke now held for extradition
at Winnipeg in his fight against being
returned to the authorities here.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-07-18

Sol MILLER, as good republican as
there is in Kansas, and one of the old
guard, complains about some things in
the following manner:
Isn't there surfeit of the pension
business, anyway; and have not some
other people rights as well as the sol
diers? Here we find agents travelling
over the country and soliciting soldiers
to apply for an increase; we every day
hear of men receiving from 81 600 to
So 900 back pay; the soldiers seem to
have both arms in up to the shoulders,
and still we hear the cry that some
thing must be done for the soldiers.
Well, something is being done every
day. The papers over the country
have columns of names daily of sol
diers who have received pensions and
increases. We know men who declared
they would never apply for pension,
as they were not entitled to it by rea-
son of any disability, but who are now
making life burden by complaining
of the wrongs they suffer in not receiv-
| ing pension. Our doctrine has been.
and still is, that every soldier should
have "a pension. But, goodness! there
are some people besides the soldiers
who have an interest in the country.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-07-18

THEODORE ROOSEVELT, besides
finding fault with the quality of civil
service practiced in the Milwaukee
post Office, complains of the beer of
which that town is so famous. In his
opinion, nothing good or great or
thrilling can come of a place that gets
its inspiration from beer. Listen to
him: Do you know that there is not
a thought in hOgshead of beer; that
there is not an idea in a whole brewery?
L mean that nothing of merit was ever
written under the inspiration of lager
beer. 1t stupefes without invigorat-
ing, and its effect upon the brain is to
stagnate thought. Do not imagine
that am temperance orator. am
simply comparing stimulants. Some of
the brightest of literary efforts have
been made while under the influence
of spirit liquor, taken by the poor.
overworked author to avoid complete
physical and mental collapse. l shall
wait to see if any man can write any
thing who has a drop of beer in his
| system.