Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-06
CONDEMNED TELEGRAEfs.
Sundrv Eastern Events and Doings
Briefly Told.

Bflefly IOlus
Secretary Blaine has gone to Bar Har-
bor, Me-, for an outing.
The Burke extradition trial is proceed
ing today at Winnipeg. His extradition
is regarded as certain.
The wheat crop of Kansas is estimated
at 34,000,000 bushels, which is lust
double that Of last year.
Hon. George HI. Watrous, ex-President
of the New York, New Haven and Hart
ford Railroad, died suddenly Friday
morning at his house in New Haven,
Conn.
Contracts have been let for the extern
sion Of the Rock Island from its present
terminal at Pond Creek, Ind. Ty., to
Kingfsher, distance of sixty-five miles.
Grading on the first section has been
commenced.
1t is announced that the Wabash has
joined with the Alton in the demands of
the through lines from the West to Chi
cago, to break the bulk on through busi-
ness, as per the Interstate Commerce,
Railway Association agreement.
The number of victims of the Okla
homa City disaster is greater than was at
first supposed. 1t is now estimated that
about $50 people were more or less in
jured. Fully dozen we're dangerously
hurt, and are lying in critical condi-
ton.
The Goodyear Rubber Boot and Shoe
Company, of Providence, r. l., have
made an assignment. An attachment
was placed on them by the Sears Com
mercial Company, Saturday, followed up
by others until $7l6, 900 worth of attach
ments swamped them.
At Kerbyville, Laney county, Mo-, at
the Fourth of July celebration, two bro
theirs named Miles, shot and killed sher-
iff BraDson, of Laney county, and his
deputy Ed Funk. The Miles brothers
are under indictment for the murder of
the Bald Knob leader, Captain N. N.
Kenney, at Forsythe, last August.
The Persian Minister to the United
, States will shortly leave this country for
, Europe. He says he has been driven
out of the country by the unkind, ungen-
erous things which have been written
about him and his sovereign in American
newspapers. He has no fault to find
with the Government or its officers.
At Little Silver Crossing, three miles
north of Long Branch, N. j., a carriage
containing the mother of Joseph Ward,
the collar and shirt manufacturer, of
New York. Mr.. Heating, Mr.. Wards
brother-in-law, Elsie Heating, child,
and her nurse, was struck by an express
train and smashed to pieces. ALI were
horribly mangled.
The United States Senate Committee
1 on Interstate Commerce, which has unde r
2 investigation the relation of the Canadian
railways to the Interstate Commerce
laws and United States railways, began
! its session at Boston on Friday. Presi-
8 dent Bliss, of the Boston and Albany
, road, and President Choate, of the Old
Colony road, gave their views before the
committee.
, At Chicago, Judges Horton, Tuley and
Colling refus ed to dissolve the temporary
8 injunction to prevent the Board of Trade
D from withholding It's quotations from the
bucket shops. The decision was made
, on the ground that the largest quotations
, are of such Importance to public property
that if the injunction were dissolved the
tendency would be to create monopoly
of the big board.
At Salem, Mass, while fireworks were
} being set off in the common last night, a
shell exploded in mortar, blowing the
/ fragments into the crowd. George, son
! of Charles Sewall, was instantly killed,
t as was also frankie Anderson, years
old. Martin Ryan's right arm was shat
tered, and it was amputated. Christina
Anderson, sister of frankie, had her
fingers broken. Willie Thompson, 10
years old, had several ribs broken, and is
fatally injured internally.