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Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-06-28
The Trunk Lines.

New YORK, June 27.-The presidents
of the trunk lines went into executive
session to-day. Commissioner Fink's
resignation and other matters of business
will be considered. Commissioner Fink
says the forenoon session considered the
difference between the lines on emigrsnt
rates. Fink was chosen arbitrator. Lake
and rail rates will be considered this
afta-n0On
Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-06-28
Preparing for the ,yarsitY Race,

NEW LONDON, Conn.,, June 27.-The
city is rapidly filling up with college men
and friends OF the various crews. The
indications are that the crowd on Friday
will be larger than at any race for some
years. In to-day's races Harvard is
looked upon as sure winner Of the
Freshmen event,
Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-06-28
Deseryedly Strung Up.

PATERSON, N. j., June 27.-Tunis La
bee was hanged in the Jail this morning
for the murder of a woman he lived
with as his wife. He stabbed her fifty
two times. She was only 10 years old
and one of the most beautiful of Holland
women. Labee leaves a wife and chile
in Holland.
Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-06-28
HeBOt JOtttngs.

Mr.. G. w. Sanborn, Superintendent Of
the California Central, is in town.
Mr.. G. W. Cartwright, the Santa Fe's
Agent at San Diego, is in town.
The new ice-house at the Wolfskill
depot will be ready for occupancy by
Monday.
Yesterday morning Mr.. 7. F. O'Reilly,
formerly Agent for the Santa Fe in this
city, died at Pasadena.
Harry Butterfeld, the popular Travel
ing Passenger Agent of the Santa Fe's
California lines, has resigned.
The second track OF the Temple
Cable road was laid in twenty-three
days, one of the quickest pieces of work
on record.
Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-06-28
Assassin VIC Dow

CHARLESTON, S. c., June 27.-The evil
deuce In the Mellow case is all in, and
the prosecution commenced the closing
arguments.
Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-06-28
A Few More Reflections Upon the
Proposed Outfal Sewer TO the


Proposed Outfan Sewer TO the
Sea.
If the means OF disposing of the city
sewage is to be the proposed "outfall
sewer to the sea, debouching somewhere
in the surf mile or 30 east Of Santa
Monica, the following stated difficulties
and delays will occur:
Firstly-The right of way for such a
sewer through the cienegas and lowlands
where it is not wanted and can only be
q nuisance. will almost certainly have to
be condemned after tedious litigation. .se...
i, secondly-The right to debouch this
pent-up mass OF sewage and sewer gas
at one point into the sea, where the
coast currents, at least once in every
twenty-four hours, would take portion
of it TO mingle with the refreshing
breakers, which the bathers at Santa
Monica have heretofore been wont to 30
much enjoy, and the purity of which is,
and has been, the great feature and pride
of that delightful seaside resort, will
doubtless be resisted by the people and
property owners of that place by every
means known to law, and with
the vigor and desperation of a
people struggling for seif-preservstion.
For it must be borne il mind that the
very suspicion of such a pollution OF
those waters would be damage, even if
the pollution did not actually exist. The
mere fact that any ordinary odor of sea-
weed or salt water might be mistaken
for the odor of the Los Angeles water
closet would be far more dsmning than
Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-06-28

Local and through tickets sold, baggage
made, and general information given upon sp.
plication to G. f. SMURR, Asst. G. Pas. Agt., No
202 North Main street; CHARLES SEYLRR
Agent at Depot.
Sundays excepted tSundays only.
A. N. TOWNE, General Manager
T. II. GOODMAN,
GenI Passenger and Ticket Agt
apll-3m
Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-06-28
The Russian Crop.

ST. PETERSBURG, June 27.-Owing tc
the favorable weather, all fears that all
crops would prove failure have been
dispelled.
Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-06-28

When Baby was sick, we gave hsr Castoria,
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria,
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria,
Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-06-28

The steamers Queen of the Pacific, and
Santa Rosa leave San Pedro for San DIEGO on
the dates of their arrivals from San Francisco,
and on their trips between San Pedro and San
Francisco call at Santa Barbara and Port Har.
ford (San Luis Obispo) only. The Eureka and
Los Angeles call at all way ports.
Cars to connect with steamers leave 8. P. RR
depot Fifth street, Los Angeles, as follows: With
the Queen OF the Pacific and Santa Rosa at
$50 o'clock A. M; with Los Angeles and
Eureka, going north, at $40 O'Clock P. NJ.
E&F- Plans of steamers ca bins at agents of
fce where berths may be secured.
The steamers Los Angeles and Eureka will
call regularly at Newport pier for and with
freight and passengers.
The company reserve the right to change the
steamers or their days of sailing.
Gg- For passage or freight as above or for
tickets to and from
All Important Points ta Europe,
APPLY TO
w. PAREkpS, Agent.
Office: No. Commercial st., Los Angeles.
Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-06-28

A fine line of ladies' and children g
hosiery at the New York Bazaar this
week. Ladies' lisle thread full finished
hose for 25 cents a pair. 81 North
Spring street.
Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-06-28
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.

The tenor of communications appearing in
this column is not necessarily endorsed by the
editors of the HERALD The writer who desires
to be heard in it should always accompany his
screed with his full name, not necessarily for
publication but as a guarantee of good faith.l
Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-06-28

"Life Size,, crayons 500, at Edouart 4
Sons l21 8. Spring. Satisfaction guaranteed
Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-06-28

Theo. RapP, Wood Engraver,
No. 10 Court street, room 8. Satisfaction
guaranteed. Reasonable prices.
Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-06-28

Private family entrance for ladies'
the "Anheuser,n 2S5 N. Main street.
Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-06-28

CoIdest beer in the city at the "Anheuser,'
295 N. Main street.
Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-06-28
FOR THE MYSTERIOUS VINE DISEASE.
ONGERTHS INSECTICIDE Pc WIDER, NC

This Powder is the prepare.
ton specially recommended by
Hon. J. de Barth Shorh, Viticul.
tural Commissioner, and Ethel
bert Dowlen. expert employed
by the State to investigate the
Mysterious Vine Disease. All
the Powder used by them In
their recent experiments was
the Ongerth Insecticide Powder,
No. 2, of which about 10000
lbs. have been shipped to the Ssu
Gabriel Valley. See their Off
cisl report of April Is. 1889.
No preparation genuine with.
out this Trade Mark.
Manufactured by the On
gerth Drafting Conn
pOun d Co., gig Davis st +,
san Francisco. Z. STEELE,
113 W. First st., or P. o. box
1874, Los Angeles, Sole Agent
for Southern California. Also
manufacturers OF the
Commando,
Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-06-28

For healthful change of air and scenery try
few days at Arrowhead Springs. Summer
rates,
Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-06-28

For plans and specifications go to R. B.
Young, Architect, % s. Spring street
Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-06-28
LINES OF TRAVEL.
Pacific Coast Steamship 10.

GOODALL, PERKINS q CO., General 1rert,
SAN FRANCISCO.
NORTHERN ROUTES
Embrace lines for Portland, Or, victorIa, Y. G
and Puget Sound, Alaska and all coast norris
SOUTHERN ROUTES,
Time Table for June, 1889,
Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-06-28

For a cool glass of beer or an elegant
lunch, go to the "Anheuser," 285 N. Main 6t.
Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-06-28

Sher w i'm williams, prepared house
paints at p. II, MATHEWS.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-06-26

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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-27
EXPLODING ETHER WAY.

The boiler explosion which cost two lives
yesterday, at the Duquesne Steel Works,
demonstrated one point which is of interest
and importance in determining the causes
of boiler explosions. The experiments
which were made at the Munhall farm sew
eraI years ago demonstrated that boilers
containing a large amount of superheated
water could be exploded by a sudden relief
of pressure; and it was claimed that the old
idea of exploding boilers by letting the
water get too low and turning in fresh water
on the hot surface was disproved. So strong
was this belief in some minds that the ex-
pert agent of boiler insurance company Of
fered to sit above a red hot empty boiler
while water was turned into it. Yesterdays
explosion, however, was clearly produced
by letting the boiler heat while empty and
then turning water on. 1t looks as if either
too hot or too cold water can produce ex-
plosions at unexpected moments.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-27
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

LORD TENNYsoN has read all of Rider Hag-
CARDS novels
THE Prince of Wales. on his present trip,
drinks nothing but German mineral water.
JAMES WHITcoMB RILEY, the bachelor
poet, is in receipt constantly Of letters from
women who want to marry him.
WILLIAM c. WHITNEY, ex-Secretary of the
Navy is one Of syndicate of capitalists that
proposes to invest s., 900 in the pulp mill
business in Maine.
Mr.. J. V. CRACRAFT, who has held a posi-
tion for several years in the Philadelphia mint,
has resigned his Office, and enters into news
paper work again in Washington.
Mr.. LOWELL said in the course Of his speech
the other night at Boston that he did not ex-
pect much help from either of the great politi-
cal parties in the battle for civil service reform
HON. SAMUEL j. RANDALL was reported
last evening as much improved in health. He
was resting easily. and his physician stated
that If he continued to improve he would be
able to attend the opening of Congress on
Monday.
JOHN B. ALLEN, who has been elected United
States Senator from Washington, was raised in
York. Me-, went to California in the fifties sub
sequently located in Tucson, Ariz-, and went
few years ago to Washington Territory, where
he greatly increased an already large fortune
by transactions in land.
THE waistcoat worn by the Inflated Louis Ii.
of Bavaria on the day of his mysterious death
is now exhibited at Furth. IN the shop window
of liquor dealer, who purchased it at the
auction sale of the personal effects Of the late
King. Lest there should be any doubt as to
the authenticity of the garment thus displayed,
the auctioneer's warrant and bill of sale are
mined tn IL
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-27
PITTsBURG, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 2. IsS0.
REAL ESTATE VALUES.

The sale, noted elsewhere, of lot in the
East End at the rate of nearly $50 per foot
front and the asking prices of s4, 900 to
S4, 500 per foot for property on Fifth avenue
near Smithfeld street, indicate the extent
to which the demand for real estate has car
ried values in Pittsburg.
1t is necessary. to recognize that the ad-
vance in city real estate, so far, has con-
tained little of the boom, or element of in
hation. Except with regard to the sudden
rise of values in Squirrel Hill, by reason of
its vicinity to Schenley Park, the advance
has been cue to steady demand for perma-
nent investment or for sites for homes for
the business men of Pittsburg.
Nevertheless 1t is well to remember that
such an increase in the cost of realty may
easily be pushed to point where it will be
overdone. When homes become too costly
for the acquisition, not only of the wealthy
but of the average worker, or when rents get
high enough to force economies, in the occu-
pancy OF houses, the check and reaction will
be severe in proportion, as the advance has
been excessive. That we have not reached
that point yet is plain from the Legitimate
and steady demand which measures the pros
perity of Pittsburg; but that we may avoid
it altogether it will be we'll to steer clear of
anv of the characteristics of initiation.
The best way to keep up the present ac-
tivity in real estate is to keep prices on a
basis which will continue to stimulate the
demand.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-27
THE TROUBLE WITH THE FARMERS.

The discussion of the project of improv-
ing county roads calls forth from repre-
sentative Of the agricultural classes in the
East the protest that tie farming business is
so unremuneretive that while the farmers
need good roads, they cannot pay the taxes
necessary for their construction. They can
better afford to house their crops and wait
for marketing them till the season when
hard roads are afforded by nature, than to
expend the taxation necessary for a general
system of well-built highways.
This sounds good deal like the views Of
the man in ''the Arkansas Traveller" con-
cerning his leaky roof Yet there is some
thing in it which deserves attention as
measure of the decadence that has fallen on
the Eastern farming interest. Its force is
increased by the corroboration given in
recent statement that cheap western lands
are doing more than any forestry association
to encourage the growth of forests in the East.
Vermont, New Hampshire and Massachusetts
are said to contain many abandoned farms
which are being covered by trees; and
Philadelphia cotemporary says: "With the
fall Of farm lands in this State from one
third to one-fourth in value, it will not be
long before this begins to be true in Penn
sylvsnia.
In other words, the result Of that system
Of railway operation which brings the fertile
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-27
A COMBINATION CUT.

The report that the coal combination
which has generally controlled the sale Of
coal in the New Orleans market, has cut the
price in that market about four cents
barrel, was an interesting item OF intelli-
gence yesterday. 1t throws good deal of
light oS the practical operation of combina-
tions to prevent competition; and the in
fuences which reduce prices where such
combinations are concerned.
There does not seem to be much conceal
ment about the fact that this action is taken
for the purpose of shutting independent
competitors out of the New Orleans market.
In that case it is evident that the reduction
is not to be charged to free competition, but
it is clearly method taken to prevent COM
petition and to sustair a combination.
Apart from that it is plain either that the
reduced price is a losing one or that the
previous price represented high margin
of profit. In the former case we
have the spectacle of combination
supposed to be for the purpose of making
more money than under competition, adopt
ing the method of throwing away money to
shut out competition. In the latter we have
a new demonstration that the high prices
maintained by combination will inevitably
attract new competition.
These facts make clear the grounds for
judgment on the policy of cutting prices to
drive out competitors. Unless there is some
other way to bar out the return Of the COM
petition, the chief losers by that policy must
be those who adopt it. As long as coal sells
at loss at New Orleans the competitors can
seek other markets; but when an attempt is
made to recuperate that loss by high prices
they will come back again. On the other
hand, if the reduced price represents mar.
gin on the first cost OF the coal there, the
change in prices will give the New Orleans
people cheaper fuel, increase the sales of
coal and SO be an advantage all around.
Another instructive point is contained in
the declaration that no such cut was ever
before made in the coal market of New Or
leans This again shows the result of the
combination policy. Under legitimate COM
petition the changes are gradual and conser-
vative. 1t is when attempts are made to
control markets and maintain prices by
combination that these violent and sudden
changes appear.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-27
DESTRUCTION RY FrRF

Yesterday was a bad day for two manu-
featuring towns, Leechburg, In Western
Pennsylvania, and Lynn. the shoe manu-
featuring town Of Massachusetts In each
case fire broke out and the lack of fire ap-
paratus soon let it get beyond control.
Probably tinder-box construction in the
way of frame buildings contributed equally
with the lack of fire apparatus to the de-
struction of the business or manufacturing
interests of both places. The loss at Lynn
is stated at s., ,OOc, 600. That at Leechburg
is hardly one-thirtieth as large; but the fig
ures in each case represent a severe loss to
both places. The losers will, of course, be
better prepared than the Johustown sufferers
to repair their losses andrebuild their towns;
and it is to be hoped that they may be able
to do it so that their property will not burn
up so easily the next time.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-27

or A. N. There is an argument "that our
method OF cutting the day in Two in the
middle is purely arbitrary and conven-
tional, founded upon no better reason than
established custom" But the new method
will be arbitrary and conventional, as all
methods o. dividing the days into hours and
minutes must be; so that the reform must
really fall back on the railroad time tables.
The supremacy of the railroads in busi-
ness affairs; their very powerful sway IN
politics; and their undisputed control overt the
livesof the patrons of suburban trains are in
disputable facts; but it must be said that the
railway sway is extended to extreme lengths
when the habits of life and even of thought
must be turned upside down in order that
railroad time tables may become compre-
hensible. No other inconvenience arises from
the present rotation of time. The man who
goes down to his business at A. NJ. is never
in danger of starting down by mistake at s in
the previous evening; the workman who
knocks off work at 6 in the evening runs no
hazard of enormously continuing his labors
right through to of the next morning. Yet
the whole people are to be required to quit
work and eat their suppers at Is or 19 o'clock
and go to bed at 22:9O or %, in order that the
mysteries of the time tables may be some
what mitigated.
The effort for this change is some
what sporadic; but the steady advance In
the idea that we must conform our lives to
railroad conditions foreshadows the day
when we will rush to our meals at the cry of
''twenty minutes for dinner" and furnish
our chambers on the model of a Pullman
sleener