Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-02-19
Eastern Echoes.

Eastern Echoes.
Louise Thiebault, who, it is said, lei
} with detaulter Silcott, has returned t.
Washington.
!. Charles J. Harrah, the millonair
Brazilian railroad contractor, died q
Phlladelphia Tuesday night.
The seventeen Sharon, Ga, citizen
arrested for interfering with POSTMASTER
IDucKworth, have been bound over to the
AEril term of court. 4ss,a
| A beIeft to Mrs. James G. Blaine
Jr., at the Broadway theater, N. Y,
netted $500. She is still ip serious
condition, the result Of infammatory
rheumatism.
Last Saturday the National Starch
Manufacturing Company was incnrs,1 Dor.
ated at Covington, KY, uaaer the Ken.
tucky law. 1t owns all the starch facto-
ries in the United States.
Mrs. Rsbecca Way Taylor, mother OF
tue late author and traveller, Bayard
Taylor, died at her residence at Kennett
Square, Pa, Tuesday morning, after q
brief illness, aged 80 years.
r. E. Fl. Smith, manager of a New
York plantation implement and supply
firm, disappeared four weeks ago from
Natchez, Miss. An investigation of his
accounts shows deficit of $4,000.
Ellison Mounts was hanged at Pike
vile, KY, Tuesday, for participating in
the murder of Miss Alafair Mccoy and
her brother some time ago. He declared
that the Hatfield gang forced him to en-
gage in the murder.
A nineteen. year-old youth named
Booth assaulted and killed Rev. Michael
Whisman, near Compton, KY. Whis-
man once punished Booth when the
latter was school boy, and Booth never
forgot or forgave the fancied wrong.
Rev. Father Ward, chaplain of Mercy
hospital, Pittsburg, P@., has admins
tered the last rites to Bishop O'Connor
All hope of the Bishops recovery has
been abandoned.
During prayer meeting at Edward
Randall's near Lebanon, Ind, an un-
known miscreaht fred shot Through
the window, fatally wounding Mrs. Ran
dali. The family is one of the most
prominent in the county.
The New York Commercial Company
of Alaska, Limited, with capital of
81, 600 900, for carrying on mining, fish
ing, building and commercial enterprise
generally in Alaska, has filed certificate
of incorporation at Albany.
The members of the Manufacturers
Association at Woburn, Mass, have de-
cided to close every leather factory rep
resented in the association, and to keep
them closed, until the men return to
work at the factory of Beggs d Cobb.
This means the idleness of 500 men.
At Spickardsville, Mo-, the constable
arrested sixteen crusaders, thirteen
ladies and three men, charged with tie
malicious destruction of property. He
met with no opposition. the ladies hav-
ing determined to submit quietly to their
martyrdom, as they called it. All gave
bond in GUMS of $50 each for their ap-
pearance next Friday.
Three reporters and q detective at
Chicago attended dark cabinet seance
and managed to unmssk Mrs. Carrie M.
Sawyer, her husband, Frank Burke, and
Kittie Rainge, who played disembodied
female spirits, while Mrs. Sawyer played
male parts with the aid of wigs, boards,
etc. Burke wss manager and magnetist.
They were arrested and locked up. Mrs.
Sawyer was formerly well-known
medium in San Francisco. She has been
doing big business in Chicago.
DENVER, Col, February 1S.-The COM
mittee in charge of the arrangements for
the National Travelling Mems Convention
to be held in Denver, June 10Th to 25th,
has met great success in raising the
funds necessary to insure good attend
ance of that fraternity at that time. The
transcontinentsl routes have agreed on
$1S.15 for the round trip rate from Mis-
souri, river points to Denver, and from
late advices the committee is led to be.
lieye that Eastern connections will make
q corresponding rate. Delegations from
the Travelling Mems Association from all
points of the United States will be in at
tendance to effect national federation
of commercial travellers, of whom there
are some 250,000.