Los Angeles herald., 1890-10-09
EASTERN ECHOES.

Brief Mention of Every Day Events East
of the Rockies.
| Thomas Hicks, the we'll known por-
trait painter, died at Utica, N. Y.
The population of the state of Nebraska
is 1,056.793, an increase of 607 ,431, or
1917 per cent
The Compile de Paris and party after
visiting the tomb of Washington pro-
ceeded to Richmond.
The American board of commissioners
for foreign missions is holding it's
eighty-first annual meeting at Mime
apolis.
An explosion of gas in the Gaylord
coliie1y, at Plymouth, Pa, caused the
death OF two men, and fatally injured
two others.
The creditors OF Seavy, Foster & Bow
man, of Boston, after lengthy discus
sion, decided to continue the business
three months.
There are no signs yet of the rumored
strike on the Erie road. Vice President
Thomas has promised an early reply to
the mems demands.
The Ishpeming, Mich, miners are
still out; nothing but surface work is
being done. The strike has not spread
to mines outside OF Ishpeming.
| By the accidental explosion OF giant
powder at Humboldt, Col, Mike Miles,
Hugh Morgan and Harry Atkinson were
killed and another man seriously in
| jured.
The national board OF steam naviga-
| tioa has passed a resolution giving local
inspectors discretionary power to license
captains and pilots. This will apply to
the whole country.
At the Ducey Lumber company's
sawmill at Muskegon, Michigan, four of
six boilers exploded, wrecking the mill.
Six men were injured. the cause of
the explosion was low water. The loss
is heavy.
At Moline, Ills, Miss Anna Deene,
eldest daughter of Charles H. Deene,
one OF the Worlds fair commissioners,
was married Wednesday evening to Will
liam Dwight Wyman, son of Erastus
Wyman, of New York.
At Toledo, Ohio, Captain Mike En-
right, well known vesselman, met his
wife walking with William Murphy. He
shot Murphy, ,inficting serious wound,
and put three bullets in his wife's body.
1t is thought she will die.
The annual report of the Western
Union Telegraph company shows sur
plus of $10,052,9S5. The increase of
profits was $1,093,6S3. Compared with
the previous year, the gross revenue
shows an increase of 81. .6O3,834
A Cheyenne, Wyo., dispatch says:
George B. Henderson, manager of the
cattle outfit, has been killed by one of
his employees. It is supposed Hender-
son has been assassinated, owing 10 bad
feeling for years between the big cattle
companies and the maverickers.
Forestall Brothers, the St. Paul con-
tractors, have made an assignment, with
liabilities $200,O00, and estimated
assets $4,000. They have had large
paving and sewer contracts, especially
in West Superior where last springs
serious strike was responsible for most
OF their embarrassment.
Meyer Johassen of New York has re-
ceived a cablegram from Berlin that his
son Joseph has been acquitted of the
charge made against him by three
drunken students who accused him of
saying: 81 sneeze at your emperor"
This is political crime with penalty
OF ten years imprisonment.
At Wednesdays session of the Cath
olic Young Mems National Union, at
Washington, 7. G. O'Sullivan, of New
York, spoke on the subject of ''UnG;o-
cesar Unions" In the course of his
remarks he severely scored the people
who say American Catholics are not
loval to the country and national gov
ernment.
At Normandale, Ga, Tuesday evening,
j. @. Forsythe, secretary and treasurer
of the Normandale lumber company,
and one of the best known men in Geor-
gia, was killed by an unknown assassin,
who fred through window. Forsythe
was the principal witness against Luther
A. Hall, lawyer, whose trial for per-
jury is pending in the United States
court.
COAST CULLINGS.