Los Angeles herald., 1891-03-15
WIRE WAITS.

WIRE WAITS.
The Arizona legislature has passed
the Australian ballot bill.
The Cincinnati Iron and Steel COM
pany has made an assignment. Assets,
| $50, 900; liabilities, $65,000.
Representative Spinola of New York
is seriously iii of nervous prostratlon at
the Arlington hotel, Washington.
Judge James Grant, one OF the oldest
and best known attorneys OF Iowa, died
at Oakland, CAL, Saturday morning.
Charles Kellogg, well-known through
out the country as civil engineer and
inventor, died at Finday, O., Friday
night.
Warm rains in the mountains of
Arizona, the last few days, melted the
snow, and another rise in the rivers is
expected.
An engineer and fireman were killed
in wreck on the Philadelphia and
Reading road, Friday night, near Beaver
Valley, Pa.
A trans-Mississippi congress will be
held in Denver May 10Th, having for its
object the union OF western and south
western interests.
La grippe has become epidemic at
Clifton, Ariz., and it is reported that in
the last two weeks ten deaths have oc-
Cured from the disease.
At secret meeting held by the Colo
RADIO and Utah railroad lines, steps were
taken to increase the freight fares from
the Missouri river to Salt Lake.
Philipsen, the soap manufacturer who
strangled clerk named Meyer and sent
his body to New York in lime cask, has
been condemned to death at Copenha-
gen.
President Carnot has signed an agree.
ment by which England and France
will undertake to submit the matters Of
dispute in connection with Newfound-
land to arbitration.
The Chilean insurgents have requested
the French government not to allow the
new warships that have just been COM
pleted at Toulon for the Chilean govern
ment, to leave port for Chilean waters.
There was a slight run ON the Pro-
vincial bank at Buenos Ayres, Saturday,
but it was soon allayed and confidence
completely restored. The subscriptions
to the national loan are estimated at
$40, 900.
The supreme court of Washington
reversed the decision of the lower court
in the case of John S. Rose and John
Edwards, convicted of the murder of the
Frederickson family at Oysterville, and
has ordered new trial.
A dispatch from Durham confirms the
report that a Portuguese gunboat at
tackled and captured the British South
African company's steamer, while the
latter vessel was ascending the Linn
popo river with rifles and ammunition.
At Nevada, CAL, warrant has been
issued for the arrest CT Sheriff George
w. Dunster, on the charge of being in
toxicated to such an extent as to unfit
him for the discharge of his official du-
ties. The alleged offense, is a misde-
meanor, and if proven, deprives the ac-
cused of Office.
The United States steamship Galena
and tug Nine went ashore Friday night,
one mile south OF Gay Head lighthouse,
Mass, in fog. The officers and crews,
seventy-seven in number, were taken
off by the Galena's boats. Both vessels
were badly damaged.
The sudden and mysterious disap-
pearance OF Colonel l.. J.. Thompson,
one of the leaders of the Democratic
party in Arkansas, has created a sensa-
ton in Little Rock. His friends fear
that he has become insane from reverses
in business affairs and from the death
of his wife.
1t is said that the Rio Grande West
ern, in order to secure shorter line to
the Pacific coast, is negotiating for the
purchase of the Oregon Pacific road,
which is projected from Yaquina bay,
on the Oregon coast, to Boise City,
Idaho, and will build railroad from
Ogden to connect with it, which would
give them a transcontinental route.
George G.. Merrick, OF Denver, has
again presented his now famous silver
brick to superintendent Bosbyshell, of
the mint at Philadelphia for coinage.
This second presentation was made nee
essary by the death of Secretary Win
dom, the encouragement having de-
cided that suit must again be filed. The
same course will be followed as before.
Representative Morrow. of California,
called on President Harrison Saturday
morning, and presented kilograms from
the boards of trade of Santa Barbara
and other California cities, urging him
to invite the president to visit those
cities on his trip to the Pacific coast.
The president said he had made no def
mite plans for such trip, but would con-
slider these invitations in case he decides
to go.
Thomas Craig. the keeper of lodging
house, was probably fatally shot by Mat
Smith in the Charter Oak saloon, San
Francisco, before daybreak Saturday
morning. Both men had been drinking
and were discussing the Kilrain- Godfrey
fight. Without warning, Craig says,
Smith drew pistol and fired twice at
him. One of the bullets took effect in
the right cheek, and the other in the
left side, and may prove fatal. Smith
was arrested and charged with assault
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