Los Angeles herald., 1891-02-19
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Jay Gould has bought the Kansas salt
mines.
Athol, Mass, has suffered loss Of
$135,00O by fire.
The czar will decline to receive the
London committees appeal on behalf Of
the Jews.
1t is reported in New York that George
). Gould is to become president Of the
Union Pacific.
A st. Louis physician charged pa
$loo day for medical services, and the
estate had to pay it.
1t Is claimed by reliable people on the
ground that there are 10000 destitute
people in Oklahoma.
Eyraud has been sentenced to death
and Gabrielle Bompard to twenty years
imprisonment at Paris.
The apportionment bill does not take
effect till the Fifty third congress con-
venes in December, 1893.
A large section of the wharf at Hall
fax, N. s., fell in and several men were
carried down and drowned.
A frame dwelling house at Newark,
N. j., was burned. Mrs. Mcclure and
her granddaughter perished.
Gen. Sherman says if the control Of
the Indians is given to the war depart
ment there will be no more outbreaks.
The Queens proctor is likely to inter-
vene beforce an absolute rule is made in
the OShea divorce case. A sensation is
promised
The paint shop and repair shop, to-
gether with sixteen passenger cars, of
the Illinois Central railroad We're burned
at Chicago.
DR.. j. Ward Ellis, president Of the
California Pioneers society at Chicago,
we'll known dentist and prominent
Mason, is dead.
The crew of the steamer Big Sandy
. near Evansville Ind, on the Mississippi,
raided the cooks quarters and the cook
killed two of them.
Matthew Thomas, by his will. placed
u l6O,O ,OOi in charge of the city of Gin
cinnati in trust for the benefit of the
McMicken university.
Among Stanley's hearers at Toronto
was John Livingstone, brother of DIR.
Livingstone, in seeking for whom the
explorer began his career.
The emperor of Austria has sanctioned
the new law adding forty five communes
to the territory included in Vienna. The
population of the city is now 1915, 1926.
1t is again reported that Brigham
Young, Jr., has bought valuable grant
c;k A11 -
where Mormon colony will be estab-
ished.
disaster occurred at Cordova, Ar
gentine Republic, where a canal burst
its embankments and destroyed hundreds
OF houses. One hundred lives are re-
ported lost.
Stepnack, the Russian author and Nj
hilist. is on his way to the United
States to lecture on the wrongs inflicted
by the rulers of his country on the COM
mon people.
At the war department. a card cata-
logue is being prepared that will give
the military record of every man who
served the Union from Gen. Grant down
to the last man who enlisted.
A large number of laborers were work
ing in an old tunnel at Altoona, Pa,
when a roof caved in, burying several
Italians, taking the right leg off negro
and severely injuring anumber of Others
Governor Merriam Of Minnesota has
decided to issue a proclamation declaring
the adoption by the people of the consti-
tutional amendment making q verdict
by five-sixths of jury in civil acton
valid.
A Union Pacific train was wrecked
near Beatrice, Neb, an obstruction being
placed in a curve where it could not be
seen in time to check the speed of the
train. Bridge Inspector Mercer was
fatally injured.
The naval appropriations bill has been
completed. It provides for one triple
protected cruiser, similar to cruiser No.
10, the cost of which is limited to $2,-
750, 900. The bill carries total appro-
priation of $3, 500, 900.
A large vessel has easily entered the
Zambesi river, in Africa, at the Chinde
mouth. It was not believed possible
that vessel drawing thirteen feet could
enter before. The river will be made
very useful to commerce.
At the Brooklyn navy yard piece of
metal, weighing thirty tons, was hoisted
ten feet on a derrick to be put on board
the Boston, when suddenly the chains
snapped and the shaft tumbled on the
capstan. The capstan and the shaft
were smashed, entailing loss of SIC, ,00O
A passenger on the Bald Knob road,
near Memphis, Tenn, displayed roll
of bank bills while playing cards with
two strangers, when the latter drew
their revolvers, relieved him of his
money and kept the passengers seated
until the next station was reached, when
the two made their escape.
A prehistoric smelling furnace has
been uncovered near Albuquerque, N.
M. Near the furnace bar a pure silver
was found. The furnace had been filed
with ore by its builders and lever fred,
It is not larger than a bakers oven, still,
by some process now unknown, it re-
duced and refined the most refractory
ores.
It has been discovered at New York
that w. Duryea Hughes, who says he is
q brother-in-law to "Landaulet" Will
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