Los Angeles herald., 1891-05-09


continue their fight six weeks longer.
1t is rumored that Ephruzzi & Co.,
one of the largest grain firms in Paris,
have failed.
Gold coin to the amount of $7,200,000
was ordered at New York for shipment
to Europe this week.
Four hundred and fourteen thousand
ounces of silver were purchased Friday,
at prices ranging from $.9SI5 to $.9S40.
Forest fires are raging at West Tawas,
Mich. Considerable pine is burning,
and the Sand Lake house has been de-
stroyed.
At Cleveland. Ohio, L. Newton Klein,
member of the wholesale clothing firm
of Goodhart, Klein & Koch, suicided by
shooting.
The London firm in the China trade,
whose failure is reported with liabilities
amounting to 9200 900, is that of Adam
son, Bell q Co.
The British ship Joseph M. Scanned,
from New York, January 18th, for Mel
bourne, is ashore at Barwin head, Aus
tralia, and will probably be lost.
At the election held Thursday IN the
South Dorset division of Brymer, the
Conservative candidate defeated Edge
cumb, the Gladstone nominee, by forty
votes.
The state bonded warehouse at Rot.
terdam, Holland, and greater part OF
its contents, was burned Friday morn
ing. The damage is estimated at ST.
250, 900.
Charles J. Dixon, arrested at New
York for threatening to kill Jay Gould,
belongs at Hartford, CT. His relatives,
who are wealthy, will have him placed
in an asylum.
Returns show serious increase in the
death rate in England. 1t is largely at
| tributable to influenza. Influenza is
also raging in Alsace-Lorraine and the
Rhine districts.
The officials of the Costa Rica legation
in Madrid deny that revolution has
broken out in their country. They de-
clare that peace and order prevail
throughout the country.
The reichstag budget committee has
approved a grant of $25, 900 to defray the
enable Germany to make suitable par
ticipation in the Chicago worlds fair.
At Marshall, Mont, William Price
(colored) was hanged in the Jail yard,
for criminal assault committed on Miss
Alice Ninas, which so preyed upon her
mind that she committed suicide.
The compositors throughout Vienna
have gone on strike for nine hours a
day, no overtime, and the abolition OF
the rule requiring compositor to give
notice before leaving his place of en-
ployment.
The London News correspondent at
Moscow says: The expulsion of Jews
continues. Harsher measures are ex-
pected with the approach of the Easter
holiday. Neither baptism nor appeal
to foreign consuls avals to secure escape.
The board of regents of Victoria uni
versity, at Toranto, the chief Methodist
university in Canada, has relieved Rev.
DIR. Workman of the professorship of
theology, and transferred him to the
! arts department, because of his hetero-
doxy.
The miners and others, to the number
Of about 100 900, now on strike in Bel
gium for fewer hours of labor and for
electoral reform, have, through their
central organization, demanded that the
dock laborers at Antwerp shall boycott
coal-laden steamers expected to arrive
in that port soon.
George G. Barker, formerly clerk in
the appraisers office at Philadelphia,
has been acquitted in the United States
district court of the charge of altering
the records of the polariscopic tests OF
sugar consigned to Claus Spreckels, by
which it was claimed the government
lost thousands OF dollars.
Thursday night and discussed Lord
Knutsford's coercion bill at length, and
amid much excitement finally adopted
a resolution denunciatory of the action
proposed to be taken by the British par
lament. The populace are consider
ably exercised over the affair, and en-
tirely in sympathy with the action of
the assembly.
A cablegram has been received from
the American consul at Florence, Italy,
at the office of w. w. Jacques, Boston,
stating that the reported mobbing of
Jacques and family was not so serious
as at first supposed. Jacques and fam
lily were out riding, and happening to
drive through street were arrests were
being made, were hit by stones thrown
at the arresting party.
A cablegram has been received in the
Latin department of the worlds Colum-
bian exposition, from Lieutenant Schri-
ven, commissioner to Central America,
as follows: "Costa Rica has given as
surances OF hearty cooperation. The
government will erect its own building
at Chicago and appoint five commission
ers. The national museum of Costa
Rica will also send valuable exhibit" F."
The dominion parliament has been
notified of a coming measure to author