Los Angeles herald., 1891-02-20
WIRE WAITS.

Ex-Empress Eugene has gone from
Paris to San Reno.
Professor Alexander Winchell, of Ann
Arbor University, is dead.
H. X. Enos, banker, and president of
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas rail-
road, is dead.
Prince Sanyd, president of the Japan
ese council OF the court and custodian of
the grand seal, is dead.
The Wisconsin senate Q6 to 14)
adopted resolution protesting against
the passage of the silver bill.
Empress Frederick and her daughter,
Princess Margaret. are actively engaged
in sightseeing in Paris, whence they go
to London.
At Ironwood, Mich, Joseph Bercance
was killed, and two other miners se-
riously injured, by the falling Of ore in
the Aurora mine.
In the case of the United States VS..
the bondsmen of ex-Receiver Fred
Smith, at Tucson, Ariz., for $26, 900, the
jury returned verdict fur $5934.
A bill making prizefghting in Texas
penitentiary offense, has passed the
house. The term of imprisonment pro-
vided for ranges from 2 to 5 years.
A farmer named johnson, living near
Monticello, Wis.,, on returning home
from town, found his house in ashes and
his two little children burned to death.
The barbed-wire men have failed to
bring their negotiations, for the forma-
tion OF d trust, to a conclusion, and the
prospect is now for another fight on the
old lines.
AT Templeton, Cal, a young man
named Anderson, en- route to Oregon
with stock, was accidentally shot and
killed while in scufiie with his wife
for the possession of a pistol.
The Northern Pacific directors have
declared the regular quarterly dividend
OF one per cent. They have also decided
to resume Work on all projected exten-
sions and push them to completion.
At st. Petersburg, fire broke out in
the apartments of the empress. but the
flames were promptly extinguished and
only slight damage done. The Gear per-
sonally directed the operations of the
tiremen.
Relative to the Kansas City dispatch
about the consolidation OF the Nettleton
or Gulf line property with the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas, Manager Waldo, OF
the latter road, disclaims any knowledge
otsuch an arrangement.
William O'Brien and John Dillon
have been transferred from Clonmel to
Galway Jail. The inhabitants of Upper
ary got wind of the affair, and assem-
bled in crowds at the station, enthusias-
tically cheering the prisoners as they
passed.
The steamship Dorian arrived at New
York from the West Indies, and brought
the survivors of the bark Topsy that
went ashore on Cayman island: Cap
tain Mackenzie, two mates, seaman
and cabin boy of the Topsy were
drowned.
The last stone in the large granite dry
dock, which has been in course of con-
struction at Mare Island for nine years,
has been placed in position. When the
seams are painted, the dock will be COM
pletely finished. 1t has cost the govern
ment 100000.
Herr Luerssen, the sculptor of the
Garfield statue, died suddenly in Berlin,
from apoplexy. When the news of his
death was communicated to his wife.
she was so overcome with grief that she
was seized with commissions and shortly
afterward died.
Near Bartonia, Ind, Mrs. James Bass
was brutally murdered bv Anderson
Resell (colored) She was supposed to
have some inside knowledge of forgery
which Resell had committed, and he
murdered her to shut her mouth. Ro-
sell is still at large.
A bill has been introduced in both
houses Of the California legislature to
exclude Chinese from the state, and
compel those who remain to register, so
that it may be known what becomes of
them. The bill is said to have the sane
tiOn of the federal officials at Washing
ton, and has been passed upon as con-
stitutional by the attorney general of
the state.
President Ropes, of the Corpus Christi
and South American railroad, now be-
ing constructed between Corpus Christi,
Texas, and Brianville says he succeeded
while in Boston, in organizing the Pan
American Construction company, with
a capital stock of SIC, 900, 900, to push the
work from Corpus Christi across the
border. Ropes says capital has also
been secured to complete deep water
channel line in the Gulf of Mexico.
The reserve forces of the civic guard
have been called out in the Charleroi
district. Belgium, in view of the threat
ening state of affairs caused by the work
mems demand for the passage of uni
versal suffrage law. The workmen's s
general committee regards this as a
menace, and has addressed manifesto
to the militia, asking them to refuse to
obey orders, but to take sides with the
| workmen and resist what they term the
governments attempt to bring about
civil war.
PARK PATROLS.