Los Angeles herald., 1891-05-28
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| Canadian senate.
General B. B. Eggleston, aged 70. died
at Wichita, Kan., Wednesday morning
from the effects of grippe.
DIR. Garrison, who shot and killed DR..
Baird, at Wheeling, w. Va, March last,
has been found guilty of murder in the
second degree.
| At Toronto, Ont, VIM. Silt, William
| Gilmour and Charles Lockwood were
drowned in Rideau lake by the upset
ting of a canoe.
The deaths OF Professor Charles Will
| lam Naegeli, a German botanist, and
| Joseph Roumanille, the Provencial poet,
are announced.
At Sioux Falls, S. D., Plenty Horses
trial continues to attracts large crowds.
The defense are still working to estab-
lish the war theory. Js
The Argentine senate has extended
for an indefinite period the delay of
twenty days accorded to the banks in
the payment of deposits.
Joseph Goodwin, convicted at Red
ding, Cal, OF murder in the second
degree, has been sentenced to term OF
twenty years in the state prison.
The Portuguese finance minister, in the
course of an interview with the governor
of the Bank of France, stated his inten-
ton to introduce bl-metallism in Portu-
gal.
At Philadelphia judgments aggregate
ing $3.50, 900 have been entered against
the American Machine company. Its
liabilities are believed to be about $780,
600.
A DeI 1.-r I'll D.
dence. with contents, burned Tuesday,
caused by the explosion of a lamp. The
loss is estimated at $4,000, insured for
$4,000.
The worlds fair directory has con-
firmed the appointment of F. J. Sklff as
chief of the department of mines and
mining,a and a. e. stonosas chief al the
forejgn department.
cat Council Bluffs, Iowa, the Judd
Wells Investment company has failed.
Assets, $75,000 liabilities, $l50,000.
The failure was caused by injudicious
investments in real estate.
AT Raymond. Miss, Anderson Harris
(colored), was hanged on Wednesday
for the murder of Hon. Gillie M. Lewis,
mayor of Clinton, last October. The
execution was witnessed by 1000 persons.
The New South Wales assembly is de-
batting a motion of want of confidence
in the ministry, proposed by Dibbs,
leader OF the opposition, against the re-
solutions in favor of Australian fedora
ton.
Grasshoppers have become very nu-,
merous and destructive in Sutter and
Yuba counties, Cal. Fred Ereste, who
has nursery near the Sutter county
Buttes, set fire to drive them off. The
fire spread all over the hill, destroying
much feed.
The French chamber of deputies has
passed a bill providing for the storing of
a stock of grain in every fortified town in
France, sufficient TO feed all the civil
ians of such towns in time OF war, for
two months.
The Hamburg American steamship
Fuerst, from New York, May 21st for
Hamburg, was signalled off Scilly at 80
p. m. Wednesday. The time of passage
was days, IA hours and 80 minutes,
the best on recrord.
M. Bergier, a counsellor in the Bor-
deaux appeal cnurt, has committed sui
eide, owing to losses amounting to $780,
900 in bourse speculations, M. Menou.
a banker of Bordeaux, has failed with
liabilities of 81 900, 900.
The amounto of silver offered for sale to
the treasury department, Wednesday,
was 1888, 900 ounces, and the amount pur-
chased, 294 900 ounces, as follows: co.
600 ounces at $3.50, $1,000 at S.9745,
25,0 900 at $.9749, 150, 900 at $3.50.
The suspended banking firm OF Hun
nell & Scranton, of New Haven, Conn,
has filed statement showing assets
$3.50, 900 and liabilities about $500, 900.
1t is doubtful if the creditors will rea-
lie more than forty cents on the dollar.
Articles Of incorporation of the Santa
Fe, Prescott and Phoenix Railway COM
pany, for the construction of railroad
from Ashfork on the Atlantic and Pa
cific, through Prescott to Phoenix, have
been fled with the secretary of Arizona.
Two men were shot by employees of
circus, which held forth at Mahony
City, Pa. Another had his skull frac-
tured with stone, and a number were
more or less seriously hurt. The fight
originated over gambling game in one
of the tents. None OF the showmen
were hurt.
Secretary Foster has laid down the
new policy that polygamists come under
the debarred class of immigrants, and
should not be allowed to enter the
United States. The case arose on the
landing in New York of one Peterson
and wife, of Sweden. The secretary
directed that they be returned to
Sweden at once.
At the annual meeting Of the Pacific
Mail Steamship company the old board
of directors was reelected. The annual
report showed surplus OF earnings of
$803, 900, after paying all charges; but
no dividend will be declared, as the
company has decided to use the money
in improvements for the purpose of TAX
ing advantage OF the subsidy law.
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