Los Angeles herald., 1891-01-17
EASTERN ECHOES.

The Sub-Tropical exposition has
opened its fifth annual session at Jack
sonville, Fla.
Hawley, the police inspector who was
shot in Denver by Harley Mccoy, died
of his wound.
John Johnson (colored) has been
hanged at Opelika, Ala, for the murder
OF jenkins Moore.
A. G. Petrie & Co., OF Dallas, Texas,
wholesale dealers in lumber, have as
signed. Assets, $240,000; liabilities,
800 900.
The jury in the case OF the defaulting
State Treasurer Archer, of Maryland,
returned verdict against his sureties
for 100000.
The Riley-Osborne Manufacturing
company, OF Newark, IN. j., is in the
hands OF a receiver. It's debts are $780,
QUO; assets, less than half.
The two warning factions OF the Colo
RADIO house of representatives have thus
far failed to reach an amicable settle
Inent of their differences.
A severe shock of earthquake was felt
ip Pepperell, N. H., and adjoining towns
Thursday night. The vibrations lasted
several seconds, causing much alarm. :,
A strike of station agents and tele-
graph operators has been inauvurated
on the Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
road hut go far has failed to interrupt
business.
At ST. Paul, Minn., Wallace Lethers,
a nephew of General Lew Wallace, was
killed by fall from his window whether
accidental or the result of temporary
alteration, is unknown.
George G. Baker, custom house off :.
Ger at Philadelphia, charged with alter
ing figures in invoicesof sugar consigned
to Claus Spreckles, has been arrested
and held in $4,000 bonds.
A rumor started to the effect that
Jack Dempsey was dead, proved to be
absolutely without foundation. He is
getting better rapidly and will be all
right soon. His nose is not broken, as
at first reported.
Mrs. Evangeline l.. Hamilton, in the
Robert Ray Hamilton will contest, de-
her husband, ever entered into mar
riage contract with him, or ever lived
with him as his wife.
Colonel Albert M. Lea died at Carsi-
cana, Texas; aged "a. He was gradu-
ate of West Point, and under General
Fremont, supervised the survey of Min
nesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, and large
portion of the territory west of the Mis-
sissippi.
Alphonse Stephan, who shot and
killed ex-Judge Reynolds in New York,
last May, has been pronounced sane by
the commission appointed to inquire
into his mental condition. He will now
have to stand trial ON the charge of
murder.
Senator Stanford, from the committee
on public buildings and grounds, has re-
ported to the senate, with favorable
Recommendation the bill increasing by
| $450, 900 the sum appropriated for the
purchase of a site for public building
at San Francisco.
Frank p. Demarest, member OF the
general assembly for Rockland county,
N. ", was arrested at Nyack, charged
with misappropriation OF money and
forging endorsements on checks whiie
attorney for the Union steamboat COM
| pany OF Buffalo.
Plans are almost completed for the
formation of a company to build an air
line railroad from Kansas City to Gal
| weston, there to connect with the Pan
American steamship line. The proposed
line will be 200 miles shorter than any
other road to the gulf.
Rev. J. T. Riley, a Methodist Episco.
pal minister Of Braddock, Pa, whose
trial by a church committee has been in
progress two weeks, has been found
guilty OF imprudence and unministeria
conduct. The charges were preferred
against him by w. T. Merrick, who
alleged that Riley had alienated the
affections of his wife.
A petition is being circulated through
out the state of Nebraska asking thu
legislature for recount of the ballots
cast at the November election. This il
supposed to be a scheme Of the Inde'
pendents to get possession of the ballots
Of Douglas county, in which Omaha il
situated, for the purpose Of counting
out Boyd and seating Powers as gov
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