Los Angeles herald., 1891-03-12
ceptance as a Democrat, which he has
been ever since.
WIRE WAITS.

"A hurricane swept over the Balearc
isles, causing number of shipwrecks.
Senior Pedro Armenteros, one Of the
founders of the Autonomist party, in
Cuba, is dead.
The German reichstag rejected the
proposition to admit women to the
liberal professions.
d. A. Woodhouse & Co., of New York,
dealers in railway and telegraph sup
plies, have assigned.
A nugget weighing over fifty ounces
was found at the Ruby mine near Dow
melville, CAL, on Monday last.
The directors of the Western Union
Telegraph company have declared the
regular quarterly dividend of Ia per
cent.
The British ship Bay of Panama was
wrecked off Falmouth, and the captain,
his wife, and twelve OF the crew, were
drowned.
The annual report.of the Louisville.
New Albany and Chicago railroad shows
net surplus earnings of $135, 900 for the
year 1890.
The Canadian parliament will meet
on the 10th of April. 1t is expected that
the session will not last over six or
seven weeks.
At Bangor, Maine, considerable dam
age was done Tuesday by the flood tide,
which was the highest known since the
food Of 1S47.
The physicians in attendance upon
| Prince Jerome Napoleon have announced
that his feverish symptoms are abating
and that his strength is increasing.
Application for receiver for the Ma
con Construction company, engaged in
building railroads, one OF the largest
concerns in the south, has been filed.
At Columbus, Ohio, both the Elliotts
have been indicted for murder in the
| first degree. for killing Osborne and
Hughes in street fight a few weeks ago.
The Guatemalan government has sub
sidized the Cosmos Steamship company
to run monthly line of steamers be-
tween Guatemalan ports and Hamburg,
Germany.
p. A. Gale, prominent broker and
politician, OF Yankton, S. D., suicided
by shooting. He left letter saying
that he had lost all OF his money on the
Chicago board of trade.
The retail lumber dealers OF St. Louis
have decided to boycott some whole
salers, because they have been doing re-
tail business in the territory of the mid
die men, at wholesale prices.
Collector of Port Phelps stated that
during the past four months 10000
pounds of prepared opium have been
legally imported into San Francisco,
representing value Of 81 100000.
The gables of a synagogue at Menza.
loa, Westphalia, collapsed and a num-
bel of children were buried in the ruins.
So far four bodies have been recovered,
and the search is still proceeding.
Counsel for Harris Smiler and James
Slocum, both sentenced to die by cleo
tricity, in New York, for murder, have
joined forces and will exhaust all the
legal technicalities to save their clients.
The Boston Herald's Ottawa special
says the government of Newfoundland
has been invited to join Canada in ne
gotiating the basis of some sort OF recip-
rocal trade arrangement with the United
States.
The Western Wrapping Paper Mills
association trade is reported in splen-
did condition, except for large surplus
| on the market. 1t has therefore been
decided to shut down all the mills for
one week.
The sale of trotting stock of Monroe
Salisbury, of Pleasanton farm, Califor
MIA, began in New York Wednesday.
There was large attendance, but bid
ding was slow, the prices ranging from
$500 to $3.50.
| The Jefferson Insurance company, of
New York, will retire from business
after an existence OF sixty-seven years,
on account OF depreciation in values,
small profits and poor prospects for i'm
prOvement.
General Wood, the colored midget,
who had been on exhibition at one of
found dead in his bed Wednesday morn
ing He was suffocated by gas, whether
by accident or design, is not known.
Thirteen Russian cloakmakers were
arrested Tuesday night in New York for
attacking Herman Greenbaum and his
family at Jamaica, L. l., Monday night,
when Mrs. Greenbaum was brutally as
saulted and her little son burned with
vitriol.
At Virginia, Nevada, Bella Preusch, a
15-year-old girl, was suspended from
school for thirty days for misbehavior.
She went home and shot and fatally
wounded herself with revolver. She
sdlu SllC Wd6 lAnOCcuI dilQ COulNt IOJ
stand the disgrace.
In the famous Lonsdale-Shrewsbu
driving match, lord Lonsdale drove
over the course, twenty miles, in .56
minutes So 3-5 seconds. The stakes,
which had been forfeited by Lord
Shlewsbury's withdrawal from the
match. were handed over to charitable
institutions by Lord Lonsdale.
DR.. Won Gossler, German minister OF
public instruction, has resigned and will
be succeeded by Count Won Zedlitz
Frutzchler, president of the province oi
Posen. This is understood to signify
the success of the policy advocated by
the Centre party, of which the new APP
pointee and Windthorst are leaders.
Professor Charles Waldsten, the
American arch@ologist excavating the
ruins OF Eretria, on the island of Eu.
bra, at Negropont, founded before the
Trojan wars and destroyed in 400 B. c.
by the Persians, has found the ruins OF
theater, number of graves, and
splendid gold jewels, vases, etc.
Mayor Comstock, of Sacramento, has
received a letter from Private Secretary
Halford, acknowledging, for the presi
dent, the receipt of an invitation to visit
Sacramento during his proposed trip tc
California. The secretary says the pres