Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-19
WIRE WAITS.


found among cattle imported from the
United States in England.
The total rainfall for the last storm at
San Bernardino was 20. The total for
the season is Ills inches.
The fourth trial of L. A. Powell, for
killing Ralph S. Smith, has been set for
May 18th. at Redwood City.
The navy department has been noti-
fed of the arrival of the flagship San
Francisco at Acapulco, Mexico.
The number of deaths in Chicago for
the week ended Saturday, was SAL,
against 655 the preceding week.
The Dominion Trades congress has
petitioned the Canadian government to
prohibit the importation of Chinese
labor.
At Houghton, Mich, the Pewabic
mine fire has been extinguished and
men are now at work on the lower
levels.
The exports of specie from New York,
last week, amounted to 1884 900, of
which $3,5O4,O0O was in gold, and the
remainder silver.
A banquet at Kansas City, Friday
night, was fitting close to the session
of the first commercial congress of
western states. Plates for 450 were
laid.
| Fritz Harms, Yolo county leper,
who had been quarantined on an island
in the overflow several miles below
the town OF Washington, died few
days ago.
Three white men entered the tent of
Len Jung, Chinese laborer, at Sheri-
dan landing, Ore, and after fatally
stabbing Jung, they searched the tent
and carried off $3.50.
The fire alarm system recently con-
tracted for by the city of San Bernar.
dino, was put in Saturday and worked
very satisfactorily. Six boxes were put
in and two more will be added.
Mcclellan, charged in the Democratic
caucus, at Tallahassee, Fla, with hav-
ing attempted to bribe Representative
Whitehurst to vote for Call, publishes a
card denouncing the statement as false.
President David Starr Jordan, of Stan
ford university, is expected to arrive
from Bloomington, Ind, next Tuesday,
and Mrs. Senator Stanford is having the
Coutts house at Menlo Park fitted up
for his residence.
British forces defeated large body OF
Miranzais after a stubbornly contested
engagement. Several English officers
and men were wounded. The loss sus-
tanned by the enemy is unknown, but it
is believed to be heavy.
At Norwalk, Conn, burglars fired a
small barn on the outskirts of town.
While the police and Others were watch
ing the blaze, they entered Jackson g
| jewelry store and secured $4,000 worth
of jewelry and diamonds.
The grand jury in Chicago has re-
| turned an indictment against Dennis
Sheehan, a Democratic judge of election,
for forcibly breaking open ballot box
in the twentieth precinct OF the nine
teenth ward, on election day.
A dispatch from Tickle Cove, Nova
Scotia, says terrible destitution prevails
there, and that a number of families
are actually starving. Unless speedy
relief is afforded, death from starvation
/ will result in many cases.
Three hundred of the S95 steerage
passengers of the steamer Fulda, de-
tained at New York quarantine on ac-
count of smallpox, were taken Off Sat
urday and landed at the barge office.
The others were sent to Hoffman's 8
| island.
The felt covering OF the boiler OF the
revenue cutter Chandler took fire in
some unaccountable manner while the
vessel was on the way down New York
bay. Captain Littlefeld ran the cutter
alongside the dock at Quarantine and
the flames were extinguished with slight
damage.
At Fort Wayne, Ind, the wife of
George Murphy shot her 5-year-old
daughter through the head with re-
volver. killing her instantly. The wo-
other members of her household, but
was disarmed before she could do any
other damage.