Los Angeles herald., 1891-10-23
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Philip Herbert Carpenter, the distin
guished English scientist, is dead.
The boiler of a threshlng machine ex
ploded near Mayyihe, 4. D., and si1
men were killed.
Stephen B. Elkins emphatically de,
nies the report that he has been Offered
| the war portfolio.
Two unknown Russians, lately arrived
in New York, were found dead in bed
asphyxiated by gas.
The freight claim agents, association
OF the west, has elected A. 7. Drew
president for the ensuing year.
The Bank of Lewisburg, the only
financial institution in Lewisburg
Tenn, has made an assignment.
A sensation has been caused at st.
Johns, N. B., by the suicide of ex.
United States Consul James Murray, by
shooting.
Smallpox has made its appearance in
the Italian quarter of Trenton, N. j.,
and the health officer fears it will be-
come epidemic.
At Glendale, Mass, the Glendale
woolen mills, the only industry of the
place, burned Wednesday evening. Loss
100000; fully insured.
Garcia, the Mexican insurgent leader,
is thought to be in jail at the little town
of Marysville, Nodaway county, Mo.
What he is imprisoned for cannot be
learned.
An attachment has been granted
against the property in New York be-
longing to the Columbus Borax ccm-
pany, OF California, for $40, 1926 in favor
of Marcus A. Joseph.
The schooner Albert Woodbury., of
Beverly, Mass, that sailed the latter
part of August on fishing trip, has not
returned, and is believed to have beea
lost with her ten men.
The Minnehaha hotel, at Hot Springs,
night. 1t is thought no lives were lost,
but as the register was burned nothing
definite is known. Loss, $4,000.
George Baine, one of the most prom
inent and best known millers in the
United States, prominently identified
for many years with politics in Missouri,
died at St. Louis, Thursday morning.
1t is not true that Germany will take
the lead in common action on the part
of the powers against China, but the
proposition is mooted that the German
minister at Pekin, as dean of the diplo-
matte corps there, shall take supreme
control.
Five companies of United States3in-
fantry and cavalry are said to be on the
march from Fort Russell to the scene of
the Ute outbreak that occurred four
years ago in Colorado. The Indians are
again encroaching upon the rights OF
the settlers.
The schooner Percy, with crew of
twelve men, and the schooner City
Point, of Portland, Me-, with crew Of
fourteen men sailed on voyages about Au-
gust 25th; neither has been heard from
since, and there is little doubt that
they have been lost with all hands.
A collision of freight trains occurred
at Round Bottom station, on the Pitts
burg, McKeesport and Youghiogheny
railroad, Thursday morning. Both trains
were badly wrecked and Engineer Scott
and Brakeman Green were instantly
killed.
At meeting of the American Shipping
and Industrial league, at Bath, Me-,
resolutions were adopted endorsing the
tonnage bill, and recommending far
mers,' mechanics and manufacturers
organizations to support only such rep
resentatives as are favorable to this bill.
By vote of 70 to 25 the Presbyterian
synod OF Baltimore adopted a resolution
calling on the general assembly to en-
tirely sever all relations between it and
the Union Theological Seminary of New
York, unless the questions between the
two be settled before the next meeting
Of the general assembly.
James Budden, representing himself
to.be wealthy Californian with large
account in San Francisco bank, went
to the central police station in Chicago
and made considerable disturbance.
The city physician pronounced him in
sane, and he is now in the detention
hospital.
At Telluride, Colo, James Mercer, an
express messenger and a man of family,
had been living in Illicit relations with
Mrs. A. w. Watson. They quarreled,
shots were heard, and when the neigh
bors rushed in, Mrs. Watson was dead
and Mercer dying. He asserted that the
woman did the shooting, but his story is
doubted.
A collision occurred on the Kansas
City, Council Bluffs and st. Joseph
railway, near Murray's station, between
a freight and passenger train. En-
gineer Eager, of the passenger, was
fatally injured. Express Messenger
Ravenaugh was severely injured. A
newsboy, T. B. Tanner, was badly hurt.
The passengers were shaken up but no
one was injured.
Replying to query from the state
department whether ''skilled expert"
laborers may accompany Chinese exhib-
itors of the worlds fair into this coun-
try, both the attorney-general and AS
sistant Secretary Spaulding concur in
the opinion that it will require action of
congress to authorize the admission Of
any Chinese laborer, inasmuch as per-
sons belonging to that class are abso-
lutely prohibited by law from landing
in the United States.
Jumped from Car window.
COLUMBUS, o., Oct. 22. - Matthias
Reitz, a shoemaker en- route from San
Francisco to Philadelphia, accompanied
by his wife and child, jumped from the
v,,;,,xlox., of a cor IN tho Ponhondla roi1.