Los Angeles herald., 1891-05-19
WIRE wAYFs.

Much snow has tallen in the Alps.
The Emma Juch Opera company has
gone to pieces at st. Louis.
Corte, the Italian consul at New Or
leans, is in Washington, d. @.
Gladstone has almost entirely recov-
cred his usual state of health.
Disastrous brush fires are raging in
the province OF Ontario. Canada.
The president has commuted the death
sentences, of three of the Navassa rioters,
to imprisonment for life.
The New Albany, Ind, Electric Light
company has assigned. Liabilities, $780,
900; assets about the same.
Four hundred and fifteen thousand
ounces of silver were purchased by the
treasury department Monday, at prices
ranging from $.9S05 to $500.
At New Haven, Conn, while out sail
irg in yacht, Frank Webber and L.
Lamphere, of Milford, Conn.,, were
drowned bv the upsetting of the boat.
Professor George H. Little, a we'll
known instructor in music, was found
dead in bed in San Francisco, Monday
morning, having been asphyxiated by
gas.
At mass meeting of Italians in Bos-
ton, a movement was started to erect
and present to that city statue of Chris
topher Columbusi to cost $40, 900 or $12,- :
900.
At Joliet, ILL.,, the works of the Joliet
Enterprise company were burned Mon
day morning. Loss, $l25, 900; insurance,
10000. Three hundred men were
thrown out of work.
Interstate Commerce Commissioners
Morrison, Bragg, Veazey and Knapp
will make circuit to the Pacific coast
and return, and hear cases and make
Investigations at various points on the
route.
The Jewish quarter of Corfu is still
surrounded by military, for the protect
ion of the Jews. The total number OF
victims of the Corfu riots is fifteen
killed and twenty-five who died from
privation.
Colonel L. M. Dayton, prominent
member of the society of the Army OF
the Tennessee, and who was perhaps the
closest to General Sherman of all his
military friends, died at Cincinnati
Monday morning.
That the Italian government is en-
deavoring to check the tide of immigra-
ton to the United States, is shown by
the issuance of a circular by the Italian
minister of the interior, to the projects
of the kingdom, for the restriction of
such immigration so far as minors are
concerned.
A tremendous cloudburst of hail took
place near Saline, KS. Saturday eve
ming. The district covered by the storm
was two miles wide and eight to ten
long. The hail stones were as large as
hens eggs, and almost completely
destroyed the wheat. The total dam
age will reach $4,000.
Edward Pinter, alias "Sheney AL"
arrested in London for attempting to
swindle jeweler in that city by means
of philosophers stone, through which
he claimed to increase the bulk of gold,
is supposed to be the fellow who played
the same game in Baltimore, swindling
five merchants out of $1,000 each.
Presse of LaParis announces that a
contract was signed early during the
present month, between the Russian
government and the Chatellerant arms
factory, by which the factory and its
employees are at the disposal of Russia,
who has given an order for 5000, 900
new rifles.
The latest number of the Buenos
Ayres Standard, referring to the politi-
cal situation in the Argentine Republic,
says everything seems to indicate that
General Mitre will be unanimously elect
ed president. 1t is admitted by foreign
ers and Argentines alike that if any man
can save the republic, it is General
Mitre.
The Vienna correspondent of the Lon
don Times says marriage has been ar
ranged between the czarowitch and
Princess Helen, fourth daughter of
Prince Nicholas of Montenegro. Com
menting ON this event, the correspond
ent says: "Such marriage would be OF
great political importance, and could
not fail to be of the highest possible sat
isfaction to the Pan-Slavist world"
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