Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-25
rELEaRAPHro BRIEFS.

A yellow fever infested steamer has
arrived at New York from Rio Janeiro.
Russia has ordered closer protection
of the seal rookeries on Che Copper and
Robin islands.
Over 800 Cinnamon have arrived at
Salina Cruz, Mexico, from Macao, to
work ON the isfhmus railroad.
Near New Jefferson, o., Lorenzo
Coleman, a lunatic, fatally shot his sis
ter and dangerously wounded his brother
and mother.
Evan r. Jones, United States consul
at Cardiff, Wales, will be nominated by
the Liberals as a candidate for Car
marthen, in parliament.
The treasury department has awarded
the contract for the carriage of dutiable
goods at San Francisco to Max Pepper,
the present contractor.
Philip L. Moen, president of the
Washburne and Moen Manufacturing
company, died at Worcester, Mass,
Thursday afternoon Of apoplexy.
The Havemeyer sugar company, OF
New York, will be prosecuted by the
census bureau for the refusal of informa-
ton. Other like prosecutions are con-
templated.
w. L. Pieronnet, retired board of
trade operator, committed suicide in
Chicago Wednesday night. 1t is said
he lost fortune on the board and be-
came respondent.
The Berlin Nachrichten says the re-
moval of the prohibitory restrictions on
American pork has been arranged for as
soon as the United States government
has issued regulations for carrying out
its meat inspection law.
A dispatch from Rome says Baron
Fava, in his report on the New Orleans
affair, expressed the belief that there is
no way out of the situation, as the fed
eral government has no power to give
Italy the satisfaction demanded.
The British government has under
consideration the question of prosecut-
ing on the charge of perjury, certain
parties who gave evidence in the case of
Gladys Evelyn, against William Henry
Hurlburt, for breach of promise.
In Cincinnati George Graber's wife
worthlessness, and had since supported
herself and children by washing. On
Thursday, GRADER went to the house
WICIC 6lC was NuSulHS, hlllCo IlCI dlld
suicided.
Petitions of insolvency have been
filed against the Freeman manufactur-
ing company, of North Adams. Mass.
the American and United Sylonite COM
panies, the L. L. Brown paper company,
of Adams, and L. L. Brown, personally,
at the instance of creditors.
A telegram from Miquelon says:
Forty Newfoundland vessels, which ran
the block ade, have arrived at st. Pierre
with herrings. The fishermen at For
tune bay are in armed revolt, and de-
termined to resist to the bitter end.
Thirty-four armed schooners have left
St. Pierre for the Grand banks.
A can of gasoline exploded in the
home of Theodore Karnbrad, in Chi
cago, fatally burning Mrs. Mary Burle-
son and badly scorching Karnbrad. The
house i'll which it started, and number
OF houses adjoining, were destroyed,
rendering dozen families homeless.
Loss, $4,000.
Dick Liddell, once a member of the
famous James gang, now a wealthy
mond, Mo-, charged with the murder of
w OOo I1lLC, COuolD VI OCSSO OdACSs
The crime was committed in 1882, and
was the outgrowth OF feud existing
among the members of the gang.
The Vienna Fremdenblatt and Neue
Freie Presse, in commenting upon Pres
ident Harrison's speech at Galveston,
agree that European zollverein is the
only answer to American protection.
The Fremdenblatt suggests that the
European nations look to Africa and the
Asiatic colonies for goods which they
have hitherto bought from America.
At Little Rock, Ark, fears are enter
tanned that the Arkansas river, which is
rising rapidly, will overflow its banks
and cause much damage to crops. Dis
patches from several points along the
Brazos and Navazeta rivers, in Texas,
say those streams are on the rampage,
and that much damage will be done in
the lowlands.
There were BIT immigrants to be
landed at the New York barge Office,
Thursday. Among the passengers
landed at the barge Office from the
steamer Wisconsin, from Liverpool,
were eighty Mormons, in charge of two
elders, en- route for Utah. This is the
first batch of Mormons arriving under
the new immigration law which ex-
cludes polygamists.
The inter-continental railway COM
mission met in Washington Wednesday
and adjourned until the 1st of Febru-
ary, 1898. The business of the commits
sion is practically finished, and this re-
cess was taken to await the reports of
the parties now in the field making a
survey. Ex-senator Davis, of the COM
mission saws the nrOiect iS nropressing