Los Angeles herald., 1891-03-13
WIRE WAITS.

General John w. Fuller died at Toledo,
Ohio, Thursday.
The American Bell Telephone compa-
ny has declared dividend of three dol
lars share.
Three men were killed by the explo-
sion OF boiler at Brentman's sawmill,
near Effingham, Ill.
A. P. Bush, Jr., of Colorado City, has
been elected president of the Texas Cat
tie Growers association.
At Providence, r. L., eight hundred
weavers employed at the Atlantic mills,
struck on account of alleged excessive
fines.
The bill making eight hours days
labor in Pennsylvania, in institutions
under the control of the state, has
finally passed the senate.
Fire in the Weldon and Germania
buildings, at Wood and Diamond streets,
Pittsburg, Wednesday night, destroyed
property worth 100000.
The directors OF the Chicago, Mil
waukee and st. Paul railroad have
declared semi-annual dividend Of one
half per cent. on preferred stock.
The statement of the st. Paul road
for the six months ending December
31st, shows: Net earnings, $563, 900;
surplus, after paying dividends, ST.
296,000.
The official report of the trial board
on the gunboat Remington will show
that the vessel failed to develop the
horsepower required by the contract by
nearly 900.
The Ohio supreme court has rem
dered a decision in the case OF the board
of city affairs OF Cincinnati, declaring
that the law under which it was created,
is unconstitutional.
The audience in attendance on the
third day of the great combination sale
OF California trotters, in New York, ex-
ceeded that of the preceding day. The
horses brought good prices.
Rumors concerning the formation of
a great tobacco trust, to embrace all the
manufacturers OF cigarettes and plug
tobacco in the United States, have Gre
ated much interest among tobacco men.
The collector of customs at New York
has been instructed to admit free OF
| imported by Mrs. Leland Stanford, for
presentation to the cathedral at Sacra-
mento.
Counsel for Smiler and Shaw, con-
demned to die, by electricity in New
York, have been given until March 23d
to obtain hearing on appeal to the
United States supreme court on applica-
ton for habeas corpus.
General Isaac B. Moore was found
dead in his hotel, in Baltimore, with a
frightful looking pistol-shot wound in
his head. He had been feeling unwell
for few days, and it is supposed he
killed himself in fit of dependency.
At Deadwood, s. d., the United States
grand jury found indictments against
the Sioux Indian Plenty Horse for the
murder of Lieutenant Casey in the late
uprising, and one against Leaves-His-
! Woman for the murder of Isaac Miller,
a ranchman.
The wholesale dealers in sponges, of
! New York city, have formed a combina-
ton to control the market OF Florida
"sheep's-wool sponges." This variety
Of sponge is considered the finest for
carriage purposes, and the demand for
it is double the supply.
John E. Carr, an ex-member of the
New Hampshire legislature, was killed
by an angry bull in his pasture at
Haverhill, Mass. His body was horri-
bly, mutilated, the bull first goring him
and then stamping ON his PROSTATE form.
His body could not be removed till the
bull had been killed.
Representatives of the woolen hat
manufacturing business have about
completed the formation of the National
Hat company, with capital of 81 ,5OO,-
900. The combination will limit pro-
duction by leasing factories for term
OF years with the privilege of renewal,
and the production of quantities suffi-
cient only to meet the demand.
In the case of Emerson vs.. the Vest
ern Union Telegraph company, in which
the former brought suit to recover dam
ages for failure of the company to de-
liver telegram, the Illinois circuit court
held that the section of the revised
statutes under which the case was
brought, is unconstitutional, as it un-
dertakes to regulate interstate COM
merce '-= .-.4o axssa.ssa ---r-
The United States board OF general
appraisers, at New York, declare that
the re is case of bad punctuation in the
Mckinley tariff bill, in paragraph 81,
which reads: Chocolate (other than
chocolate confectionery, and chocolate
commercially known as sweet choco-
latel, 2 cents per pound" The board
holds that the parenthesis should en-
brace 'other than chocolate confection-
ery," alone.
Judge Caldwell, OF the United States
circuit court, has signed a decree of
foreclosure in the case OF the Rock
Island road against the Chicago, Kansas
and Nebraska, and the latter line will
now be disposed OF at public sale to
satisfy the Rock Islands mortgage of
$2S, ,000, 900. The counties of Kansas
and Nebraska through which the road
was built voted $4,000, 900 in aid of it,,
and they fought foreclosure. The
counties lose the value of their stock,
which will become worthless upon the
sale of the road. 1t is rumored that a
Gould syndicate will buy the road when
it is put up at auction, and thus kill an
active competitor with the Union Pa
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| The New Postal Subsidy Law.
WASHINGTON, March 12.-Postmaster-