Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-12
WIRE WAITS.

w. P. Dame, wholesale paper dealer
OF Boston, has failed. Liabilities, $75,-
GOO; assets, $4,000.
Nine hundred and thirteen thousand
ounces of silver were purchased by the
treasury department Friday, at prices
ranging from $.996S to $9SS0.
The Texas rangers are in close pur-
suit of the Southern Pacific train rob-
bers, and when the two parties meet,
there is likely to be bloody fight.
At Albany, N. Y, Friday morning, a
large factory and carpenter shop burned.
The falling walls killed one fireman and
injured several others. Loss, $45, 900;
insurance, half.
At Bethlehem, Pa, Cornelius Paegan,
an ironworker, hiccoughed himself TO
death. He began hccoughing six weeks
ago, and had tasted ever since for relief.
The attack was caused by hernia.
Captain Frederick S. Dodge, retired
army officer. who had been deranged
for some years past, committed suicide
Thursday night at his residence in
Detroit by shooting himself through the
head.
William H. Colley, aged 10, colored
student at the Harvard medical school,
shot and killed himself because his
father objected to young lady he was
paying attentions to.
Crop reports from correspondents at
fifty different points in North Dakota,
indicate that the yield of wheat has
been underestimated. The yield is un-
precedented, and of high grade.
At the Cornwall ore banks, near Leb-
anon, Pa, car heavily loaded with ore,
fell from a trestle over ravine. One
man was instantly killed, another fatal
ly injured, and several others hurt.
Suit has been begun in Chicago by
County Attorney Walker against VIM.
c. Seipp, county treasurer, and his
bondsmen, to recover $4,000 interest
which it is alleged Seipp received on
moneys of the county during his term of
office, and which he did not account for.
A Milford, Mich, dispatch says: The
Milford State bank has failed. The
bank will go into the hands OF receiver
who will be appointed in few days The
amount of liabilities cannot be learned
definitely. Improbable investments
and poorly secured loans, caused the dif-
ficulty.
President Coleman, OF the Catholic
knights of America, is at Chattanooga,
Tenn, investigating the accounts of NJ.
J. O'Brien, treasurer of the order.
O'Brien is out OF the city. Thus far it
appears that there is def lit of $50, 600,
which, in the absence of O'Brien, is un-
explained.
There is a case OF smallpox in the Pol
ish quarter of Detroit, the child of la
borer being i'll with the disease. The
father threatens to fight if the child is
removed to the pest house. If an epi-
demic should start in the filthy Polish
quarter, there is no telling how extern
sive its ravages would be.
Specials from Washington state that
Attorney General Miller is to be ap-
pointed to one of the circuit court Judge
ships created by the last congress; that
General Lew Wallace is to be made sec
retary of war; that Noble may be trans
ferred to the department Of justice, and
General Clarkson appointed secretary of
the interior.
Another claim has been presented in
the court at New York, against the Man
haitian Trust company, in connection
with the Pacific Short Line railroad, The
plaintiff is Samuel T. Davis, of Sioux
City, Ia, who claims damages to the
extent of $4,000, in connection with the
hypothecation of the bonds OF the rail
road c0nnnanv