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The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-05-13
]. M. Cr0nenberg

Markets BY wire every fifteen minutes.
Market reports mailed free on application to
any address.
0fics No. 1875 West Third street, etimson
block Telephone No. 1AA1.
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The firm heretofore existing under the name Of
in Los Angeles city, L this day dissolved BY mu-
tual consent. Mr. George Smith having sold his
property thereof to B. Dean and William Carneo,
Who will continue said business and collect eli
LoS Angeles. Cal. April 90 1896. q rs, May s-ls
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Notice to Stockholders
N0fice to Stockholders

PACIFIC LAND IMPROVEMENT
company. The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Pacific Land Improvement
company will be held at the office of the
Wednesday, May 13, 1896, at II o'clock a. M,
to elect a board of directors for. the en-
suing year, and to transact such other
meeting. G. HOLTERHOFF, JR.,
Secretary.
Los Angeles, Cal, April %, 1886. 5-1S
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CHICAGO, May 12.-Sales of cattle to-
mon to strictly choice dressed beef and
shipping steers Sales were largely at
SO. 75M4.10. Stockers and feeders. 81. S56I3. 3d.
cows and heifers. $1.5942.25 for canning
s3.50Q3.s5 for choice butchers lots; bulls.
$2.00G2.25; stays, $2.75G3.6O. Hogs-Only
about 1900 hogs arrived today. Sales
We're largely at 3d. 30TI3 40; medium weights
at SO. 25a3.45 and light 330I3S5. Sheep were
in request at $25014.00 for choice to fancy
flocks, with most Of the sales at 49, 00@3 So
The great bulk of the offerings consisted
of westerns and Texans. Lambs sold at
So. 25d5.05 for poor to fancy, culls selling
at the top. The bulk of the lambs We're
above $500. Spring lambs brought $1,000
$50 per 100 pounds.
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LIVERPOOL MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL. May 12.--Spot wheat clos
ed quiet. with poor demand No. red
winter, IS 61ad No. hard Manitoba. IS Id:
No | California, IS Id. Futures opened
steady, I'd lower to I'D lower: closed
steady. unchanged from yesterday; May,
5s 3l4d; November. 5s 4d. Spot corn closed
quiet. Futures closed unchanged to ed
higher May, June. 3s Nd: August. IS 1IsG:
July. 3s I'D; September, IS I'd; October, IS
21zd. Flour closed steady. with fair de-
mand freely supplied: ST. Louis fancy win
ter, IS Cd. Hops. Pacific coast 81 los.
PETROLEUM.
NEW YORK, May 12--Petroleum was
dull; United closed at ITO asked.
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LOS ANGELES
Representative wholesale and
Retail Dealers, Business
Men and Firms


ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
". H. SHINN. sos Wilson blk, Spring st.
BICYCLES
"KEATING," Hawley, King & Co., 21o N. Main
RU0GISTS-WHOLESA
F. w. BRAUN d CO., 405-4o7 Main; tel. s5A
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
LUDWIG & WAGNER, Mott Market, tel SO
GROCERIES-WHOLESA
HAAS, BARUCH q CO., $50 to Sc N. L. A. st.
ABBOTSFORD INN, cor. 8th and Hope; tel, 117
LAW, COLLECTIONS, MERCANTILE REP'rS
STANDARD COLLECTION & MERCANTILE
Co., dine 100000, 2li-2l2 stimson. A. c. Brod
LIFE AND ACCIDENT INSURANCE
BANKERS ALLIANCE OF CAL, 2ls Court st
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
r. II. MACDE & CO.. Ill W. First st.
SADDLES, HARNESS AND SADDLEWARh
J. r. MORENO, 900 Also st.
6APES, SCALES, REFRIGERATORS
CHAs W. ADAMS, 83s N. Main. Tel. 1s47.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TOOL COMPANY
CONSTABLE d CoUTTs, 1855 n. Los Angeles.
UNDER TAKERS AND EMBALnERS
BOOTH ROW, z56 e. Main ST. Tel. 1s4s.
MATCHMAKER AND OP1ICIAN
Q. eToEsAK, Gil s. Spring st. bet. 5th and 9Th.
WINES AND SPIRITS
J. +. A. LAST, 12s and 1sl N. Manst
YARN HOUSES
NEW YORK BAZAAR. 14s n, Spring St
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TREASURY sTATEME

TREASURY STATEMENT.
WASHINGTON. May 12.--Todays state
ment of the condition OF the treasury
shows: Available cash balance. $26S 091, 667
gold reserve, Sis S14 424.
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CHICAGO MARKET
Tho Days Transactions on the Board q
Trade

Trade
CHICAGO, May 12.-There was a fair
speculative trade In wheat. the market rul-
The feeling developed was a little mixed at
first, but the tone was on the whole firm
and the close showed N9%c advance. In
some and Closed as stated. There Was
rather free selling early. o good share Of
influences at hand being rather bearish in
tendency. The starting cables were low
eer. The weather may showed a break in
the drouth, except Kansas, and then the
receipts in the Northwest VERT large.
Inc government report, too, was Hon-
strued as bearish. The market was help
ed and advanced on second private Liver
pool cables coming higher, and there was
a renewal of the. late seeding reports In
the Northwest The results of. the reports
of destruction wrought and the imneas-
urable further damage threatened by the
chinch bugs. advanced. wheat one cent.
market for corn S the trade Being conined
chiefly to local operators. The trading in
oats was fair. at the best buying by. the
leading shorts who advanced prices M C
Provisions were weak.
The leading futures closed as follows:
Wheat No. 2-May 62%; July, "a; Septem-
Corn N,o2, 2-May, 2eh; July, sOA; Sep
:, Oats No. 2-May, 1sA; July, 1914 septem-
Cash quotations were as follows No 2
59M621a; No. red, 67Qs7A: No corn. 2e9s1
297s; No: oats, 49,: No. white, 1S1ad1sA :
No. 3 white. 19A@21: No. rye, 1854; No.
barley. nominal: 31@34 f. o. b.; No. 4, ESQ
80 f. o. b.; No. flax seed, Sc: prime tim
othy. seed. $3.05; mess. pork, per bbl.. $7.65QD
10; lard, per 100 lbs. s. 57l sd4.60 short ribs
sides Qoose), s4.05M4.10 dry sailed Shout
ders (boxedl. 41a645s: short clear sides
(boxedl. 4AG4ss: whisky, distillers' finish
ed goods, per GAL 122.
Receipts Shpmts.
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CHICAGO LIVESTOCK.

ter market was firm: creamery, 11@t5
dairy, 9013c. Eggs were weak at 6g9c.
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SAN DIEGO
Detective Insley's Condition Very Cri
ical-Business and Personal

SAN DIEGO, Oct. 17.-After weeks If
suffering and under the most careful
attention of skilled physicians, Detect
i've Insley has reached condition where
recovery seems impossible. Immediately
following his unfortunate accident there
was every indication of speedy recov-
cry, but the past few days brought j
change for the worst and it is feared
that his death will be recorded within
the next few days.
At a meeting of the merchants and
manufacturers Of this city resolutions
were adopted pledging the meeting to
support and patronize home industries.
The handsome four-story business
block recently built in this city by Sam :
uel w. Marston of Massachusetts, for his
nephew, George w. Marston, was for
mally opened today by a public recep-
ton. The building cost about $4,000,
and opens with a stock Of goods valued
at over 100000.
The work of building the great res
ervoir at Morena, where the city will
get its water supply from in the near
future, is now underway. City Engi-
neer Capps is personally superintend-
ing the work of laying the foundation.
George e. Gard of Los Angeles, paid
a flying visit to this city yesterday and
in discussing politics in the Angel City
said that Congressman Mclaughlin was
certain Of defeat.
The Bryan club of this city is making
extensive preparations for an immense
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SOUTH PASADENA.

PASADENA, Oct. 1.-THE stateusl|
published in Los Angeles paper ~
Friday that Frank A. Cattern, oan1
date for the assembly from the Gevemty
first district, is not eligible for want oXm
years residence in the district. does u
disturb any who knows better. 3
reporter for the unreliable sheet eVi&
IDENTIFY wrote without knowledge -
the facts. as1F u
Col. j. r. Berry, q free silver Repuo<
lican and very popular speaker, hoo1
been secured by the Bryan club OF tn
city to make the principal speech 70 y
grand rally on Friday evening next a.
Graham hall. The Salyer quintet, sing
ers, of Los Angeles, who are the moot
charming performers at every meetllI'
where they appear, will positively b..
present on this occasion. All who oro
fond of stirring music. whatever their
politics, should improve this opportunity,
TO hear them asea sa tvs.s E
Mrs. M. V. Longley yesterday morning
received dispatch from New York city
announcing the death Of her sister. Mr..
l.. Fl. Grail, who some years ago made ~
summer visit in South Pasadena. Her
illness was short, and while expecting
another visit from her this summer. the.
news of her departure for the better land
was quite overwhelming.
J. Kirk, coal and feed dealer. ID pros
posinb to build himself a comfortable.
residence on Prospect avenue, just north
of his place of business.
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terrific The flames shot up into the air
for a hundred feet and sparks and blaz-
Ing embers fell in showers upon the
roofs of adjoining houses. By this
time the firemen had run a scaling lad
der up against the walls of the building
adjoining, at Nos. 1856 and 1888, occupied
by the Simpson-Hack Fruit company.
A couple of the daring boys then mount
ed to the top of the wall, left bare when
the roof went down, and stood on 1t di-
recting stream into the caldron of fire.
There was no stopping the conf1agration
as long as anything remained for the
flames to feed upon, however, and Sec
tion by section the second floor fell OPEN
ing up fresh fuel on the ground floor.
THE SIDE WALL COLLAPSES.
On the north side of the building was
vacant lot which had just been exca-
waited in preparation for the erection of
a business block. The north wall was
without windows and as the firemen
could do no work in this quarter no one
was in the cellar excavation. This was
most fortunate, as at exactly II o'clock
without warning, the whole wall COL
lapsed and fell outward, shaking the
earth as 1t struck and for a moment OBJ
scuring the scene in a cloud of brick and
mortar Nothing now remained of the
building save the front and south side
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his RIB pulled into place he was sent to
his home at Fifth and Hill streets in a
carriage. t
The other flremen and williams the
watchman did not find 1t necessary to
so to the hospital to have their injuries
dressed, but kept at work during the
fire and afterward went home to nurse
their injuries.
STREET HAPPENINGS.
Good work was done by number of
the employees Of Hooker & Co. in saving
the office furniture and papers of the
firm. Nearly all the correspondence and
books were saved and carried into the
livery stable across the street. Among
the hardest workers was Homer Earle,
clerk in the health office under DR.. Sted-
dom.
Constable Harry Johnston was in the
street when the network of telegraph
wires fell and was surrounded by the
tangled and twisted ends. He was near
Meredith when the latter was struck
down, but Harry escaped with bad
scare about live wires.
Fire Commissioners Grider, Vetter
and Kuhrts were early on the scene and
watched the operations of the firemen
with interest. The lack of water was
apparent but they were unanimous In
their commentator Of the boys for good
work.
Assistant Chief Ed Smith had the job
Of bossng the firemen all alone, save for
the assistance rendered by over jealous
citizens Oh EFF Moore being absent from
the city. AS is usual ED" was in the
thick of the fight and ruined new suit
Of clothes.
Commissioner Vetter took occasion to
justly criticise several parties who were
over officious in giving orders to and
confusing the firemen. If citizens would
but keep back when fire is in progress
and allow the firemen to work under the
direction of their officers much more
could be ACCOMPLISHED.
The police did good work in keeping
the assembled throng of spectators in
control and back out of the way of the
i'remen. Ropes were procured and
stretched across Les Angeles street fifty
feet on either side of the burning build
ing and the crowd kent back of them.
Sergeant Jeffries called in a number of
patroln1en from outlying beats and sue
oeeded in handling the crowd better than
has ever been done on any previous oc-
casion.
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TIRE Fighters At WORK
A$lOO,000 Blaze on Los
Angeles Street
FIVE men SUSTAIN INJURIES
Narrow Escape of Firemen From
Falling Walls
THREE FIRMS BURNED OUT
J. D. Hooker & Co.'S Establishment
Wiped Out
A Paper Box Factory and Storsgs House
Destroyed
An Ex-Fireman Seriously Injured-An-
]. D. Hooker & Co.'S Establishment
Wiped Out
A Paper Box Factory and Storsge House
Destroyed
An Ex-Fireman Seriously Injured-An-
other Has a Rib Broken-The Big
gest and Hardest Fire to Fight
in This City for Years.

Between the hours Of 10 and 1880
last night the three-story brick building
at Nos 1872 and 1874 South Los Angeles
street was destroyed by fire, entailing
q loss of nearly 100000 and causing the
serious injury of one man and the maim-
ing and bruising Of four more. The
wounded are:
Thomas Meredith, lacerated scalp
wound and possible fracture of the
skull.
John Adams, broken rib and bruises.
George O'Donell and Otto Ginter,
bruises and sprains.
j. Williams. cut on the hand and
bruised.
THE PRINCIPAL LOSERS.
The monetary loss falls on the firms
Of J. D. Hooker & Co., dealers in plumb
ers' and gasf1tters' supplies; the Van
and Storage company on furniture and
household goods in storage, and the
Forbes Paper-box factory.
The building was owned by r. D..
Howell, the well-known capitalist, and
will prove a total loss. J. d. Hooker &
Co. occupied the ground floor; the Sec
ond floor was used by the Van and Stor-
age company as a warehouse, while the
top floor WAS occupied by the paper-box
factory. 1t was on this floor that the
fire started and spread in all directions.
THE FIRST ALARM.
A few minutes after 10 o'clock some
boys sitting in the doorway of the Ex-
change Livery stable, directly across the
way from the burned building, saw a
bright light in the top windows Of the
structure. and almost Immediately a
pedestrian across the stret gave the
alarm Of fire, noticing flames creeping
out along the caves on the side. It was
but a minute until an alarm had been
rung in from box 80, at the corner of Sec
ond and Los Angeles streets, but in that
short space of time the flames had burst
through the front windows of the third
story with roar, showing the intensity
of the blaze. The fire department re-
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ANGELES SUNDAY MORNING. OCTOBER Is. 1896

:hemical engines. In the rear a single
me of hose was available and served
Iut little use. The building extended
back on the first and second floors
ONE forty feet further than the third
tory and upon the roof of this extern
sion George O'Donnell and Otto Ginter,
attached to hook and ladder No. l, had
/ line of hose sending the stream through
the rear windows of the third story.
Assistant Chief Smith came along and
saw that the rear wall of the third
story was bulged out into a bow and
was tottering to it's fall. Still, all un-
conscious of their danger, the men stood
to their hose.
Smith shouted to them to come down,
which they at first did not do, either
not comprehending the command or
unheeding their danger. Finally they
started for the ladder set against the
side of the extension. Hardly had they
reached the top of the ladder when the
whole rear wall fell with a crash and
crushed in the roof of the extension,
where moment before they had been
standing, like an eggshell. O'Donneil
and Ginter were at the edge of the roof
and when they saw the wall coming
made a jump for the ladder and slid
down, one on one side, one on the other.
Both came down with such rapidity
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Aches and Pains Are the Danger
Signals That You Are Sick and
Need Treatment

Need treatment
Read the following symptoms over care
fully, mark thos. you feel in your case,
and send or bring them to DR.. A. j. Shores,
and he will tell you whether you can be
cured, free of charge.
THE HEAD AND THROAT
This form of catarrh is most common
resulting from neglected coldS-Quickly
cured with little cost by DR.. Shores ia
nous treatment.
rs tho nose stopped up?'
"Does your nose discharge?"
"Is the nose sore and tender?"
"Is there dropping In the throat?
us your throat dry in the morning.?
do you sleep with your mouth open?
You can easily be cured noW-dont t let II
run into complications.
THE BRONCHIAL TUBES
When catarrh of the head and throat Is
neglected or wrongly treated II eXtenCs
down the windpipe into the bronchial tubes
and after awhile attacks the lungs. Quick
ly cured with little cost by DR.. Shores
famous treatment
"HaVe you cough?'
do you take cold easily?"
"Have you pain in slde?'
DO you raise frothy material?"
do you cough in the mornings"
DO you spit UP little cheesy lumps?"
do you feel you are growing weaker?"
Don't risk neglecting these warnings
stop the disease before it reaches the lungs.
or THE EARS
''Is your hearing failing?"
do your ears discharge?"
Is the wax dry in your ears?
Do you hear some days better than
others?
rs your hearing worse when you have
Don't neglect this until your hearing is
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NATURES WARNING

irreparably destroyed. Doctor Shores can
cure you now.
KIDNEY DISEASE
Results in two ways by taking cold and
by overworking the kidneys in separating
from the blood the catarrhal poisons which
cost by Doctor Shores famous treatment.
DO your hands and feet swell?"
''Is this noticed more at night?"
"IS there pain in small of hackT'
us there puffiness under the eyesy'
do you have to get up often at night r
rs there a deposit in urine II left stand-
Don't neglect these signs and risk
Brights disease killing you. Cure 1t now.
LIVER DISEASE
The liver is affected by catarrhal poisone
extending from the stomach into the duct9
Of the liver; Quickly cured with little cost
DO you get dizzy?"
do you have cold feet?" !.
do you feel miserable?'' =.
do you get tired easily?' ';-sf !.
do you have hot fiushes?'
Are your spirits low at timesrs
do you have rumbling in bowels
Thase seass are vs smpe sFns
all of them, seek Doctor Shores now and
be cured. a.
OF THE STOMACH
Catarrh of the stomach Is usually caused
from the head and throat at night. Quickly
cured with little cost by Doctor Shores'
famous treatment.
us there nausea?'
"Do you belch up gas? .
Are you constipated?"
us your tongue coated?"
do you bloat up after eatingF
rs there constant bad taste in mouthT
Now is the time to be permanently cured
Doctor Shores is curing hundreds eves0
week. s'-..r-ss ...s-.,sSs ~. e
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street helping to lay line Of hose when
the network of wires fell.
A heavy brace, attached to building
and which supported several wires, was
torn from it's fastenings and fell direct
ly on Meredith's head, crushing him to
the ground. At first he was supposed
to have been killed. and was carried
around the corner onto Second street,
the patrol wagon called and finally re-
moved to the receiving hospital. There
his wound was dressed and he was put
to bed. A few moments later the wagon
was again called to convey John Strong
a pipeman, to the hospital, one of his
ribs having been broken by being struck
in the side by the spokes on the wheel
Of a hose cart.
THE FIREMENS FIGHT
Assistant Chief Ed Smith directed the
work of his men and fought the blaze
from front and rear. Two streams
were playing through the front WIN
dows, besides the smaller lines from the
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walls, but the fire still ragged in the in
terror. On the lower floor there was no
such mass of in1ammable material as
had been packed in the upper stories and
little by little the fire laddies got control.
By. IL o'clock the fire was practically out
and the weary men began to reel up
their hose and prepare to go home. One
engine was kept at the scene for several
hours later pumping a stream on the
pile Of blackened debris, but the fire had
done it's work.
THE LOSERS AND LOSSES.
Mr.. ]. D. Hooker arrived at the scene
about II ocolck and was interrogated as
to his probable loss. The firm occupied
the store room at No. 1872, the Office be-
ing in the northwest corner and the rest
Of the floor piled with full stock of
plumbers materials and supplies. He
said that their loss would at the lowest
estimate amount to $4,000 and would
probably be nearer $50. 900. A large por-
tion of the stock carried was of an ex-
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DR.. SHORES RELIABILITY

salient treating chronic
disease his reliability
at his Offices
treatment
pie be found
banker
Shores and they will tell
This the
disease,
neglected cold at
months
LI-uI-A
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A RAILWAY BOYCOTT

CHICAGO. Oct. 1.-THE Joint Tramc
association has declared boycott against
the Glover Leaf and all roads in the asso-
citation have been ordered to cease till busl-
ness with it after October %. None Of It,
tickets will be accepted for transp5g tatiou
over any of the Joint Traffic association
roads after that date. The reason for the
boycott is declared to be the actions Of the
Glover Leaf in cutting rates and giving
sleeping car and chair car privileges to the
holders Of second-class tickets.
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that they hit the ground in heap, fall
ing in a lot of barrels and lumber and
being badly scratched and bruised. They
pluckily stuck to their work, notwith-
standing, until the fire was under con-
troll
THE ROOF FALLSIN
On top of the building was a huge
water tank which quickly caught fire
as the flames burst through the roof
While it was blazing fiercely the raft
ers gave way and with crash the
entire roof went down, carrying with
it the already weakened third floor. The
flames now shot up into the air with re-
doubled flerceness, lighting the scene
for a block around as light as day. The
whole interior Of the building was by
this time seething furnace, although
the second floor still held.
On this floor, occupied by the storage
company, was piled valuable mass of
furniture, ETC., which now caught fire
and burned with a flerceness that was
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SACRAMENTO DEMONSTRATES

SACRAMENTO, Oct. T.-There was =
great Republican demonstration tonight
Excursion trains were run from Marys-
vile Auburn, Gait, Folsom and smaller
towns. bringing many hundreds OF people.
The torchlight procession by uniformed
clubs was one of the largest seen here IL
many years. The meeting was held in the
State Agricultural society's building. the
speakers being Congressman Grove f.
Johnson and United States Senator Geor9o
c. Perkins. Walter w. Greer presided.
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arsde the last Saturday before I

parade the last saturday before q
ton. f,z ~ q
have promised delegations. The NJ
day is to be given over to the moo1
and a free barbecue win be given ~ &
plaza Brass bands have been engo1
to supply music all day. and m
speeches by all classes will be oiVl
throughout the day. In the evening q
monster parade Will be held whom -
ator White will close the days feetlV
ties with his arguments in favor of a
silver q
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ARMENIANs COMING

CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 17.-It is <s-
timated that about fifty women and chill
dren will torofit by the concession made By
the Turkish government at the request Of
Minister Terrell permitting the departure
for the United States. with safe conduct
to the seaports. of all native Armenian
women and children whose husbands and
fathers are in the United States.