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4 >AILV HERALD. —published— gKVEN DAYS A^WKKK. JOSErH D. LYNCH. JAM" J- AYHE*. AVERS & LYNCH. - PUBLISHERS. Entered at the poetomoo at Los Angeles as ' second-class matter. I DELIVERED BY CARRIERS At *oc. per Week, or 80c. per month. TERMS BT HAIL, INCLTJDINO rOSTA«« Duly Hebald, one year *? 29 Daily Hkkald, six months 4.2S Dailt Herald, three months z.26 Wsbkxy Herald, one year 2.00 Wisely Hebald, six months 1.00 Weekly Hkbald, three months 60 IL .CSTRATKD HEBALD, per OOpy 15 Tne "Pally Herald" May be found 1b San Francisco at the Talace hotel Dews-stand: in Chicago at the Poatoffice news-stand, 11)3 East Adams street; in Denver at Smith * Sons' news-stand, Fifteenth and Lawrence streets. Office of Publication, 123-125 West Second Street Tps Angeles. Telephone No. 156 MONDAY. J »PH7Af»Y 13. 189 Q. Yosemite Under Fire. The January number of tbe Century Magazine bas three contributions from gentlemen who have visited Yosemite Valley, and who are very severe in their criticisms of the way in which the State Commissioners have managed that won derful public reserve. They all agree in tire fact that trees have been felled with out the slightest regard to their effect npon the landscape; that the valley is indiscriminately trodden over by horses and cattle; that the hotel ia cheap and tawdry; that pig atyes offended the public sight and nostrils; tbat the natural flowers of the valley have been ravaged by sheep and man; that there bas been no competent person appointed to lay out roads through the valley with a view to a general de sign to give the best and most striking scenic effects to visitors; that the guard ian is changed with every change of ad ministration, and that therefore the good work one may do is marred by the bad work of his successor; that wise rules are not enforced, and that the whole place is run in a slip shod way which is result ing in arboreal vandalism and injury to the perspective of the majestic tableau that looms up three thousand feet above the picturesque valley. These are serious charges; but they are not more sweeping than have already been made by tbe press of this State. An application is about to be made to Congress to add to the trust of the California Commissioners the site of the Mariposa Big Trees and the deep and beautiful canon at tbe bead of Tuolnmne river. These critics say, very justly, that If the trust reposed in the State of California to care for Yosemite valley has been so shame fully abused, Congress will hesitate to make any further cession of natural won ders to the keeping of California. This brings us to a contemplation of the fact that unless the State ate I**1** iSierat-ea* , Congress may, under the pressure of a strong public demand from all parts of the Union, take back its trust and place tbe valley under the immediate care and supervision of Commissioners selected by the General Government. Such an outcome would be a mark of lasting dis grace upon our State, and would reflect such discredit upon our people as would prove humiliating and hurtful in the ex treme. The Yosemite Commissioners are ap-1 pointed by the Governor. Four of the twelve go out every four years. They are generally selected without the slight est regard to their capacity to carry out the esthetic duties which naturally be long to their position. They are either politicians who have a "pull" on the Governor, or men who have shown no special qualifications of taste to recom mend them to a place where love for the beautiful and a faculty for coupling art with nature would make their services valuable. It is difficult to improve upon the plan of appointing these Commissioners. It would not better the case if the appoint ing power were given to the Legislature. If there were any way in which the ap pointing power could be taken out of politics altogether, something might be achieved. The State has spent a great deal of money in the valley. Up to a few years ago there was a boom every time the Legislature met in Yosemite trails. Tom, Dick and Harry had laid out trails leading to the valley. Some times the trails were made for the occasion, and were foisted upon the State for enormous sums secured through the Legislature. Then there were contracts of various kinds for improvements in the valley—for roads and bridges, and what not. In many cases these were mere speculative job?, and there was big money in them. Again there were hotel leases, and stage line concessions, and authorizations for other purposes, all of which were sought after. Hence a smart politician with an eye to busi ness would be apt, as a Commis sioner, to look more to the main chance than to the real interests of the State in serving upon the board. That we have had a sprinkling of this kind of patriots on the commission ia made likely from the fact that the valley is now in a con dition to justify the severe criticism it is recei7i'?g from Eastern visitors. We shall have f o keep a close watch hereafter upon the Gubernatorial ap pointments to the Board of Yosemite Commissioners if we hope to get the right kind of men upon it to carry out the great trust faithfully and intelli gently. That is a nice development that Thomas Brennan makes of the tactics of the Timet to destroy Parnell, in sending an agent taJ?. J. Sheridan, an Irish Land Leagner, >ho had left Ireland and settled in Colorado, and offering him $100,000 if he would go to England and testify that Parnell waa directly con cerned in the Phoenix Park mur x \1 ' THE LOS ANGELES DAILY HEKALD*. MONDAY MORNING JANUARY 13. 1890. tiers. A paper tbat could be guilty of so heinous a crime as that is very capable of putting up a job to convict Parnell of criminal in timacy with the wife of a man who waß one of its witnesses in the very case in which it tried to bribe Sheridan to swear away his life for complicity in the atrocious assassinations in Phoenix Park. Tub fight of the cities for the World's Fair is getting to be interesting. We on the Pacific Coast have been accused of being the most florid and effusive gushers about the marvelous merits of our part of the United States on the face of the globe. But we are mere tyros, novices, acolytes on the steps of the temple of brag, to the tooters for Chicago and New York. Depew is a master of the art, and streams *% hyperbolical praise to the transcenorog claims of Gotham gush from his mouth like fragrant waters from a scented fountain. And when it comes to the sweet-voiced orators of Chicago, they are immense. The honey from the New Yorker's tongue isasbi'.ter aloes to the sugared juices that Bryan exudes from every pore in praise of the city of immense acreage and Gargantuan feet. We had thought that Los Angeles possessed representative men who were no slouches at bragging about the merits of their town. But the Chicsgoans can give us fonr Kings and an ace and rake in the pot. It was rather mean, however, on the part of Judge Bryan to twit the New Yorkers about their public spirit. It was not exactly the fair thing at this ciucial tournament of brag to remind Depew that if his gems of rhetoric could be converted into slabs of marble there might be some hope that Grant's monu ment and the centennial arch would yet decorate the public places of New York City. Alas tbat gentlemen should for get, in their pride of place, the amenities of courteous debate! But what can the immortal Four Hundred, whose ances tors date back to Heinrich Yon Spuyten Duyvil, expect from representa tives of the Wild West, the unpolished children of a new and rugged civilization. They had no ancestors who smoked Dutch pipes and drank Schiedam schnapps to soften the natural asperities of their rough natures. But their rugged frontier eloquence is backed by a more rugged frontier energy, and if they don't get away with the representatives of the effeminate civilization which haa made New York a British appanage in its speech and manners, we shall be greatly astonished. If one has a bad cold now there is p. tendency to magnify it into an attack of the grippe. At this season of the year there are always more or leas people suf fering from colds. It is not at all a sign that the epidemic is here because there is a slight increase of colds amonst our people. The grippe will make itself very manifest if it comes. There will be no mistaking it for an ordinary cold, for it is something a great deal more. It hav ing failed to make its appearance so far frivoA ilfl onennracfiiiff hnno fhaf it mill cave us severely alone, the which no body hereaway will object to. It will not help the chances of St. Louis to get the location of the World's Fair that a cyclone stiuck her yesterday and killed a number of people. It Was Hard on Jasper. To point an argument the Courier- Journal revives a speech made by Abram Jasper to the colored picnic at Suanty town, in the last Virginia campaign: Feller freemen, says he, you all know me. lam Abram Jasper, a Republican from a way back. When there have been any work to do, I has voted early and often. When there has been any fightin' to do, I has been in the thickest of it. I are above proof, old line and tax paid. And I has eeed many changes, too. I haS seed the Republican up. I has seed the Democrat up. But lis yet to see the nigger up. 'Tother nigtit I had a dream. I dieamt that I died and went to heaven. When I got to the pearly gates, old Salt Peter, he says: "Who's dah?" says he. "Abram Jasper," says I. "Is you mounted, or is you afoot ?" says he. "Is afoot," says 1. "Well you can't come in here," says he. "Nobody's 'lowed in here 'cept them as come mounted," says he. "Date hard on me," Bays I, "arter comin' all 6is distance." But he neber says nothin' mo'r, and so I starts back, an' about half way down de hill who does I meet but Gen'l. William Mahona. "Whar is you gwine, Gen'l.," says I. "I is gwine to heaven," Bays he. "Why, Gen'l, says I, 'taint no use. I'se just been up dar an' nobody's lowed to get in 'cept dey comes mounted, an' you's afoot." "Is dat so?" says he. "Yes, it is," says I. "Well, de Gen'l sorter scratched hia head, an' arter a while he says, says he, "Abram, I tell you what let's do. Sap pose you get down on all fours, an' I'll mount an' ride you in, an' dat way we kin both get in." "Gen'l," says I, "do you think yau could work it?" "1 know I kin," says he. "So down I gits on all fours, and de Gen'l gets a-straddle, an' we ambles up de hill agin an' prances up to de gate, an' ole Salt Peter, he sayß: "Who's dar?" "Gen'l William Mahone of Virginey," says he. "Is you mounted or is you afoot?" says Peter. "I is mounted," says de Gen'l. "All right," says Peter, "all right," says he; "j9ss hitch you hoss outside, Gen'l, and come right in." Odds aud i i>a>. When two deaf mutes plight their troth a signal engagement results. A Massachusetts artisan has become so refined in his ideas tbat he calls him self a black-sraythe. There is a Blight additional difference between a bill and a pill other than the difference of one letter. The first is hard to get up and the second is hard to get down. Bays Henry Labouchere in London Tru'h; "Of all living Emperors, now that Doia Pedro has been retired from the bui inese.'the Emperor of Austria is the beft. He is a decent, well-meaning nun, whose chief merit ia that be has ■fared power with hia subjects and ouieted Hungary by giving it home rule.", TERRIFIC WEATHER. St. Louis Struck by a Fierce Cyclone. WRECK AND RUIN IN ITS PATH. Several Lives Lost and Much Prop erty Destroyed— A Blizzard in the Missouri Valley. i Associated Press Dispatches to the Herald. | St. Louis, January 12.—A terrible windstorm raged in this vicinity this afternoon, destroying much property in this city and outside. Several lives were lost. At 4:30 this afternoon a cyclone struck the southwestern section of the city, and swept on through the northern limits, marking a pathway nearly a quarter of a mile wide, and leaving death and deso lation in its track. There was scarcely any warning of the approaching storm, owing to the fact that the sky had been overcast Beveral hours before the full force of the wind was felt. In addition to the dozens of dwellings and stores in the southern, central and northern sections of the city more or less wrecked, the following big buildings are damaged: Anchor mills, Goodwin candle factory, Pullman shops, Van Brock's furniture factory, Kingsland & Ferguson's farm implement works, the Missouri Pacific hospital, the Hodgen school, tbe German Evangelical school, Second Presbyterian church and other buildings. Three fatalities are reported, but the names of the victims have not yet been ascertained. They comprise an entire family, a father, mother and child, re siding on Main street. They met their deaths by the falling of a building on their dwelling. The losses on property are roughly estimated at $100,000, but will likely prove more. THE CY/CLONE'B PATH. The cyclone seemed to have entered the city in its full force at Twenty-third street and Choteau avenue, passing northeast, until it reached Seventeenth and Olive streets, where it again turned to the northeast, leaving the city and striking the river just north of Tyler street. The only announcement of its approach and progress was a dull sullen roar, quickly followed by a torrent of rain, which in turn was succeeded by sleet. Before the victims could realize what had happened the storm hud swept by, leaving wreckage and mangled humanity in its pathway. Trees were torn up by the roots and broken off; telegraph poles were swept down, while the roofs of buildings were lifted and tossed into tbe streets. LIST OF VICTIMS. Mrs. Charles Miller, who resides with her husband at Twentieth and Eugenia streets, was sitting in a chair with her baby in her arms, when the roof was lifted from the house. She rushed to the window and just then the wall gave way and Mrs. Miller and her babe were buried in the debris. The babe escaped without a scratch. The mother was badly hurt and may not recover. This is but one of the dozens of inci dents of the terrible storm. A telephone message from Venice, Illinois, opposite the northern part of the city, says the eraT lives were" lost, but no details~arV given. The list of victims secured up to this hour, 9:30 p. m., are: Dead—Mrs. Maggie Conners, aged 40; Bernard McConnell, aged 40, and O. E Weaver, aged 9 Injured — Teresa Weaver, bith legs broken and will possibly die; Mrs. Charles Miller, badly cut and bruised ; Annie Conners, Maggie Conners, Francis Conners. EAST OF THE RIVEL. A messenger just arrived from the eaßt side of the river says the storm in St. Charles county, Illinois, was unusu ally severe. Brooklyn, a village of about 500 people, seems to have suffered most. The damage at East St. Louis and Venice is largely confined to railroad property and small dwellings, and telegraph and telephone poles. Brooklyn is about three miles northeast of St. Louis. The population is largely composed of colored people. Though several were injured, no lives were lost. A number of dwell ings are in ruins. The Baptist church is entirely demolished and the M. E. church unroofed and turned clear around on its foundation. At Belleville, Illinois, several public buildings were unroofed, hut no one is reported injured. A Wabash train arrived at East St. Louis at about 8:15 p. m. The engineer and conductor reports that during the storm they feared their train would be thrown from the track, so terrific was the force of the wind. Litchfield, Illinois, is also reported as having suffered by the storm. MRS. MILLER'S STORY. Mrs. Charles Miller, who was so badly lDjured iv today's storm, tells the follow ing story: "The entire roof of our house was blown away, the windows were shattered and the rest of the house more or less damaged. When the storm struck the house I was sitting with my baby in my arms, and did not know what had happened at first, but jumped up and ran to the window. In an instant the roof seemed to be lifted off above me. The window came in with a crash. The back gallery and stairs were blown away and I had time to see only tbe air filled with parts of the wreck, that seemed to be whirling around! when I was struck on the head and fell to tbe floor. When I recovered con sciousness the storm was past. I was covered with blood, and I thought my baby was dead, but fortunately I was the worst hurt." The doctor who is attending Mrs. Mil ler stated tonight that Bhe is dangerously hurt. 1 ANOTHER VICTIM. Another death is juetreported. Willie Marks, aged 6 years, whose parents re side in the northern section of the city was in bed, sick with fever. The storm blew the roof off the Marks home, and the bricks came crashing into the room resulting in the death of the boy froui sh-er fright. THE APPROACH OF THE CYCLONE. As usual in such cases, the weather preceding the cyclone was close, muggy and oppressive, the atmosphere being surcharged with electricity, and all the elements of a disastrous outbreak of the forces of nature being present During the forenoon the day be came dark and lowering, the tempera ture b9ing of springtime mildness almost debilitating in its languor. Dur ing tbe afternoon fitful but severe gusts of wind began, suggestive of a stormy March day. About 4 o'clock the skies darkened j perceptibly. Shortly after that hour one solitary flash of lightning illuminated the scene and a severe peal of thunder followed. Hardly had the echoes died away when the cyclone burst upon the city and A BRIEF REIGN OF TERROR And desolation succeeded. When that was past, and the people scarcely dared to venture out of their dismantled home 9 as tbe storm still continued in a modified form and a severe wind prevailed throughout the evening and night, with the temperature steadily [falling, sway ing and threatening wails marked every corner aloDg the track of the cyclone and the streets locked as if an earth quake had raked them, scattering the debris of roefs, chimneys and church spires down iuto the broad thorough fares, until an aspect of general ruin pre pailed. A DAY TO BE REMEMBERED. Following the sleet storm of last Tues day night, the effect of today'a storm upon the telegraph and telephone ser vice was disastrous, and there is a net work of tangled and swaying wires in every street. The effect of the storm is perceptible at every foot of its progress. It wrecked its fullest force of fury in the northeastern portion of Bt. Louis, as it approached the river. Any estimate of the financial loss caused by the cyclone is rendered impossible at the present moment, but there is no doubt that (he total will come into a magnitude that will cause the day to be a memorable- one. Frank Wilkins says: "It was a revolv ing wind storm, lasting about five min utes, twisting off the corners of houses, tearing down factory chimneys and fill ing the air with a whirling mass of bricks and timbers. Thu tin roof of a resi dence, torn off by the cyclone, was twisted into almost a com pact mass, being dropped finally in the etreet not covering a space larger than a doorway. When the storm neared my house the air seemed white with the debris of i oofs, chimney-mortar, brick-dust and other materials. It struck only the corner of my house, tear ing eff a portion of the roof, and passed down towards the corner of Twentieth and Eugenia. Buildings were damaged and wrecked on all sides, and the entire neighborhood was panic-stricken for sev eral minutes." THE LATEST REPORTS. A man named Johu Charles was hurled from a wagon, which over turned, ana was throw! across the street and against the front of a house. Charles received severe irjury about tho head, an: his arm was injured by being struck by a heavy piece of flying debris. A residence on P<tpin stree , j'lst eaf t of Jefferson avenue, had the entire roof blown away, aud side wall dashed in. Breen's residence, northeast corner of Twenty-second street and Randolp, lost its roof and had other damage. At this hour, 1:20 a. m., thermometer marks 28 degrees above zero, and a per fect gale is blowing. The reported deaths at Venice, Illinois, prove unfounded. Two men were buried beneath the ruins at Brooklyn and were taken to Venice for surgical treatment, and from that in cident the rumor sprang. BID WKAIMIF.It ELSEWHERE. A Terrific Snowstorm In Nebraska, lowa and Adjacent States. Omaha, January 12.—A terrific snow storm is raging here eince early this morning. The drifts are from two to four feet high. The electric-motor and cable street railways ran until 4 o'clock this afternoon, but were then obliged to Euspend. All trains on roads entering here are from one to three hours late. The Signal Observer here reports that '""",%'.;* "* ~— J i>»a.,«,„ and Western Nebraska. THE BLIZZARD IN IOWA. Dcs Moines, lowa, January 12.—Ten inches of snow have fallen here today. The wind is blowing hard ; the snow is drifting badly, and is still falling. Trains are delayed by the storm. THE STORM IN THE SOUTH. Memphis, Term., January 12.—A heavy wind storm, accompanied by rain, struck Memphis' about 5 o'clock this afternoon, but beyond the general pros tration of wires, no damage in this im mediate vicinity is repo ted. Sard's, Mississippi, sixty miles south of here, reports a heavy storm of wind, rain and hail. The Episcopal and Pres byterian churches and livery stables were blown down. Two houses were un roofed and several stores and residences damaged. No fatalities are reported. TIIK BL.IZZAKD'B SCOPE. It Raiei In Kauiai, Missouri and Nebraska. Kansas City, January 12.—A severe blizzard rages tonight in Kansas, Mis souri and Nebraska. Dispatches from points in Kansas to the Journal say the storm is by far the worst of the season, and some points report that it is the most severe ever experienced. The storm began last night and continued throughout the day and most of tonight. Far western points in Kansas report that the storm has ceased and that the weather cleared at about 11 o'clock. The result of this storm there has been disastrous. On the average snow fell about eight inches on the level, but a stormy wind drifted it badly, and many trains on the railroads are abandoned or greatly delayed. Hiawatha, Kansas, reports that the snow has drifted in places as high as one-ttary houses, completely blocking highways aad railroads. At Wichita, Kansas, the snow is re ported fifteen inches deep and badly drifted. All the trains on the several railroads in the neighborhood of Wichita have been abandoned. Emporia reports the worst blizzard ever known there. The snow is bidly drifted throughout the city and surround ing country, and railroad traffic is en tirely suspended. At Abilene, Kansas, the storm raged for thirty-six hours. The railroads are blocked with snow. At Topeka six inches of enow have fallen, and much interruption to railway traffic has resulted. Dispatches from points in Missouri to the Timet indicate that the storm has been less severe there than in Kansas. Snow began falling at about noon today, but not to any very great depth. It is still snowing, but the fall is light. A dispatch to the Journal from Lincoln, Nebraska, states that reports received there are to the effect that a storm of great severity ia raging throughout the State. The peculiar feature of the storm is its occurrence on the anniversary of the terrible blizzard of two years ago, when so many people perished from cold! Ihe reports of the present storm indicate that it is no less severe than that of which it is the anniversary. In Kansas City the storm began Sat urday night, with a drizzling rain. Early this morning the weather turned colder, and the rain, freezing as it fell, covered exposed objects with a coating of ice. Telegraph, telephone and electric wires were borne almost to tbe ground, and communication was interrupted. At noon the rain turned into enow, the wind swerved to the north and the blizzard set in, and at midnight continues with some severity. CLEVER JAIL-BREAKING. San Francisco Prisoners Free Themselves. • SIX MEN MAKE THEIR ESCAPE. One of them a Condemned Murderer. Rewards Offered for Their Apprehension. Vssociated Press DlßDatches to the Hkkai.i San Francisco, January 12 —One of the most noted jail bieaks in the history of San Francisco occurred early this morning, when six prisoners, one of them a condemned murderer, escaped from the County Jail. Up to a late hour toDight not one of them had been apprehended. A little after 3 o'clock a man named Julius Rosenberg, a tamale peddler, ex citedly approached a police officer and told him fix prisoners had a few mo ments before escaped from the County Jail, and that he had been caught and held for a time by the first prisoner es caping. Investigation showed the facts to be as Rosenberg had stated. All the prisoners in the cells on the northwest end of the corridor had cut through each others cells to a room used as a bath-room at the end of the court. From the bath-room they worked their way into tbe main corridor of the jail and thence into the jail yard. Here they climbed upon a woodpile and broke through an old chimney against the outer wall. After one man had escaped be pulled the other five men through the small hole, and as soon as all were free they ran like the wind up a narrow alley, and thence down a street. Search was immediately instituted, but not a single trace of the men has yet been found. One of the men is John McNulty, who killed a man named Collins, here, nearly three years ago. He was convicted of murder in the first degree last April and sentenced to be hanged. His case is now before the Supreme Court on mo tion for a new trial. The names of the other escapes are: Erick Erickson, mail robber; H. P. Edwards, forgery: James Kenney, Joseph Riordan and John Sul livan, all in for robbery. Sheriff Laumeister has offered $100 each for the capture of Erickson and Mc- Nulty, add $50 for each of the others. Telegrams have been sent to all the ad joining towns, giving descriptions of the men, and urging the offi cers to look out for them. Most of the men are so well known that their capture is deemed almost certain. Where the prisoners secured their tools, and how they could have worked for hours without being detected, is a mys tery that is now under investigation. SCHOOIi 111 lI,S>IM. 11l HM D. wet Wcatber Saves Much Adjoin liiST Property. San Fkancisco, January 12. —The Girls' High School, a frame building near the corner of Bash and Hyde Btreets, burned to the ground this even ing. The origin of the fire is not known, but it is supposed to have been started in the chemical laboratory. There was no one iv the building today, but a passer-by states that he wavy, what he U»n s lit -n-so smoke issuing from one ot the rooms this morning. Had a heavy rain not been falling when the fire broke out tonight it is possible many adjoining and neighboring houses would have been destroyed, as the fire in the school build ing was heavily under wav when the en gines arrived. As the building was a comparatively old one, and the timbers were dry, water could not stay the flames until the roof and walls had fallen in, and been nearly consumed. The estimated value of the building was $25,000. A corner of a house owned by tbe iate Dr. Rabbi Cohn, was much damaged by the fire. THE BEAUTIFUL. IN OHEUON. A Train Partly Hurled by a Snow Slide. Portland, Ore., January 12.—About four inches of snow fell here last night. As the fast mail on the Union Pacific was passing up the gorge of the Colum bia this morning, an avalanche of enow came down and blockaded the track and partially buried the train. A force of men dug out the train, and it is side tracked at Bridal Veil. The track be tween Portland and The Dalles is blocked by snow in a number of places, and two trams are side-tracked at Hood river. It is raining here tonight. Portland, Ore., January 12.—The funeral of the late ex-Governor George L. Woods took place today under the auspices of the Portland bar. The ser vices were very impressive. The body was conveyed to Riverside cemetery and laid to rest. Among the pall-bearers were Governor Pencoyer and ex-Gover nors Moody and Chadwick. Snow at Weaver rllle. Weaverville, Cal., January 12—The heaviest snowstorm for many years is now prevailing. Large forces of men have been at work all day to prevent the snow from crushing buildings. More than one inch an hour has fallen during the past twenty-four hours, and it still continues. Rain at Orovllle. Oroville, Cal., January 12 —It com menced to rain last night and has con tinued all day. The weather is quite cold and snow is falling near this place. All intentions of continuing the fair have been abandoned. A Broken Rati. Tacoma, Wash., January 12.—A broken rail at Hot Springs, sixty miles from Tacoma, thrsw a portion of the east-bound train from the track this morning. Neither cars nor passengers were injured, and the train proceeded at midnight. Dropped. Dead at Enaenada. San Piecio, January 12.—James S. Randall, Superintendent of tbe Lower California International Company, drop ped dead at Eneenada today of heart die ease. He was a very large man, being 6 feet 6 inches in height, and weighing 200 pounds. San Diego, January 12.—D. S. Hub bell, of £1 Cajon, died in the County Jail today from the effects of an epileptic fit. He was to have been examined for insanity tomorrow. PENNIES ANGERED Him. A Cable Car Conductor Shot by a Colored Passenger. Chicago, January 12. — Conductor Moore, on the State-street grip car, gave a colored man named George Jordan, twenty-five pennies in returning chance for a dollar bill. Jordan got mad at re ceiving the compere, and struck the con ductor in the lace. Moor then went to the back platform, and Jordan fearing he was going to attack him with the car hook drew a revolver and shot Moore, inflicting a fatal wound. The murderer was arrested. < »»>«.iri:s .|«,\ »I. FORECAST. Some Interesting 'Ihlngrs In Tltla Week's Pioitamme, Washington, January 12.—The most important, as well as the moet percept ible progress in the work of legislation in Congress, is still shown in orm mittees. According to notice given, Plumb will address the Senate tomorrow upon the resolution introduced by him last week regarding the releasing of the Alaska seal fisheries. The credentials of the four Senators elected by the rival Legislatures of Mon tana are expected to be laid before the Senate this week. Objection will be made to seating either the Republic n or Democratic contestants, pending an investigation and report npon their claims by the Committee on Privilege! and Elections. A member of that com mittee said today that he was in favor of going fully into the question of the legal ity of the organization of the Montana Legislatures. The Committee on Territories tomor row will hear representatives of the Idaho Mormons who opposed the bill to admit that Territory as a State, because the proposed constitution excludes Mor mons from citizenship. If tho committee decides that the objections of the Mor mons are not well founded, the bills for the admission of Idaho and Wyoming will be reported favorably at once. Regular House committees have generally completed their organization, but none of them have so far progressed in their work as to be able to present any legislative material for ac tion upon by the House this week. The special committee on the Silcott defalcation has completed its labors and expects to present its report to the House tomorrow. Indications are that the long-expected code of new rules will be reported from the Committee on Rules this week. The members of the minority are generally conversant with the changes of the old code that are in contemplation, and are preparing themselves for a vigorous at tack upon tbe committee's report, which, as they understand, proposes to seriously curtail their power to effect legislation. DEATH'S HARVEST. Ripe Sbeaves UaOiered for tlie (iSrlm Reaper. Manhattan, Kan., January 12.—Hon. Nehrinas Greer, ex-Governor of Kansas, died this morning from a hemorrhage of the lungs. Kansas City, January 12.—Rev. D. Gotwald, pastor of the Memorial Lutheran church of this city, and Secre tary of Midland College and the Lutheran Synod of Kansas, died this evening. Milwaukee, January 12.—Dr. W. L. Candee died tonight, aged 99. He was the family physician of Dewitt Clinton and Aaron Burr. New York, January 12 —Professor H. H. Day, LL. D., of Yale, died today at New Haven, Conn., of pleurisy, aged 81. London, January 12 -Mrs. Filz George, wife of the Duke of Cambridge, is dead. San Francisco, January 11—John Martin, President of the State Board of Wardens, aged 58 years, and James Alli son, an Australian theatrical manager, died here this afternoon. Both deaths were the result of disease brought on partly by severe colds. DISTILLERY DESTROYED. Tbe Largest Booze Factory In tbe World Gone up In Smoke. Peoria, 111., January 12.—Fire broke out this afternoon in the Monarch distil lery and before it could be controlled seven copper Btills were burned, together with 100,000 gallons of untoned Hpirits. The local loss is estimated at $15 000, covered by insurance. The distillery h«d a capacity of 10,000 bushels of corn per day; it cost $500,000 to build, and was the largest iv the world. This is the busy season, and the house will be idle three to four months, and the loss to. business will be several hundred thous and dollars. THE OHOST QUIT WALKING. The California Opera Company In Financial strait*. Chicago, January 12.—A special from Bt. Paul, Minn., says: There is trouble in the California Opera Company, of which John Kreling, of San Fiancisco, a well-known theatrical manager, is pro prietor. The company has had several weeks of bad business, and the "ghost" hasn't walked regularly. Yesterday Ben Tuttle, advance agent, and Leopld Jor dan, press agent, were discharged. -Ida ■? '«!., of the company, is the wife of iuttle, and she gave notice of her intention to quit at the close of the en gagement in Minneapolis next week. Jordan failed to obtain the amount of salary due him, and last night tied up the box-office receipts with an attach ment. Not Lynched. Huntington, W. Va., January 12 — The reported lynching of JamesU'Haga in Wyoming county, ia untrue. While he was going to Oceana in charge of two gnards he was fired on by a party of men. His horse was killed and he was shot through the foot, bat the guards suc ceeded in getting him away, and he is now in confinement. The Week. Clearance*. I Boston, January 12.—A table, com piled from dispatches from the leading clearing houees of the United States and Canada, shows that the total gross ex changes for the week ending January 11th were, $1,189,907,092, an iLrease 14.5 per cent, compared with the corres ponding week of last year. A Steamer A.hore. New Haven, Conn., January 12 — Th« steamer City of Worcester, of the Nor wich line, ran ashore on the rocks near Bartlett a reef lightship, during a fog early this morning The passenger!' fifty m number, were taken off. ' Tne End of a Debauch. New York, January 12.—Thomas Link , a hotel keeper at Tribes Hill, ended a a protracted debauch, last night, by cut ting his wife's throat and then his own He is dead, and his wife's condition i« critical, 0 marine Intelligence. New York January 12.-Arrived j The City of Berlin Liverpool; Germanic from Liverpool; Slavonia, from Stettin. It does not pay to fool with the Arizona journalist. The Tempo Newt had a de* inquent advertiser. The editor man took out the ad. and replaced it by the following: "This space was taken by ~~7" v w f ß *T. £or **» Bnd won't pay. Look out for him." The adver tiaer got mad tkd obtained an injunction dissolved theCn)junction. "k^-H