, 1873-09-18
Western Union Telegraph Office here,

Western Union Telegraph Office here,
died to-day.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.-President
Orton, of the W. U. Telegraph Co. has
issued the following order, addressed te
the Supcrintendents of the Company
throughout the country, instructing all
managers to send free messages relating
to the relief of citizens of Shreveport,
ard, at the request of the Governor and
Z. S. Senators of Louisiana, direct that
contributions of monay be received aud
transferred by telegraph without charge.
By tLis action on the part of the Com
pany money can be forwarded instantly
to the sufferers, whereas by the course
of mail it would require some 10 days
to get there, by which time the needy
might be past relief. Any one feeling
inclined to contribute something to aid
the stricken people of Shreveport Can
send without expense by paying it in at
any w. U. T. station. Contributions
are already going forward from this
point.
MEMPHIS, Sept. 15.-WiIdest rumors
prevailed to-day with regard to the yell
low fever. Trains leaving on the va
rous roads were crowded with people
fleeing from the scourge.
HARTFORD, Conn, Sept. 15.-Credit
Mobiher suits will come up tomorrow
before the U. S. District Court at this
city.
New York, Sept. 15.--DetectiYe will
start for San Francisco in a few days, to
bring Irving, the f-confessed murder
er of Nathan, TO this city.
The Press announces the failure of
the Electric Life Insurance Co., with a
deficiency of nearly 100000.
To-day's Tribune says editorially
"Gov. Stanford, President of the Cen
tral Pacific r. r. seems to be very
candid gentleman. In the contest just
closed in California, newspaper organs
of the Railroad constantly asserted that
Railroad affairs were not in any manner
involved; that the only question was as
to the fitness of Legislative and other
candidates. Now, however, the rail-
road magnates harangue their workmen
and tell them that the State election has
been carried against lhem. These are
the facts and the people will asli how it
happens that great corporation, en-
riched by subsidies from the National
Treasury and born under an act of Con-
gress, assumes to control the election
of members of a State Legislature.
LONDON, Sept. 15.-T.e walls of a
building in Stonehouse, Devonshire,
which had been recently burned, fell
this MORNING, killing persons and
injuring several others.
A dispatch from Australia reports q
great fire in Auckland, New Zealand
Fifty buildings were destroyed and the
total loss is estimated at $4,000.
VICTORIA, Sept. 16.-A correspondent
of the N. W. Guardian at Yale writes
"The epizootic is now in full force
having attacked nearly all the horse
and mule teams on the road and bro't
them to stand still. Lawrence & Bal
ley's splendid teams and U. Nelson s
also have been laid off for nine days and
are still under the influence of the dis
ease. All the pack trains, both those at
work and those waiting for loads, are
affected. The horses belonging to both
stage lines are suffering more or less.
There have been no fatal cases reported
as yet, and the general belief is that
there will be very few if any, lost, if the
animals are properly cared for and
worked lightly or not at all during the
period of the attack. So Ear the disease
has assumed very mild form"
The U. S. s. Tuscarora arrived here
at an early hour yesterday morning,
where she has taken in supply of coal
necessary for her sounding trip of the
Pacific. She sails this morning for
Cape Flattery, whence she will bear to-
wards the Aleutian Islands.