Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-08-13
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CONDENSED TELEGRaMS.

The grasshoppers have hopped out
of Nebraska.
Dr. Mary E. Walker in partial male
garb, passed Omaha to-day en- route
for San Francisco. f.s
The heavy liquor house of Saddler
& Co. was seized at st. Joseph, No.,
by the United states revenue officials.
Four hundred thousand dollars
worth of countefeit bonds of the Gen.
tral Oregon Railway have been dis
covered in New York.
A movement is on foot to have one
or both of the Presidential Conventions
held at Long Branch this year.
Mr.. Cowan, the Assistant Secretary
of the Interior Department., antici-
pates serious troubles from the Indians
in the Black Hills. The miners escape
the troops. The Indians have agreed
to suspend war until they learn the re-
suits of the Council to be sent out by
the Department.
The Executive Committee of the
w. U. Telegraph Company held
meeting at New York to-day and it is
believed, although it is not positively
known, that the meeting related to
consolidation with the A. & p. Com
pany.
A large amount of the Indebtedness
of the firm of Duncan, Sherman & Co.
has been discovered to be accommodation
paper in the form of drafts drawn on
them by their confidential clerk, $500,
OOO of this is in Providence where the
family of Duncan has been long and
favorably known. One bank in New
York holds $500,000 off, another $780,
900 and still another thirty thousand.
The firm say they have been doing this
for the past twenty years. The letters
of credit for which the father of Dun
can has become responsible only
amount to $4,000. Great distress is
experienced in Paris and throughout
Europe, and a number of poor widows
and students are threatened with in
sanity. Four Americans secured their
money at the Rothschilds before the
failure was known, and demand was
made for its return. One of these was
brought before Minister Washburn by
the Cashier of the Rothschild's agency
but the Minister told him that it was
impossible to arrest our countrymen,
his baggage only could be attached,
and he advised against that even.
The Nebraska crops have turned out
better than was expected.
General Ruggles, at Omaha, has re-
ceived dispatch from Fort Laramie,
saving that Red Cloud, Spotted Tail,
and other Indians near Harney's Peak,
are demanding compensation for DAM
age done to their country and request
ing Crooks orders as to how to meet
the chiefs.
London dispatches say that there
have been extensive floods in the Pun
iaub, India, and that travel on the
railways is suspended.
The Turks have been defeated by the
Herzogovinians at Nylerada.
Mr.. Whitney, the Indepedent NOM
inee for Governor of Oregon, has de-
clined, leaving the contest between
the Democrats and Republicans.
There are extensive timber fires in
the neighborhood of Portland, Oregon.
There was Republican meeting at
Martinez last night. 1t was addressed
by Hon. H. G.. Rollins and Hon. w.
Hamilton.
The American Rifle Team sailed for
home to-day from Liverpool, in the
City of Boston.
VIM. H. Welch publishes sn open
letter to President Grant in the Eve
ming Telegraph, of Philadelphia, ,charg-
ing him with screening the perpetra-
tors of the Indian frauds.
The Abyssinians are preparing to in
wade Egypt, and the Khedive has sent
reinforcements to the border.
The Skating Rink at Portland, Ore
gon, was totally destroyed by fire last
night. Loss, $5, 600.
The Irish Rifle American team held
a meeting last night and thanked the
American team for the prizes present.
ed by them, expressing regret for the
departure of the Americans and their
hope for an early future meeting for
another friendly rifle competition.
Numbers of the riflemen and promi-
nent citizens of Doublin went to Liver
pool to see the American team off.
The French government has pro-
hibited the sale in France of Glad
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