Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-08-19
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

"A Odu DlcBO lclcSTdil vi Lue .lSC1
says: A private dispatch was received
here yesterday announcing the alb
sconding of ]. Giles, postmaster. of
Prescott. The Union's dispatch says
that Giles left Saturday night and
was seen by the stage driver on Mon
day in Williamson Valley. The safe
in the postoffice is still locked, no one
having key, but it is supposed to be
empty. The amount of the defalcation
is unknown, but 106 money orders
have been issued, for which advices
have not yet been received, amount
ing to about $500. A telegram has
been sent in all directions and it is
hoped he may be captured. His bonds
men have put III. III. Carter in charge
temporarily. Deputy Z. S. Marshal
Parker has gone in pursuit.
Dispatches received in New York
announce the death by assassination
of Sefior Gabriel Garcia Moreno, Pres
ident of the Republic of Ecquador.
The intelligence was brought by spe-
cial courier from the capital to the Pa
eific Coast, thence by packet to Pana-
ma and by cable this city.
A meeting ofthe National Executive
Committee of the Union League of
America will be had at the Colon
made Hotel, Philadelphia, Thursday,
August Goth. at one P. M. The notice
says it is very important that all men,
bers attend in person or by substitutes.
The Times says that the subscrip-
tions In Germany to indemnity the
Prussian Roman Catholic priests for
the withdrawal of the State grants,
amounts to only $4,000 florins less
than one half the sum withdrawn.
There is no hope of forming a suffi-
cient fund for the disinherited priests.
A Reading, Pa. dispatch dated yes
terday says this morning the wife of
Capt. Phil. Berringer with her three
children, aged 8, 6, and 3 years. walk
ed on the tow path of the Union Canal
and when three miles north of the ci-
ty threw the children into the water
and then walked in herself. All were
drowned.
The 1rwaddy has overflown It's
banks for miles in the district of
Prone, doing immense damage to the
rice fields, and property generally.
A London dispatch says the Oldham
strike continues and now the cotton
trade of Blackburn's and the vicinity
is seriously threatened, as the factO-
ries get their yarn and wool from Old
ham.
A dispatch from Vienna reports the
radicals victorious in the elections in
the Servia Deutsche States, The Rad.
icals will move that Servia send an
army to Herzegovina to aid the Insul-
gents.
At noon yesterday an unknown man
recently from California, was drowned
or committed suicide in the Colorado
River at Fort Yuma.
A ASpanish vessel, shipping materials
of war at Barcelona yesterday, sudden
ly exploded and sunk. Fifty persons
were killed or drowned.
Yesterday morning, about 8 o'clock,
a dwelling in East Petaluma, occupied
by Mr.. Riley, was burned. Loss about
$1,000.
The Salt Lake Evening Neaos de-
mands that the Government shall
indemnify tht Indians lately ordered
from COrinne back to their reserva-
tion for all losses sustained by them.
George @. Cannon, delegate to
Congress from Utah, has appointed as
cadet at West Point, John Burton,
the son of Bishop Robert II. Burton,
who was in command of the NauvoO
legion at the time of the massacre of
the Morrisites near Ogden, Utah, in
1861.
The election of Ross as Chief of the
Cherokee nation, is now claimed by
majority of SO.
A Beecher-Tilton case is about being
developed in Quincy, Ill.
There are twenty-three hundred
names on the Great Register in San
Diego county this year.
The finding of the body of Grim.
wood is confirmed.
By a blunder in prescription four
patients in the st. Louis insane asy-
lum were poisoned yesterday.