Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-10-25

with but one transfer. This, In
connection with the recent changes
of schedule on the Pacific Rail-
roads, gaining two days in time of
delivery of freights at San Fran
cisco, will enable shippers to re-
ceive freight shipped from any
point East in fourteen days, instead
of eighteen to twenty-five, as here
tofore.
A Whole Family Murdered.
VINCENNEs, Ind, Oct. 24th.-l
John d. Vacelet, wife and two sous,
were murdered last night, about
two miles south of this city.
Pierre Provost, who lived with
them as farm hand, gave the
alarm to the nearest nelgbbor,
about half a mile away, at fonr
o'clock this morning, having come
to them in his night-clothes and
saying in broken English, "They
had hell of time at Vacelets."
On going to the house the neigh
bors found the two sons, aged four
teen and sixteen, In bed, the father
lying In the doorway to an adjotn-
ing room, and in the next room
the mother in her bed, all dead and
cold. The deed had evidently been
done with an axe, the heads and
throats of the victims being
gashed and cut by such o weapon.
| Two or three bloody axes were
found. Provost is under arrest
and can give no satisfactory ac'
count of the affair. He claims to
have been also attacked by the
murderers and escap ID, but this Is
already proven untrue.
Dest,ucttvs Prairi. Fires.
CHICAGO, Oct. 24th.-Iowa, Neb-
raska and Kansas advices indicate
that prairie fires are still raging in
each of those States, destroying
grain, bridges, barns, fences and
other property, The flames were
most destructive 90 miles southeast
of Sioux City, Iowa, along the
North Platte, Nebraska, and the
south Platte river in Northern
| Nebraska. and In Russ, Ness, Ellis,
Trego, Cove, Wallace, Decatur,
Graham and Rook counties in
Kansas. Many persons pershed
in the flames and an unconfirmed
report prevailed in Lincoln, Neb-
raska, yesterday that Albion,
Boone county, a town of 250 in
habitants, had been entirely des,
trOyed. The fires in some cases
are supposed to have been lighted
, by the Cheyennes.
Hayes Talks at the Fair.
CUMBERLAND, Md, Oct. 24th.-
The President was enthusiastically
received at the fair grounds to-day.
In the course of his remarks he
said: 1.-THE wish is expressed every.
where that the Union and Consti'
: tuition may be loved and that the
laws passed In pursuance of the
Constitution may be observed by
all the inhabitants of the country.
[Applsuse.1 If anywhere they are
obstructed the great sentiment of
the country is wisely, moderately,
but firmly expressed that they
shall be enforced and the commu-
mites who fail to obey the Consti-
tuition and laws passed in pursu-
ance of that instrument will surely
regret the consequences of their
act, for persons Will not emigrate
to sections where disturbances ex-
ist. We are, however, rapidly
marching forward to aperiod when
all sections are to have equal rights,
whether wise or ignorant, poor or
rich, all of whatever condition, un-
der the Constitution and laws.
[Applause.]
Terrific Marias Dtsaster.
BALTIMORE, Oct. 9th.
Baker, of the steamer Express,
which left here Tuesday for Wash
ington, reports that his vessel
i foundered in gale in the mouth of
t the Potomac and the passengers
/ and crew are probably lost. The
8 Captain was rescued while drifting
with fragments of the boat. The
, Captain, In describing the wreck ol
| the Express, says that the sea was
8 running at great height, every
r wave washing the boat from stem
D to stern. Wednesday morning
! there came terrific splash and the
, joiner work parted from the
, | SluhCulPuas lht pdsoCuStio ana
! crew had barely time to realize
: what had occurred before the waves
. took the saloon deck like
) SO much paper work and
1 the following wave swept it off
to sea and with 1t nearly all
Q on board. All on board had Sc
8 cured life preservers at the earliest
/ period of the gale and some of the
8 officers tried to secure boats, but
Z they were washed away and broken
: up. A moment after the upper
deck had been carried away the
= hull rolled over and sunk, bottom
? upward. Those of the passengers
and crew that could reach por-
tions of the wreck clung to them,
but the heavy sea washed them of
again, and in the breaking dawn
: only about eight persons could be
seen. The Express had crew of
twenty.one all told and as far as
. known eight passengers. 1t is sup
posed that fully twenty lives weie
lost.