Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1878-06-01
LOS ANGELES. SATURDAY MORNING. JUNE l. 1878

Committee on Appropriations.
Hamlin thought that the sooner
the dayof final adjournment should
be fixed the better it would be.
On motion of Edmunds the res
olution was laid on the table to be
taken up tomorrow.
THO Border rropDics.
NEW ORLEANS, May 81 .---A.spec-
ial from Eagle Pass says that Esco.
bedo is reported to have captured
Saragosa and is expected to at
tack Pilgras Nigros. Mexican gov
eminent troops under the com
mand of Col. Muncio have gone to
meet him. A fight is expected.
Dallas (rexas) Baun Suspended.
NEW ORLEANS, May 3l.-A spe-
cial says that the First National
Bank of Dallas has suspended pay
ment. The liabilities cannot be
ascertained to.day. Due Deposit
ors, $22, 600; nominal assets, $I10,-
00U.
President Hayes Again.
CHICAGO, May 31.-A Philadel-
phia dispatch says that George AL
fred Townsend bad an interview
with President Hayes at Gettys-
burg yesterday, most of which re-
lated to the Potter investigation.
The President said that there never
was time when our good provi-
dence was so plainly leading US to
peace and order, and we had less
temptation to fly away, yet, I'm.
der the reins of caucus govern
ment which coerces the timid,
the unwary and often good
men, we are now threat
ened with mutiny, perhaps
conflict. The direct agents which
brought on the rebellion we're
spirits of light compared to the
present fomentors of national and
general discord. Slavery was
vested property; at any rate the
white people of the South were
educated to believe so. They had
that material interest at stake for
their apology for the war.
But to disturb the country once
more in the same generation for
nothing but political spoils is moth
ing less than an Internal scheme.
Accident at Ssn--ShIp sunk.
LONDON May 30.-The ship
"Grosser Kurfurst" came in collis-
ion with the iron-clad "Kenig
Wilhelm at 9:45 this morning.
The accident took place three miles
off Folkestone. The "Grosser Kur-
fursW sank almost Immediately
after sue was struck. The steamers
boilers exploded as she went down.
The weather was bright and the
sea calm at the time. 1t is report.
ed from Dover that only eighteen
persons out of complement of
four hundred and sixty officers and
men on board the "Grosser Kur-
furst," were saved. Boats went
from shore and were sent from
other vessels of the German fleet to
the assistance of the drowning peo-
pie, and it is hoped that more lives
were saved. ~k
v;.e skurtu,st'-sscon Dispatcs.
DOVER, May 3l.-The German
consisting of three IRON
clads-" Preussen." Grosser Kur-
furst" and "Kenig Wilhelm ~
passed Dover at S:45 this morning,
bound for Plymouth, whence 1t
was expected to sail for Gibraltar.
When the squadron was off Lud-
gate, about five miles from shore,
one of the ron-clads was observed
to be gradually keeling over ON her
beams end, and men were seen
crowding on the bulwarks. In
about five minutes the vessel went
down on her side, her boilers ex-
ploding as she sank. Boats from
the other iron-clads were
launched and q number
of Folkestone fishing smacks
near by hurried to the scene. 1t is
hoped that many lives were saved.
The Folkestone life-buat was
launched, but arrived too late to be
of service. Several steamers have
gone TO the scene of disaster from
Dover. 1t is believed that the
"K@nig Wilhelm" which ran
into the "Grosser Hurfurst,n Is
badly damaged.
The Kurfurs Disaster-Third DIS.
patch.
LONDON, May 3l.-A telegram to
the Admiralty says of the sinking
of the Grosser Kurfurst:" About
300 persisted, and 200 have been
saved. This comes from the Coast
Guard at Folkestone.
A dispatch from Dover says it is
that the "Grosser Kur-
furst' carried crew of 600 men, of
whom between 300 and 400 are sup
posed to be drowned.
A telegram to Lloyds from Folke-
stone repeats the report first tele-
graphed that only eighteen men
were rescued but its correctness is
doubted. All previous reports say
that life boats were lowered from
the other iron clad Immediately and
a large number of small crafts from
Dover and Folkestone fastened to
the locality.
The Ocenn Disaster-FourGh Dis
patch.
New YORK, May 3l.-London
state that the German
En- bassy Is informed that $50 per-
sons were drowned by the sinking
of the iron-clad Grosser Kur-
furst." The German ambassadors,
with the Crown Prince, have gone
by special train to the scene Of disas-
ter. 1t seems that the vessels were
under full headway when the
'K@ning Wilhelm" ram into the
"GrOsser Kurfurst." The shock
was terrific, the latter vessel filling
and sinking within five minutes
after the collision. To add to the
horrors of the situation the boilers