Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1878-02-26


WASHINGTON, Feb. 25th.-The
Postmaster General has received
Special Agent Sharp's report of the
Investigation made by him con-
corning the charges filed by John
Altman against Postmaster Coey
of San Francisco. The report COM
pletely exohorates Coey, Sharp
stating that, after the fullest possi-
BILE examination, he fails to find
any ground for the charges. He
states that Coey's refusal to certify
to certain bonds accompanying bids
until the blanks were filled up, was
In accordance with Department Or
ders; that three of the four persons
besides Altman, now in Washing
ton, who signed the affidavits
against Coey, cannot be found and
the fifth withdrew his affidavit and
requested that it be not considered.
Sharp also reports that the clerks
with whom Allmen conversed tes-
titled that they have never said
that Coey paid them less than
was charged on the pay roll, but
simply that their salaries had not
always been uniform, which was
caused by the departments
changes in the amounts of allow
ance for San Francisco. In corrob-
grafton Of this, Sharp states that
the total number of persons en-
ployed by Coey at different times
since June, 1874, is 80; that SO of
this number are now in San Fran
eli 20 and have made af1idavits
that they received the full amounts
charged on the pay rolls, and that
of the remaining sixteen, four are
dead, six have removed to various
parts of the United States and no
information is obtainable as to the
whereabouts of the six Others. The
report is fully credited and ap.
proved by the Postmaster General
and all his prominent subordinates.
sudden Death from Paralysis.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.-R. w.
Taylor, First Comptroller of the
Treasury, was stricken with paraly-
sis this morning while at his desk
and died at home two hours after
wards. He was appointed by Lin
coin during the administration of
Secretary Chase.
Earthquakes and Tidal Waves On
the Conss OF Peru-Another Terri.
bic valuation.
PANAMA, by way of New York,
Feb. 25th.-AccOunts from Callao
of the effects of tidal wave state
that the alarm is indescribable and
the damage incalculable. The sea
is covered with floating debris, and
immense waves, thirty and forty
feet high, break over the mole and
along The whole coast line, spread
ing havoc and destruction around
them. Most of the wooden struc-
lures built for the Pacific Steam
Navigation Company and for other
purposes have been swept away.
Coal for an English company, 1000
tons, has disappeared and the mer-
chandise on the dock has been COM
pletely ruined. The wheat mole,
the Chucinto mole and Meiggs's
mole are DESTROYED. Various tim
Der yards, coal deposits and bath
ing establishments are greatly
damaged. The railroad running
from the dock to Chucinto has
been undermined, and eight per-
sons drowned. At Pisagua the
condenser was broken to pieces and
considerable quantity of coal and
saltpetre was lost. In Iquique the
earthquake shock was terrific and
threw the whole town into q state
of alarm and CONSERVATION. 1t
lasted one minute and Thirty sec
onds. This main shock was fol-
lowed, during the night, by forty
minor shocks. Landslides are re.
ported along the railroad. In La
Norla several houses fell and the
steamer Karnall is reported lost.
Cri.pims Arrested for Conspiracy.
MARLBORO, Mass, Feb. 25th.-
Sixteen leading Crispins were ar.
rested to-day on indictments
charging conspiracy in connection
with the recent labor troubles.
MuniHceut Charitable Epqaests.
MONTREAL, Feb. 25th.-William
Workman died yesterday. He
leaves property valued at 100000,
about two-thirds of which he be-
queathed to public charities in
Montreal.
Killed with ~ shot Gun.
DEADwOoD, Feb. 25th.-A diff.
Guilty occurred at Lead City to-day
between Ben. S. Wadsworth and
John McTigue over the possession
of a lot, resulting in the former
emptying the contents Of u double
barreled shot gun into the bowels
of McTigue, killing him. Wads-
worth has been arrested.