Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1881-07-09

\ AnSNOD OoAsS July OIL. IL 10 lOls
lowing is the list Of passengers for
the South and East on the train
which passed this place at s p. M:
TIL Mirror, Los Angeles; Mrs Com
stock, do; A Packard, do; d w
Hill, do; f L Richmond, do; G. e
Overton, U g A; M Alsna, Mexico:
g Woolrich, San Diego; E T Cook,
do; Brunker Henkle, do; w l.
York, Ell Paso; o A Shaw, Tucson.
the state rFi.os Investigates.
SAN FRANCISCO. July 8th.-In
the State Prison investigation to.
day w. Banks, discharged officer
of the prison, testified to having, on
one occasion certainly and perhaps
on others, seen the Warden under
the influence of liquor during the
early part Of his stay at the prison.
LstterIy he had not noticed It.
Most of the afternoon was taken
up by the examination Of Moral In.
structor Cummings. The charges
the witness had made against the
Warden were not substantiated by
his testimony, while 1t was shown
that he had endeavored to have
prisoners smuggled out of the pris-
on to escape arrest on other charg-
es. He had been In the receipt Of
money from convicts and had In.
terestsd himself to procure COM
mutation OF se ntences. Some other
testimony WAS taken and thus far
the investigation seems to fail in
establishing the charges hereto.
fore published, aslde from the ques.
ton Of Indulgence in liquor by the
Warden, which lie still, to q certain
extent, an open question.
F.asure Of J. W. assnwesssr.
SAN FRANCISCO, July sth.-
General J. w. Cash weller, stock
and mining operator, has filed q
petition in insolvency. Liabilities
$500, 100; assets, personal property,
$2l3 900. and SOME real estate,
value not stated. The principal
creditors are Thomas Bell,
5000. 900; the Bank of California,
100000; 8. F. Gashweiler, $1,000;
Laura NJ. Cash weller, $84,OO
Horace Hill, $4,000; Alpheus
Bull, $22, 500; VIM. A. Parish and
J. L. Moody, $4,000; J. d. Carr
and the county Of San Francisco q
judgment of $4,000. He attrib-
utes his failure to the fall Of stocks
and real estate and the failure of
of debtors.
Accidentally Killed.
LIvERNoRE, July 8th.-Alexan-
der Edison, com mission merchant
of Livermore and an old resident
of this county, was accidentally
killed this morning. He was in his
orchard shooting birds when, in
getting over fence with his gun at
full cock. 1t went of, blowing his
brains out.
BSaaae's WOQsd.bs Assassip.
NAPA, July 8th.-M cNamara,
the would-be assassin OF Blaine, is
supposed to have been at one time
confined in the asylum here. From
the records of the asylum 1t 40.
pears that Daniel McNamara, q
native of Ireland, aged 81 years,
was admitted March 20, 1879. He
was Sergeant OF the first battery
of the First Regiment of mounted
artillery and was discharged from
the army July IL. 1874. He was
discharged from the asylum in
July, 1879 as improved and 1t is
supposed that afterwards he went
to Philadelphia.
Mur0srer Hangsd-Raen.
TUCSON, July s.-Thos. Harper, Q
native of Texas, was hanged to.
day at $3.50 p. M. for the killing Of
John Holiday on the 18th of last
September. Harper was firm to
the last and died game. He was OF
the COW boy element. This lie the
drst legal hanging In Pima county.
There is considerable rainfall In
this section of the Territory and
northern Sonora.
A washout on the 8. p. r. r. near
PAntano has delayed the west.
bound train for twelve h0urs.