Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-06-18
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CINCINNATI, June 17.-Eight
cases of drowning occurred here
yesterday. Six happened at once,
in the Ohio river, In the western
part Of the city. The men were at
work at Fleming's coal landing
and were coming ashore in a skif.
Eight had got into the skif, when
two more jumped in and threw the
whole party into the water. George
Kilkof, nine years old, of Louis
vile, here on visit, WAS drowned
while bathing in Mill creek, and
Felix Devine, nine years old, was
drowned while bathing in the Ohio
river, near PendletOn.
The FassinE Lun~tic.
CHICAGO, June 17.-Griscom be-
gan the twenty.frst day of his fast
at noon. His weight is Ill. He
claims that he is in first class con-
dition, but he looks pale and weak.
Physicians consider his condition
remarkably good. Yesterdays
heat weakened him, but the more
comfortable temperature Of to-day
is favorable.
Overhead ,PassseDYeFs.
KANSAS CITY, June 1.-THE fol.
lowing overland passengers passed
Topeka last night via the A. +. and
s. F. r. R., due at san Francisco
the 2lst: John Vance, J H War
ner, q A Kincht, no residence
given; w Bryson and son, Des
Moines, Iowa; N w Gardiner and
wife, Los Angeles.
D.snocrnsac Nominations.
DIES MONIES, Iowa, June 1.-THE
Democratic State Convention has
nominated for Governor L. G. Kin.
ner, G. M. Walker for Lieut.. Gov.
ernor, aud H. B. Henderson, for Su-
prems Judge.
.uustv"ks sn new O-seaus.
NEW ORLEANS, June l7.-It has
been hot for the past three days.
There were thirteen sunstrokes,
seven fatal.
Mox,can News.
CITY OF MEXICO, June 17.-Cs-
milo Vallertia, a native Protest.
ant minister, was fired ut yesterday
by al Infatuated Mexican Catholic,
at Texcuco. He escaped uniDjured,
but before he could complain to the
authorities he was imprisoned on
the charge of being the attacking
party and committing assaults on
women, Bishop Butler IL making
efforts to have him released.
Major Degrees left for New York
to confer with Gould and Sage in
regard to the recent concession for
road from Loredo to Mexico.
Priedo and Pambo get elk thous-
and shares of stock OF the Topolo-
vampo Company for the use of their
names, besides One.third of the
subvention of $4,000 per mile.
Priedo IL a brOther.iu-law of the
President and Pambo is Senator
from OaXaca. The conditions of
building the road are severe.
l.,bevss ~ Asspmbtwxe-ADl bussage
PARIS, June 1.-THE Senate to-
day adopted the bill granting the
right of public meeting.
AID attempt was made on Wed.
nesuay to blow up the statue of
Theirs, at 81. German, with box
OF gunpowder. The statue was
slightly injured. Inquiry into the
OUT rage has been instituted.
Wr+scneO Sovereign.
NEW YORK, June ia London
special says that advices from st.
Petersburg say that the Gear still
keeps himself close prisoner at
Gatschina. Sappers and miners,
have dug up every rod of ground
within mile Of the palace in the
search for mines. The water
used in the palace il brought
from st. Petersburg. 1t has
been rumored that the Mini.
lists have tempered with the sup
ply at Gatschina, and the troops
employed In guarding the palace
are changed every day. The Gear
and family left for Peterhoff to-day.
The commander and officers of the
guardship Potzinoff, lying there,
have been removed and placed un.
der police surveillance, the Mini
lists proclaim alton and copies of the
WSL of the People having been
found on board the vessel. The
Gar is said to be complete wreck.
Some days he shuts himself up in
his cabinet and refuses to see even
the members of his suite. He i'm
tended some time ago to make
Kief the capitol of Russia, but the
recent operations of the Nihilists in
the southwest have fright
ened him; and, moreover, although
the Russian press is silent on the
subject, the peasants in the Kietf
department threaten an agrarian
war. The Czarina Is Frustrated
with nervousness. Ignatietf's at
tempts to stamp out Nihilism are
laughed at by the leaders of the
movement, and it is now evident
that the contagion is rapidly
spreading in the country, while
the peasants, rendered des-
perate by crushing burdens,
are no longer to be de.
pended upon. Not long ago q
few leading mobiles of the moderate
party waited upon the Gear and
urged him, ii he valued the safety
of the empire to grant a liberal con.
cession to the peasants and formu-
late a scheme of constitutional re-.