Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-08-14

apartments are kept comfortable. !.
Temperature about 80'. Gen.
Swain has just said that the Pres
ident is better now than he was at
the same time yesterday. His
pulse Is now below 100 and tenn
perature about 99'.
FaiHa hallway Accident.
OGDENsBURa, N. Y, Aug. 49,
An accident occur ed on the Grand
Trunk Railway this morning
which resulted in the death OF the
engineer and the serious wounding
of a fireman, baggage master, two
express messengers and various in
juries to a number of passengers.
The train was the 10 P. NJ. express
from Montreal to Toronto, and con-
sisted of elk Pullman sleepers and
baggage cars. The cars were filed
with returning excurslonists from
Montreal, who were nearly all
asleep. After leaving Prescott,
while at full speed, an obstruction
was encountered and the locomo-
tive jumped the track, carrying
the tender, baggage car, mail, ex-
press, smoking and two passenger
cars with It.
Rochester Races.
ROCHESTER,, N. Y, Aug. 13.-Tn
the 2:2O race Santa Claus came near
being distanced. He broke twice
and would not trot at all. Before
the fourth heat Hopeful and Santa
Claus were drawn, their trainer
humping the latter stiff and sore.
Ia the pools Santa Claus brought
forty, Midnight ten and the field
one hundred. Hickok drove Mid
night.
Fiaurisg MsiIs struck by Light.
slug.
ST. LOUIS, Aug, 13.-The Atlan.
tic FIGURING Mills, George Balm
owner, was struck by lightning
last evening and were mass OF
flames almost instantly. Several
men were blown out of the doors
and windows, receiving, perhaps,
fatal injuries. It is feared that sew
eral perished in the flames.
the RsssEaS,xasson of the Asianasc
ana s.esnc Directory.
CHICAGO, Aug. 13.-From
Trustworthy source the Times de.
rives some fresh and interesting in.
telligence relative to the reorgani-
cation of the executive manage
ment Of the Atlantic and Pacific
Railroad. The probability is that the
financial alliance between that cor
poration and the Texas and Pacific
Interest aud extensive enterprises
now under prosecution by the
Atcnison, Topeka and Santa Fe
were consummated by the re-elec-
tion just held. The Atlantic aud
Pacific Directory is now composed
of II. G. Mutt (uewly elected), Pres.
ident; e. F. Winston. President st.
Louis and San Francisco; w. B.
Strong, President Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe; Il. Jefferson Cool
idge, Director Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe; Jesse Seligman, Di-
rector st. Louis and San Francisco.
The Board as reorganiZed embraces
the strongest executive heads in
the arrangements of the three dif.
ferent roads. s. s Tuckeman
is made Secretary and Treas.
urerand S. w. Cummins Passenger
Agent. The Atlantic and Pacific
Railroad is to be energetically ex.
tended across Arizona to San Fran.
cisco. Mutt will leave Boston next
week for q trip over the complete
line and upon returning to Albu-
querque, he will proceed direct to
California to start the work of cou-
struction eastward from San Fran
cisco. The road Is now in opera
ton for 280 miles westward from
Albuquerque, and its completion to
San Francisco-900 miles-is an
assured fact within two years. The
money is in the treasury for its
extension to the Needles on the
Colorado river. The Texas and
Pacific Company expects that the
litigation now pending will result
in its being placed in possession of
the Southern Pacific Rail way from
Yuma 10 Ell Paso. In such
event it would be sure of au outlet
to the western coast, or, in the
event of compromise, the Texas
Pacific and Southern Pacific Com
panies would probably Jointly oc-
cupy the latter's constructed track
to Yuma. However that may re-
suit, it is not improbable, though
not yet finally determined on. that
the Texas and Pacific would unite
with the Atlantic and Pacific In
extending the latter from the
Needles to San Francisco. The
Atlantic and Pacific is able unaid-
ed to complete the line to the
Needles, and will perform that
construction with all possible dis.
patch, but from that point to San
Francisco five hundred miles of
road will probably be built under
joint ownership. In that event the
Texas and Pacific would use the
route of the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe from Ell Paso to AL
buquerque-250 miles-and the At
lsntic and Pacific by joint occups-
ton from Albuquerque to the
Needles, where its joint ownership
would begin.
Hung for Rape.
BIRMINGHAMPToN, Aug. 49,
Geo. Griffin, colored, WAS hanged
for rape upon Mrs. Begars. A
large crowd collected outside the
Jail yard, but the hanging was pri-
vate. Griffin % neck was broken.