Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-09-09
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cheering all hearts. The feeling
in all quarters is change from anx-
iety to the most sanguine opinions
that the President has at last fair
ly started on the road to recovery.
DR.. Bliss is authority for the state.
ment that the President is con-
valescent. He made this assertion
in the presence of DIR. Hamilton.
The latter gentleman, who strictly
adheres to his policy not to talk for
publication about any of his pa
tients, showed by his expression
that he did not object to the state
ment.
The Presidens's Condition stsis
Improving.
ELBERoN, N. j., Sept. 8th.-Of-
fetal bulletin, $3.50 p. NJ: At IL to.
day the Presidents temperature
was 9S, pulse "a, respiration II. AT
the evening dressing, at $3.50, his
temperature was 99.l, pulse 100,
respiration 18. He has taken q lib
eral amount of food, both solid and
fluid, with apparent relish. BY
special request OF the President 1t
has been our duty to say in this
public manner to Surgeon. General
J K Barnes, Surgeon ] J Wood
ward and DR. Robert Reyburn that,
In dispensing with their services as
his medical attendants, he Was ac-
tuated by a wish only to relieve
them of a labor and responsibility
which, in his Improved condition,
he cannot longer properly impose
upon them. Both the President
and Mrs. Garfield desire to express
to these gentlemen personally and
In some public manner, their high
appreciation of the great skill and
discretion which they have 80 cou.
stantly exercised as associate coun-
sci in the management OF his case
up to the present time.
(Signed) D. w. BLISS,
L. II. HAMILTON.
aho szscnisHs F,res-Terrib.e De-
vassasto. - People burned BY
Hundreds.
DETROIT, Sept. 9Th. h.-The horrors
of the situation in St. Iliac and
Huron counties, on the shores ol
Lake Huron, are deepening every
hour. An appeal was issued last
night at Port Huron signed by
Senator Copger and Hon. w. L.
Bancroft calling for money, cloth
ing and provisions to be sent forth.
with to Hon. e. G. Carlton, Mayor
of Port Huron. The distress is un.
psralleled. 1t is believed that 30C
people perishsd and it is feared
many more, while thousands are
stripped of everything, food, shell.
ter, crops. stock, ali swent clean
from the face of earth, aud must
have everything necessary to sus-
tain life and cloth themselves,
| Accounts continue to come In OF
the most narrowing description
A special to the Post and Demo.
crat says: "Geo. Mcdonald, Of ST.
lilac county, tells narrowing
tale. Over zoe families are home
lees in that section and suffering
from want-food and clothing
John Ballentine, OF Verona Mills
says f1fty.three lives are known tt
be lost ia the neighborhood O.
Sand Beach. The fire suddenly
reached Verona Mills on Monda,
and the town was soon wiped out
The wind was so strong that Balen
tine and his wife were picked vi
and blown fifteen or twenty yards
A woman aud her husband wer'
found lying against tree, dead
the woman being partly delivered
of O child. The devastation don,
by the fires of III are nothing com
pared to the fires of the last few
days.
Maze Horrors.
EAST SAGINAW, Mich, Sept. g.
Reports show that in Millingtol
township. Tuscola county, 2l fam
lilies are left homeless. In Den
mark, Guilford and Tuscola town
ships, same couny, 20 or 80 fam
lilies are burned out and acres Q
tim ber, crops and miles of fenc
are burned. In this vicinity tn
fires are chiefly confined TO Buena
Vista, Blumfisld, Bridgepor
and Beech Run town
ships Oh the east an
/ Rochelle, Berlwaukee aud Sagi
nav towns on the west, all O
which, u number of buildings an,
large quantities of property swep
away. AN indian settlement sew
eral miles below this city and SUI
rounded by IA dense forrest, is re
=, ported to have been burned an
q number of lives lost, as ther
were thirty families in there an
10 possible way of escape. Heav
fires are also reported in Isabel
county doing great deal af dam
age.
!: Barring Train Robbery.
! KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Sept. s.--A
/; 8 o'clock last night train on th
{; Chicago & Alton road was stoppe
within two miles of Glendale, Mo
by means of lantern signals, min
masked and armed men havin
previously obstructed the track b
stones and timber. The expires
r messenger was fatally beaten an
, the safe robbed of from 5000 {
: $4,000. The passengers were kef
cowed by the incessant firing {
pistols and robbed of their none
and valuables. The train ran int
Kansas City and nearly the Who'll
police force went back in pursuit.
The notorious Jesse James me
} did the job.
Il Mextcna Rsilwsy Masters.
, Boston, Sept. 8th.-The Mex
! can Central Railway Company re
ceived dispatch to- lay from tn
Mexican Government that th
latter had accepted the road from
the City of Mexico to Tula, tn
first 90 kIlometers of the main line
and the Mexican National or Inde
pendeDce day, Sept. 18th, has bee
appointed for the cele bration of tn