Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1883-07-04
Published every morning. except Monday. by
JOSEPH D. LYNCH.
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Rumor Of a Fatal Cyclone
New York, July ga Sun specie
says that the town of Cromwell, Conn.
was destroyed by cyclone yesterda,
and fourteen lives lost. The Associate,
Press have asked for particulars Blu
thus far nothing has been received
The story is generally discredited.
Fatal Boiler Explosion.
WILKEspARRE, Pa, July 3.--Th
boiler Of the steamboat Susquehanna
owned by the Plymouth Navigation
Company, blew up here this morning
The boat was torn to pieces. No pas
senRers were on board. Seven of tn,
crew were injured. several Of them ia
tally.
Fight ut an Indian Dance.
CHICAGO, July "a Daily Ne,cs tLit
tie Rock, Ark, special says that fighf
occurred at an Indian dance At Birc
Creek, Indian Territory, last night a.
which over one hundred Pawnees with
drawn revolvers and knives took part
Two Indians were killed and other.
wounded.
The Custer Monument.
MoNrELLo, Wis, July 3.--The granite
shaft which Is to mark the spot where
General Custer and the seven companies
OF the Sew enth U. g. Cavalry laid down
their lives, was shipped to Montana
yesterday. The monument consists of Q
cube Of Monticello granite four feet high,
reiting on a base of the same material
It is inscribed with 400 letters, the
names of the slain.
Shooting Array In Virginia.
PETERSBURG, Va, July 3.--Abou
midnight last night difficulty occurred
In Blandford, between Barney Jones and
Woodson Dunn. Jones accused Wood
son Dunn and his brother Lewis
Dunn with having induced hi
granddaughter to follow them, intimat
ing that improper motives were under
lying their action. Words ensued,
whereupou Jones seized an old army
musket loaded with bird shot and fired
at Woodson Dunn, the charge entering
the right groin and passing through the
body. 1t made wound two inches in
diameter. Dunn cannot recover.
street Car Collision.
CHrcAoo. July r. The outgoing
Kansas City expresz on the Wabasf
road last night came in collision with I
strest car at the Root-street crossing q
the southern city limits, smashing It t.
fragments. The lamp in the car ex
ploded and set fire to it. OF thirteen
persons In the car only one escaped I'M
hurt, and it Is believed two or three O
the worst injured will die. Several were
badly burned before they could be ex
tricsted from the blazing fragments. Tn,
sccident occurred from the driver of tn,
street car misunderstanding the signal
man stationed at the crossing.
Precautions Against Cholera
CAIRO. July 3.-The Sanitary Coun
Gil has ordered the population O
Damietti to be removed from theil
dwellings and scattered in tents. Thu
Indicted quarter Of the town will b.
partly disinfected and partly burned
Threatened Bread Troubles.
LONDON, July IA panic in bread
stuffs now threatens England Its i'm
minence is due chiefly to the choler,
blockade against India. There SEEM
TO be no relief except from America, be
cause Of the probability of an epidemic
Of Asiatic cholera, which will practically
cut Of the Indian supply of cereals.
A Fatal Lauuching-Ma Per
sons Drowned.
LONDON, July 3.--Intellige ha
Just been received here Of tsrribl
calamity during the launch Of tn
steamer Daphne at Glasgow to-day
While being launched she fell over o.
her side precipitating number Of PEG
pie into the water. According to th'
dispatches thus far received, sixty per
sons were drowned. The Daphne
which was constructed for coast trading
L Z vessel Of five hundred tons burden
Two hundred workmen were on boart
whom she capsized.
ruRrHER PARTICULARS.
The Daphne left the ways at yer,
fast rate and when she got to the waite
she rolled from side to side. The peopl
on board, fearing she would capsize, raj
to and fro, until the vessel finally role,
over and nearly disappeared beneath tn
waves. Those who had maintainet
their positions on the portion Of tn
steamer not submerged did their utmos
TO save those who were cast overheard
At the same time boats pulled up to as
sist In the work of rescuing the unfor
tunate people and succeeded in savinj
quite . number. 1t is known, however
that there were so persons below in tn,
Daphne when the vessel went over an,
they must all have been drowned
Crowds Of grief-stricken relatives Of tn
victims were fiocking to the scene Of tn
calamity.
Another dispatch from Glasgow say
that the cause Of her capsizing was tina
she had too much top weight. Steamer
are dragging the water for the bodies o
the victims. Several Of the people WHIT
were taken from the water alive were 81
exhausted that 1t was necessary TO no
move them to the in6rmary. Tn
steamer Is now under water with tn
fifty bodies before mentioned ON boar,
Of her.
Tho Chilf-Peruvian Treaty.
PANAMA. June 23.-The Chilians ar
making preparations TO evacuate III
north Of Peru and hand 1t over to Iglesi
who is rapidly rising In public esteem
The principal propositions Of the treat
are Is follows. Absolute concession
Tarapaca; the fate Of africa and Taona :
be decided by plebiseite and afterward
military occupation by Chill, th
losinR nation receiving ten mi
lion dollars from tho Nountr
acquiring the property. Chi
il to pay over to Peruvian bond hold
srs ons half Of the net proceeds Of tn
gaano taken from the deposits no,
known 10 exist in the cedsd territory an
those that may be hereafter brought ;
light.
II 6ne feathers really did make fin
birds--which they don't--the wives q
the Cabinet ofiicers--hieh officials, Sen
aton and Representatives would b
among the 6nsst birds going. MrI
Brewster and Mrs. John Davis are bot