Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1883-02-20
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Attempt to Barn Red Blur
San FRANCISCO, Feb. lS.-A Red
Bluff dispatch says: A diabolical attempt
was made last night to burn up the town.
The school house was discovered to be
ON fire, but the flames were timely ex-
tinguished. It was discovered that the
interior had been saturated with kero-
senc. II was also discovered that the
door and walls Of the Court House had
been aprinkied with the same fluid.
One person has been arrested on sus-
picion and Others are being watched.
The citizens are thoroug hly aroused and
talk Of organizing a Vigilance Commit
tee to protect property.
sprlse valley In Bsst water.
San FRAScfsco, Feb. ia number
Of rate payers announce their intention
to bring suits against the company for
shutting of water. 1t is also stated that
representative Of the Tuolumne River
Wsier Company will 40 before the
Supervisors this evening aad ask fran
Win tut nv oOupuny.
y. r. Markets.
SxS FRAxcIsco, Feb. l9.-Wheat
strong and unchanged, 81 .90g$l. 95;
barley unsettled; feed el.22H@Sl rs;
brewing q. sO0el. 20; chsvalier Sl.35@
$50; oats no change 81. 1881 90; corn
dull, yellow u .62l ~. ST., white $3.50
bid Sl.60 asked; hay 9l3@$l7A.
rae Clean shssting AGAR.
CoLusA, Feb. l8.--Milier is now in
jail for shooting DR.. Glenn, but refuses
70 say suything about the affair. He
says Cochran, who shot him in the leg
to make him surrender, did right. Mil
lers leg IL badly swollen and very pain
full. He was very much afraid OF the
mob when lodged in jail. Mrs. Miller
Is terribly prostrated by the news Of the
shooting and i very i'll. No lady stands
higher in the estimation Of the people,
, and she has borne many trials with a
fortitude that hes won her the admira-
tion Of all. Every lady sympathizes
with her and her family.
San Francisco. Feb. ia Willows
dispatch says: Huron Miller, the man
who murdered Dr.. Glenn, is about IS
years old And married. He was i'd
dicted to intemperance which was the
cause Of his discharge. Miller has known
Glenn intimately for many years. Glenn
started him ia business, but through
dissipation Miller was unsuccessful, and
finally was forced to accept mental sit.
uation at d nominal salary. Glenn found
him In this plight and gave him situa.
ton q book keeper. Monday Glenn
found him intoxicated, when he repre-.
mspded Miller, the latter applied very
insolent, insulting language 10 his
benefactor, who at once discharged
him. Since his discharge, Miller has
been hanging around Jacinto under the
prstext Of hunting, 1t is now thought
he was only waiting an opportunity to
execute his terrible design. After sur
rendering. Miller was taken to Colusa
apd jaiIed. The public indignation is
Intense at tho Willows and it is thought
the prisoner would have been lynched
bad he been placed il, custody there.
While on the way to Jail Miller seemed
perfectly composed. No definite cause
4 known yet for the assassination.
Miller had been drinking heavily since
discharged, but all say he was perfectly
sober whom he committed the deed.
The Kaeets sf the Fiesa.
INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. kilograms
received by the Relief Committee from
the flooded districts give most gloomy
accounts OF the distresss and suffering at
New Albany. Ind. The river fell two
feet. The weather IL very cold. Suffer
ing and misery in the city and vicinity
are deplorable and distress reigns every
where. One thousand families in the
city and $50 in the Immediate vi
entity are driven from their homes.
One thousand families are made depend
cut on public charity. Most Of them
Lost everything. On the bottoms west Of
the city sixty-five families are homeless,
having lost houses, barns, grain. forage.
farm implements and everything, and
are suddsnly placed in absolute poverty,
with nothing left to put In crops. The
city Il caring for them as best she can.
All the factories except one are stopped
1t will require aeveral months to rebuild
factories and resume operations. Mean.
time the employees have been cared for.
vIcxspURa, Feb. 1S.-The Illawarrs
levee, fifty miles above, ON the Louisiana
side, broke last night, three hundred
feet are gone. The water is going
through n pidly about three feet deep.
At the point where the levee broke was
pew york, Many plantations will be
Overlooked.
CHICAGO, Feb. Is--The Iroquioi,
river valley from the Indiana line t
Kankakes is vast lake. ALI public
buildings at Watseka, Ills. are filled
with refugees who are fed by generous
citizens.
A wind that Blows Good Oul
way. =
CHICAGO, Feb. l9.-Rufus Hatcl
telegraphs from London that widespread
inundations on the continent will max,
Europe more dependent on Americi
than for the last i've years. Not sixty
per cent Of the average acreage is seeded
America can sell all her grain and pro
visions On hand and raised in 1883 q
full prices.
LONDON, Feb. lS.-Rains and food
are assuming the proportions of ma
tional calamity. Scarcely any seeding
IL yet done and winter wheat Is rottinl
in the ground. The harvest cannot b
great and may DO one Of the worst eve
Known. Disease has also broken on
among cattle and sheep.
Hsw Dsewgate Hurried ON.
WASHINGTON, Feb. l9~That Captain
HowgAte was aided in his escape b,
parties in the city afraid Of the expos
ures his trial would certainly make,
generally believed. Expensive furnitur
and luxurious trappings bought b
Howgate ct extortionate figures pointe
to q number Of city merchants VIII
were no doubt partners in his gtitl
practices, ~ the ones MOS
likely to dosire his absenc,
That Howgate.s stealings were kow
10 General Meyers and others In Ii
Signal Office II cannot be said but thu
they suspected him il q well-known fac
General Meyers was 10 wrapped up
the development Of the system Of char
or drawings Of storm waves that he mel
lsotsd executive duties Of his Office an