Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-09-12
TELEGRAPHIC.
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The will OF the late Charles Crocker
has been admitted to probate.
Jonas G.. Goodman has been appointed
Internal Revenue Gauger at San
Francisco.
Eight persons were killed and five in
iured by the explosion of a threshing
machine boiler at Ciron, France.
A Portuguese gunboat has arrived at
Tangier to support Portugars claim
against the Sultan.
It is reported that Senator Beck, of
Kentucky, is threatened with an affec-
ton of the heart. He will probably not
return to his duties in the Senate until
next session.
General Clinton B. Fish, the Prohibi-
ton Presidential candidate, has q severe
cold, making it necessary for him to can
eel several important engagements and
retire from active work for some days.
George Francis Train, anxious to help
the stricken city of Jacksonville, says if
invited he will 60 into all the fever
stricken holes. He is confident that he
can arrest the scourge.
The dory Dark Secret, which started
on voyage from Boston to Queenstown
some weeks ago, was abandoned at sea
by Captain Anderson, who arrived at
New York Tuesday morning on The Nor
wegian bark Nora.
A hotly contested fight took place at
Bay Chester Monday morning between
Jack Grace and Jack Delany. Grace had
the worst of it, and in the sixth round
was knocked out with split nose, both
eyes closed and two teeth knocked out.
Father Flatly, of st. Mary's Church,
Maiden, Mass, last Sunday announced
that he had received instructions from
the Archbishop aJ Baltimore, that all
Catholic parents having children must
send them to the parochial schools under
pain of sin.
The rivers Xenit, Guadelfeo and Gran
ada, in Spain, overfowed their banks,
causing great destruction. Villages have
been destroyed, bridges swept away and
the people here have become panic strick-
en- and have taken refuge in the noun
tains. Many were drowned; twelve
corpses have already been recovered
While the question of federation has
not been disc ussed by the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen at the Atlanta
Convention, every thing seems to indi-
cate their hearty endorsement of the
amalgamation of the Brotherhood of En-
gineers, Firemen, Switchmen and Brake
men.
The premature explosion of a blast at
south face of tunnel on the Montana
Central Railroad, south of Helena, killed
ten men and seriously wounded five
others. The accident was caused by the
conclusion of a giant cap, fred as a
warning in the north face, the headings
being close together.
Chairman Leeds, of the Transcontin-
entail Association, suddenly returned to
Chicago from the West to consult with
the Eastern roads. 1t is reported that
serious complications have arisen from
the fact that the trunk lines have refused
to pro-rata on the low through rates
established from New York. 1t is be-
lieved are.arrangement of classification
will be necessary.
1t has been definitely learned that the
embezzlement of Joseph Breen, ass ist-
ant cashier Of the Hartford National
Bank, who recently committed suicide,
will aggregate $l0S, 500 instead of $22, ,OOO
as at first reported. The estimate ol
Daniel Goodwin's losses is $6,O00.. The
large Shultas estate of which Breen was
custodian, is intact. Breen lost the
money he embezzled from the bank in
stock speculation.