Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-08-05
DOTS AND DASHES.
Sparks by Keyboard and
Wire.
CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Death of Old John RObinsOn-ROb-
ert Garrett Ailing-ArizOna
Indian Troubles.

Indian Troubles.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD
Rev. J. w. Burgon, Dean OF Chiches-
ter, is dead.
Forest fires are doing immense injury
in the vicinity of Ottawa, Canada.
The river Vistula has overhowed its
banks, inundating the country around
Minsk.
The river Moldan continues to rise.
Villages on its banks are submerged,
and many inhabitants have been
drowned.
A slight shock of earthquake was felt
Saturday at Kilsyth, twelve miles north
east of Glasgow.
New York weekly Bank statement -
Reserve decrease, $2S5, 800. Banks holds
$26, ,950, 1915 in excess of the 25 per cent.
rule.
The new cruiser, Boston, is expected
to be completed about September lst, the
Atlanta November LIST and the Chicago
January 1st.
An Indian woman in Alaska was
tortured to death with red-hot stones
for poisoning chiefs wife, and her
husband was hanged.
Emperor William has ordered the
mausoleum at Charlottenburg, where the
body of Emperor William is deposited,
to be opened to the public.
The St. James Gazette correspondent at
Berlin says in political circles the ten
sion between France and Italy is regard
ad @ Of oh,
Hawaiian advices received by steamer
Alameda, notes the death, in Honolulu,
of Hon. samuel G.. Wilson, President of
the Hawaiian Legislative Assembly.
The protectorate established by Italy
over Zulla has incensed France. The
newspapers claim Zulla belongs to
France nnder treaty with Abyssinia.
The French Government has sent pro.
fessors OF agriculture everywhere to adj
wise the farmers how best to gather and
preserve crops during the weather crisis.
The Pittsburg Steel Company is at
work on an experimental order for five
hundred cast-steel shell. If successful,
the cost of steel shells will be greatly re-
-duced.
Gov. McGil,, narrowly escaped being
KILLED by lightning while looking after
his horses in his stable as st. Paul,
Minnesota. One of the horses was killed
by the thunderbolt
Several more bodies were recovered
from the ruins of the Bowery tenement
Saturday morning and afternoon. The
list OF fatalities is greater than was at
first supposed to be.
Hon. Adm Thayer, Judge of the Pro-
bate at Worcester, Massachusetts,, a
well-known politician, committed sui
eide by cutting his throat with razor
Temporary insanity.
A. F. Judson, resident of Cotton.
Gal, after addressing political meeting
at Hot Springs, Ark, was assaulted bv
two men and seriously injured before
assistance reached him.
A susceptible damsel, aged 20, has
brought suit against Joseph B. Bennett
retired merchant OF New York. aged
y, for breach of promise. She wants
$4,000 to heal her wounded heart.
John Robinson, the veteran Snowman.
died Saturday morning at Cincinnati
aged 80. He spent almost his whole lie
in the management of circuses' He
was succeeded by his sons within the
last few years. He had amassed large
fortune.
Edward S. King, who has long been a
resident of Comptonville and vicinity.
was arrested at Downieville. Cal.
charged with the murder of Perry H.
Pratt, a San Francisco drummer, who
was shot and killed near Downieville
last week.
Blaine will be received at Augusta on
the 10th inst. He will be met at the
station and conducted to his home in a
carriage drawn by four white horses.
Alter the procession an address of well
come will be delivered on the grounds at
Blaine's house.
A woman has turned UP at Winnipep
who purports to be the widow of Com
modore Kittson, and she will shortly
commence suit in the Superior Court OF
Ramsey County, Mimi, for one-third
interest in his estate. The modest por-
tion OF her claim is nearly 50 900, 900.
Munier Pasha, special Turkish Envov
to Berlin to present the Sultan's con-
gratulations to Emperor William on his
succession to the throne, took to the
Emperor an autograph letter from the
Sultan and gold casket set with bril-
Iants and containing smoking set.
AT Stockton, CAL, John Chamberlain
shot his wife in the right ear and him
self in the forehead. The wife died
instantly and the husband cannot re-.
cover. Jealousy is supposed to have
been the cause of the shooting. The
pair were in poor circumstances and had
four children, one OF them an infant
By order of the Secretary of the Inter.
ior, hereafter appeals from decisions of
the Commissioner of the General Land
Office under the timber culture, desert
land, homestead, pre-emption and min.
eral land laws, will be considered and
decided by First Assistant Muldrow.
Exceptional cases will be submitted to
the Secretary. "
Professor Elisha Gray has obtained
letters patent for an instrument called
the telautograph, designed for transmit
ting messages to wire by the sender in
his own handwriting, doing away with
skilled operators. The invention is based
on the discovery of new principle in
controlling the electric current, whereby
a pulsatory current is produced. All
previous attempts to transmit handwrit-
ing. had been based on the use of a yari-
able current.
In the police court at Sacramento
Judge Buckley sentenced w. w, Cone.
President of the Unitad Stataa notoot;o