Show BY alie AMERICAN SAN FRANCISCO 10 lothe the name of or the man who hot shot himself last night with intent to commit suicide is charles stoddard residing in eddy st SL he is a married man the wound Is not considered dangerous the republican primary election did not pass off with entire serenity there were two disgraceful riots at the polling place at the tho comer of ath and howard streets nearly ali all a hundred undred men were fighting at one time pistols and knives were drawn but none were used several persons were badly beaten the affray grew out of attempts to challenge illegal votes by those who did not want to see the election wholly carried by democratic voters PORTLAND or IO 10 the confession of wrestling J joe oe supposed to be the heir to the caruthers estate Is is published many witnesses have sworn that he is joe oe thomas or wrestling 3 joe oe and many others that he is james W davidson and that tha t he is 91 years of age in his confession he claims that his name is john 0 nixon and that he is 60 years old he says lie he never was in oregon until certain parties picked him up in st louis in 1870 while begging and offered ered him to personate wrestling joe only 6 was received by him and the balance not being being forthcoming he confessed mrs nixon is here and testifies to the truth ot of the statement of nixon james moor and green C davidson who brought nixon to oregon have been tried for perjury and acquitted eureka nev nor loa ioa miner minor named swan walters a native of 0 sweden aged 26 years was killed in the alaf shaft t of the eureka consolidated mine yesterday by a pick falling from the top of the shaft abaft a distance of feet and striking him on the head and breaking his skull from which he dieda died a snort time afterwards NF NEW v YORK ll 11 A washington dispatch says that several lawyers are engaged directly and indirectly upon the shepperd dana libel suit and briefs for the argument of the case before judge Blat blatchford cliford cilford or notes for briefs have been prepared it is claimed that as the police court of the district exists by act of congress within a territory where congress has exclusive jurisdiction all editors of all newspapers whose journals are sent into the district are answerable to this court upon complaint of any person mado made before it and that an all such newspapers containing matter held heid to be li bellous may be brought before it from froni any part of the 17 U S and tried under the law of libel prevail in ghere which makes libel a criminal of fence judge daniels of the supreme court has s given a decision taking the ground that members of the legislature who have held municipal offices at the tile same time by the acceptance of the former vacated the latter the decision was wits given in the caso of james ryan child holding tho the position of deputy clerk in the court of special sessions selected wa and served as a member of the legislature and who sued for tho the salary of tile the former office WORCESTER mass nass 10 loat loaec at 11 last night a fire broke out in 11 Burde tes tVs block opposite monument aquara leominster in a line of wooden buildings the thel names flames s spread read tu to the stables attach ed to no the leominster house and to the hotel itself and thence to the factory of the arlington piano co where finished and unfinished pianos planos were destroyed tile tiie hotel building was wag destroyed tho furniture was saved in a damaged fondation the jones block was next burned A small stream hem here intervened and the progress of the fire was arrested loss from a hundred thousand to a lit indred hundred and fifty thousand dollars 11 11 the northern section of magal Magai reg res saw mill i at nidre bidye ridge 0 Ave avenue and master sti st i i was wag burned tast last night los ios lob los quo r NEW bonic the thea chairman of the stock exchange thi morning issued the f following 0 blowin notice to the members member 4 0 of f the oard hoard marton lf orton bliss BUSS co have been beon enjo enjoined inea from transferring any pacific paci alc stock in the names of the persons recently published as and such stock is not nott now good for delivery to purchasers eort fort GARRY 9 the excitement still continues over the recent arrest of detectives hay and kegan who attempted to kidnap the notorious lord gordon of erie railroad garse fabie fletcher and merriam of minneapolis with mr air bertley a merchant here were also arrested on oil the following day as accomplices they were rudely thrust into irto a filthy prison and ironed major bracket brackett and hon E al M 11 wilson of minneapolis arrived yesterday forenoon by special stage travelling velling tra night and day major brackett at once e craight admission to the prisoners which was granted by judge Be lowray but he was immediately ordered out by tile the sherlf sheriff under runder instructions from attorney general clark yesterday the pr preliminary elimina ry examination commenced the court room loom being densely crowded the whole day was occupied in taking lord gordons testimony which was known to be a tissue tissie of falsehood and exaggeration C wilson was not allowed to act for the defense buteas but tyas cyas permitted to occupy a seat and confer with counsel for the defense great indignation is felt against the authorities for the high handed manner in which they have conducted the case U B S laylor vaylor is working energetically in behalf of the prisoners rhe the examination proceeds very slowly and will probably last several days yet major brackett while in court yesterday was arrested but was wag reiel released med hed shortly afterward afterwards a however his movements are closely watched he seems determined detel mined to see the affair through lord gordon is freely using his money his friends having retain retained pd nearly all the lawyers every obstacle seemed to be thrown in the way to prevent rebutting testimony being given only one or two witness witnesses es were examined today to day and abd nothing new was elicited by their testimony the object of the detectives iverin in capturing gordon was to take him to new york where he is wanted by parties who went bail ball for his appearance as a witness in the erie erle K R R case and by other parties BACKHAND me md 10 charles chhrles B fuller a merchant was arrested here last night for an alleged attempt at rape on mary euin FuIr fuller ler ier his stepdaughter step dau daughter viter aged 13 NEW 10 A five column statement of a city of washington passenger charges the loss of the steamer to the criminal carelessness of the officers and crew and that all just barely escaped being en in the ocean the ca captain p the passenger says was frequently warned that lie he was running too far northward and advised the running of a hundred miles further south but the advice was disregarded though the 2nd and officer colli coincided bided in it no sight was wa taken for seven days notwithstanding the vessel was going through a heavy fog at the rate of twelve or thirteen knots an hour had she struck at night she would have gone d down own or had she gone to the right ih t or to the lett left two hundred dred yards she would have struck either elther green island or on the reefs and there would have havid been a fearful loss of life the ad saloon passengers were mostly chat that bering or playing cards when at half past one pm on saturday the ship went full speed into gullock shoal she gave two slight jumps and a tremendous tremor ran through her no one had the least idea where the ship was art Aft after erthe ertho the lapse of half an hour of terrible confusion dur during i ng which the cannon were firing the fog born blowing and the women and children screaming a sailor cried 1 I hear bear a human voice A deathlike silence allence fol foi followed low and aud soon two brave men cornelius swanburg and william ferguson who had put out from orom tile the shore ina lna in a small boat climbed up tip the side of the ship the the tho latter having liagin anisen arisen from asick a sick siek bed the work of disembarking embarking dis immediately commenced under lynder di their belr guidance with the three ships boats the third officer stun standing ding at the gangway ladder with a ti hatchet in his hand threatening to cut down any a n y maia man who tried fried to 6 get into inta the tile boats before the women in n the meanwhile the bumping and scraping of the stern post and rudder continued arousing fears le lest iest st the ship world would break jn ju two the tho steerage at rag passenger pers gers however re mat mathied lied ried remarkably quiet no attempt at a ru rulah w was as made some of ot the women displayed great presence of mind and heroism sitting quietly till called upon to disembark A young irish girl came and asked the narrator whether rahe she should ever see castle garden at all on receiving an affirmative reply she wrapped an ulster coat around her gave him a kiss and descended eor eer cot ded into the small boat at once once on shore all the neighboring barns and outhouses out houses were soon occupied the adjoining fences were soon stripped of rails ralls and fires built biscuit was distributed and coffee solved and all weme were happy under the sense of the great danger escaped the cabin ladies were received in the house of mrs harding and mrs lewis who with their daughters cared for baem them like ministering angels soon many of the poor emigrants were fast fact asleep lying about in barns on the beach under banks and by rocks col coi oa 01 parnell of the U 8 army was very aromi kroml nent in affording assistance to the latter and conducting them to places of shelter the ship doctor was wa saiso also salso efm eff lelent efficient in erecting tents distributing cordials cordiali cor dials ae the he cabin passengers raised a subscription of for the heroes swanburg and ferguson and more will the forthcoming stores consisting of blankets beef biscuit ac were brought all day orr on sunday and monday from the ship on monday the ship was found to be in 15 feet of water apparently ast a solid as the rock she rested on had she backed oft off on first striking g she would probably have sunk in in five minutes after striking she began to fill and arid on monday she had 15 feet of water in her hold when the narrator left the ne neighborhood b the people were verc shower showering an fn every attention upon the tiie rescued rescued passengers and there were plenty of provisions for all for days ta come he closes his narrative by byr comparing the navigation of or the city of washington Washing fon ron to a maro mare galloping at breakneck speed through the darkness on a turnpike totally regardless and indifferent as to whether there were any gates ahead or not fortunately for us he says we got through one gate the little hepe hope rock j but gull rock bock shoal unfortunately closed MILWAUKEE A young burglar named behrens was shot dead this morning while trying to escape from the officers he had been robbing the store of his uncle washington secretary delano has hag appointed the following commission to investigate the ute troubles rev dr goodwin of chicago gov campbell of wyom ming and anan N J turner turner of ohio nev NEW YORK ll from reuters renters telegraph company lon don pronounces the heralds report in regard to reuters renters persian contract entirely faise false grand marshal mcgee informed the public today to day that 10 1000 00 orangemen orangeman Oran gemen would parade tomor to mor row and he was assured that they thes would be properly guarded some of the citizens urge tile tiie superintendent to call on the militia but it ia is not likely that anya any regiments 0 3 will be ordered out A noue nolle pro prosequi lias has been entered in the cases of peter B and jos ar sweeney in connection with the tammany frauds |