| Show by ly telegraph A na E R I 1 C A N SAN gan FRANCISCO A encisco 3 capt lin dell deil and aud jean jehn chief mate of the bark union lost on puget sound bound may ath by striking a rock and sinking were arrested yester yesterday daYi at the instance of the insurance companies for wilfully wrecking the vessel the mate made a con fe aslon charging the captain with approaching a pi broaching him with plans to destroy the vessel vesse 1 and the design was deliberately carried out the captain denies the charge the union was worth about and was insured su for the post this evening publishes pub lishe s a narrative of nine columns purporting to be the true story of the circumstances with the troubles tiou bles bies of the rev bev mr parshall of oakland parshall was tried by his church council in october alit an ant l november 1873 for lascivious conduct with certain members of lis flock he was convicted and left the town going to vallejo oj finally settling at healdsburg sonoma co on tho the of october last th A community was startled by a it niort t ort that P H sumner a real estate agent who had been a prominent ent of tan Tar tarsh alPs church at oakland had been the victim of an attempted assassination and taken to his home severely wounded he kept his bed for several weeks week being attended by friends and a physician and interviewed ter viewed by a reporter to whom he showed anonymous letters warning him of harm if he did not stop his persecutions of parshall pars Para ball bail and finally ho made an ante mor tem statement that he was waylaid by two men on the night in question and pud and aud on his refusing to sign a compact to set parshall all r right ho be was attacked as before mentioned instead of dying after this statement sumner went east with his family and during his absence parshall arshall commenced a suit against the post past for the publication of sum hers bers ner ante sante mortem statement sum bum ner returned in may last and said lie he had obtained a good deal of information about parshall in the east which would help the post in the libel suit cult he called on col W lit IET 6 3 barnes who was cong ducting the case for the post and an A showed him a number of anonymous letters which he claimed to have hive received during september 1874 all breathing a spirit of hostility on account of hla hia opposition to Pars parshall ball bail he subsequently told had discover discovered edthe the mau man who attacked him and within a day or two he brought to barnes a man named purves who acknowledged having 0 committed the assault on sumner at tile the request of parshall saying say ng that parshall was an in old friend fri end of his and had worked on his sympathies until ho he consented to commit the deed purves also aiso named as his accomplice one J 0 rogerson of oakland a clerk in the employ of bowen bros and showed letters purporting to be from P parshall arshall relative to tho the com assassination which were vero in the same hand band as those produced by sumner gumner captain lees a detective was called into the case and made a critical examination of purves and the whole affair and discovered discrepancies which aroused his suspicions and the upshot of tho the whole matter is that purves and subsequently sumner being confronted with tho the evidence obtained have havo finally confessed that the whole affair including the injuries received by sumner the anonymous letters re cleved by him aud and the supposed correspondence corresponded cor eor nce nee between purves and parshall was a conspiracy to ruin parshall the post was informed of the disclosures on account of their bearing on the libal lib suit instituted against it ft by parshall Pars ball on monday parshall was notified by telegraph and on on was ter mined to proceed edat at once against sumner and this morning is a suit was commenced against him in the tho twelfth district court by parshall with damages fot at for the libel ube conf contained gained in the so called stator stater statement the acin i cin im afternoon will publish tho the cie cle detalia tails talis of startling dc developments in the tho caso of I 1 Mill 1111 iiii lili erthe defaulting secretary of or the western development Con company the substance stange stance of which is that his name is 1 s n not ot miller but woodruff fr that he lias hag a wife and family residing iu ju nex new ko york gyort who suppose him illin to bo be ia 1 I australia australla whence ostensibly I 1 he corresponds with them tho defalcation ia is greater than at first supposed and is expected to reach from half a million to a million large sales of real estate by miller to Woo woodruff druiT were discovered being transfers to himself ho he was preparing when arrested to desert h his Is wife here and to leave for australia ST LOUIS 4 revenue collector carroll of the second district of this state has within a few days seized several distilleries in the ozark hills co and arrested the proprietors the republicans republican 18 kansas city special says that the severest ral rai rain n for many years has prevailed over the country east of that city the past forty eight hours and a great amount of damage has been done all the rali rall railroads roads are more or less injured and trains are badly delayed or temporarily suspended |
