Show COAST NOTES CULLED FROM akal LATEST CHANSE 8 diphtheria is spreading in san aran cisco and oakland car cal the director of the lick observatory neur near san ban francisco is notified by telegraph that the sout southern pern comet maybe may be visible at sunset this the south point of the hu horizon there was a meeting of aboul fifty socialists in san francisco on the of the just whereat one of the speakers called his brethren to unite and overthrow the govern beut and repeat the french commune thomas haggerty denounced master workman powderly of the knights of labor as a traitor to the cause canse of labor he announced that had bad been in this city for the defense of theair chicago brethren and that more was needed oroville Or ovule cal calwas was startled about 0 clock I 1 january by ani attempted and a ost successful atrocious murder wenry henry wyman a feeble old man keeps a saloon on myers street at the hour hameed he closed the iron doors in front and sought his big bedroom in the rear of the saloon As li he entered the apartment a stout athletic fel sprang upon him ana and struck him laton the head with a pis tolor heavy iron though severely injured wy y man screamed loudly for assistance the fellow showered blo blow after blow upon him him down twice but was still una blei to prevent his cries though each blow was struck with murderous intent were heard beard and parties ran both bath to the back and front door of tho the building but were to prevent the escape of the attempted m murderer ur who climbed over sheds and high fences so rapidly as to elude ar all pursuit seriously injured asid and will probably die from the wounds the assault is more mysterious from the fact that it is the third due of the same kind within a year in this region 0 U and no clue has been found ol 01 the fiends who committed the acts artst F W miller was beaten to death last spring in his restaurant in the main block of the town during daring this summer john 8 moore an old miner living some mik miles es above oroville was found killed in the same manner and now wyman is attacked and but i ifor for the prompt assistance of friends would have been killed on the spot there to is not the slightest clue to the murderer in the race for engines of Id destruction a competitor I 1 lias has come too to the front who was unlooked for spain has just stepped into ithe arena with a devastator that is heavily plated thoroughly armed and yet can run al around any other seagoing g vessel aal afloat 0 at she is called akl destt actor and is a torpedo cruiser which can team steam witcher with her full arin armament ament on board at the rate of 27 miles an hour andl and is 8 able to turn quite round in a space of four or five times ar own length while going at full speed she can run miles at full speed without requiring a fresh coal supply she was built on the clyde and is the first of a fleet of similar cruisers ordered for spain |