Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-04-16
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.esocrArYD PRESS DISPATCHES.

EAS T e r N.
...oc,ArEp PRESS DISPATCHES.
The Eseaped nowxate.
v.uxoroS, April N.-Capt. How
=. Who for sone months has been in
sil IN this city on account of inabilit,
,roeure the amount Of bail required
= his appearance to answer the charges
- against him in connection will
9. .aministration Of the financial az
s.;,r ef the United States Signal Ser
-. eeoapsd from the guard this after
- vhiIs visiting his family. Th<
I.umstancss are az follows: In accord
-. With precedcnts already establish.
Am similar cases, Howgatc At various
snas during tho past four or five
-nIhs had applied to the Court fol
e.uporary leave Of absence from Jail to
- his family. The applications gen.
.,,Iiv have been granted, the Couri
..,,dine an officer with the prisoner to
,..s.at escape, and limiting to few
s-n the absence from the jail. To-day
=. shs first time in two months or more
usvests asked leave TO go to his hsuse
q ths purpose of seeing his daughter,
-...,tlv returned from Vassar College,
II hooking over certain papers. Judge
vviie. 70 whom tho application was
Id, granted the request, and sent
m the prisoner ono of the Oldest and
- trustworthy bailiffs, with orders to
he;pe him back to Jail in two hours.
m about 3 o'clock. The prosecution
,urhed the case to the utmost, and pro-
tahlv would have left him in tho pom
nootiary for life. 1t is believed that
~ former mistress, Miss Nellie Burrsll,
40 has visited him nearly every day
4 ~ Jail, was the principal ono who
ulsnnsd and helped him to escape. Il
Z also said that tho. contractors who
I'd furnished undsr his reign Of th;ev-
!. = also helped him to get out of the
kands Of the authorities yesterday. II
= y successful in getting to Europe he
! Ill right, a. his offense il not one for
shich b can be extradited.
LarSa-Capt. Howgats's manner Of
usape b not yet revealed, and by the
sol,ss Il il believed that it will not b.,
IL ~ reason that there are certain
ssvseful influences in town interested
hhh escape.
Mere wages wanted.
CulcAoo. April 1.-THE Briokmaksrs'
Onion, comprising nearly all the brick
naksn in the oity, have demanded an
ainnes Of rs cents per day. Nineteen
~ have united in letter setting;forth
- disastsr to building interests will
IN follow such an exorbitant scale of
Risss, - outside points could ship brick
hns and shut up all yards in the city if
r. sdvanse was granted.
A Mismanaxed Bank.
DuYyAIo, IN. W April 1.-THE Gov
aansnt Bank Examiner reports the
aan Of the suspension Of the First Ma
fnnL Bank in this city as far as is now
sOpGsnt u through mismanagement.
Oanmaenv nnn~
kllAxY, April 14.-James Moran, Of
~, has been sentenced to six months
inDEiDonmAnt in tho penitentiary for
upsaAins q Z charter election, and o
loesn others await trial.
weather Preaictlon. +.
WAsHInoroN, April l6.-Indications
- the Pacific Coast are-for California
hir weather. and for Oregon and WASH
hgton Territory light rains.
Culte&us Relatives.
0uitsau is out in another card: Had
~ relatives al died." he says, twenty
N ysars ago, it would have been . God
andto me-" He charges Scovills with
adesre TO Rst control Of his (Guiteau's)
hook, and says he has already paid Sco-
Wiz t275, which is more lthan his al
lgsd services are worth.
legislative Dsings.
aAsryoaD, Conn April l5.-The
hssas Of Representatives have passed
fsaplution requesting the pardon of Ser
Gant Mason. and his restoration to his
NIX n tho army; also resolution ask
hGCcogfss to take action for the re-
- of American citizens confined in
skiatsh prisons ~ suspects"
4 Alaalripai steal.
y. JossrH, (Ao.) April l4.-Enos J.
ussthss, sx-City Register. and City
Aaaosasy,. present City Assessor, to-
- with . man named John Cox, late
~ Tor ]. c. Bender, pension agent,
vssafrestsd this evening ON complaint
uayoe PerseRate. who charges them
NJ eouplicity in ono hundred thou
o1d doliaR bond steal,
nnmoesh kstabllsh ,nent Closlug rp.
NV Yosx, April l5.--It il announced
sivsrtissments that A. 7. Stewart 4
y have determined to discontinue
= ouAinsss. and that they Offer for
thsif sntirs stock OF merchandise
- ~ their mill property.
Wlnd storm.
AosoAx Cur. tLa.) April l5.-wed-
ny nights storm destroyed two no
sasfohsA several dwellings and two
. @fss warehouses at Chafalaya. Cy-
e and other points in the neigh
seod At Rendsly Station stores
= dvsllines were carried away.
levee Breke.
lAaA. QA.) April ia break 90
- N ths lsves at Chanpler's ON the
evsr, three miles from Red River
= 40 feet wide; from that place
80 teint are thirty lrevassss, each
M . 70 100 fest wide.
4 Barb Ptceure.
:. - Iberia special says the situa-
appalling. The storm swept
my houses q Farisses Point,
y los Of stock. crops. etc., has
snormous at New Iberia. All -
nants on Bayou River we're over