Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-05-13
EASTERN NEWS.


CHICAGO, MAY Law tuscSiu8 Oh
ne Council tonight the Mayor vetoed
IL ordinance allowing the district
'sieoraph company to string wires on
short iron poles on the ground Of in
in terms, and il did not
c,ntect the city's interest, and Was Of a
SEATING character, not fixing the time
thin which it should go into effect
A SIM Endfnx.
Cigar makers are steadily getting the
best OF the strike. They confidently
,ssert il will be practically ended be-
fore Monday by a concession TO their
terms
Meeting. Travels. Etc.
CHICAGO. May 12.-The first meeting
- the Executive Council OF seven of the
Irish National Leagues of America,
Ri, be held in Detroit next Monday.
Alexander Sullivan. the President, and
patrick Egan, ex- Treasurer OF the Land
league. leave for that city tomorrow.
Next Wednesday Egan goes 70 Mime
.polis. in connection with his flour in
.srest. thence to st. Louis, thence
.hrough the Southwes. and to Califor-
MA. His tour will occupy four months.
In a conversation today. he said 81
nave no fear of the British Government
Iroubling me as long AZ remain in this
A Duke travelling.
The Duke of Newcastle arrived here
This afternoon from San Francisco. He
viii leave tomorrow morning FOR New
York via Niagara Falls, and possibly
sailing on the Celtic OF the
18th inst.
Electric Exhibitions.
The Council Fire Alarm Committee
and other officials Of Philadelphia. to-
cotber with a number of gentlemen
tom New York, Cleveland and other
cities. this afternoon witnessed an ex-
hibition Of the conduit systems of un-
Geographic wires, given by
The Chicago Sectional Electrical Under
ground Co. Morse and telephone wires
we're placed in one mile and a quarter
Of conduit, and signals were exchanged
without any perceptible interference
in the way Of induction from Morse
rnrrents. Conduits built Of iron and
containing copper wire shelves over
vhich insulated conductors are drawn
hv means Of carriers, were worked from
the main poles at each street crossing.
The new harmonic system was also laid
in conduit, ard was put in operation
during the exhibition without causing
A Break fer Liberty.
COLUMBUS, s. c., MAY News from
the convict camp on the Georgetown IL
Lanes railroad il of a break for liberty
BY nine Of the ninety-five convicts. The
guards fired. One man was killed out
right, and another shot in the river and
drowned, and n third shot and supposed
70 be drowned. Six escaped. but two
we're recaptured. One of the convicts
Shos was a white man named Coles.
The escape il supposed to have been in
aieated by Coles, a life convict sentenc-
Cd for murder. One OF the negroes
killed. has been pardoned by Governor
Thompson, but notice Of the pardon
vas not received at the convict camp
antil after his death.
JxzsxY CrrY, May l2.-Mrs. Hannah
Grant, mother Of ex- President Grant,
lied Mt the residence Of her daughter,
Mrs. Mary C0rbin, on Panama avenue,
Jersey City heights. this afternoon.
Arctic signal service.
WAsun0roN. Nav l2.-The organisa-
ton and outfit of the signal service
relief expedition to Lady Franklin bay,
under command of Lieutenant CARING
ton, In now practically complete. and
General Hazen will shortly go to st.
Johns, N. f.. in person 70 select q
steamer for the use of the party.
Everything, he says, which experience
could suggest has been done 10 insure
the success Of the undertaking. Lieut.
snAnt Garlington,s men were selected
With great care by General Terry from
among plainsmeu under his command.
They are believed 10 be we'll qualified
in point Of physical efficiency for the
arduous service which may be before
them. The best sailing steamer Oh
will be chartered mt st. Johns
b convey the relief party north. 1t II
hoped under the management and
guidance of an experienced captain and
Two or more skilled Toe pilots, she will
bo able 70 make her way through
smiths Sound and Kennedy Channel
OmciaI Rxamlnasleas.
Mesars. Thurman and Gregory, Of the
Civil Service Commission, left this even
inc, and Eaton will leave tomorrow.
Each Of the Commissioners will visit q
number of the principal counties In the
country for the purpose OF establishing
local examining boards 10 carry ont the
PROVISIONS Of the civil service reform
not. The Commissioners expect TO Te-
luru TO Washington by June LIST. and
begin examinations for departmental
Dervioe here June 10th. Local cxamin-
ing boards will begin the examination
Of candidates about June 18th.
Quarantine.
The superintendent Of railway mail
service having been informed OF the es-
labliahment Of quarantine at Galveston
and New Orleans, issued an order today
directing that henceforth all mail for
Cuba and Mexico be forwarded via New
York.
To Shua Uswn.
NnwAuxxx, May i2.-ManaQers of
Nh Bay View rolling mills are making
PREPARATIONS to shut down June list,
vhsn the present scale OF wages viii
run ont.
A Nice Little GaMe.
EAST SAarNAw, Mich. May 1a.-Alex-
andsr 8. Hill. who has been prosecuted
4 the instance of his Mormon wife,
charged With the embezzlement OF $40.
GO, vas arrested on an extradition war
ran1, and as the CANT OF the Mormon
0ovsrnor was about to take him TO the
land Of many wives. no was stopped BY
wit Of habeas corpus. Il il believed
mai there Is a collision between the
o@oen here aud tho Mormon agents
vno have been promised one hfth OF al
N money they can get out OF him.
Trial Resauaed.
CHICAGO. May 1.-THE trial Of Jer!
Uunn wa resumed this morning. ~
coionaId VA cross examined. ~
esolsrs1 that be saw q revolver in II
mo.
y: 8. Stowsll, saloon keeper. No. III
MADISON street, testified that the weel
lecsdiiR the tragedy Elliott vieitcc
foe Dunn.
!aA Mead saw Elliott in Clayson''
aee some time before the shooting
-, e vas leaning against the bar With hi
~ hand in his pocket, and when
"a entered from the outside door b
etev revolver. Witness afteHward'
svond Dunn and informed him that Fl
no1 vas looking for him- Dunn re
pled that he knew it. aud they walkes