Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-11-27
EASTERN NEWS.
.ssorrATEp PRESS DISPATCHES
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Iev YORK, NOY. Z}.--C. r. hUntlog
- 10 an argument before the New
sU.isans Common Council day or two
e:nne said that he proposed 20 compete
;.h sailing vessels which 60 around
Cane Horn, for carrying l.2p,gD tons
TCaIifornia wheat which 90 TO for
o;on countries; that IN competing with
ssiIinQ ships for the trade. ne had found
shat ships which 90 to San Francisco
g. wheat carry their cargoes of Goa,
fsoco England. Australia and else @nere.
In order to compete with thsW At thus
int he had bought extensive coal de-
pi.ssits on Puget Sonnd. ana Vas build
20 a ship TO freight this coal 70 san
Esanrisco. In this way he c0uld supply
large amount of the demand Tor cvai.
I'd thereby render II Improbable Tor
nhast ships to bring coal trefe. ne
80 already III with foreign ship oEfeFs
~ n,t on such line Of steamers. these
sb;ps will be of the largest class, aud
snat callers. leaving New Orleans and
.he other side OF the Atlantic at u feIu-
lar given date
WarIike China.
c.,,c,no Nov. "a Crossman. a
-,srchant we'll known here, and man
s'soernment. has Just returned from
Cn;ua and speaks rs follows OF her
n"noas in a war with France: CHINA
r. far better equipped 10 go 10 war snan
D.o,.ans or Americans generally
49, | don't know the number Of
..an,.s in the Chinese regular army, but
fSora M douit that Al Il necessity she
,,a o, a very short notice, raI- from
o"nGo :, 10000 weil-driiled and
60, aoninped men. The standing
me- If CHINA is drilled upon the En-
nnna,n nl4n by European Instructors.
Thare are eighteen vIceroy- IN China,
and each ylceroy has IN army OF hrs
80 rpbich would he at the command
- tia Seneral Cover: ment III case of
Gar These viceroys' troops are more
,hon uilitia-they are regulars. China
has for wears been supplying herself
nth improved arns. She ~ purchased
throuob German merchants, doing
hnsiness in her towns. all the needle
ouns which Prussia used when she
rent 10 war with Austria in 1896.
Sha has more than 2,UCJ,UOo
NJ those pieces besides Schneider
rifles and also some Remington rifles. /
have no doubt that China could easily
arm 900 men with these improved
ii
Eur0pean houses. number of krupp
and American cannon. The Chinese
navy il of formidable strength. Ii in
oludes about dozen men-ofwar of
the latest armament and power, a dozen
eoryettes and another dozen revenue
oruisers. Each of the latter carry three
heavy guns Some of these vessels we're
constructed IN England and some III
10 l.
lish engineers, aud some of them are
Offered by Englistmen. The Chinese
are making modern cannon themselves
now. They have foundries near Shang-
hal, where they are casting steel cannon.
These are made exactly as Europeans
make thera. Apparently there are large
srsenals in different parts of China,
where arms and vast quantities of am-
munition and other materials of war are
stored. Certain 1t IL that the bulk Of
artillery belonging to the government
il in fine condition.
A Huge Cargo
New YORK, Nov. 25.-Ihe John H. |
Kelly, which registers 2bI tons, arrived
here from Bath. Maine, November rth. |
discharged 600 tons of ballast aud |
loaded 1850 tons Of general cargo, and |
cleared at noon on the 4th, aggreQatlng |
twenty days in loading including the |
discharge of ballast, thereby receiving |
the quickest dispatch on record, con |
siderlng her size, of any ship leaving |
this port. She loaded in the Van Week |
d Co. line, and saileR with full cargo. |
Markay's Postal Telegraph Company.
NEW YORK. Nov. 25.-Organization Of |
the Postal Telegraph and Cable Com |
pany has been delayed by the absence |
Of John w. Mnckay, who is expected to |
return to New York early in December.
II is understood that before Maokay |
started for San Francisco he iutimated |
wish to have some of his personal |
friends admitted To the manager ent.
Terrible Murder.
TACOMA, n H., Nov. 25.-ihis morn
inc residents were startled by the story |
Of a terrible tragedy which occurred az |
O'Clock. =. i. Andrews, a neiQhbor Of |
James Ruddy aged forty years, ana |
EMPLOYED at the i.aconia car works, WAS |
alarmed by woman screaming. He |
aroused his sou and hurried To Ruddy' = |
house, whence the screams proceeded, |
They found Mrs. Rudy, aged 81 years, |
living oil the ground beneath the front |
window, through which she had leaped. |
She was bleeding profusely and said she |
had been cut all To pieces. She was
properly cared for. assistance was oh
tanned, and the door of Ruddy's house |
forced 10, when flames burst forth and |
an alarm of fire WAS sounded. The fire |
vas quickly extiuguisbed, and the |
bodies of Rad iy aud his only child. one |
and a-half years old were found lying !
on the kitchen floor, both cut IN ter |
rible manner, and covered with the |
contents of feather bed. which had |
been saturated with Kerosene and set |
on fire. Tue bodies were 80 disiigured |
BY flames a. to be nearly past recogni- |
ton. In tha bedroom was found the |
trunk of the llfeless body of Mrs. Ford, |
which was identified 10y her husband. |
One of her limbs had been chopped OIL !
and the detached member and the re- |
naming leg were bound to the woman's |
body with clothes line. The bed |
clothes were then saturated with oil,and |
an attempt made tn set them on fire,
which failed. Mrs. Rnddy being ones
toned, said the crime WAS committed
by Thos. Samon, an Enplishmau. and
an acquaintance of the family. "A cook
BY trade, and about - years of age,
With "A Ratchet
Mrs. RuddVs statement before the
Coroner's jury was rs follows I'VE
went to bed about = o'clock: ut III
Samon Game into the front room and
looked out of the front window, saying
be WAS nervous and couldn't sleep: ]
got up. made him Il cup of tea and went
back To bed: At o'clock Samon came
into the front room again, aud acted
queerly: he went back to the kitchen:
my husband aud | got up; he Also went
back Ia the kitchen: | soon heard "A fall,
and went out aud found my husband
hanging over the char. with his arms
down: Samon started for me. and struck
me with Ratchet On. the head;
grabbed his arm. bat he siruck me auu
threw me To the floor; he vent into tie
front room and killed the baby. who WAS
crying: while he was there tried To nu-
loak the kitchen door. bnt he returned
again and struck me Oh the head:
knocking me down: laid perfectly
quiet: he went To tue front room. got
the baby and came back aud poured
feathers and straw over US, and went
ont; got up and tried to open tue front
WinAnu, b,,t u,,tll not. I than hrnk. IA