Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-11-21
EASTERN NEWS.
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The Northern Pacific BEND Issue
Approved.
u,,r yosK- Nov. D.-At the Northern
pacific preferred stockholders meeting.
.h;s afteruoon, 352, AS shares were voted
in favor of the xD,Uo!OOO second mort
GAGE bonds Issue and only 81 shares
against it.
A Wig wedding.
prr.rsBuga. Nov. 30.-Patrick William
OBrien, the Irish giant, and Christiana
d. DunZ, the German giautess, were
married in this city today. The eere-
mony was performed in the German
Evangelical Church and was witnessed
by a numerous concourse of people, in
Guiding the Mayor and Council of Pitts
hurg, the Mayor of Allegheny, John Ne
Cnllough, Margaret Mather, the Aztec
dwarfs, Indians and snake charmers.
Outside the church the crowd gathered
in such numbers as To obstruct traffic.
in spite of the efforts of a large force of
the police. UBrien wore a full dress
suit. and the medal presented To him by
the Land League ornanented hts breast.
The bride wore an orange blossom
dress of white satin. In her hand she
held bouquet Of enormous size. After
the service the bridal party drove at
once to the museum aud held public
reception The wedding cake Was the
largest ever made, measuring nine feet
in circumference and three feet IN thick
ness. A giant loaf of bread, five feet
long. will decorate the table. This WAS
the first marriage of giants in Americ
and the second in the world. The com
bined hight of the bridal pair 10 fifteen
feet three inches and the tip the beam
at $40 pounds The wedding ring
weighed seventeen pennyweiQhts and
was five inches IN circumference.
Hallway Capitalization.
CHICAGO, Nov. Ca Times New
York special says the Canadian Pacific
syndicate yesterday gobbled the Credit
Valley and London Junction roads aud
il negotiating for the Northern Railway.
All smaller lines will evidently soon be
forced to consolidate with the Grand
Trunk or Pacific.
Dewey Pleads Guilty.
A Times' Boston special says G. j.
Dewey, the forger, who operated 80 ex-
tensiveIy In Montreal and Boston and
was captured at San Francisco on an
outgoing China steamer, entered plea
OF guilty in the Court at Boston and
will soon be sentenced.
A Dishonest Official.
A Times Pittsburp special says A. +.
Rowland, Clerk of the Courts at Pitts
burg, has been held to bail fer embez-
cling $47, 600 during his two terms of
service.
The 10 Louis Cosmterfeiter.
ST. LOUIS, Nov. IS. Saturday evening
little boy named Henry Rickert was
arrested for trying to pass three excel
lent counterfeit silver dollars at Fifth
street store. The mother called at the
police station to learn if her missing boy
had been heard from, aud she. too, was
locked up. Late last night the faener
called to look for his wife and son, and
was put behind the bars. Yesterday de-
tectives took the boy IN a wagon, and no
guided them to residences in the Sub
urbs, where several small children had
been waiting the return of their par
ents. Barred in the cellar, the detectives
found bundle of counterfeit dollars,
Of coinage which has boon ,sothering
the Federal authorities since 1881. II is
thought they were manufactured in
plaster molds, and there liz glass in the
compound, rs they break easily on be-
ing tapped with hammer. The man
Of the house Rickert-is
molder, and has been out of employ
ment for months, but always lived we'll.
Victims of the family are reporting
from all directions.
Paiease Branch or the Northern Pa.
ellie.
CHICAGO, Nov. -. The Northern Pa
oihc gives notice that the extension of
Its lines. known rs the Palouss branch,
Is now open for business to tho follow
ing points: Endioott, w. r.. seventy
miles east of tho Paiouse junction.; Col
fax. seventy-nlne miles east of the Pa
louise Junction. Agencies have bsen es-
tsblished at both these points. and
freight need not bs prepaid. except
where Otherwise provided. in classitica-
ton, though freight between eastern
points aud Endicott and Colfax, w. T.,
will take the same classification and
rates ~ provided for Portland, in regu-
lar through tariff of the Northern Pa
ci6c.
10 has the Virtue or Novelty.
CINCINNATI, Nov. 20.--fhe discovery
has been made in the County Audi
tors Office of a peculiar scheme to do
fraud taxpayers. IL is increasing the
assessed valuation of property Of certain
large Taxpayers, manly incorporated
companies, and then offering for COM
MISSION to get the excessive taxes re-
funded. This discovery was made two
weeks ago, and orders for remittances
given to the treasury in all cases were
found ont Two clerks of the late Audi
tor Capellar are suspected, but no ar
rests have been made The amount of
money obtained in this way was very
large.
Eject Or Woman Suffrage In wyoming.
NEw York, Nov. l9.--Tiaes. The pic
turs correspondent of the Times draws
Of the special and political conditions
IN the Territory of Wyoming is dark
and gloomy. Ii is estimated that five
sixths of the population Of the Terri
tory live in the string towns lying along
the line of the Union Pacific. The peo-
pie generally are intelligent and pro-
greesive. The leading citizens of Chey-
enne and the other principal places are
rich, travelled, dressy, gossipy, virtuous
and we'll housed. The unpleasiag side
Of the picture can be told IN few
words: Cheyenne has thirty Infamous
houses, forty licensed whisky shops,
nine gambling. rooms where gaming Is
SRcuiy uuyeftlStu du0 CtiItco ou, u
county Jail with an iroa cage unit for
the confinement of human creatures,
no poor house, and political sys-
lem which may be described rs
Indecent and corrupt. Primary cleo
lions are farcical, and regular elections,
held under the original law of the Terri
tory, ara burlesque. These facts are
collected by correspondent of the
Times. with a view to ascertaining what
influence upon the American political
system is exerted by women who have
right to vote. Woman suffrage has
existed in Wyoming since 1863. As a
matter of fact women are now never
nan in jury box, nor do they ask for
Of obtain office. Their share in popular
mirage is contained in occasional
voting and administering laws, making
nomiRations, formulating political plat
forms, or taking the stump in an cleo
Ton canvass. By the enfranchisement
of women, writes this stern political
noralist. corruption, trickery, frand and
yloe, as political forces already existing,