Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-06-12
EASTERN NEWS.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES,
A shocking Tragedy.

A shocking Tragedy.
v,xcyxvEs, Ind, June ia shock
10 traoecr occurred in the house of
IL Pollock, wealthy miller and in
e,antial citizen, shortly after midnight
~ saturday night. His son, Charles
po,loes, who married Clara Clendening
- r,,o.ths AGO, came home after mid
.,:cbt bid his father and mother good
.;cbt and said he was going away. He
-snt n his wife's bedroom, disrobed,
md In half an hour shot her through
shs breast and himself in the right side.
shs ran 20 the end of the hal! where she
saIi dad. He lived twenty minutes.
AT never spoke word. Pollock was
Daytly intoxicated when he came home.
fhere was no trouble between him and
his wife.
Prairie Fires.
curcAgo. Juqe IA Fort Bowie, A.
special says report has been re-
..,vaJ here from Major BuddIe's com
Ind TO the effect that the extensive
.,,airie fires which recently shot across
rranthern Arizona originated in Mexico.
nd II il thought 10 be the work of In
S,sns returning north. Sc 1utin2 parties
,stnrned 10 camp on Saturday, after
HANG out a week, being met everywhere
Sv foes. His troops will form junction
s;.h the Fourth Cavalry under Forsyth.
whieh ia ordered to Guadalupe Canyon
from New Mexico.
VIII Protest Against the Pope's In.
reference.
nesting Of a number os prom
,nsnt Irish Americans last night it was
deoided to call meeting, to be held
NEXT Saturday, TO protest against papal
interference in irish affairs.
stock Quotations
Ngw YORK, June 1l.-Central Pacific,
fss7h: Darlington, $50; Northwestern,
a.: Northern Pacific, 5l.J0; New York
Central, 1915; Pacific Mail, $3.50; Pan
ANA. 50; st. Louis end San Francisco,
"a: Union Pacific, $3.50; Texas Pacific.
ssc2X; Wabash, 27.75; Wells, Fargo d
%, ZS Western Union, 65.62H.
Whereabouts OF n Missing Man.
Sr. LOUIS June 1.-THE whereabouts
of ex-Judoa Chester II. krum are now
known. Mrs. Krum was notified yes
terday by G. II. Theils, manager of
Theils' Private Detective Agency, that
her husband WAS on board a Central
Pacific train, bound west, and would
breakfast At Ogden this morning. He
has ticket for Salt Lake only. 1t APP
pears that Krum, on leaving st. Louis,
lpriI 26th, went TO Chicago and then to
New York. lie was driven to the Pacific
Mail steamer, which sailed for Panama;
from thence he proceeded TO San Fran
cisco. He was recognized on the trains.
The Supervising Architect Inyesiiga.
lion.
WASHINGTON, June 1l.-Before the
committee 10 Investigate charges made
against the administration of the sn-
peryising architects Office of the Treas
ury Department today, Coleman, coun-
sel for Murch, stated that he had pre-
pared specific charges which he expect
cd 10 prove, under contracts already in
evidence before the committee. He
alsi stated that he has recently been
retained as counsel for Manley and
Cooper, Justin McCiathers aud several
others who desired to prefer charges
against Hill and that he wonld in few
days formulate charges To cover their
several grounds OF complaint. Coleman
then read tho charges and specifications,
which set forth fraud and extravaganza
In connection with the purchase and
dressing of stone for public buildings
Of the United States. StinemetZ, an ex-
pert, then took the stand and resumed
his statement relative to the cost of the
granite used in the construction of pub
lilo buildings in Philadelphia.
Jay Gould 60 Have Another Railroad.
Sr. LOUIS. June 1i.-Dispatches from
Tyler and Waco, Texas, say the report
is current In well informed railroad cir
Giles that n scheme IL on foot by which
il il expected that Jay Gould will Sc
cure control Of the Texas and st. Louis
narrow gage railroad. IL Ia said that
tissentious have broken ont in the di-
rectiou of the road, and there Is likely
TO be n default In the payment of the
interest Of the construction bonds. due
July LIST, which may result in tho ap-
pointment OF receiver for the road and
ultimately in its falling into the hands
of jay Gould.
Cyclone tn Massaeh usctts.
NoRTH VERNON, Mass, June 11.-This
place was visited by r cyclone last night
about half past o'clock. 1t passed
through the southern portion of the
town and destroyed five or six houses,
one brick church and the rest dwell
ings. No one was injured 30 far as
known. train of ten cars ON the .. IL
M. X. II. was blown from the track
about seven miles east of North Vernon.
No one injured. Further up the q. d
nj. X. H.. at Osgood, switch houses were
blown down and two persons are re-
ported killed. The cloud was funnel
shaped, moving eastward.
The star Route Trial.
WASHINGTON, June 11.--Today's SEES
sion OF the Star Route trial was devoted
10 the hearing OF arguments based on
prayers for instructions TO the jury.
The prayers number thirty for the
prosecution and an even hundred for
the defense.
standard Dollars.
wAsmrSoroS, June 1.-THE issue of
standard silver dollars for the week
ending June 9th was 10000
0scrruied.
In the Court OF Claims the motion for
rehearing in tho Leopold case was
oyerruled.
without Feandatton.
NEW YoRK, June 1.-THE statement
that an open rupture would occur today
Plate railroads seems without truth.
Miners Resumed work.
In addition 10 the Abbey and other
machine men ut and near Collinsviile
and York's machine mine. ONeil's and
st. Louis are now working, and twenty
two men have gone there unmolested.
Two hundred miners also started for
Murphy, on the Cairo Short Line, this
morning, come Of them taking their
families. Rose Hill and Johh Kloe's
mines are working. The strike seems
to be pretty well over, and strikers seek
inR employment.
The star Route service.
WASHINGTON, June ii.-During the
month Of May the total increase in the