Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-03-04

einc VIII run to Helena via Little Black
LOOT ana the Northern Paeifle. ana:
battelC.ty VIA the Little Blackfoot. II
mas also been agreed that tue inter
change of business for Ogden, Salt Laks
City and all Colorado points. will ba
precisely the same as from Nilsson :;
RYE: points. The new tariff will co int
effect March 18th.
Doings o the Conference Camustsee.
WAsaIsoTos, March 2.-The forov.
ing are the changes made BY the Tar5ff
Conference Committee: Steel valnsJ
above cents, and not above Z cent. n.r
pound. specific duty of 2 cants no.
pound; on steel valued 1t not less than
cents and not more than 10 cents mar
pound. specific duty on % cents per
pound; and on steel valued abyye II
cents Pc. pound, a specific iuty of 81
cents per pound. On steel rails the con-
inittee recommended :I7 per ton: ON
iron Ore 40 cents per toa, insread of -
Cents, and On pig iron 3 cents Der pound.
The rate proposed by the Tariff Com
mission makes no change from the
rates proposed by the Senate bill for
| COTTON ties, WIRE rods, or any other
important articles which have been the
subject of controversy iu the metal
schedule. The Conference Coumittee
recommend only one change in the
sugar schedule, namely. au increass to
70 cents per pound on sugars graded
| above No. IL. and not above No. l3.
Dutch standard. The Senate fixed 2J%
cents per pound. Some minor changes
or classification are made in the cotton
scdeoaie. but none of rates. The only
| eaange In the wo,iea schedule Is to ian
pose Il duty of - cents per pound and
~ per cent. advalorem upol woinen's
cioaks. In the glass and oArthern ware
| schedule, the Committee propose spe
| cific duty of one cent per pound ON
glass bottles, and transfer printed and
| painted crockery tn the china clause,
| thereby increasing the duty of 80 per
cent. advaiorem to 90 per cent.
A Serious Fire.
ALBANY, March 3--At 2 O'Clock this
| morning the watchnan at Duuiap's
| elevator discovered fresh fire in the
sixth story. BY tho time it was extin-
gul5hed there, flames had broken out
| fiercsly on the fourth floor, aud several
| men were caught Oh the sixth floor. |
Gary Benson, Waterman, and Luis j. |
Miller, clerk of tho fire. department,
rushed down stairs through the Il zines
and wers badly burned. Firemen sam
| uel Atkins, John Meyers and James |
Giliigan were literally forced to co NO |
down the iron hosting chain outside this |
building. a distance of lOO feet. About |
forty feet from the ground the chain |
Was covered with Ice. aud the men slid |
TO the ground with great velocity, and |
| were more or less injured. A strong |
wIdd was blowing and tho whole de- |
partment WAS called ont. The fire |
spread rapidly through the mill and |
| elevator. and enveiopei the whole struc.
ture. About O'Clock the upper wallis |
fell Outward, IL part falling through the
| bridge and through Davis & Morrison's
store adjoining on Broadway, and bury
Ing several persons under the ruins. |
Firemen VIM. Cariin, Michael Sheenan |
and Michael McEwan, employees on the |
| fridge, and DAVIS were killed, james
Cameron. book ksepsr of tho same firm.
vas injured internally, and probably |
fatally: james Kelly had buth iegs |
crushed: fireman Goldsmith had his |
back injured. The end of the mill and |
elevator were destroyed. The property |
belonged to the estate Of Robert Dunlap. |
Loss GA the building was $4,000; in
| sured for S333, 800. The mill aud eleya- |
tor were occupied by Frank Chamber
| lain. Loss about 100000; insured for |
| Sll0.5C0 About 1900 bushels of grain |
| Ill the elevator Was lost. 1t belonged to |
p,rties who have grain stored. Abou. |
! $4,000 loss there: insurance not ascsr- |
tanned.
New York personals.
NEw York, March 3.-Sarsh ~ Camp |
bell, of Sacramento, an artist, returned |
from Europe to California. Miss Mary |
Richardson, an artist of San Francisco, |
il studying In this city.
saip Ensiness.
New York, March 3.-The scarcity of |
! vessels III the berth somewhat retards
| the freight movement via Cape Horn,
and those ships in the berth are neces-
| STATED to work slow and select freight
offered, in order TO bridge over the
| tim until the vessels to follow arc ready
| to receive freight. Only four snips in
port are engag d TO load for San Fran
cisco. Ofthese the Storm King finishes
loading tonight or early Monday after
noon. The Whitmore will DO done by
the 10th, and the two ships to follow
shave the greater portion of their cargo
made up of railroad iron and coal. Elk
cspt the Vesuvius, to come around from
Boston to take the berth of the Storm
King, there are not at this writing any
otie or vessels named to load in either
khUs Az W tsi thuS 10 Jcott tutt Tile Stu
alton is very peculiar, and are likely to
remain So Tor a time at least. Isthmus
freiohts are fairly active. and the steam
er hence yesterday included on Califor-
| mia account a thousand kegs of nails,
flve hundred kegs horse shoes, two hun
dred and fifty tons muck iron. two hun
dred tons slate iron, etc. Freights to
Portland have improved, and two YES
sells are loading. The Carrie Winslow
and tho st. Lucie are we'll advanced,
aud will probably get off next week. No
ship on the berth at Philadelphia will
take general cargo, and the result is
that this port Is looked t. for shipments.
| The Ivy Is loading railroad material.
and it is said will have some coal on the
government account. At Boston the
| oiIppsr frelghtS are not very active, aud |
| the agents there accept all that is offer
| ed. and forward to New York, as no |
ship is in berth there. Railroad freights |
ut Boston are Lively. The shipments |
during the past week ircluis SCI pack
| ages fish, 50 cases sugar of lemon. 60 |
cases oil, IS cases b,king powder, DJ |
cases canned goods, Is cases Tobacco, |
45o kegs nails, 100 boxes candles, - |
boxes behring's, l6o half-barrets sugar, |
the latter for Victoria.
Theatrical Budget.
New TogK, March 3.-"Siberia," at |
Havsrly's, though contemptuously crili- |
oised, draws good houses. Levick aud |
Miss Cayvan play the principal p,rts.
| Lawrence Barrett begins brief en- |
gagement ut the Grand Opera on Mon
day.
| The Corsican Brothers will be put on |
the stage again at Niblo's next Mon
day.
Louise Poliin, Madame de Reythor, |
Virginis Fairfay, and w. j. Ferguson |
appear in the I'D iune Novel; on Mon
day at the Bijou.
| Ii il stated that Wallnck has decided |
TO cal. his old theater The Star" He /
resumes the management On the 10Th of /
March, Dion Boucicault appearing III
tho nav play, "vic. Versa" folio wing
with "Amandan." Ada Dyas viii sup
port Bouc.cault.
The report is current that Charles T.
| Locke, the California manager, has
been communicating with lawyers here
/ n a.