Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-03-09

ship neared She fort. the commsnde,
VINO had not received thu pass, CAV
orders to fro blank cartridges acros
tue saie1c.a's bow az signal to heay,
10. In the excitement which psev.iies
IN tne garrison at the uuprecedentes
circumstance of q steamer at.euptin;
20 leave without a pass. shot from
g1o Was ired which, when discovered b,
Inc commander, caused as much excite
ment III the fort as aboard the Valencia
Mississippi Overflow.
MEl6PRTs, March S.-Two breaks o.
the ieyee ON the east bank of tie rive
occurred Monday night at NcClcud's
fifteen miles below Friar Point, in tn
Mississippi, and at Rabard's. thirty-fiv:
miles below Friar Point. SATURDAYS
bleak Is the most serious. It is %
Yards wide. The water is rushins
through with great velocity. These ars
the frs. breaks reported from tbs
second Mississippi icyee distries. TIA
farm of Gel. Ed. Robinson near RIB
ards, has been overiiown, and the
water viii find its way thro.gh the
break into the Yazoo river.
Too Hot to Believe.
CoSCo9D, \. c., March S.-sf. VIII
helm, of Cabarus comfy, passed through
here today with sick son, aged twenty
years, on his way to Salisbury to con-
suit physicians about the extraordinary
raaiady with which the youth is afIiict.
ed. An ordinary bathing tub can be
hlied with cold water and the BOYS fee;
placed therein, and in eight minutes
tBe water viii be 50 no. that the heat
can be fei. through the slaves of the
tub. The boy suffers agony, describing
ms sensations like having his feet in
red hot Goals all the time. He is car
ried froui his fathers house to Sails
bury With his feet in a tub of water.
between his house and Concord DIR.
Wilhelm had TO change the water four
times. and shortly after being changed
each time it would become not again.
At times pain would be suffered BY the
boy almost beyond endurance. Nor
phins used in treble doses has no effect
uQoHhlin.
Arrested for Theft.
NEW YORK, March S.-Geo. z. Adams,
4 steward. aged 43, James Adams, a
druggist, aged Y, and Carrie Affsck,
aged 2o, were arrested On charge of
rohbing jesse Williams, a Canadian
farmer, of $70oo i'll gold, on Monday
lest, at the railroad depot in Phiiadel-
phia.'
Memorial Services.
ATLANTA, March 8.-StepheIs' memo
rial services began at 10 am. The at
tendance was overwhelming. MANY
delegations of citizens and military are
here from different parts of the State.
Speeches were made by II. J. Crawford,
Gen. TOombs, Gen. Jackson, Senator
Brown, Col. Jones, Atterney General
Anderson, DR.. Miller and Elk Governor
Smith. The funeral took place at 3
o'clock. DR.. Ialmage made one Of the
prayers.
A Useless Convention.
DETRoIr, March S.-The Greenback
State Conyontion met at lansing at
noon today. w. D. Fuller, of Nawaygo.
WAS chosen temporary chairman. After
the appointment OF tie usual com
mittees, adjourned till afternoon. The
proposition of Democrats for u fusion
on an evenly divided ticket on Supreme
Court Judges, will be- accepted.
CHion PacifcA Dividend.
NEW YORK, March 7.--The Union
Pacific this afternoon declared divi-
dend Of ~ per cent., payable on April
End.
The Dead Pugilist.
Elliott's funeral on Sunday. promises
to be an impressing affair. The hearse
will be drawn by four horses, which
will ba followed by threngs of carriages
Arrangements are making to provide a
benefit for Ellio.t's mother.
Democratic Election Gain.
New YORK. March THE Post sa VI
that the November tidal wave has not
wholly spent it's force. Judging from the
results of some of the local elections in
this State yesterday. In Utica, the Dem
ocratic candidate for Mayor was elect
ed by an increased vote. Tho Oneida
County Board of Supervisors is Demo
cratic by fifteen majority, and last yea,
it was Republican by two majority. In
Rochester the Democrats elect n MavoI
and hold their own in the Board of So
pervisors. In Erie county the Demo
Gratis have gained FIVE towns and the
Republicans three, n net gain of two
for the former. In Columbia county
fourteen Democratic and two Republi.
can Supervisors are chosen. Last year
there were eleven Democrats and eleven
Republicans. Upon the whole, the re-
sult of these local elections must be
added TO many other signs that the Re
publican party will scarcely recover its
lost ground by the reaction to which
some of its leaders have been trusting
A villain Let Go.
ST. LOUIS, March S.-Governor Crit
member of the James gang who pleaded
1882, and was sentenced to twenty-f five
years imprisonment. The pardon wal
issued on recommendation of tho Peni.
Tertiary physician and Board of In
| spectors. Hite IL in the last stages ol
| consumption. He has started for his
fathers home in Logan county, Ky
| feet of Hite's pardon upon James pros
| witness stand and made deposition b,
could send James to the penieentiary.
| Church Rurned.
| LoGANspoRr, March S.--The German
| Lutheran church here was destroyed b,
| fire. Loss S32 900. No insurance.
A Lunaiic's Act.
SpRrNorrELp, Ohio, March 8.-Martil
Luther Phelps last night, Is minutes
after returning from church with hi
| wife, fired three shots into her, an'
then shot himself dead. His wife vii
probably recover.
| Rams Work.
SrrrsafrEIp, Mass, March a.-Josepl
r. Loomis was hanged this morning TO
the murder of David Sett in Agawam
Two hundred persons witnessed the ex
ecution. Loomis supplemented the con
LESSONS made on Wednesday by read
ing a statement on tho scaffold acknow
Lodging the crime but attributing it t
| rum.
The Panama Canal.
New YonK, March S.-'The World
Panama correspondent, writing unde
date of Feb. 18th, says a dispatch is re
ported to have arrived recently fror
the Canal Compsny's Office in Paris
fixing the Pacific mouth of the propose
canal somewhat to the east of the Sit
previously selected, the mouth Of th
| Rio Grande River. The canal newspa
per says that the Franco America
Trading Company have sighed a cor
tract for cutting seven miles OF tt
Panama side from the new outlet