Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-09-30
EASTERN NEWS.
..,c,,rrp PRESS DrspArcEys
winter setting In.

winter setting In.
~xr.potIs, Sept. ga light snow
xaiI;no. but melting as soon as it
. 80 the ground. The weather is
ia and chilly.
yr,shtfaI Roller Explosion.
.,,,xy. Sept. 28.-Eariy this morning
a. boiler of the steaMer j. 5. Robin
w IN which lay at the foot OF WESTON
ssrset. exploded with frighsfui force,
;assntly killing Captain George ..
amer and fireman VIM. Cieary, and
N~ss;onsly injuring Fred Sinclair. the
..a,neer. who was blown INTO the water
"a narrowly escaped drovuing, and
Wi,ard Durant and Melville Ryan,
s.shhands. Richard VanZant, sou Of
GSsntsin VanZant of the tug Cora frsm
NJ Baltimore, lying alongside the
nehinson. was also injured. Capt ,in
non;nsou of the Hattie NJ. Belts was
sicwn from his pilot house on the wharf.
"a severely injured. The Cora living
sloncside was total wreck. The Rob
sason sank immediately. carrying with
4 the body of Cleary, the fireman. One
ssction of the boiler, weighing two or
three tons, was hurled four hundred
sset against the top of a third-st0ry
hnilding, crushing in a portion of the
huildinp. Another section, weighing
nearly ton, crushed the roof of the
saroe Z. Downing, and still another
snstion WAS hurled to tho rear, grazing
The canal boat Oppello, and tearing
avay the roof before it fell into the
river, Buildings were shaken aud shat
Jared. General CONSERVATION prevailed
in the vicinity. The exploded boiler
vas built by Robert Livingston of this
in 1882.
Express Train Robbery.
Fr. WAYNE, Ind, Sept. B.-An ex-
nress car of the Pacific Express Co., on
he Wabash Railway bound west. when
near Peru early this morning. was bro
kan into by three masked men. Ex-
preas messenger Bert Loomis was bound
and gagged, and the safe robbed OF
$4,000 and all other valuables in the
car The robbers escaped after locking
I.aomis in the car. whence he WAS re-
Isased on the arrival of the train at
Peru. There is rs yet no clue to the
robbers.
A Thief Cauxhl.
NV YoBK, Sept. 8.-John Il. Carroll,
for two wears preceding March last
clerk in the Bureau of Arrears, was ar
rested on charge of forgery. II is al
legged that he appropriated about $780,
600.
Business Breaks.
Business failures 'of the week, $50. az
compared with 1888, of the week before.
Railroad Receiver.
ToLEDo, O., Sept. 28.-Judge j. H.
Puphley this afternoon appointed John
z. Martin as Receiver of the Ohio Cen
trail Railway, on application of the bond
holders of the River Division of that
road, interest upon the bonds of which
Ii overdue.
Death IN the Rail.
MMNEApoLIs, Sept. 28.-Rumors are
received in the city of q collision ON the
Minneapolis and st. Louis Railway this
morning near Shaskaska. in which four
persons were killed and several injured.
Full particulars are not yet received.
Nigh Church Digniiary.
BALrIMoaE. Sept. 2.-The Right Rev
srend Anthony Wilson Thorold, Lord
Bishop Of Rochester, England, arrived
here toby on the steamer Hibernian,
from Liverpool. He WAS met ut Locust
Point by committee of gentlemen OF
the Protestant. Episcopal Church. To-
night be speaks at Christ Episcopal
Church on temperance.
The Weseern unlem Beaten Onee.
ALBANY. Sept. 2S.--Judge Samuel
Hand. referee in the tax suit brought
bv the State avainst the Western Union
Telegraph Company, has rendered do
cision in favor Of the State for $76 ,3l9.
This sum ia for taxes for only year,
hat II determines remaining taxes in
favor Of The State, making the total
amount recoverable under the decision
from the company about sea-, O00.
Production Reduced.
EAHroN, Pa, Sept. 9.--At = meeting
q the PeunnytvAnia Steel aud Iron A
ISOLATION yesterday II was ordered that
ell manufacturers should stop prodnc-
ton for 90 days.
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