Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-02-21

lumber business will be heavy. The
line WI be larger than the Grand
trunk. but the same rates can of course
De made. Vanderbilt is said TO have
taken heavy money interest in the
Canadian Pacific.
/ Lazy Ccnyicfs,
SINo STSG, Feb. 20.-Eiphty men in
the shoe shop today refused to work and
were locked up: AZ were locked up YES
terday. Still no more trouble is antici-
pated.
| Caucases to be Held.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.-The RepubIi-
cans Of the House will, it is understood,
hold caucus for the purpose Of cousid-
erlnR the situation, and determining
the course to be pursued the remainder
OF the session.
stu Sick.
Secretary Folger is still confined to his
bed quite weak.
Contemplated Damages.
KEoKuK, Ia, Feb. 20.-If the ice goes
ont at the present stage of water in the
Mississippi. the damage cannot be be-
low half or three-quarters of a million
| OK dollars. The lumber interests will
be the chief losers. Considerable dam
| age has already been done to bridges.
The same Old story.
METAMoBA. Ill, Feb. O.-LoHis f.
Feldschke, Master in Chancerv of
WoOdfOrd county, has disappeared. his
accounts being short upwards of 5000,
and owes about the same amount in the
city, and leaves a wife behind. His
property is attached. He was promi-
nent Democratic politician, and served
in the Mexican war. He was much
liked here.
An Exhumed Miner.
SALT LAKE, Feb. D.-Edward Griffin, |
the miner who was buried in the lead |
mine at Bingham on Saturday, was res
cusd this morning, after being impris- |
Oned AZ hours. He was not injured. |
The miners drifted 90 fact to reach him. |
A Sick Millionaire.
New YORK. Feb. Cot is reported |
that w. H. Vanderbilt is very ill. He |
has ceased to attend to business, his af- |
fairs being conducted by his son Cor |
nelius Vanderbilt. Three weeks ago, |
when General Deveresux and Mr. Banks |
called upon him in relation to the sale |
of the Nickle Plate road, it was whis- |
pered among his most intimate friends |
that he suddenly fell to the floor in an |
attack of paralysis. He rallied, but the |
effect of the shock is still seen in the |
contraction of one side of his mouth.
which is said to be still noticeable.
More Water for New York.
NEW YORK, Feb. 20.-The new Board
of City Acqueduct Commissioners yes-
terday inspected, with a view of adopt
ing, the site of the proposed dam 175
feet high to be erected in Quaker valley,
costing $4,000,O00, and which will
change the valley into a lake, thus MAX
Jig CrOtOn lake sixteen miles long, with
an average width of half a mile. By
constructing a new 15-foot aqueduct to
the city, a supply of water nearly triple
that now secured can, it is asserted, be
drawn from this reservoir daily for half
a century without danger Of exhaustion.
There will be reserve in storage by the
dam itself of 81, 600, C30,Cc } gallons to be
drawn apOn in case of exceptionally
dry weather. The proposed new dam
can be readily connected with the Hud-
con or Housatonic.
The Western Unions Intention.
1t is said the Western Union Tele-
graph Company will within six months
lay three inch pneumatic tubes between
its new Office on Broadway and Day
streets, in this city, and town branch
offices, thus relieving downtown streets
of many poles and wires, as the city bus
mess will be largely done.through these
tubes.
why the Market Is Depressed.
Among the points given on Wall
street regarding the Union Pacific, and
which are probably now operating to
depress the market, are the prospect of
forced reduction of through rates by a
diversion of large share Of its Montana
business to the Northern Pacific, the
opening of the Denver d Rio Grande
to the south of the road, and also that
the Pacific Railroad Commissioners
will probably recommend a suit against
the Unicn Pacific upon the ground that
they had no legal right to guarantee
$10,000,0O0 of stock for the Oregon
Short Line, and this will be supplement
ed by demand for the payment of %
per cent of the net earnings,
shocking Act.
ST.. LOUIS, Feb. Ca most shocking
tragedy occurred at Springfield, Mo-,
yesterday. Mrs. lilly Schouder, the
young wife of Frank Schouder, collar |
maker, during her husbands absence
from home, shot her three months old |
baby through the head with 44-calibre |
pistol, and then fired another ball from |
the same weapon into her own head. |
No cause Is known for the act. The |
couple came from Bellevills, Ills, about |
two years ago, lived happily together,
and were prosperous.