Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-05-02
FOREIGN.
Ast0unsitsx Di.ea,er,.

! VICTORIA. Il. C.. Nay The Coi,nl-t
oi tomorrow morning will contain the
| ioiioHing nnder the heading, "Astound
/ ing Discovery"
within the past fex DAYS an alarm
ing fact mas come 10 light. IL has been
a-certslned that the English and Can
adlan letters that left Victoria N the
Zist aud Ath of March by the P19es
sound steamer for TRANSFORMATION east
/ ward via the Northern Pacific Railroad.
/ nave never reached th-lr desrfp alton.
Inc!losd IN the two mails wer- over two
hundred registered and a very large
number of unregistered letters. Wlthou,
Al exception all these b ave dIs4ppear-d
he custom IL to take a receipt from, the
United States mail agent on the Sound
steamer. after which the bars are passed
10 his care. 1t IA assumed that he in
turn ttkes = receipt from the IN all agent
on the tram &. I ,coIn :. and that frots
that point on proper precautions are ia
Ken tor the protection of the mails. The
| robbery a believed to have occurred
somewhere on the line of the Northern
Pacific Railroad. The pecuniarv loss
Is doubtless heavy, and ii will fall with
peculiar force upon manv persons re-
siding here. some of whom were sending
On the "a of last Dec amber the mails
from Canada and England for British
Columbia, via the Northern Pacific
Railroad, we're stolen. Subsequently
some parties in Oregon were found to
have about f's3. 900 in Canadian Govern
ment checks and drafts in their possess
sion. which they tried to negotiate. but
could not. The pap-r was sent on to
this place, where it had been previously
cancelled Ii is hoped that a rigid in.
garry will be instituted by both the
Canadian and United States Govern
ments. and that the guilty parties will
be- brought to Justice"
france and the Conference.
LONDON. April 30-France accepts
the proposed conference in principle.
hnt stipul.tes that it shall not he con
fined tn a discussion of the financial
situation.
Behraslesi.
PARIS. Arril 30. - The murderer.
Campi. was beheadcd today. Campi
murdered a retired lawyer, who re-
sided IN the Rue Du Regar. and almost
killed the murdered mans sister. He
refused to disclose his real name, in
Difference to his brother, who is an
Sificer in the army. Campi confessed
that pluader W is the object Of the muir
der.
IrO0blesOme Insurgents.
MADRID, May 1.-Two bands of In
surgents appeared at Lerida and
Corona. cut the telegraph wires and de-
stroyed the railway bridge at Corona.
Troops are in pursuit.
France Wants a Previous Exchange
or Views.
LONDON, May 1.-Earl Granville has
received reply from the Frenon Gov
ernment to this English proposal for
conference on Egyptian affairs, which
is couched in friendly terms and ac
cepts the conference. 1t asks for pre-
vious exchange of views between the
two governments upon matters cOn-
neoted with the financial question.
Fall OF Wall.
LONDON, Nav Ia high partition
wall. dividing the burnt premises and
Whitely's baths, was the one that fell.
Most of the workmeu were extricated.
A large number were wounded.
Death or an Old Onictal.
VICTORIA. May William Leigh, for
20 years Town Clerk Of Victoria, died
suddenly this morning of henorrhage
of the lungs. He WAS sick only few
b ours. Deceased WAS a native Of Eng
land. and resided for 81 years III this
city.