Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-05-07

was a habitual morphine eater. He left
no letter. He appeared TO be in bis
usual spirits this morning.
Conviets rntared-Fight with Noon.
sinners.
LITTLE Rock Ark, May 5.-DufinR
a violent hail and rain storm this after
noon. shed at the old fair ground
fell on large number of convicts en-
ployed in brick making. One guard
was killed and another seFion-ly wound
ed and several convicts we're injured by
falling timbers.
In Newton couafy. on Saturday. rev
enue officers raided an illicit distiIlery.
which was dismantled ana the wash
tubs destroyed. fight occurred and
one distiller was killed and another
wounded.
Probable strike of Western Zen
| workers.
| PIrTsBuRo. May 5.-The probabilities
that a general strike of iron work
ers in the West will be inauguratsd on
June LIST are increasing. Today. Oliver
Brothers and Phi lips three mills sus-
pended operations. and Il is said they
VIII not resume until the wage question
Is settled. This action ia taken as indi-
eating that the manufacturer are de-
termlned to enforce the reduction. The
workmen shown no signs 81 yielding.
Destructive Cyclone.
Rock ISLAND, ILL.,, May Sit has been
raining almost steadily for three days.
This afternoon about half past o'clock
a Cyclone swept across the southern end
oi town, carrying everything before il.
| Three houses, one of them a two story
brick, were completely demolished, half
a dozen others were nnroofed, and
many barns yielded TO the wind. The
fair grounds we're in the track of the
storm and all its buildings were leveled
and the trees uprooted. 1t is impossi-
BILE AS yet to estimate the damage. For
tunately nobody was killed, although
four persons were more or less injured
Boats IN the river vera driven across to
the Iowa side, but no serious damage 10
them il reported.
DAVENPORT, May Ga cyclone strnck
this town and leveIled number of
buildings. One person was killed out
night and number of others badly in
Jured. II is impossible TO get the loss
| st this time.
Race Trouble.
NORFOLK, Va, May 6.-Durine a pa.
rade of the First Regiment of colored |
| fiict with the police. The trouble was
| renewed this evening. There is moth |
ing serious yet. Ali the police are on |
duty, and an extra force has been sent |
into the negro quarters.
Eioped with her Fathers Coachman.
CHICAGO, May Ga Young daughter
| of q. j. Whitney. of this city, eloped |
| with his coachman to Toledo, where |
| thay WARE arrtad hv Iuatsna - A.
Peace. The fellow gave tho name of |
Charles Grevard Melville, baronet He |
has wife and two children in Detroit. |
Fatal Collision.
CHICAGO. May Ca dense fog pre-
vailed over the southern part of the city |
this morning. The Chicago and East |
ern Suburbs train left Auburn with pas
sengers coming into the city to bust |
ness. A stop was made at South Ingle- |
wood, aud Just as the train was pulling
out, the head of a locomotive of the |
Grand Trunk road, which enters the |
city over the same track, plunged into |
the rear of the train, splitting the last |
car and telescoping the other two, |
| piuning the passengers in the broken |
timbers and flooding the interior with |
| steam from the engine boiler. Two per- |
sons we're probably fatally and about |
twenty others seriously injured.
On Wall street
New YORK, May G. Governments |
steady railroads heavy and lower !; |
| stocks opened generally a fraction |
higher, but soon became weak on ac-
| count of q break in Missouri Pacific. |
Subsequently sustaining orders made !
their appearance and there was sharp |
rally, which carried many stocks up to |
| ths closing figures of yesterday, and in |
| some Gases even fraction above. Union |
Pacific was depressed. Ii opened eight I
higher at 81, but was Immediately offer
ed down to 59s1; later there was rally
to 60S and decline to 591S. After ii |
a weaker feeling prevailed. 10 was then
announced that the Marine Bank had
failed, and there was rush to sell,
prices dropping TO AZ per cent, the
latter being Union Pacific. which touch
ed 56sl. This sharp break was succeed |
ed by rally of = to | a per cent. In
the afternoon, however, the failure. of /
Grant d Ward was read from the ros-
trum of the Stock Exchange, and the |
Improvement WAS lost. IL was rumored |
in connection with the failure of this
tirm that there had been a defalcation
of half million dollars. Nearly 1000 |
shares of stock we're closed out for their /
account, including 200 Wabash prefer
red. 300 Rochester Il Pittsburg, 600 O.
G. @. Il l.. 800 Omaha, 100 Alton d rerre
Haute, 800 Western Union and 100
American Cable. There were also 1000 |
New York, Chicago Il st. Loqis seconds
and 5000 United States coupon fours |
closed for the same firm. la final trans
actions slightly weaker tone set in
and the market left of steady. The |
compar ,tive steadiness of the market |
late in the day was due to purchases |
based on the belief that the bank fail |
ure would have only local effect aud |
would not extend, as 10 was thought |
might be the case during the morning. |
| Compared with last nights closing, |
prices were u 10 3ss per cent. lower. |
| Union Pacific, Northern Pacific pre- |
ferred and Central Pacific show the |
greatest decline.
An Exciting Trial.
SALT LAKE, May 5.-Fred Hopt alias
Welcome, on trial for the past seven |
DAYS for a murder committed July Sd, |
| 1880, was found guilty in the first de. |
gree. This is his third trial. An appeal
was carried TO the Supreme Court of the |
United States, and twice a new trial
was ordered. The trial has caused more |
excitement than any other ever held
| in this city. The officers had 10 use
precautions to prevent lyuchinE. AZ
the time of the verdict the crowd Was
barred out of the court room. and 500
men stood in front waiting admission.
| The father of Hopt's victim, John w.
Turner, sheriff of Utah county, dispers-
ed tue crowd by making a speech, ask
| ing them 20 abide by the law. United
States Marshal Ireland captured u long
rope angling from the building ready
| for the crowd.
Mysterious Accumulation.
| YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, May 5.-John
| Good. a farmer near Morgan. WAS NOR
tally wounded last night by an unknown
assassin. who came on horseback TO his
bedroom and fired through the window
while Good was asleep beside bis wife.
There 10 no clue to the assassin.
Empleying Nsn-uaisn Men.
TRoY, N. Y, May 6.-The stove foun'
4 driss are resuming with non union