Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-10-19
FOREIGN.

DeUressten In the shipptnx Trade.
LONDON, OCT. lS.-The distress at the
shipbuilding centers in the north is Ia
oreasine. Trade on the TYNE and ad.
jacent districts 10 paraiyzed. Forty
docks at Sunderland. Most of the
shipyards are closed, and public sab
scriptions are making for labofers ont
Of employment.
The Government ef BFunswlck.
BERLIN, Oct. l8.-The Council Of the
Regency 0s Brunswick has decided 70
carry on tina Government Professionally
for ths present. The Diet will assemble
within short time.
The Denth Penalty.
ST.. PrrRnsBus0, Oct. I8.-Six officers
Of the army. sentenced to death early in
the week for political offences. we're
executed today at the Sc. Petersburg
citadel. Besides them there were tvo
women who paid the death penalty, one
Madame Wolkenstein, the other Mary
Fioner, the daughter OF priest. The
only persous Who witnessed the execu
tions we're the Ministers Of Justice and
the interior, and the prison officers.
Warehease On Fire.
LONDON, Oct. lathe warehouse OF
Blunae. spence 4 Co.. paint. color and
vsrnish manufacturers, No. 8 Upper
Thames street, London, Z. G.. Ia now,
$50 p. m, on ire.
ssrengthening the 0uspesss.
LONDON, Oct. 1S.-fhe Government
has decided to expend 81 100000 on It's
Notifications at Singapore and Hong
kong. Orders have been sent from the
War Once TO hasten the work.
ssceessfsI Csopesisisa with Rngaiah
ManafactuFers.
NOMINAL, Dot. lS.-The Canadian
Pacific Railway has Just concluded .
contract With the Lackawanna Iron and
Coal Company Of scranton. Pa, for
1000 tons Of steel rails at $25.50 per
ton at the miils. or delivered TO any
Canadian port or in New York for
$3.50. Il is believed that this 10 the
6rsf time an American company has
been successful in competition with
English manufacturers for steel rails de-
by the Assistant General Manager Of
the Canadian Pacific IL that the Ansri.
can price 10 aboat 81 per ton cheaper,
owing to the present competition among
manufacturers.
TIE Nevada Arrives at Eiverpsss.
LryxxPooL. Oot. ls.-Ths 6uion line
steamship Nevada, from Nev Yort. in
which ere broke ont on Wednesday,
and which pot in to Queenstown yester-
day, has arrived in the Mersey.
Dessh 81 the Dske - aranswtek.S
Q~vxrw GA Wflhefra thu Esrux
Duke Of Brunswick, died this morning.
Dessh fssa Frsghs.
Loxpox, Oct. IA melancholy incl
dent connected with the outbreak Of Are
on board the steamer Nevada, vas that
one Of the stserA9e pas senerrs, an Irish
| woman. was % thoroughly panic
stricken that she died Of fright.
Rensa se AIexasaer sulitvan.
| Loxpox. Oct 1s.-Ths rem sius Of
Alexander L. Sullivan, vho died IN Dub
lin yesterday, will be inferred IN Glas-
nevsn cemetery, nssr Dublin, en- Mon
day.
| The Chesern-
Rosx, Os4. lS.-In Italy, daring The
pass - hours, lhsrs have bean l66 fresh
oAses Of cholera. and Toe deashA
we~s Africans Aavse<S.
| Rzuxsxr&. Oct. l6-Wsss African ad
visss state thai u. DsLesie left g. PAu
De LoAndo sems time AGO. with provis
ions for De BrAzxi's station. on 6sanis.
Pooi- After he started the baeRaRs car
risFs deserted. bos he succseaed II reach
ing WanAneo. on the Congo. He wi
there Organize . fresh expedition