Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-07-29
EASTERN NEWS.
The BrickIayers' strike.


The BrtckiayerS' strike.
NRw YoBK, July 2s.-Tod4y began the
second week of the bricklayers aud Ia
bsrers' strike foe nine hours per day.
Reports OF the number OF men on the
strike are conflicting. The employers
say there are 300 men working. The
men claim 100. Ne riy all the plaster.
ers engaged on Jobs where the employ
ers refuse To accede TO the niue hour
demand, gut wors today. also a ne ~
per OF hosting engineers. A large nun
Der OF Trainers Also stopped work this
morning.
NEw YozK. July 2s.-President Arthur
aud party arrived here this morning.
Encouraging Report from the Cholera
District.
WASHTSGToS, July 2s.-Secretary FIRE.
I lIn2haysen has iast received a telegram
from Consul Mason OF Marseil e. a.
/ follows:
! Marked improvement at Marssilles
and IDulon. Cholera deaths h-re from
a dailv average of CD fell 20 - Wednes-
DAY. q Thursday, b Friday, - Satur-
! day, % Sunday aud last night 13 in II
/ hours. The rate of mort .lity In cases
/ IL also declining. At Houlon the aver
/ aga fell from 40 TO Il. The epidemic -
I declared to be severe At Aries and AK"
oliver Ames Relieved Of the Credit
HobiIier Rec-ivership.
/ PHILADELPHIA, Jaly 28.-tn the United
( States ClrGuit Curt 30 law Oliver Ames,
/ receiver Of the CrrdIt Mobilisr 1T Amer
7 &c :, asked TO be rel eyed Of the receiver
ship. No Reason - assigned. HIS eoun-
sci privately stated that tue cause Was
pressare of the OH i4l duties of Ames.
who IL Lieutenant Governor of VI 4ssa-
cnusetts aud finds IL impossible to at
tend court. Samuel X. onIpley. Presi-
dent of the Providence Life Insurance
and Trust Company OF this city, was
appointed his successor.
Expense of the Relief Expedition.
WARRINGTON, July 2S.-Ihe total ex-
pense of the Greedy relief expedition Is
estimated by officials of the Navy De.
partment at 10000. The original es-
innate WAS s5OO,Oo.
Change In the Method OF Collecting
whisky Tax.
Some tine ago tine Commissioner of
internal Revenue issued An order pro-
vlding that on and after the LIST of Sep
ten Der, 1884. the collection of the tax
on whisky on assessment shall be dis
csutInued. Strong efforts have since
been made to have him reseind this or
der, but without avail, and today he no.
tined the petitioners that the original
order would be enforced. UIder this
ruling the tax will be collected on the
day lt becomes due. and If it is not paid
the property will be destroyed
Virginia Legislature.
Gov. Cameron has convened the Cen
erAl Assembly of Virginia, upon the re-
quest of two thirds of the mem bers of
each house. TO inset at Richmond on
August 18th.
Postponed.
NV YORK, July 28.-At a meeting of
the n ltion.l Executive Committee of
the National Lsbsr party at 3 Piae
street, in this city, today, the following
was adopted:
WHEREAS, Owing to the fact that the
letters of acceptance of General Butler
and Governor Cleveland have not yet
appeared, aud that pending their ap-
pearance intelligent action cannot be
taken by the Convention called by this
organization to be held in Chicago July
30, 1888; therefore
ResoIred, That the same Convention
will be. and is, hereby postponed until
Monday, September |, 1884, at the same
place.
On WALL street.
NEW YORK. July Governments
firm; railways lower. Stocks opened
weak and declined to IL per cent
ID LII "a ahaFn aHu VA ma
of IA to IL, but during the remainder
If the day the tendency was toward
lower figures. II WAS the general i'm
preston that the bulls encouraged the
feaction believing that the market has
advanced too rapidly within the pas,
week. Late in the day small bear
failure-DeWolf i Swan-was an
nounoed, aud prices rallied a to Il per
cent. The market closed steady. Com
pared with Saturday closing prices are
u to 3is per cent lower.
Booming aoIdcrmaa.
WASHINGTON, July 28.-Within the
past few days reports have been made
by volunteer correspondents to make
IL appear that the President had Sc
lected Nj. T. Holdermau. of Illinois. for
Commissioner of the newly created
B1reau of Labor Statistics. kilograms
signed Nv. III. Cook" we're sent from
here to several pr .minent newspapers
Saturday 1T sender's expense. stating
that the President had made such a
selection :" and today other dispatches
making a similar announcement in con
neotlon with the statement that the
Convention of the Frlerati an of Trade |
and Labor Unions of the United States
aud CapadI would he held in Chicago
on O6tober 7th, we're sent from this |
CITY Co varioss newspapers signed Geo. |
M. Smith" Postal cards conveying the |
same information Were also delivered At |
the offices of ali speci Al cores pondents |
of prominent newspapers herr. In |
these dispatches and cards Nj. +. Hol |
derman ia set down as the WASHINGTON |
representative of the American News |
Exchange. Many inquiries have been |
Received by press asso Citations and cor |
respondents here ~ tn whom Holder |
nan ia and what sort of concern is the |
American News Exchange, but no one
knows anything of either. Holder
mans name does not app ar on the list
of accredited representatives, OF the
Dress In the congressional directory, and
AZ the White House 10 IL not only denied
that the President has selected person
of that name for the vacant commits
siouership. but II is said that nothing
whatever u known of saoh pers)n.
white MS wife was sleeping.
GREELEY. Col, July 2s.-John Shea.
miner from Leldville, spent Sunday
WITH his wife near Greeley. Early this
morning. while his wife was sleeping,
Shea cot hsr throat, stabbed her seven
tunes IN the chest, and then stabbed
himself eight times and fell dead.
Cause, Jealousy.
Dr. oDenneii's Troubles
CHIcAao, July S.-Dr. q. G. O'Don-
nell II San Francisco, who has made
special study Of leprosy, and makes u
b .sis Of argument for the expulsion OF
the Chinese from this country, arrived
here Saturday, and announced that he
al too lepers on the way here and
would exhibit them on the lake front
this afternoon. The health authorities
warned him that il would not be per
United, and they were not shown. the
doctor announcing that thew had NO,
yet arrived.
u VIII BE Held.
CH.cAoo, July =. w. A. Carney,
WILT S.aa NJ