Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-05-11

| cS uumoef OF creditors on
soneations which they expected TO
meet on money secured from the East |;
Iost tue suspension Of The Marine Bank
ana tne failure or Grant & Ward. had
uaAsn conndence IN credits aud that
.oey mad found It Impossible to secure
the expected advance. To prevent At
tachments and the tisiue nm Of their
| property the company mad resolved
10 have receiver appointed. Thew az.
poet to discharge ali tne,r OBLIGATIONS
ana after q Temporary embarrassment
10 resume business a. q corporation.
IL Il understood that A. II. Byoxn
OF heriey, Bean d Brown. of Saltwater.
VIII De selected "a receiver. The North
western Gar Company had great back
set IN the still water penitsutiary fire
LAST winter, and for some time past the
stock has been offered freely in large
Quantities.
Batter Resell asisn Voted Down.
LoursvrLLz. May 1O.-The Greepbaek-
ers of the Fifth Congressional District
selected unrestricted delegates 10 the
National Convention. A resolution to
instruct for Batter vas voted down.
Death OF q Prominent Conductor.
TOLEDO, o., May TO- hos. q. Jones.
| SIC conductor OF the Wabash, st. Louis
d Faclf1c railway and President of the
SOno 1eiors' Life Insurance Company of
the Suited States, died at his residence
In this CITY today, aged 81. He leaves a
wife and two children.
The May Festival.
CINCINNATI, May l0.-Tne sale of
season tickets TO the May Festival clos
cd this morning, aggrsgating SIS. 600 for
the weeks sale. The sale of single tick
ots begins next Monday.
A soldiers BariaI.
BAN ANTONIO. Texas. MAY l0.-Ths
funeral of Brigadier General Greeorio
Soto, Of the Mexican army, who died
here yesterday of heart discs %, was held
IN the cathedral today. By order of
General Stanley, commanding the De-
partment of Texas, the Generals men,
DRY received all the military honors of
an American general. Cavalry and ar
tiiiery were drawn up In front of the
cathedral, the officers attended In a
body, and there was q salute OF eleven
guns at the grave. Soto was al Old
Mexican commander, in active CON-
mand over % years. He commanded
a department at the time of his death.
Dat had been At San Antonio some
months for his health.
Sentenced 20 Death.
SALT LAKE, May l0.-Fred Hopt, alias
Welcome, three times tried and Goa
slcted of murder, has been sentenced
to be executed on June 18Th. The sta
tutes permit persons TO be executed to
choose hanging or shooting. Hopt
chose shooting as the manner of his
taking of. Tue attorneys gave notice
OF an appeal. Should a stay Of execu-
ton be ordered there will be danger of
lynching. The murder was committed
four years ago, and the case has cost
the Territory $4,000. People are worn
out with the hardness of Justice. In the
past eleven years there has been ITO mur-
ders In the Territory and only one ex.
ecution. In the past nine months there
have been three lynchines in Utah,
chiefly inspired by delays and the fail
ure To punish criminals.
The Methodist Conference.
PHIpELPHIA, May 9.-rhe Methodist
Conference Committee on rpiscOpaoy,
this afternoon again disc used the Ques-
ton of the number of bishops to be
elected, but no action WIS taken.
The Committee on State of the
Church received the report of the CON-
mittse on Marriage and Divorce. The
report was adopted. IL included a
comprehensive preamble setting forth
the danger to the social fabric from
the increasing irreverance for the mar
rage VOW, and the granting of divorces
for other than scripfursl Causes. The
report also contains stringent resolu-
tions on the subject of divorce. This
was included in several sections, which,
il ADVISES, should be adopted by the
General Conference as additions TO the
discipline. One of the sections declares
that no divorce shall be recognized as
lawful in tine sight of God, except for
adultery.
PHnApELPHIA, May l0.-The Meth o-
dist Conference reassembled this morn
ing, Bishop harris in the chair. A
resolution was adopted providing that
all conferences organized outside the
United States, or hereafter organized.
shall be entitled to the same rights and
privileges as those in the United States.
The resolution offered yesterday by sx-
Governor Evans, of Colorado. relative
TO instIucting the agents of the two
book concerns to furnish q detsiled
st atement for the past four years, was
| adopted with An amendment that the
names Of employees should be stricken
from the schedule which the agents are
required to furnish.
DR.. j. NJ. Buckley offered resolution,
which was adopted, that the opinion Of
the bishops be asked as to whether, in
their Judgment. the emergencies OF the
work required that there should be
resident ishop in Europe and India.
and, IL so, would that modify their
Judgment already expressed as to the
number Of bishops TO be elected?
Resolutions were unanimously adopt
ed approving the Blair educational bill
now before Congress.