Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-08-30

rRmen- Ths address vas adoosed ss
me platform OF the party In this State.
Sheridan In Boston
BosroS, Aug. 4.-Lisas. Gen. Sheri-
ian arrived today. accoup.uied nv ses
y 81 menbers of his staff. The General
vas met at the station by a namb-r of
army officers. He will remain in the
,ity day or two 70 meet old soldiers of
The late war.
Purchase OF silver.
WAsHSoTos, Aug. 9.-The Treasury
apartment has pt.rchas4d 47O ON
1unces of silver for delivery AZ thu N-s
Orleans, Pallsdelphia and San Fran
CISCO mints.
Ali Qnies af Lima.
Ibe Secretary of the Peruvian Leoa-
tl0n has received 4 semi officiaI dispatch
saying. AT Lima all is quiet" He IN.
tsrprets II as meaning that the trouble
reported IN that city yesterday is Yer
Governor Waller Win Net Run.
Hartford, Aug. Ex-Governor Waller
mas written to the chairman of the
Democratic State Committee declining
3 re election.
On Wall street.
NKv YORK, Aug. 29.-Goyernments
shade easier for 4lTs, and RAILWAYS
hrmer. Stocks were weak. and ia the
nrst hour declined to III per cent.
tbs latter being Univn Paeitic. This
was succeeded by rally of 20 IL per
cent, Union Pacific Leading. Before
midday selling was reneved. and prices
declined rapidly on unfavorable rumors
from the West concerning the trunk
lines and the report that the New York
Central dividend. TO be advertised on
September Sth, would be IN per cent,
instead of 2. as formerly. At this time
the mark It was very active. In the aft
ernoon free purchases were made, and
prices Sdv tnced TO 25[ per cent. At
the close there was fractional reac-
ton, bat the market left of firm. Com
pared with last nights closing, prices
are to " per cent. lower, ex ,ept for
Northern Pacific preferred, which 10 Il
per cent. higher, and st. Paul, which Is
unchanged.
Basiuess Failures
Business failures during the last seven
days, ss reported to Duu's mercantile
agency: In the United States, 1850; in
l6.
SHREVEPORT, Aug. 29.-Berry johnson
(cOiofed). for the murder of his wife,
sas hanged today inside the parish Jail.
to Law of the last Legisla-
ture, only fifteen persons we're admitted
10 see the exhibition. johnson admit
Ted yesterday th-t he killed NJ .linda
Coleman in Red River Parish four years
AGO, being hired to murder her by an
other negro woman.
Hurricane In Indiana.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, Aug. 29.-At 8 this
morning the most destructive hurricane
ever here broke upon Evansville, doing
damage OF not less than $25O, 600 IN the
city aud vicisity. Houses were blown
down, roofs carried away. three or four
steamers badly injured, thousands of
shade trees torn up by the roots and
other injury done. Ii il impossible AT
this hour to give the amoans of dam
ago, bot u will probably not fall short
uf the figures given. The steamers
Josh Throop aud Silver Thorn we're
eedly damaged. the former being al
most wrecked. Several churches suf
'ShO1 80NOAOAN 6uo hAoO Oi0 ucW , 'uDOt
house. Tne steamer Belmont, a trans
ter boat, which leaves here every morn.
Ing, Was struck by the storm about
three miles this side of Henderson,
sinking her barge aud cars
70 she bottom, blowing the chimney of
and sinking her almost instantly II is
reported that there we're over thirty
people on board and only three are re
ported to have been saved-s newsboy
nam-d PAM :, the cook and the pilot
Who swan ashore. rnis information IL
received by m ,n who cam a by land.
Ali the wires are d wa and m)I of tue
boats are crippled b as to b, IN able t.
~ to the scene OF the wreck.
The loss Of the tr 4nsfer steamer Bel
mont aud the drowning of ten tn tif
teen persons is confirmed. Toe hurri-
cane this forenoon capsiz ID the boat at
SANKEY'S Lsuding, three miles above
Henderson, turning the boat completely
over. She Was on the way to Henderson
with barge containing passengers of
the Loui,vIle d Nashville X ,ilro I'd
The boat parted from the barge. All
on the latter we're saved. and all on the
boat, except four or i've, lost.
The stock List.
NEw YORK. Aug. gu. 8. Three's,
100If; AS, li31s; As, 120as5; Pacific 95's
l27; American EXPRESS 92jS. Canada Pa.
oitic "A, Canada Southern 3iS<, Cen.
trail Pacific 10, Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy 10, Denver 4 Rio Grande
l2<. Erie l5Jk, Hannibal and st. Joe
3s{, Kansas and Texas 1874, Lake
shore SO4, Louisville and Nashville
81, Michigan Central 81, Northern
Pacific n. Northern Pacific preferred
Central 1904. Oregon Railway and Nav
ieation 50. Oregon Transcontinental
l5'k, Oregon Improvement q, Pacific
Nail 4Ss1, Panama lob. Rock Island
ll3k. 81. Paul S2lf. Texas Pacific l2x
Union Pacific a., United States tx
press 52. Wells Fargo l04. Western
Union 6Sh Lsckawanna l0o4. Petro
lsum firm at 9J4.
Money Market.
New York, Aug. 29-Money easy at
lh@2 per cent, prime Nero .ntlls pa
pee. 5js@6IS; exchange bills. firIn at
$4ySSIl =; d -,Dand. 4.S5; dry goods imports
for the week, $3,263.0 90.
A Dakota zephyr.
HuRoS, OAK, Aug. ga cyclone
passed east Of this city TO-DAY. destroy
ing everything in It's p 9TH, several hun
dred feet in width. The storm formed
three miles north of this city and trav-
eled In sautheasterly direction. The
residences Of J .sepn Blood good, Marvin
Cook and George r. Cook were blown
to atoms. Mrs. G -oree p. COX and a
child we're carried several hundred feet
and consider IDLY bruised. bat not fatal
iy injured. Points In South Dakota re-
port having seen the storm passing, bat
no results are given.