Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-12-24

FOREIGN.
These whs Thre.ieued the Prince Of
Wales

FOhE1U v.
These Whs Threstesed the Prince Of
Wales
LONDON, Dec. E.-Ihe rnaeis,eyfai ex-
ANIMATION OF the csse Of John and Ss-
fan Aagee, arrested on ths l-ih ms. An;
~ h-hsiogfou on charge Of attempt
ing 20 procure money from the Prince
81 wales oy writing threatening letters,
vas held today. Toe letters referred to
stated tnsi four men bad been appoint
cd TO marder the PnDce OF Wales. and
tae MaRees offered to H. form on the in
tended assassins provided they we're
given IlOuO and free pardon. The
detectives who we're detailed TO work Oh
the case met the M4eee. by appoint
nentr aud gave them q package COZ
tsiuin9 90 fsrthinRs. This vas dole
20 lead tie prisoners into believing that
their request would be fully complied
With. 50 that the detectives misht oct
the Whole story frota the Naeees, ard
see II there vas aRy truth in II. Maeee,
discovering that the package contained
farthlngs, upbraided the Prince for his
sreachery, demanded 5000 and threat
ened 30 shoot the detective who arrest
Cd BIN. The Crown prosecutor. believ.
ing that Mrs. Naeee vas innocent OF
The crime and that she vas entirely IN
der the influence Of Der husband. With
drew the charge against her and ste
vas discharged from custody 1t was
proved By draft of tAe letters found
in MaRee's booklet book that tue letters
we're IN bis Handwriting. he wss cem.
mitted for trial.
Daytu Approves Claasssue,. Plan.
LONDON, Dec. 9.-Micsael Davitt in
an Interview today respecting home rule
for Ireland said The alleged pro-
posals of Gladstone recently Published
are good basis for the settlement of
The Irish question. | advocate Daniel
OConneiFs plan for minority repre-
sentation in the Irish Parliament. IL
would give IS seats to the Loyalists ana
70 to the ParnellItes- The police should
be disarmed. Irish landlords would be
impossible under the Irish Parliament -
A welsh Ceiiiery Explosion.
LONDON, Dec. 23.-A dispatch from
Ponty -y-Prldd, Wales, reports that a
terrible colliery explosion has Just oc-
cured at Ferndale pit, near there, and
that fUU miners are eotombed.
later dispatch says that seventy.
two dead bodies have bet n taken out Of
the ferndale pit, and thirty miners
have been rescued more or less injured.
The remainder of those who were IN
the mine at the time of the explosion
are believed to be safe.
The explosion occurred in the upper
| two seams. There were $50 mea in the
mine at tue time. The maj lrity we're
IN the lower seam. Otherwise the death
list would have been much larger. Al
least nifty men were killed in the upper
seam, and SCORES were terribly burned.
The injured we're carried to places of
safety oy their more fortunate CON
panions who had not been hurt.
The latest dispatches say that 80
men have been rescued, seven of whom
are so feIrfuliy burned that they may
die.
4 Catholic View.
LONDON, Dec 23.-An article on the
Irish question supposed to have bsen
| written by Cardinal Manning appears
IN this weeks issue of the Tablet, the
Catholic organ in England. la thi.
article the writer Osjec;s to the request
of Rev. Thomas Nulty, Catholic Bishop
Of Meath, that English Catholics con.
tinue to support Parnell. the ground of
the objection being that tie ParnelIites
desire q separation which might result
in the Punishment of Catholics from
the English Parliament for the sake of
Ireland.
German Capital In China.
BERLIN, Dec. Z3-German financlers
are taking much interest in the devel-
opment of railroads in China and today
Is was publicly announced that the
Daetsch Bank. the Discount Company
and the Krupp Iron Company will im.
mediately after New Year send dele
gstes to China with view to nego-
tiations with that government in the
matter Of establishing a railroad sys
tenn throughout the empire.
Peace with the Boyeotters.
Cork, Dec. 3.-Ihe Cork Steam
Packet Company, which has been boy
cotted by Nationalist cattle dealers for
several weeks, has st last made conces-
sion to the ssttlemen. The company
aer - not to carry cattle that have
been seized for non payment or raised
on farms frem which tenants have been
evioted. The company also agrees to
take the unexpired charters Of steamers
hired by the Cattlemen's Association
and to pay the dealers for the losses
sustained by them-amoanting to sew
eral thousand pounds-sinee the COM
mencement Of the boycott. The Ma
tionalists are naturally greatly elated
over the victsry.