The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-01-02

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Charles Maxwell Aiiea. United States
consul at Bernuaa, died December -
Heavy rxins have occurred near Taalo1.
France. eaEsiBg Goods and much damage.
n Se1sIier. g prominent merchant OF
sornerviIle. Tenn. has assigned. Assets,
si1eln
Policeman Seat Vas murdered on Main
street. Charlottesville. Va. Mo7day even
ing. b negro, WHO escaped
Evan Z Evans dealer IN mems furnish
ing good<. Lo. Angeles. has assigned As
sets. ss5-Gee: liabilities. sil,e
The steamship yandaEn, from Rotterdam.
has arrived a. New YORK after q storIny
voysge- she Aost one seaman aud her HE
boats IN q gale
Heavy rains hare fallen in the Lot-ef-
Gzrynne and BouehesaE Rhoae depart
Hen;s. France. TIE country around about
Mz-EeiIles is flooded
Amos J. sfilwsi. a wealthy merchant OF
Hannibal, No, sas murdered in bed sun
day morning By q burglar. TIE weapon
used was an AK
Two Italian engineer officers disguised
a. stone-Fnssonk have been arrested AZ Nov
gOrod. Russia Plans OF Russian forTresses
were fouad in their possession.
Clearing house retnrns. week ended De-
eember .: Gross exchanges. scr ,ssi.s4i
an increase of 1876 per cent. over the cor
responding week Of last year.
By an explosion of blasting powder in
Everson. Pa. Sunday night. four houses
we're destroyed and several Poles frightful!y
burned. One, and perhaps three, VIII die.
The German government has changed
its intention regarding the proposed In
crease of the artillery strength OF the army,
aud no credit viii be asked for that pun
pose.
Hank Frost. an American, was SHOT and
instantly Killed in q saloon at Nogales. A.
r., sunday, by Tsjo. Mexican gambler.
who then jumped across the line into
sonora
Ms. Samuel P. Saunders, of Fifth ave
nue. san Francisco, was chloroformed
| while in bed sunday by robbers. who stole
1900 worth OF iewelry, $500 in checks and
5000 in gold.
Rebellion has broken ont in the VAN
country, upper Burmah. The prisoners in
tue shwebo Jail BurInah, recently attempt
| ed TO escape. Seven were killed and three
wounded
| The president has pardoned A. G. Green,
Josiah Richardson, Joseph Fl. Byington
and VIM. Sevins, convicted of unlawful CO.
habitstion, and sydney Weeks, convicted
Of adultery.
John Roach, a small boy, went into
Pittsbufy sewer. sunday afternoon, with
lighted match. 70 find a natural gas leak.
An explosion followed, which fatally
burned him.
The New York court OF appeals has
affirmed the decision ousting Thomas c.
Plat from the position of quarantine com
missioner of New York, on the ground OF
non-residence.
Fire on board the steamer Havana, re-
Gently from Havana, al New York sunday
night, did 5000 damage. Ten fTemen
were temporarily overcome by the fumes
OF burning tobacco. q
The steamer Bristol, of the Old Colony
line, was burned at her wharf in Newport,
K. l., sunday morning. No passengers,
freight or baggage was lost. Loss, $500, 600;
covered by Insurance.
Kuhua, who was arrested at Queenstown
for the murder of VIM. Chr.sten in Prim-
rose, Wis, protests his innocence. He was
remanded pending the production of proof
sufficient to warrant his extradision.
Joseph Solomon of New York, Hebrew
j0bber in laces and linen goods, fatally
shot his wife Dora, and afterward killed
himself, on the sidewalk near his home on
East Ninetieth street, sunday evening.
The Bulgarian parliament voted the sums
asked in the budget, granted amnesty To
all political refugees except actual leaders
in risings since lss6. and pardoned Major
Popof, convicted of ENLIGHTENMENT from
the war Office.
Thirty or 40 drunken negroes and whites
engaged in riot at Jeanette, Pa, sunday,
knives and pistols being called into service.
WIN. Calvin was terribly, perhaps fatally
cut, aud eolored man named Carroll was
badly wounded.
Henderson Bros, OF San Francisco, viii
continue their line of clipper ships from
New York. having secured the ship Fred
line. The rate OF freight from New York
is higher than for five years.
December - is "All Innoeents Day" in
Mexico, the same as April lin America. A
chihuahua paper printed monstrous hoax
giving details Of an alleged papist uprising
in the City Of Mexico, with 1900 people
killed, and gullible newspaper CORE
spondent in Fl Paso spread the story far
and wide
shortly after midnight Sunday morning
| seven colored people-Mrs. Turner and her
little daughter, a daughter IF George
Cloyd, three Brooks brothers aud q man
whose name is unknown-attempted to
cross the Ohio river near RiI ley, o., In a
fiathoat Waves from passing steamers
swamPed the boat, and all were drowned.
In Craighead county, Ark, VIM. West, a
desperado, was shot and killed by his
brother-in-law. stephen Darcy, who after
words died from pistol-wounds inflicted by
West. The latter had called TO see his
wife, who had left him and gone TO her
mother, aud he began to abuse the mother
for bringing about the separation, when
stephen Darcy interfered.