The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-10-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Colonel Herbert A. Haskell, o. g. A., retired,
died in Chicago Tuesday after lingering ILL.,
ness. Colonel Haskell served in Florida during
the Seminole outbreak; was in Utah during the
Mormon trouble; served through the civil war.
and was at one time professor of mathematics
Of West Point
A number of casks OF tallow bearing various
marks have been rescued from the water at
Lands End. England. some of them marked
Armour. Chicago" number OF carcasses Of
sheep have been washed ashore at Hartland.
This wreckage il probably from vessels lost in
the fog.
Fire at Sacramento Tuesday morning de-
stroyed the Telegraph house. Hays tin shop.
Patterns saloon and wilson's carpenter shop.
Loss 5000 John Collins. boarder at the Tel.
egraph house, lost his life In the famea
After visiting points of interest in Chicago,
the English and German iron and steel workers
divided into two parties. half of them going
north to the Lake Superior iron region, and the
remainder going to Alabama
At the Ivanhce-B usk tunnel. on the Colorado
Midland railroad, three miles west Of Leadville,
two men were killed and eight frightfully in
jured by the explosion of . box Of giant powder.
Seven will die.
The bankruptcy court ct London has issued
an order stopping payment on the draft for
1000 drawn on the American bank by James r.
Field 4 Co.. the London bankers who recently
failed.
James D. Phelan has been elected permanent
chairman Of the California Columbian EXPOSE
ton committee with w. II. Mills a. vice chair
man and w. v. Joselyn IS secretary.
Colonel Kuenzili, federal commissioner in the
canton of Ticino, has quietly reinstated the
conservative government, and the federal cav
airy has been withdrawn.
Major-General Miles has been appointed
member Of the commission to negotiate with
the Cheyenne Indians for q modification Of the
existing treaties.
A. w. McRae. secretary and treasurer Of the
Security Loan and Savings Company of St Cath
crimes, Ont, has disappeared with $25 200 of the
society's funds.
The Consolidated Ice Machine Company, OF
Chicago, made an assignment Tuesday No
schedule was filed, bat the figures are said to b
heavy.
John Smith, the murderer of George B. Ander-
son. an Arizona cattleman, has been captured.
He was tracked into the mountains by means of
bloodhouncA
At New York Tuesday the stockholders Of the
Comstock Tunnel Company met and elected
officers. The annual report was adopted after
much debate.
Richard Brown. . member of the Wood
carvers' union, Of Ct Lauis, suicided by jump
ing off Of Eads bridges into the river, distance
of 100 feet
The marquise of Castellsno, . grandniece OF
Talleyrand. who Influenced him TO become rec
onciled to the Church of Rome. is dead.
the Americanist congress- formally opened its
session at Paris on Tuesday The tribal history
of America win be thoroughly studied.
Count de II Oranges chateau near Domfront,
France, was sacked and burned Monday.
Many valuable works of art were lost
Nothing is known ct the London war once re-
earding the reported nutinous actions Of the
East surrey regiment.
postofice has been established at Dragon,
Spokane county, Wash, with William 7. Guyer
~ postmaster.
Delegates to the Quaker's International con-
ference are in session at Birmin CHAM, England.
sMrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children
Teething" softens the gums, reduces indamna-
ion, allays pain. cures wind collie. 25c bottle.