The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-06-03
CONDENSED DISPATCHES

luo San FRANCISCO SuD-C0mmltteo On
Worlds fair yesterday rejected . motion
to delay local organization for two weeks,
also one to incorporate with $4,000 capi-
tai in 81 shares. A resolution for inslned-
late local organization withous capital
stock was referred to the general commit
tee.
A posse Of officials and citizens had a
desperate encounter in the mountains near
Austin Thursday night with . notorious
gang Of desperadoes led by George Mac
kenzie, . young outlaw. Mackenzie was
killed and the others escaped.
The coroner's jury found that the death
of ex-Police Sergeant Fleming, Of San
Francisco. was due to suicide, a. he had
threatened to end his life to end the pain
his sickness caused. His estate is worth
about $4,000.
The interstate encampment and Compel
tive drill began at Kansas City yesterday
with street parade. There are twenty
three companies present from all parts of
the United States.
The Senate yesterday made the nomina-
ton of George ]. Wallace. Of Missouri. to
be consul general at Melbourne, and r.
Williams. of Idaho, to b consul ct Singa-
pore.
Fire yesterday destroyed some wooden
buildings on Front street between Tulare
and Fern streets, Fresno. Cal. Loss, 81 500;
insurance, $3.50. 1t is believed TO be incen-
diary.
The comptroller of the currency has au.
thorized the Linn County National bank to
begin business at Albany. Or, with 81 .00O.-
600 capital stock. J. /. Cowan is presi-
dent
The board of visitors to the naval
academy at Annapolis. were officially re-
ceived yesterday with the usual honors
and proceeded to inspect the academy.
The government yesterday took formal
possession of the dynamite cruiser Vesu-
vius at the League Island navy yard. Phil
adelphia, and put it in commission.
George Whittier was shot and killed by
George Davis at Blocksburg, Cal. yester-
day in q quarrel over game of cards.
Both parties are half-breed Indians.
The French minister of the interior has
issued an order prohibiting the sale Of Paris
mutual pools inside of race courses and al
intermediary betting agencies.
The inquest on Mrs. May Flading began
at San Francisco yesterday. Fading is re-
covering, and claims that his wife shot
him and committed suicide.
Brakeman Hazes. who was to have been
the principal witness in the Birchwell muir
der case in Canada, was accidentally killed
on the train yesterday.
Juna Caron yesterday pleaded guilty at
Nevada, Cal, to assault on q 10-year-old
girl at Truckee and was sentenced to four
years imprisonment.
B. Quist, John Anderson and z. Lenden-
burg were killed by q cave in Curry &
O'Brien's rock quarry near Castle Rock,
CAL, Friday.
Max Roundborg, well known actor and
theatrical manager. was badly injured at
Chicago yesterday by being run down by q
street car.
Lorins, American minister to Portugal,
was cordially received in farewell audience
by the king and queen Friday. He left
Saturday.
The temperature at a m. yesterday
Was: New York 6S, New Orleans IS. ST.
Louis 20, Cincinnati 60. Chicago So. Winni-
peg 20.
The mills OF J.. f. Richie a Thomas II.
Wilson, Philadelphia, were burned Satur-
day afternoon. Two employees were burned
TO death.
A dispatch from Cairo says that England,
Italy and Russia have given notice Of their
adhesion to the Egyptian conversion
scheme.
Fire on the farm of w. r. Tarpey, near
Milton, Cal, yesterday destroyed the barn.
hay crop, seven horses and farm imple-
ments.
The congress of the Argentine Republic
has re-passed the bill providing that half
OF the customs duties shall be payable in
gold.
Sacramento finds 5,35i children in the
| city under IL years of age, an increase OF
| i03 over last year.
At Manchester the Whitsuntide plate
was won by Reverend, Or Veto second, St
| Cyr third
George Stevenson, colored, was lynched
today for an attempted outrage on . white
| woman
| The Warsaw police have expelled eighty
| four Prussians and Austrians.
| General Bryne, the channel balIoonist, Is
| dead. in London
Emperor William viii meet the car at
| Fredensborg.
| Senior Branes. the Portuguese novelist,
| is dead.
| Bonden & Jenkins have failed on the
| New York Stock Exchange
/ Judge Williams. of tie Utah commission,
Is very III ~ Hope. Ark.