The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-09-11
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The Methodist conference in session at Pa
cidc Grove. Cal, has adopted the new feature OF
introducing lectures on pastoral theology st fhe
close of examinations Of applicants to tie min.
istry. and permitting the younger ministers to
ask questions. The investigation Of The charges
Of immortality against Rev. simons Is arousing
much interest
A hurricane In the north of Italy did much
damage ct Bullins, and destroyed bridges and
houses In the ida valley. Twenty-Five bodie .
have already been recovered from the debris Of
ruined buildings. and it 10 feared that the re.
mains of other victims still lie buried under the
ruins.
Senator Afagslhaes, the Portuguese journalist
was given . banquet at Paris Wednesday, and
made speech in which he protested against
the British sutelage under which the Brogar "a
dynasty had been placed over Portugal He
advocated union with Spain.
A bill has been intrr duced in congress for the
relief Of William K Brya,. postmaster at San
Francisco II directs the accounting Officers TO
credit him with s9,467 funds embezzled BY
James s. Kennedy, money order clerk.
The Georgetown stage was stopped Monday
near Greenwood, Cal. while on the way to An.
burn, by . masked hiehwayman and robbed.
He secured the Wells Fargo express box but IL
10 not known how much 1t contained.
The Australian government is chartering
steamers to bring coal for the use of the rail-
ways. the supniy being exhausted In conse-
quence OF the strike. The Melbourne Gas Com.
pany il getting coal from India.
An immense memorial meeting in honor of
John Boyle 0'Reilly was held In the Mefropoli-
tan opera.house, New York. Monday night.
Governor Hill. Judge Fitzgerald and others
spoke.
was picked up on . street in Fresno. Cal,
Wednesday morning. badly wounded. His a.
sailsnt had used knife and is unknown.
Michsl Hawkins. who eighteen months aso
attempted to shoot Mrs. Peter Donahue sf San
Francisco. has been released from Jail after hay.
ing served . sentence of one year.
The rumor Of the failure Of the great dry
goods firm Of J. D. Farwell & Co.. Chicago ow.
ing TO the collapse of Potter, Lowell 4 Co., Boa.
ton, il authe relatively denied.
Marshal Kelly has been arrested 1t Nevada
City. Cal. CHARGED with being an accessory 10
the murder OF Azostino Pl zza, at Yuba, in An.
gust. 1859.
Philadelphia police made q wholesale raid
Monday night on Chinese gamb ing houses on
Race street and captured 225 players Of fan
tan.
The New Zealand House of Representative.
has rejected the proposal to nominate d -legates
TO the Australian federation convention.
An elevator of the Osden.burg Lake Cham.
plain railroad was burned at OgdensburR. N
Tues lay. Loss, $5O0,0oo well insured.
David Dougherty. . wea thy farmer. l.yIn,
sixteen mics southeast of Dallas Tex.. Va
mysteriously murdered Monday night
The body of Cap am Hay, one of the victims
Of the Petrol disaster. near San Diego. Ia.t
week, hes been recovered.
Memoir won the st Leser stakes at the DON.
CO ter Seotember met Wednesday; Blueereen
second Go salvo third
4 possofnce Las been established at verndale.
Lewis county. WASH, with W. g. Johnston :.
postmaster.
Lieutenant General Bar.owsxi died suddsn,v
At 81. Petersburg Tuesday from aropi KY.
Another big field and forest hge Is raging In
In the vicinity of Grass Valley, Cal
James Wilson. banker. OF Ssrt afor Ill. h.,
as>igned; liabilities, $4,000