The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-02
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

IL Is learned today that the secret order boom.
ers have organized all along the border OF South
ern Kansas. Already over 5000 members have
been sworn in. They propose TO arm themselves
early In october, and make q raid on the Chero-
kee strip. They will buru grass. kill cattle and
make determined stand to hold the strip for
homes
An exhibition trial of the engines of the
armored cruiser Maine was given yesterday on
the East river. Secretary Tracy and Engineers
Melville, Baker, Merely and Ksffer, of the navy
department. were present. The engines of the
Maine are the largest of their kind ever built in
this country. The trial was emnently success
full
Alta conference of the German Catholic So
cieties, held at Dantzig, 1t was decided TO COM
memorate the pops's birthday, March .. 1892, by
the erection OF a monument at Memphen, Han
over, TO the memory of the late Dr.. Windthorst.
III is estimated at the treasury department
That there has been an increase of over 6CjO.0o0
III cash holdings since August /, representing a
decrease IN the public debt to that amount
according TO the old form Of debt statements.
1t is reported at Paris that Henry E. Abbey is
negotiating Tor the purchase OF the Mariposa, a
fast steamer, to convey Nine. Bernhardt and
company, which he has engaged as her support
In their coming ACKNOWLEDGMENT tour.
Judge Lathrop, of the Massachusetts, supreme
court, decided that under the Australian ballot
system Illegal voters could not be convicted
when they had not been properly challenged at
the time OF the election.
The trustees of the New York Life Insurance
Company have dismissed Cashier Theodore NJ.
Banta, who made charges against them of mis-
management of the companys affairs.
Lieutenant Governor schultz. of Manitoba,
has been accused of charging the government
an exorbitant price for the use OF his privaie
yacht as supply tender.
The steamship Arizona brought TO New York
yesterday eight sal ors rescued from the wreck
OF the Sea Gull on the African coast
The Oriental congress was opened yesterday
by IT'S president, Rev. Charles Taylor, OF St.
John college, Cambridge.
John Thompson, a Denver, Col, grocer, has
failed for $4,000. AT Atlantic City, n. j., the
United states, Congress Hall and Cambridge
hotels have failed.
The freight brakemen and conductors on the
Lake Erie & Western road struck again on the
LIST inst, as the new schedule proved unsatisfac-
tory.
An express train wrecked carriage al Chad
rom o. on August 81 In which Aansian Cox
and daughter were crossing the track and killed
them.
BY the bur ing of Hollister. Cal, hay ware
house, J. NJ Jones lost Zoo tons OF hay and sui
fered $4,000 loss
The American Social Science convention /. in
session at Saratoga, n. Y, with Professor Gal
laud in the chair
The Ontario senate railway committee is in
vestigatlng the Chaeurs railway boodling
affair.
Near Fell City, KY, on Monday afternoon, sew.
eral persons were killed in a railway accident
On Monday a bank at Sordara, No, was en-.
tered and robbed by masked hlghwaymen
Assistant Secretary Nettleton and Secretary
Tracy have returned from New York.
At Cleveland, Monday. the standard Oil Com
pany suffered loss of $500 by FIRE.
Two thousand Chicago eabinetmakers are on
strike
The Tennessee legislature began its work yes
terday