The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-05-28
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Tuesdays eastbound Southern Pacific pas.
senger train No. l struck rock on the track
near Bronco tunnel, Cal. The rock weighed
over 200 tons, but the train was going ut such
speed that it moved the rock twenty-five feet
The engine was completely demolished and the
express and tender telescoped for half the length
of car. Young and Citing, engineer and fire.
man, escaped miraculousy. Wrecking trains
from Reno and Truckee worked all night clear
ing the tracks.
The California supreme court has reversed its
Affirmation OF the judgment of the superior
court which sentenced John McNulty to be
hanged for the murder of James Collins in 1882
The affirmation was reversed so that the matter
may be re-submitted and a test case made in
reference to the law passed by the last legslat-
ure, providing that all persons sentenced to
suffer death shall be hanged at San Quentin
prison.
small frame cottage in Topeka Kan, was
burned Wednesday morning. In the ruins
were found the charred remains OF Mrs.
Auptegrof, aged Is, and her three children.
The circumstances point to deliberate and
carefully planned murder and suicide. The
father, who is teamster, left home early in
the morning to look for work. The family had
been very respondent because he was unable to
obtain work.
The question of establishing places where
butchers can buy cattle, was discussed by the
National Butchers Protective Association, in
session at Pittsburg Wednesday. Before adj
journing q committee was appointed to visit
Texas and examine different cities and report
upon the advisability of establishing market
for Eastern butchers.
8. w. Schuster, brakeman, was killed on the
Southern Pacific near Saugus, Cal, Wednesday.
II Is supposed he was struck by bridge while
climbing from one car to another. He was sec
rotary of the Los Angeles Lodge of the Brother
hood OF Railway Trainmen.
The body of the late Judge Taft ex minister
to Austria and Russia, who died in San Diego,
arrived at Cincinnati Wednesday. 1t was i'm
mediately taken to the old Taft homestead on
Mount Auburn, where the funeral will take
place tomorrow.
The stockholders of the st. Louis & San Fran
cisco Railroad Company have adjourned to
June 5, pending the hearing of an application
for an injunction restraining the issuance OF
s5OO0o,000 of bonds, which will be heard next
Friday.
At Raymond, Miss, Wednesday, Anderson
Harris, colored. was hanged for the murder of
Hon. Gillie Nj. Lewis. mayor of Clinton, last Oc-
tober. The execution was witnessed by 1000
persons.
The New South Wales assembly Is debating a
motion of want OF confidence in the ministry.
proposed by Dibbs, leader of the opposition,
against resolutions in favor of Australian fed.
Grafton.
The trial of James Kerr proprietor of the DC.
cidental foundry, for the shooting of Edward
Coogan in June last, during the strike of the
iron molders, began Wednesday at San Fran
cisco.
At Wheeling, Va, Wednesday, DR.. Garrison,
who shot and killed DIR. Baird here last March,
was today found guilty of murder in the second
degree.
NJ. Bergier, n counsellor in the Bordeaux ap-
,,,oiS IA
losses, amounting to 100000 in bourse specula-
tons.
The Argentine senate has extended for an
indefinite period the delay of twenty days
accorded to banks in the payment of deposits.
William Tell, William Gilmour and Charles
Stockwood were drowned in Rideau lake, near
Toronto, Tuesday, by the upsetting OF canoe
The death of Professor Charles William
Naegeh, a German botanist, and Joseph Rou-
MANTLE. Provence poet, is announced.
NJ Menou, banker of Bordeaux, has failed
with liabilities of 100000