The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-17

The steamship Hudson, which left New York
on the 18th for New orleans, has returned in
tow OF the steamship iroquoi@ On the l1th
inst the Hudson broke her crank shaft aud gor
twelve hours was tossed and pitched about a
the mercy of the waves. Monday the fruqnola
sighted the Hudson and towed her into port
Mayor Wa-hburn, of Chicago, has received q
letter from ;. W. Holiday, % san Francisco.
announcing that the late Joseph Rosenherg, %
San Francisco, in his will left $1,000 O. D. cx-
pended in the erection OF q public drinking
fountain on some prominent corner tn Chicago.
At Venice, Ill, sunday. two neErucs. Grant
Wood and Dick Oliver. quArreled over a woman
and fought with knives and pistols. Nood Vas
cut in the heart, dying sooa aftcrward. Whte
| divers wounds are serious. he will probably
recover He and the woman are under arrest
Eugene Underhin and Murray BOcock, az New
| York, have performed q feat never before Sc
| eOmplished, travelling in canoe from Moose
head lake to the mouth of the 81 Johns river.
New Brunswick, 5Oi miles, the actual travelling
! time being fourteen days
British Home Secretary Matthews has had re-
mitted eighteen months Of the sentence OF Ina
prisonment imposed upon Austin n. RidVeil.
the American forger, in ls72. for frauds prac-
ticed in that year upon the BANK Of Eugland.
The sub-auditing committee OF the Alierhany.
Pa, council appointed 90 audit the books Of
David Hastings, market clerk, reported tonight
that a shortage Of ti2.647 in his accounts has
been discovered. He will be prosecuted.
John 0liphant, an American who was a pas
senger on the ill-fated steamer Iaormina and
who was saved by Greek schooner, reports
that an English vessel picked up another boat
containing survivors.
London lockers declined TO unload the grain
cargo on the steamer Lyiian Monarch last sun
day. The vessels owners showed feVerish haste
To discharge heavy cargo, as American grain is
arriving at all ports.
Acting Secretary Nettleton has instructed the
surveyor of customs ut Omaha 20 admit hitter
ing cloth for beet sugar machinery free Of duty
under paragraph 81 OF the act of october 1. 1890
The San Francisco board of supervisors had
instructed the assessors not 20 pay any attention
TO the order of the state board OF equalization TO
increase the municipal assessment ~ per cent
At Hampden, Ala, the jury mas returned a YER
diet oi not guilty In the case OF Tom Haines, &C
cused of numbering Ned Hannigan while the
two We're rowing in a boat on July Il last.
F. J. Finuik, James Connolly. James McGarry
and John McAleer were drowned in the Della
ware river opposite the League Island navy
yard Monday by the upsetting Of boat.
Five more emicrants have escaped from the
detention pen at the barge Office, New York.
How they got away is mystery. There is little
prospect OF their rccapture.
Thirty-fve cases OF cholera and eighteen
deaths are reported on the British men-of-war
MaranthOu and Red Breaft, ~ Bombay. The
epidemic has subsidized.
At Bay City, Mich, Tuesday, jealous mAn
named NeVine, aged IS, shot and killed his
wife, aged II, and then fatally shot himself
The Salyages, a group OF islands near the
Canaries, were recently the scene Of an extensive
ConfaEration. The loss amounts u E2l0,O1
The village of Coire, in the Tyrol, was re
Gently destroyed by fire while all the people
were away attending religious festivities
There have been fifteen deaths from cholera
recently on board two British steamships At
Bombay.