The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-09-30

Smallpox 10 epidemic at Chiaps, Mexico.
Herr Zelie has been elected burgomastsr Of
the Berlin municipal council.
The directors of the suez canal have decided
to reduce tolls half franc January l.
Capt Andrew. who crossed the Atlantic IN .
little dory, has arrived safely at Hueiya, Spain
Construction OF the proposed electric railway
up Mount Popocatapeti, Mexico, will soon be-
gin.
Gen Bubroken. leader of the insurrection in
British Honduras. has been shot His wife =
at Fargo. n. d.
News is received of the murder at ses, noar
Cape Town, Africa, by sailors, of Capt q. r.
Buckley and wife. OF Danvers, Mass.
simovice, a prominent progressist member OF
the servian chamber of deputies. has been muir.
dered at kraIjsve. The mayor Of that town has
been arrested on suspicion.
BY the explosion OF boiler In q sawmili at
Embrum village, Ontario. Wednesday night,
Pierre stone and J. b. Lazurs were killed, and
W. Gegoire, A. Lamonde. A. Premicaux aud
Peter and n. Coyere were badly injured.
The body OF an abandoned woman was found
in q sandpit near Chsrlot,enburg, Germany,
mutilated after the manner OF Jack the Ripper.
This IL the second deed of the kind recently.
There 10 no clue TO the perpetrator, and there
il apprehension that Jack is here.
The British steamer Highland Chief. at Lon
don from Buenos Ayres, reports that on Ssptem-
Der Is she met the Britis b tank steamer Bsyonno
on fire. Part of the crew had taken to the bo&ta.
The Highland Chief waited tll the IRE was
auenched. While shs was standing by boat
swamped and q We persons were drowned
The want of corn recently caused riots among
the people OF Eoreiia, in the state OF Mfchoacan.
Mexico. The disorders were only checked By
the governor personally promising 70 supply
the needed grain. The governor fulfilled his
promise by bringing from neighboriug places
enough corn 10 iast until American corn A..
rived.
Dr. Francis Charles Scott Sanders, formerly
proprietor OF the Lyric Club, London, charged
with forging the name OF Earl LondssbcrouRh
10 bills for f3.7S3, has been committed
for trial This sum 10 not the total OF the
forgeries OF which the prisoner has been &C.
eused IL being said that he hiss at various times
procured 100000 BY forging other persona
names.
The coroners Jury in the inquest over d..
Heron, the army surgeon who committed sui
eide in London because his mistress, Baby Rus.
cell, did, found that he was insana In fare
well letter lie said: al will Join her - quickly
as possible. I have 10 doubt that her death va
not due 20 natural causes Existence TO me
would not be worth having II through myself
my promised bride committed suicide there
fore take an overdose o. morphine.
man named Secondly, who in Presaurg.
Austria, committed suicide In prison, has
proved 20 % the perpetrasor OF series OF muf-
cers and roboeYfes In Vienna The crimes were
committed by daylight TAs victims included
a ievsle, named sehuixin February lass, en- Inn
kser,sr at Funfguss, porter o. the episcopal
palsre at efefaaspiatz and . wafcsmaser's
assistant murdered last week. The mnrdessr
Wa . Iupa,ic lie also committed several muir.
ders ia B0enos Ayres.