The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-11-09
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

naval reserve corps of 400 men is being re-
cruIted at Chicago.
The Charleston earthquake festival came to
conclusion Friday night, when magnificent
ryrotechnic display was witnessed by $1,000
people.
In q political quarrel on November
Clebe Shuck, sheriff of Harrison county, Ind,
shot and killed City Marshal Eugene Heath, OF
Corydon.
Ross, of Philadelphia, and Conner, of Man
chester, wrestled Friday for purse OF fl0O and
the championship of the world. Ross won by
one point
The decision on the demurrer to the indict-
ment of Labor Commissioner Peck, Of New
York, and his stenographer, Rodgers, Will be
handed down next week.
In his annual report Gen. Breckinridge, in
spector general OF the army, dwells upon the
spirit OF patriotism shown by all sections OF the
country during the Chileanlexcitement.
The Pacific Athletic Clu0. san Francisco. has
obtained new lease OF the wigwam, and Man.
ager Harrison is making arrangements for
grand reopening upon the occasion OF the Will
iams-Turner mill. The annual election OF the
club will be had in few days, and q new board
of directors will be chosen
The recretary of the interior has approved the
allotments of lands to Indians in the DEVILS
Lake reservation in North Dakota, to the num-
ment act these Indians are thereby declared to
be citizens of the United States and entitled to
all the rights and privileges and immunities as
such citizens.
Information has been received from Califor.
MIA that Barney Dpnning, an inmate
of the Pittsburg poor farm for twenty
two years, has fallen heir to an
estate valued at $4,000 The fortune was be-
queathed Dunning by his brother William. who
went to California in 1s49, accumulated large
wealth and recently died.
Hydrostatic officers report that mass of for
est growth resembling large island, supposed to
have drifted from some part OF the American
continent, was sighted on September %, between
the Goth and 3oth meridian travelling mile an
hour in northeasterly direction II not
broken up, it will drift TO the steamer routes
and finally land on the European coast
While ]. F. Borkelow and Frank NJ. Conroy, of
Brooklyn, N. Y, were examining the cliff
dwellers' region on Nine Mile creek in Utah,
Conway was forced over a precipice by a
fractions pack animal He fell on ledge of
rocks where he was freely attacked by two
eagles In his struggles against them he rolled
off the ledge and was dashed to pieces In the
bottom Of the canyon.
As All evidence of how serious the navy de-
psrtment regards affairs at Honolulu aud how
closely this government is watching British
movements in Hawaii, it is stated that the
cruiser Boston is instructed to remain in the
harbor constantly. 1t was these instructions, 1t
is said, that prevented the captain OF the Boston
from making An extensive search for the miss
ing boat of the bark Campbell
Volney Ashford, the well-known Hawaiian
agitator, in an interview in Chicago on Tuesday,
said that the time for annexation OF the islands
had not come yet, but would. He concluded:
'What with the queens fighting for the prerog-
alive of the crown under the influence OF
ignorant bepchman. aud the foreign element on
the island fighting for the abolition OF the
dynasty, there is a pretty broil all the time.
Republican ideas are growing steadily, and il
is only question OF time when the monarchy
will lie oyerthrown"