The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-09-21
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The National switchmen's Union II in con-
vention at Dallas, Tex.
Alfred Rothschild will be one OF the delegates
to the international monetary conference
Queen Regent Emma In person opened the
Holland legislature at The Hague on Tuesday.
Albert Fuller was fatally shot and Henry Cas-
per killed in . duel at Gold Ridge, Ala, on Mon
day night
1t is not true that Emperor William said it
was very possible he would visit the Worlds
fair at Chicago.
The overdue steamer Carroll, from Halifax for
Boston, il at Booths bay, Me-, with her
machinery disabled
Burglars blew open the Berkeley, CAL, post.
Office safe on sunday night. but were frig htensd
away without booty.
Two masked men, supposed to be cowboys,
held up Bank Cashier Watkins at Dexter, No.,
Monday afternoon and secured $4,000
OF 10000 ounces OF silver offered for sale to
the treasury department Monday, $4,000 ounces
were purchased at sS7 to So So cents.
The result Of the negotiations with Indians In
Indian territory will be the opening to white
settlement of over 100000 acres OF land.
The San Francisco Examf,,er has found wit
ness Of the murder Of Policeman Grant by Actor
Curtis. He is J. w. Cam, "a fat man, 20 years
Old.
Two steamers are about to be built In Scotland
cow, and the other by the Derneys, OF Dunbar
ton.
Troop G, Third cavalry, has left Fort McIn-
tosh for Garlic, Tex. to aiG in capturing dis
persing a camp OF eighty revolutiouists reported
in that vicinity.
william Simons and J. R Leavitt, two mar
ried men. were killed by the collapse of plat
form in the shaft OF the Charlotte mine, near
sonora, Cal. On Tuesday.
Iumes Duffav shnt and kiilad AM ia Mirash
and wounded Robert Marley and Charles Johns
at Chicago on Monday, during a quarrel All are
switehmen on the Rock Island road.
Lowell Mason Markham sues Edward F.
seares for $26. 5T7 for services in keeping wit
nesses in the Searies- Hopkins will case, "es-
peciaily one George Williams" out OF Massa-
chusetts during the t!ial.
Joseph Idnskey, one of the Oldest and most
popular policemen in San Francisco, was found
desd in his room Monday morning, having been
asphyxi.ted by gas from a defective gas fixture
Mrs. Linskey and son had 6 narrow escape from
death.
The explosion on the cruiser Philadeiphia, at
Baltimore, on Saturday. was due to the prema-
ture explosion of thirty pounds of powder be-
fore the breech OF q gun had been clos I'd Lieut.
seIerman and three gun hands were painfully
burned
Four hundred delegates are in attendance at
Albuquerque, \. NJ. on the first annual session
OF the southwestern Wool Growers Assoc a
ton, which includes the states OF California,
Utah. Colorado, Wyoming and the territories OF
Arizona and New Mexico. T. +. White, of
Colorado, was elected permanent chairman, and
}. r. Days, of Ar.zoua, secretary.
Frances Gonzales, who is charged by the Vene-
suelan minister with iitiing out the steamship
South Portland with the in zen;ion of using her
as a cruiser against the Vene suei au government
surrendered himself 10 "A United States commits
sioRer at New York Saturday. The prompt az
| ton Of the United States is commended in a
dispatch from the Nenezulaa government.
A, Missouri Valley, Ia, four children OF Mrs
| kcAenhacS were burned u death Saturday
morning They were sleeping upstairs. The
mother tried TO ali lighted gasoline stove. and
sn explosion followed She threw the stove
| down stairs, and then ran down herself to ex-
| ;Inguish the flames, but the fire spread rapidly
and before help arrived the house was a mass OF
fames The bodies of the children were burned
| 20 Il crisp
| Fire Is st!il raging in the north and east OF
Newcastle, Col, though a change of wind has
done much 10 stop its fury. Ii is not spreading
| 10 the north. but seems tiercest in the east 1t
ssep. TO Canyon creek, and IS now sweeping up
the creek, and the rapchuen are completely cut
| Oh FROM town. Ii now known that ali parties
| had hunters are ont OF danger, though the
| branches were cleaned w BY fire. and thousands
OF dollars woTtA Of prOperty swept AWAY