The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-17
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The government has been notified that nearly
all the stock of paper used for printing currency
was burned at Pittsfield, Mass, by the destrue-
ton of Crane & Co.'S mills.
An American syndicate has an agent at the
City of Mexico to arrange for the establishment
OF a steamer line between the United States,
Central America and Mexico.
J. Azbil raped the s-yesr-old daughter of ]. L
Barnes near Bardsdale, Ventura county, Cal, on
Friday, leaving his victim in precarious con-
dition. The ravisher is in jail.
The county auditor and recorder of Ventura
county, California, being short ST. 100 in his &C.
counts, his bondsmen paid the deficiency and
made him resign. He was poker player.
Acting Governor Murphy, of Arizona, has re-
quested the resignation of Adiutant-General
Gill on account of an attempted assault made
in the editorial rooms Of the Repu bliodn last
week
As the receivers of the San Antonio & Aran-
sas Pass road have refused to deal with Grand
Chief Clark, of the Railroad Conductors
Brotherhood, strike OF trainmen will be Or
dered.
The 600 employees of spreckels' Philadelphia
sugar refinery believe the factory will be closed
down for q long time, and dealers think the
close-down Is for the purpose o: maintaining
prices.
County Commissioner Weir, OF Pitts burg, Pa.
says he is still searching for the slayer of his
late brother, Superintendent of Police Gamble
Weir, and that evidence is accommodating against
the murderers.
Canadian customs authorities have discovered
the scheme OF the Chinese by which they have
been running Chinese into the United States by
fraudulent certificates, and have seized a large
number of the latter.
Dick Bender and Captain Jim. full-blood
Washoe Indians, have gone TO Washington City
for the purpose of securing reservation for
their tribe IN Carson Valley, New, or else home
for their aged and needy.
The Russian government has adopted meas
ures by which rail and water lines will be taken
by the government in case of mobilization OF
the troops, and severe penalties attach to the
betrayal of military plans.
Manager Smith, of tho Australian Mercantile
Loan Company, at Sydney, n. S. W., has been
sentenced to three and a-half years imprison-
ment for conspiring TO defraud the company.
Auditor Buck, OF the same concern, on the same
charge, was sentenced to two years.
The will OF the late Samuel Kochman, a San
Francisco wine merchant, leaves an estate val
ued at 100000 to the family. The sum of
ST. 600 is left in trust to the city OF Weaverville
as a school fund, $1,000 is bequeathed to thu
Hebrew Orphan asplum and $1,000 each to the
Prote, tant and Roman Catholic asylums.
The big Spreckels sugar refinery at philadel-
phia was closed on Wednesday, and all the
nauQs were pdlu OIL IL was ediu tnht the
plants absorption by the sugar trust means its
permanent closing, but this is denied, as the
trust agents say it will be running again in ten
days.
wv. Lowther, parliamentary secretary of the
foreign Office, replying to question in the COM
mons, declared that the statement that Eng land
is scheming to secure the harbor OF San Quentin,
lower California, Gs a coaling station under the
cloak OF the Mexican International Company, is
untrue.
The attorney general has sent to the Senate,
in reply TO resolution, list OF unAppealed
awards against the United States for damages
caused by improvements of the Fox and Wis
consin rivers. The awards aggregate sl0S, 81,
and the attorney general says he knows no yea
son why they should not be paid.
Charles Lundberg has fled suit in the superior
court at san Francisco against the Bering Sea
Packing Company and its beard OF directors TO
restrain the latter from selling his eighty-hye
shares of stock in the company as delinquent,
and also to prevent the carrying out Of certain
contract whereby the plant of the corporation
was to be leased to the Alaska improvement
Company.