The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-02-10
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Buffalo Bill has returned to New York.
The Queensland, Australia, Deposit and Build
ing bank has suspended.
The U. S. S. Pensacola is still at Honolulu and
will probably remain there for some time.
The treasury department on Monday pur-
chased 100000 ounces of silver ct from $.9075
to sol.
Connecticut will be represented at the Worlds
fair. A popular subscription will defray the
expense
The president has nominated Edward 0'Brien
OF New York, to be commissioner OF navigation,
vice Bates, resigned.
Floods in the Otago and tributary districts
in New Zealand have stopped railway traffic
and ruined the crops.
The Oh amber of commerce OF Stockholm has
declared the cattle OF Germany infected with
foot and mouth disease.
John A. Mccall has been rendered the pres
idency OF the New York Life Insurance Com
pany, vice Beers, resigned.
J. W. Tobin, wood finisher, of San Fran
cisco, committed suicide on Monday by jump
ing from the ferry steamer Oakland
The United States court of claims has affirmed
the right of the postmaster general to annul
contracts made without his approval.
English newspapers deny the charges against
Great Britain, made in the report of the
American immigration commissioners,
The house committee on naval affairs has
ordered the drafting of bill for the eonstruc-
ton of dry dock at Algiers, La, at cost OF
$4,000.
Owing to the appearance of yellow fever in
Punta Arenas, the coffee shipping port of Costa
Rica, C. A., the government has adopted strict
Quarantine.
President Barrilas, OF Guatemala, ia instigat-
ing military officers TO provoke street quarreis
snt n a n MD
tinue in power.
Engineer Hugh Dougherty and Brakeman
Faust, who were injured in the Reading railroad
locomotive explosion, have died, making five
deaths as the result OF the accident.
II. A. Widemann succeeds J. Mott Smith as
minister OF finance for Hawaii. 1t is probable
that Smith has been appointed minister to the
United States vice Carter, deceased.
Lee Hsrreil. alias Bob Powell. Texas train
robbeT, and Jim Brien, the murderer OF Watch
man John Howard at Rio Vista, killed on Janu-
airy =, have been arrested at Los Angeles.
Fiity-iiye horses were sold for sJo.jG5 IA. Wood
ward d sharkiinS sale, a. Lexington, KY, Tues
day. The best price was obtained for Nelly
Mason. by Onward, 10 TraGx, OF Eau Claire
Wis, $500.
Another zig strike OF ore is reported from
Copper Rock Coio., It's vein being four feet wide
aud pieces OF rock from the top being almost
full OF free god. 4 rush Is being made for the
new digging.
By the explosion of al eagin, on the Reading
railroad IN Philadelphia Monday night George
Robson and two unknown BOYS who were steal
ing ride were Instantly killed and five men IL
.uEed. one fatally.
~ Monticello, ARK, Monday, Chloe Wright,
the Ij-year-old daughter OF Jackson Wright was
outraged by negro named Henry Beaver
Beaver was afterward found hanging to limb
aud ;itG.el with bullets
\ f-st-c.ass carriage attached TO an express
train bound tog Brsi.a. Roumania. was burned,
al! eighteen passengers asleep when the Gre
broke CUE persisted IN the flames, the doors OF
the ca-risEc being locked.