The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-08
CONDEMNED DISPATCHES.


The cotton crop of the coast of Mexico is a
failure.
Advices from San Salvador are that Q financial
crisis is imminent
The Berlin police have arrested more ansrch-
lists and seized their papers.
The lower house of the Prussian diet ad-
iourned Oh Thursday until April &c.
The Allouez copper mihe at Red Jacket,
Mich, has been closed. 1t was never profitable.
Merchants of Mexico have petitioned the
secretary of the treasury to tax commercial
travellers.
Five bandits recently engaged in stealing rail-
road material were shot and killed at San Pedro,
Mexico, Wednesday.
Mrs. Charles Shirley. of Ashland, Wis, has
fallen heir to quarter interest in 81 SOC, 600
estate in New York city.
Fire yesterday destroyed the $4,000 market
hall building in Pullman, ILL.,, and seven build
ings, valued at $4,000, in Austin, Mich.
AT London, on Thursday, another large meet
ing of unemployed men was held, and in the
row that ensued the police took hand and re-
stored order.
building now in course of erection at Denver,
fell from the sixth story and was instantly
killed on Thursday.
The Clover Leaf line, otherwise known as the
Toledo, st. Louis d Kansas City railroad, has
about completed arrangements Tor new term
inal in Northern 81. Louis.
John Russell Youngs particular field of labor
as fourth vice president of the Philadelphia &
Reading road will be to look after the newspa-
per interests of the company.
At Sioux Falls, S d., on Thursday George and
Frank Eastman, aged 10 and u, ate wild par
ships. George is dead and Frank dying A
companion was badly poisoned but will recover.
High water swept away span of a new 1900
bridge being built across the Des Moines river at
ottumwa, Iowa. Seven workmen went down
with the timber and were with difficulty res
cued
Fl. B. Charley, brakeman on the north bound
Oregon express was shot and fatally wounded
near Marysville, Cal, Thursday morning by a
tramp whom he was trying to put OFF the train
The tramp escaped.
The rumors in circulation that England is
trying to obtain the harbor of San Quentin,
Lower California, for a coaliDg station is ridi-
cuied by the Mexican government as q canard
which is put in circulation yearly.
DR.. William Girard. OF Lawrenceville, H.,
died az Hot Spring, Ark, Thursday morning
Deceased was prominent in Illinois and Ken
tucky, and was receiver of public moneys at
Cheyenne, Wyo, under Cleveland's administra-
ton.
nickel trust, 10 control the entire output of
nickel, on a basis similar to the copper combine
in the United States. The plan of the syndicate
is TO purchase all the valuable nickel properties
in the district
As the result OF a settlement between the
Phelan Hod Hosting Company and the board of
delegates of the building trades, about A, 900
New York mechanics returned to work Tuesday
morning. The strike was caused by the en-
pioyment of non-union men.
At Hanging Rock, o., Daniel McDsniels, a
widower % years old, proposed 10 Minnie HAYES,
aged IS, and was refused. He immediately
crushed her skull with Ratchet and then cut
his own throat with q razor. The girl viii die
McDaaiels is alive aud in jail.
oI4ast Monday, at the Omaha quarry, near
Brookheld, o, Bud Price, white, killed Bud
Malone, cdsored. Deputy Sheriff Il C. France
of Cincinnati, tried to arrest Price. Price and a
brother-in-law named Tom Proctor, attacked
France, and he shot and killed them both
A locomotive in the yard OF the Long Island
railroad, a. Long Island, y. Y, exploded
Wednesday morning. Five men were fatally
injured: James Kline, conductor: Andrew
Walker, engineer; Theodore Van siber. fireman.
James Losha, brakeman. and John Laifey. water.
boy.
Mary acElrath has won her suit against the
Lyf0n Land Company, and has been awarded
forty acres of the most valuable land in Bir.
minghsm, Ala, containing the handsomest
private residences in the city, valued at s2ls GO
with accrued rents OF $500 Both sides ara
dissatisfied. and an appeal will be taken.
Isaac Long, an old resident near Istto,
Springs, Cal, was callei out OF bed to the door
Wednesday night by two men personatipp ofr.
GERS. He opened the door and received nenner
IN the eyes he was tied TO his bed ana tha
house rsnsacked. A purse containing 81. 70 was
found snd taken The men were traced from
Hsaldsburg towards Cslistoga