The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-11-16
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The Connecticut legislature met Tuesday.
j. c. Conrai, wholesale jeweer at Cleveland,
has failed, with liabilities OF $4,000, and assets
OF $685.
Struggled opium worth 5000 was found on
the China steamer City OF Peking at San Fran
cisco Tuesday morning.
The North German Lloyd steamer Lain, which
sailed from Bremen Tuesday morning for New
York. is aground in the river Wessr
The st. Paul plow works and the wagon
works at Gladstone, Minn., were burned Tues
day morning. Loss, $500, 600: insurance, $4,000.
James Still, a colored inmate of the New
Brunswick, N. J., reform school, has tasted for
sixty-eight days. He 10 very weak, but shows
no signs OF dissolution.
The swindler Evans, alias the Duke of Teck,
who is a son of DIR. Helmbold, the once-iamous
buchu manufacturer. has been sentenced In
London to one years imprisonment.
Capt Monteil, the French explorer, will ar
rive shortly at Trfpoli, after traversing the
desert of Sahara from Senegal, by way OF Lake
Tchad, an eighteen months journey.
The warship Alliance has been ordered from
Honolulu to samoa The situation is so critical
that it was deemed best not to wait for the
Ranger, now being repaired at San Francisco.
The telegraphers of The Burlington aud Rock
Island roads met secretly at St. Joseph. Mo-,
Monday night, 10 prepare a schedule for pre-
sentation to those roads for the settlement of
certain grievances.
Papers have been fled in the United States
circuit court by Frederick II. Horsey against
the Mexican National Construction Company,
of Colorado, to recover $4,000 for alleged
breach of contract
The stables of Frank Burke, OF the San Siesta
ranch, San Mateo, Cal, were burned Monday
night, and eighteen valuable yearing trotters
and considerable feed and machinery were con-
sumed. The loss was over $4,000; uninsured.
"Baron" J. D. Oerth arrived at st. Louis last
July with no money and induced an acQuaint-
ance to put s., 600 into a bogus business. Now
the police advertise him as afugitive from JUS
tice, and creditors to the amount of ZOO
mourn his suave manners.
Wilson CARRIER, long suspected of being q
moonshiuer and supplying Indians with whisky,
hired two Indians to row him up Big creek,
Idaho. They got drunk and went the wrong
way, going over forty-foot fall. All three were
drowned.
Jim Wall, q famous Australian bookmaker,
who has been doing business at Garfield park
and other race courses at Chicago, is missing,
and 10 being generally inquired for in sporting
circles. Some say that he has been fOully dealt
with; others, that he has retired to Australia
without saying goodbye.
At Moncton, N. b., last August Policeman J.
E. steadman was shot and killed. Two crooks.
known only as Jim and Buck. were arrested and
the latter was convicted and is now awaiting
the execution of the sentence OF death. A SEN
sation has now been created by written con-
fession by Jim that he and not Buck did the kill
ing.
The trial IL proceeding at spalato, Dalmatia,
of three Montenegrius who are charged with
having murdered the natural son of Prince
Nicholas, of Montenegro. The name of the son
was Grujica, and it was brought out IN court
that he had been a continual source of trouble
to the prince. Grujica was supported by his
father generously for many years, but became
dissipaied and reckless in his habits, and his
demands for money became more persistent
His opportunities at length became unbearable,
and the prince hired the three men to put him
out OF the way.
Ariel and Joseph Meinrath. commission brok-
ers in California fruits and fancy groceries at
Kansas City, doing business under the name of
Ariel Meinrath, have become embarrassed and
have turned over to their creditors in Kansas
City and Boston nearly all their assets. The
embarrassment, it is claimed. is due to heavy
Endorsements on the paper of California ship
pers, who have failed to meat their obligations
at maturity 1t is stated By the attorney for
Meinratl brothers. that the embarrassment Will
be only temporary, and that the firm will be
able to resume business within II few days. The
attorney places the firms liabilities at 900