The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-03-02
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.


The U. s. s. Yorktown, now at Callao. will be
ordered to san Francisco.
The inquiry into Edward NJ. Fields sanity Is
still in progress in New York.
Fifteen Newfoundland seal-hunters persisted
in the late storm, and ten are missing
Tebb & Yelland, of Peter6oro, Ont, are about
to establish a bodybuilding yard at Victoria
The District of Columbia appropriation bill
has been reported to the House and referred to
committee OF the whole.
negro suspected of being the brute who
committed the outrage at sedaia No., last
week, has been arrested at ST. Louis.
The final races for the worlds skating cham
pionship, at Chrlstiania, Norway, between Smart
ana Hagen, resulted in victory for the latter.
The Brisbane. Queensland, government will
prohibit immigration temporarily because of
the large number OF unemployed now in the
city.
Brain & Co.. store, at Drain, Or, was burg
larized saturday night, the thieves obtaining
$500. They failed in an attempt to blow opea
the safe.
Young Raum testified in the pension Office In
vestigation at Washington City on Monday that
he mad not been allowed to defend himself
against the charges.
William II. Bradley, the venerable clerk of
the United States court for the northern
district of Illinois, died Tuesday afternoon, at
Chicago, OF apoplexy.
crazy shoemaker named Revell, living at
Broadsworth, England, killed his four children
on Sunday by cutting their Threats. He then
fatally wounded himself.
Muir, London shoemaker who some time
ago murderded a woman named Sullivan, who
was living with him as his wife, wss hanged on
Tuesday in Newgate prison.
Arabs have revolted in Tripoli because of the
fast, Of Er,p h,-1 ha fan of Tt,rE
making natives liable to CONSUMPTION, from
which they have been exempt.
Jefferson Lodge, No. u, L o. G. T., of Port
Townsend, celebrated its twenty fifth anniver
sary on Monday. Delegations from Seattle and
other cities were In attendance.
AS the Boring sea arbitration treaty has been
signed, the English papers are pleased that the
supreme court in the sayward case did not
touch upon the international equities.
The first volume of Count Won Moltke's war
CORRESPONDENCE is of interest chiefly to students
of military tactics The volume contains 1i6
letters relating to the Danish war of 1864.
Twelve suits now stand against the Wabash
railroad, aggregating s104,0 900. growing out of
the accident to the sleighing party at ST. Louis
in January, when eight persons were killed.
The comptroller of the currency has appointed
Isaac NJ. Smith, OF Mcintosh Falls, VT, receiver
of the First National bank OF Demng and the
Mexico.
General Murray will probably be appointed re-
ceiver for the savings department of the defunct
California National bank, at San Diego, CAL
Ex-President Collins, OF the bank is still in
custody.
In the case OF the Pacific Land Association
VS.. the city ana county of san Francisco and 700
other defendants to quiet title to over 100 blocks
OF Mission creek ana Potrero lands, the defend
ants won.
California's commissioner to the Worlds fair,
Thomas L. Thompson, has allotted the space for
the states horticultural exhibit equally be-
tween the Northern and Southern California
Citrus Fair Associations
The supreme lodge OF the Knights OF Rec
procity met at Excelsior Springs, No. Tuesday
and was somewhat of a fzzle. Only four dele
GATES from the many lodges which the order
claims in the country showed up.
Thomas Douglass, ex-polieeman and deputy
inspector OF customs, is in jail at san Francisco
charged with stabbing James Flynn, an employe
of the surveyors office. Douglass was drunk,
and Fiynns wounds may be fatal.
Tho missing British steamer Sirius has been
towed into san Diego, disabled. The Sirius has
a cargo Of coffee valued at $4,000 for San Fran
cisco. On February % she lost her propeller
and part of her shaft of Cedros island.
An importers case involving the constitution
ality OF the Mckinley administrative customs
act was argued before Judge BIodsett in the
United States circuit court 81 Chicago Tuesday
The judge decided in fayor Of the government,
and the case Will 90 70 the supreme court
Chinese az shanghai say taa; the accounts of
the success Is Of the government in the North
were grossly maruiEeI. that winter weather
prevented the carrying On Of operations, and
that the rebels who are e, 100 strong. are still
secure in the mountains, ready to renew the re-
hall fNfoT ut,arr rFgs-h 30,
The Lima National bank, of Lima. O.. has
been closed by the comptroller OF the currency.
The trouble was precipitated by run caused
by loss Of public confidence owing to the des-
perste specUlatjons OF President Is. C. Fauret.
who borrowed heavily from the bank, though
giving good security. Depositors will lose moth
ing.
The holle Gibson mine. in Colorado. will dis
tribute dividends of So, 00J among the stock
holders OF record for March. 1t is estimated
that the April dividends viii amount 10 $4,000
This is the greatest dividend ever maid in one
month by any silver mine in the world. Besides
these immense dividends the company has re-
serve fund vi Ssj0c-o.
!; IS said the Catholic church of Canada has
made . bargain with the Conservative govern
ment bv which the church PLEDGES Itself TO give
the Conservatives the entire Catholic vote, on
condition that Abbott, the present Dominion
premier, shall retire n the near future and be
succeeded By sir John Thomp,oa, who is q
Roman Catholic. Another part OF the agree
meDt Is Iaat the government shall re-estsbIish
Catholic schools in Manitoba
The indictments against Milton Wright gen
eTai freight sgeut OF the Wabash railway, and J.
N. B. kchlOr, Of -. Louis, doing business under
the name OF kehlor Bros, for violation of the
Interstate commerce act by cutting rates on
shipments OF hoav from East 81. Louis 10 Mon
treaI, CsnaGs, have been Quashed, on the ground
that congress has no power TO make any law
regulating railroad rates between points in the
United States and points il foreign cou ntrieA