The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-03-06
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Admiral Jurien Gradiers, Of the French navy.
Is dead.
The president and party returned to Washing
ton City Saturday evening.
The bundesrsth has approved the copyright
treaty with the United States.
At San Francisco the Bell murder case has
been postponed for another week.
The Leicester, England, shoemakers' strike ia
ended and 5000 men have resumed work.
A block of six-story cotton warehouses in
London was destroyed By fire on Saturday.
The French chamber of deputies has rejected
motion for abolition of theatrical censorship
The navy bill as completed appropriates $751;
500 for improvements at the Mare Island navy
yard.
The Democratic state committee of Idaho has
adopted g resolution favoring the free coinage
OF silver.
There were twenty-five failures in the Pacific
coast states and territories during the week
ending on Friday.
twenty-five cattle markets in four German
cities have been closed owing to the foot and
mouth disease epidemic.
William L. Cloves. OF England. won the An.
napolis naval institute prize Of $l0o and the
gold medal for the best essay.
Eugene F. ST. Clair, Portland, Or, burglar,
escaped from the county Jail on Saturday night
by locking the iailor in a cell.
The Mercantile Bank OF Australia, at Mel
bourne, has suspended with assets in excess OF
liabilities, on account OF a run.
The acting secretary OF the treasury states
that $4,000 is necessary to collect and prepare
government exhibit for the Worlds fair.
Mark Twain and wife have left for the south
of Europe. Their daughters will remain in
Berlin to complete their musical education.
The House has adopted resolution directing
a.
an inquiry into the Maxwell land grant in New
Mexico.
Twelve seal hunters are known to have per-
ished and eleven are missing of those who were
caught in the blizzard OFF Newfoundland on the
9th ult.
Governor Boyd, of Nebraska, will not call an
extra session of the legislature, holding that
such action will be a menace to the best inter-
ests of the state
Charles Engle and Nathan Clary, of Newport,
Tenn, exploded dynamite in the river to kill
fish on Saturday. The explosion upset the boat
and the men were drowned
A rich strike of gold is reported from the
Humbug district. Arizona, and miners are flock
ing there by hundreds. The ore is free milling
and runs from 5000 to $500 per ton.
Charles n Ayers, who was shot by his wife in
Detroit, on Wednesday, in quarrel resulting
when he called at the house to get his effects
Captain David S. Tembridge, commander of
the British steamer Ottoman, which reached
Boston on Thursday from Liverpool, shot and
killed himself on Friday morning.
The court Of private land claims has handed
down its first decision in New Mexico case
Six land grant cases have so far been filed and
about $50 are in course OF preparation.
Mrs. George Bansworth, of Dubuque, Ia, put
arsenic in food by mistake for baking powder.
IL, 1a-h rrsk -
child are dangerously i'll, but may recover.
At scottyille, Ky. Tuesday, Briggs Caldwell
shot and killed Fount Justice and Charles Han
cock. Caldwell and Justice were brothers-in-
law, between whom there was an old grudge.
At the Winter Garden, q cafe in 81 Peters,
burg, 800 drunken students took possession OF
the hall and smashed everything in the place,
and the police made no attempts to stop them.
Taylor, manager of the Land Credit bank at
Melbourne, Australia, which recently sus-
pended, has been found guilty of fraud and
sentenced to two years imprisonment at hard
labor
There are no new developm ents in the Scud-
der case. DR.. Scudder is still confined in the
Chicago detention hospital, expert testimony
regarding his alleged insanity not yet having
been given.
The report that United States Minister Egan
will return to the United States from Chile in
reason that he has given no intimation of such
an intention.
J. Edwin Smith, of San Francisco, reached
Reno, New, on Thursday on his trip across the
continent to be made in 10 days. He COM
planned some concerning his ankles, but other
wise was fresh.
William Scholdorf was killed, Mr.. and Mrs.
Hall and child and two others were seriously
injured on Wednesday in Chicago by the ex-
plOsjon of gasoline in q dye house at 75t West
Madison street.
A Brussels newspaper reports an attempt to
work destruction at the British embassy with an
internal machine containing explosive matter.
Il was discovered by workmen in time to ex-
tinguish the fuse.
1t is stated in London that Ross. claim settler
for the National Marine Company, hss been APP
pointed British arbitrator in the dispute be-
tween Crest Britain and the United States re-
gardiug Boring sea
The British steamer Trewayas which sailed
from Cardiff. Wales, on January 16, with u cargo
OF merchandise and crew of twenty lone men,
for the British West Indies, is long overdue and
supposed TO be lost.
Edward Hoelden, formerly a member OF the
Royal Engineers, has been held for trial at
Manchester charged with trying to obtain in
formation as to the construction and situation
OF the batteries at Gibraltar.
Fifty-one horses were disposed Of at the
Emery Fasig sale st Cleveland, o., on Wednes-
day for $4,000. Greeulander, brown horse, was
sold for s., 500 and katg Wilkes for 1880, these
bringing the highest prices paid.
News has been received OF another rich strike
in the Colorado mine at Bonanza, Col It
| near the head of Rawley gulch. The vein is
over four feet wide, and assays Isl ounces of
gold and S75 ounces of silver 10 the ton.
Among the sales a. the GlenviIle mart in
| Cleveland on Thursday, Earl, By Princess,
brought 5000; Gypsy Earl, by Earl, $3.50: Bril-
| liant, by Eleetioneer. s2,525; Ella, by Atwood,
| s2,025; Electra, by ElecI4oneer, Sl,600.
There is great excitement al La Junta, Cal,
over gold quartz brought in by prospector
| from Spanish Peak. The ore ASSAYS $50 per ton,
and the miner says the vein Rs been traced
| eight miles and extends much further.
| At Ingerso-l, fourteen miles west of Texar.
| kama, Ark, deputy sheriff Netiles was shot and
| instantly killed by 7. J. MoSer, whom Nettles
! attempted to place under arrest 4 posse is IN
pursuit OF thu murderer, who escaped.
| The creditors of the Eugene, Or, Canning and
| Packing Company have offered 20 settle their
| claims at the rate OF 30 per cent The company
viii issue $4,000 OF preferred stock, which will
be taken by citizens to encourage the enterprise
| J. ". Day 4 Co, lumbeFmen, and about fifty
| fire insurance companies have brought suit
against the H. c. Akeley Lumber Company at
| Minneapolis 10 recover s2J1.IS5 as damages for
| the big lumber Ere in May last The complain
ants allege that the IRE was caused by sparks
| from the refuse burner of the Akeley mils
| Assistant Secretary OF the Treasury spaulcinz
| and Attorney General Miller ordered the dis
lissal OF the case against Bernard Reiss OF
| Neuberger, Reiss * Co., the san Francisco
merchant charged With demanding the govern
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