The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-14
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The annexation movement in Honolulu has
become lifeless
The pope urges the Catholic congress to obedi-
ence to the constituted government
The Hawaiian household troops are being
drilled in the new United States infantry tao
tics.
The cholera is epidemic in Cabool. and the
ameer has Withdrawn to q camp outside the
walls
Schults, defaulting auditor Of Reich's Bank,
committed suicide on Thursday in his cell at
Berlin.
The cruiser Charleston has been ordered to
steam to Portland If the commander deems it
possible.
William Astors remains were buried on Thurs
day in the family vault in Trinity cemetery,
New York.
An opium cache discovered on Maui, Fl. L. is
supposed to belong to the Whalley gang of
smugglers
c. ]. Lyons. a Honolulu msteorologist, reports
a comet in the northeastern sky which is new to
astronomers.
The conspiracy case against Boodler Mercier,
cision reserved.
Admiral Brown, of the flagship San Francisco,
is still confined to his room in Honolulu with
his injured ankle.
Three baseball cranks were shot and mortally
wounded in drunken row over game of base
ball at Calhoun, Ky.
Charles K Curtis, OF Topeka, has been NOM
mated by the Republicans of the Fourth Kansas
district for congress.
Hon. George A. Richardson, circuit Judge of
the Second judiciary district of the Hawaiin Is
lands, died on May.
Bousfield, Unionist, has been elected to the
English commons from North Hackney, to sue
coed Paul, Conservative.
The time lock on the Honolulu government
vaults got out of order recently and the back OF
the safe had to be taken out
Nearly 5000 persons witnessed tho launching
of guuboat cruiser No. s, the Castins, at the
Bath, Me-. iron works on Wednesday.
Franck, the cashier OF the Berlin Deutsche
bank, in Berlin, who absconded in 1891, a de-
faulter for LOO, 900 marks, has been arrested
The treasury department at Washington City
purchased 10000 ounces of silver on Wednes-
day at prices ranging from ST. % to sc. As cents.
The process of refining sugar at the Kealia
plantation, on Kanai, II. l., is progressing salts
factorily and tests to improve the color will be
made.
Three emigrants, man, wife and their child,
were drowned ct the Cherokee crossing in Choc-
taw nation on Monday, while trying to cross in
wagon.
Jay Gould, when interviewed in relation 10
the reported buying of the Pecos Valley rail-
road, would neither positively deny nor affirm
the report
Toon La Kee, a Chinese merchant of San Fran.
cisco, committed suicide on Thursday by throw
ing himself in front of q locomotive. His wifss
death had crazed him.
While 100 workmen, With their wives and
children, were crossing the river near Brody, in
Austrian Galicia, the raft capsizsd and sixty
persons were drowned.
At Ewing, Mich, H. A. Schrofeld, drunkard,
on Thursday morning shot and killed his vile
ND al hiyuself fatally aha
fused to live with him.
Dublin people propose convention OF repre-
sentative Irish-Americsns be- held in connection
with the Worlds fair in 1898, to decide on a plan
Tor Irish independence.
Three fishermen who left Two Harbors, MIMI
several days ago, were found frozen TO death in
their ailboat, which was fast in the ice, near
Duluth, on Wednesday.
A skating rink in course of construction at
Buenos Ayres. Argentine, collapsed on Wednes-
day, killing thirty persona The builder and
architect were arrested.
Cuba's representative men have wired the
Spanish cortes q message pettioning that the
duties on sugar and alcohol in Cuba be the same
as those in force In Spain.
The board OF review of the American Trotting
Association, in session at Chicago, passed upon
soma twenty-five minor cases and adjourned to
meet next fall In New York.
1t is said that General PassengerAgent Busen.
bark, OF the Maple Leaf road, has gone to Chi
cago to succeed w. w. Finley as chairman of
the Western Traffic Association.
Henry klink, ir., in a walking match at East
lake, Ala. "Wednesday afternoon, broke the
word'i half niie record, reducing it from 2:53
10 2:42 Klink tainted at the close
Paul Mohr, OF Spokane, was in Washington
City On Thursday AMI with Senator Squire
visited the diferen. departments where he has
several business propositions pending
George T. Prescott, indicted for bigamy in
marrying Lena Inman.lof Psndleton. Or, failed
to answer in court at Portland on Thursday and
the 500 cash bail was declared forfeited.
Frank l. Coombs, of Napa. Cal, the new
United states minister to Japan. accom- panied
by bis wife and child, left san Francisco Tor
Japan on the steamer Belgic on Tuesday.
The sheriff OF New York has received an at
tschment for 81, 30 against the Panama Canal
Company OF France in favor of Joshua J. Linio.
6 contractor on the canal. The attachments