The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-02-21
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Oil has been struck at Redondo, Cal, ct go
feet.
There were twelve failures on the Pacific
coast last week.
Mary Cardoza, aged Is, was drowned at Stock
ton, Cal, Saturday.
Francs is rapidly pushing the work Of fortify-
ing Bisorta in Tunis.
United States Senator Blair has declared him
self presidential candidate.
There is a prospect OF union OF the Canadian
Pacific and Grand Trunk railways.
Governor Mckinney today signed tbs bill for
settlement of the Virginia state debt.
The ice gorge in the Allegheny river broke
early Saturday morning, and the danger is past.
Four new typhus fever cases were discovered
among Russian emigrants in New York Satur-
day.
Three 14-ton mortars for San Francisco harbor
defenses have been stored at Benicia, Cal, ar
senal.
President Cakes, of the Northern Pacific, &C
companied by mis- family, is making tour OF
Southern California.
Joseph Espalla, jr., public administrator and
real estate dealer, OF Mobile, Ala, is short $780,
900, and he has disappeared.
President Harrison is suffering from an obsti-
nate cold, and has been compelled to decline .
number OF invitations for next week.
Vienna rumoEs are that the bulk of grain re-
Gently purchased by Russia is not for famine
sufferers, but for storage as war supplies.
In an accident on the Elk Horn road, near
Smithwick, s. D., on Friday, Conductor Benson
and Commissioner Humphreys were fatally in
jursd.
Albert, aged 7; Marie, aged 5, aud Charles,
aged 2, children of Charles De Long, were
burned to death at Ironwood. Mich, Friday
night.
Sidney A. Kent, wealthy resident of Chi
cago, will build and donate to the University Of
Chicago a completely equipped chemical
laboratory.
switch engine ran into the Kirkwood subur-
ban train near st. Louis, on Saturday, and
fatally injured Thomas Essex and hurt several
other passengers.
Auditor Cassatt, of the Pennsylvania road,
and Master Workman Powderly, of the L. of L,
protest to Governor Pattison against the Read
ing railroad deal.
The Iowa Senate has appointed a committee
to investigate the charge that two Of the men,
bers OF that body were arrested in q raid on
houses of ill-fame.
The secretary of the navy has authorized the
ninth payment OF sl46,605 to the Union Iron
Works, San Francisco, for work on the coast de-
tense vessel Monterey.
The California supreme court has affirmed the
judgment of the lower court in the case of John
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OF John Collins in 1887.
Engineer John Ford was killed, fireman
fatally injured and Conductor James Heating
seriously hurt by a collision on the Housatonic
road near Cannons, Conn. Saturday.
Investigators sent out by the Russian famine
committee confirm the reports of suffering
In the province of Vironei over 10000 women
are destitute, having sold everything for food.
The friends and relatives of William Turn
bull, OF the sailors of the Bal timore, killed
at Valparaiso, October 16, will soon file a claim
against the Chilean government for indemnity
J. W. McMurray, ex-railway mail clerk, who
robbed the mails between Helena and Miles
City two years ago, was arrested in Chicago on
Friday, and is en- route for Helena in charge OF
an inspector.
Austin B. Bidwell, one Of the clever gang of
Bank OF England forgers, Who was released from
Chatham prison last week. has returned to
America, accompanied by his sister, Mrs. Mott,
who secured his release.
The annual reports of the leading banks of
Berlin show that dividends have been unex-
pectedly high. Everybody anticipated, owing
TO the financial collapses during the past year,
that balances would be bad.
The British government organs say the gov.
eminent is willing to consider an alternative to
the clause in the Irish local government bill,
which enables the judges to suspend the pro-
Dosed Irish county and haronial couupila