The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-07
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.


CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
England, Spain ana Italy have signed a secret
| convention for a partition OF Morocco
whitelaw Reid was the principal speaker at
| the New York Fourth OF July celebration
A demurrer in the case OF Elwood Bruner, the
California legislator accused OF boodiing, will
be argued on Friday.
Hanlan beat Hosmer about ten feet Monday in
three mile race, with three tutns, on the Con-
necticut river in ION. 55s.
Arthur Harelton and wife and little girl were
drowned Monday afternoon at Mcadviiie, "a,
by the capszing ola skiff in French creek
The Seares- Hopkins mansion, on Mob Hill,
San Francisco, will be transferred to n local art
association, all arrangements having been COM
ple.ed.
Jasper, Wilcox county, Alabama, negro,
who attempted to assault two white women on
Saturday, was caught in swamp aud riddled
with bullets.
The French chamber of deputies committee
to which the proposals of holding an exposition
in Paris in 1860 was submitted, has unanimously
approved it.
On Sunday last cyclone devastated the
county about North Ruckdeld, Me. Several
persons were injured, and houses, barns, fences
and trees damaged.
Senator Henderson has introduced bill to
create national highway commission, to in
vestigate the need of roads in this country and
to report to congress.
At Hibemau, Ia. while Robert lnnis, wife and
| child We're crossing Cedar creek. their horses
| and buggy were swept down the stream and the
| entire party ls.rished.
| The trial of sidney Bell, convicted of the muir
der OF Samuel Jacobson on August 16, 1890, on
| four charges of robbery aud charge OF murder,
| has been SCI foc August Is next.
Mrs. A. NJ. Smith, the coored housekeeper for
| Charles Henige, market gardener at Lake
| Oswasso, Mimi, shot and killed stranger who
| was trespassing on the premises
| A cyclone at Churchill. D.l.. on Sunday even
| ing wrecked half dozen houses, a colored
| church, one schoolhouse, and leyeled trees,
| fences and barns in the surrounding country.
| At Peterborough, Tex, Monday morning, NJ.
! NJ. Pierce shot and killed his hired man, Morgan
| Hatch, then cut his wfes throat and afterward
| his own. No cause is assigned for the terrible
| triple crime.
Information received at tho Office of the gov
| ernor at Little Rock, Ark. gives details OF the
condition OF the food sufferers, stating that
| many have had no food for weeks except turtle
| eggs and fish.
! All freight traffic ON the Atchison, Topeka &
| Santa Fe road is at n standstill. A cloudburst
| on Cow creek on Thursday sent a flood down
| the Pecos that carried out one pier under the
| Pecos iron bridge. The loss by the tie-up is
| heavy.
Cassilas and his band of robbers, who have
| been terroriZing the people OF the state of
| Jalisco, Mexico, were attacked by strong posse
| and the gang broken up. The robbers who were
| not killed will be shot. Cassillas was shot after
| his capture.
| Additional accounts of the tornado which
| passed over Audrian county, Mo-, on Saturday
! night tell of great destruction of property and
painful injury to a number of persons As far
L. hut 60 Loaf hat
| ring at Red Top. near Mexico.
| At Avalon, Catalina island, Cal, Monday Mrs.
| Emit Chifllet. wife OF the cook OF Hotel Metrop-
| ole, and her four months old infant were burned
| to death by the explosion OF gasoline stove.
| The accident was caused 10y carelessness in fill
| ing stove without extinguishing the blaze.
Charles Kruz, recently from the East, induced
| his uncle. John Byon. OF Windsor, Cal, to ac-
| company him to the woods on sunday, when he
| drew revolver and endeavored to have Byon
| promise secrecy as to his (kruzs) past life. On
| Burns refusal to comply kruz killed him ana
| fed to Texas
| At Clarendon, Tex, Tuesday, Constable J. F.
| Green, Brigham Grissom and Bob Bel were
| killed i'll fight. Green accompanied by Girls
! som and another man, entered II saloon where
| Bell and his brother were drinking. A row i'm
| medately began, due to some old feud. and
| when the fusiilade ended the three men named
| were dead
| lie Monds, a leading French paper OF Montreal
! Canada. referring to the proposed retaliation
| against Canada by President Harrison, in an ex-
| citabe article says that il English diplomacy
| fails, recourse must be had 10 the louder and
| more powerful voice OF cannons and eating
| guns. There is no alternative TO choose, Mr..
| Harrison"
The bridge over the river Ebro at Tortosa
| Spain, caught fire while being repaired on Tues
day, and two Of the six woIkmen who jumped
| into the river were drowned while the others
were rescued. They had been terribly burned.
! The bridge, bishops palace aud custom house
| OF the ancient town were burned
| At Fourth OF July picnic at Addison's
| Bridge, La. desperate shooting ARRAY occurred
| between Thomas and James Bond on the one
| side and Edward Kicks and son on the other
| Edward Kicks was killed outright. the Bonds
| were both mortslly wounded and young Kicks
| painfully wounded. The shooting was the out
| growth Of a family feud.
! At Logansport, Ind, Wednesday, a freight
| train on the Big Four took Il siding to let an
| and otto Fielding, the fireman, al.ghted and
| laid down with their heads on the rail OF the
I main line to await he arrival of another train
due in fifteen minutes. They fell asleep, and
| the train, when it came, took both their heads
| off.
| Frank c. lawson, an American mechanic who
has lived in Mexico TO- fifteen years, and in the
city Of Zacatecas, in that country for four years
! has been arrested for violating an old law pro-
| scriong marriage more than nine consecutive
| times, and viii probably have a long term To
| serve in prison. be has violated that law four
| times, having married ana buried twelve wives
| IN four years, and recently married the thir.
! tecnth.