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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-03-04

pRoPosED AMENDMENT NO. ia PROP
l. ostion 70 amend section one ~ and secsion
two (2) OF article ssvsnteen (XVll), OF the Tree.
holders charter adopted October l, A. D. 1890
Resolved. That section one ~ Of article seven
teen (XVI1). OF the ffeeholders charter be
amended TO read follows:
SECTION l. The mayor shall receive annually .
salary Of IS, 900 TO be paid monthly.
The annual salaries OF The other elective officers
Of tais city shall be payable monthly and shall Do
follows;
Treasurer and tax collector, 81, 900: corporation
counsel So 900; assistant corporation counsel ana
city attorney, 81. 600: city clerk, 81, 900.
Resolved, That section Of article XVII, Of the
freeeholcer1 Charter, % amended 50 as 70 read As
follows:
Sec. 2. No officer Of the city shall receive any
compensation for his services As such o nicer ex-
oept by salary payable monthly, which, when not
prescribed by this charter. shall be rIed by the
city council by ordnance Ne salary o. any oficer
SO hxed by the city coaaci shall b increased afer
bis appointment or duflnf tbs term for which he
shan have been eiscsed or appointed
Passed house 81 delegates this LIST day OF Feb
Tuary, 1894 r. w. JONES,
President Houss OF Delegated
Passed board Of aldermen this lst day OF Zebra
airy. 1S22 A e. MILLER,
President Board OF Alcermsn
Approved by me this LIST day Of February. 1894
GEORGE w. HALL. Mayor
FILED BY me- this LIST day Of Febru AIRY, lSe2
II. W. MILLER, City Clark.
Date Of hrss publication February 2, 1892.
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THE SEAL POACHERS.
Operations on the Canadian Fleet
Along the Northern Coast.

Operations on the Canadian Fleet
Along the Northern Coast.
The Department Of State at Washington
has received detailed information Of the
operations of thc sealing vessels now engaged
in killing and taking seals along the Ameri-
can coast. At latest advices the feet was
off Cape Flattery, keeping company with
the herd as it moves up the coast on
its way to its breeding grounds on the
Pribyloff Islands The American steamer
Michigan passed them and reports
the water fairly alive with seals, aud the
vessels had their boats out, busily shooting
them Reports from fourteen vessels fix
their catch at 2252 seals.
The steamer Mystery had been engaged at
Victoria by the poaching fleet to meet them
at Clouuet Sound, take off their skins and
furnish them with a new stock Of supplies,
thus enabling them to prosecute their work
without the loss Of time necessary to put
into the port of Victoria for that purpose.
The same steamer is engaged to meet the
fleet again later in the season at Sand folnt,
on Kadiak Island, and receive their SKINS
and furnish them with fresh supplies pre-
paratory to the entrance or the nsee lo1o
Bering Sea.
The Brenoa arrived at Victoria, British
COLUMBIA, from Nova Scotia, being the nrst
of the thirteen sealing schooners on the way
from there, and she is now being lifted OUT
for sea. Seven more British vessels are now
in Victoria, and four or five i'll process OF
construction, destined for this years sealing
operations, making the tolal British Meet
about seventy as against flfty-one last year
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THE PUBLIC DEBT.
Both Receipts and Expenditures Re-
duced During the Past Month.

Both Receipts and Expenditures II"
duced During the Past Month.
The monthly public debt statement just
Issued from the Treasury Department at
Washington shows reduction in the sggre'
gate of debt last month amounting to 81.
y93,O41. There was an increase OF $500
in interest. bearing debt, decrease OF
81. .256, 912 in non-interes-bearing debt and
an increase OF $736, ,679 i'll the surplus cash
In the Treasury. The total debt, less S32,-
S9S, Ss4 net cash in tho Treasury, and the
500, OOO, 900 gold. greenhsck-redemptio
fund, is 1898, l2T. .644. National depos-
itary banks mold $lS, 7S6, 1872 Of
the Treasury surplus, decrease o. about
one-uuarter OF million since March l.
Treasury gold coin and bullion assets
aggregate $3.50, 144, 289, or 81, 0OO, O00 less
than a month ago. Silver assets aggregate
S434, 53U 999, an increase of nearly So, 5oo, ooo
in the last montn.
Government receipts from all sources IN
March aggregated $50, 04s SO6, against s29.-
41S, $50 in March, 1891. Custom receipts last
month were $l6, 4l53l2, or fully Sl,OooO OOo
more than in March year ago; and internal
revenue receipts were Sl2, 133, GOl, an increase
of about $1,000, 900 over March, 1891.
Expenditures in thu last nine months OF the
current fiscal year were s26S, 119, 24S, or $780,
600, 600 less than for the three quarters VI
the preceding fiscal year.
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srructfon clear up into the Nebraska line.
In addition to this principal storm. there
was a second, Of less intensity, which went
across the eastern part Of the State, not tax
ing 80 many lives, but doing great damage
to crops, trees and farm buildings. The fol.
lowing is the estimate placed on the dead
and wounded: South Haven, eight dead and
thirty-two injured. wellington, four dead
and twenty. three injured. On farms
and nine injured. Towanda, seventeen dead
and forty-fiye wounded. Augusta, seven
dead and nineteen injured. Homestead, five
dead and seven injured. Strong City. two
dead and eight wounded. Salina, fifteen
injured. three fatally.
Among the strange stories told of the
queer antics Of the wind is that Of Miss Ella
thornton, of Towanda, who was blown away
by the storm half mile. carrvias a pillow.
. euu a. Creeos mouse was entirely de-
stroyed, and all Of the family of five were
injured.
At Trickham, Texas, the houses were
driven into each other, demolishing them,
but no one was hurt.
At Bangs four persons were killed and ten
injured. Telegraph poles were pulled out Of
the ground. and wires twisted up.
The st. Joseph (Mo.) mills and the Con-
nett packing house were leveled to the
earth and the gas and electric light plants
are bad wrecks by reason Of the storm.
The wires of the telegraph and telephone
companies were prostrated, and the opera
tion of trains upon the railroads centring
here has been almost completely suspended.
The storm was not in the nature Of a tor
nado. It was terrific gale continuing for
fifteen hours.
The damage done to property in st.
Joseph, Mo-, will reach 5000, 900. The town
Of Bigelow, Mo-, forty miles north Of there
was almost entirely destroyed.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-04-20
LATER NEWS.

A FIERCE forest fire ragged near Hslberton
in Cumberland County,N N. ]. The fire burned
over several hundred acres Of young timber.
The burnt territory is fully mile in length
and half as wide.
N1NETEEN-FEAR-oLD Oscar Creamer, book.
keeper In New York City for the Wall street
banking house Of Dix & Phyfe, with the aid
Of Clerk Carpenter and an outsider, stole
$4,000 from the firm. More than s52, 900
Of the plumber was found secretsd in cellar
in Brooklyn.
TWO men were killed and three others
dangerously injured by the explosion Of a
locomotive in Long Island City, N. Y.
THE Oregon State Republican Convention
in session at Portland sent uninstructed del
e9ates to the National Convention.
The Rev. DR.. Joseph J. G.. Webster, a
distinguished Methodist clergyman of Balti-
more. Md, committed suicide at Charleston
W. Va, by throwing himself from the
window of his room on the third floor Of the
Hotel Ruffner. j.
BROWNSVILLE, Texas, was wiped out by
a tornado. Two persons were killed and
several injured. Every house in the village
was leveled.
CONFEDERATE Memorial Day was observed
by the South in the usual manner.
PRESIDENT HARRISON remembered the
A. 80
of Columbia. With BABY Mckee and lit
tie Mary Lodge Mckee, he went out into the
front garden Of the White House and planted
three trees.
FRENCH Anarchists blew up the Police
Depot in Anglers, France.
ALLAN SprLLER killed his wife and two
children in Belfast Ireland. He had been out
of work for some time and was despondent.
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WHrTELAw REID.

Whitelaw Reid, United. States Minista
France arrived in New York from Paris
companied by Mrs. Raid and their-chila
on the French steamer La Champagne,
had lust arrived home after an abss9 e
nearly two years. 90, EX
Many of bis personal aud politicaf fria
had assembled at the pier to giYe bill
hearty welcome and congratulate 9im or|
Diplomatic achievements In the jcountl
service. Some other Of his friends had q
down the bay the night bef6re on
steamer Laura N. Starin to ferenadei
Champagne and her distinguished passed
on their arrival at Quarantine.
Mr.. Reid looked sunburned }spd heal4
His voyage had rested him, After his b
and somewhat trying work in closing
negotiations for the RECIPROCITY and
tradition treaties. Copies ;ot these i'm
tant treaties he brought with him. The
tradition treaty was signed by Mr.. Reid
Mr.. Ribot, the French Minister Of For!
Affairs and few hours afterward
Reid was on his way to America. Ot
success Of his efforts to bring about 9
better understandings between the count
and to secure the extension OF Amer
trade with France be spoke with modest
Mr.. Reid said he did not know who va
be his successor At present the leSatio
In charge Of tie secretary.
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Later Details.

The great storm. according to later dis
watches, swept over Kansas, Colorado,
Nebraska, Iowa. Missouri, Wisconsin,
Illinois, Texas and Indiana. The wind no
where fell below the danger line Of velocity.
Kansas, the Tornado State" leads the list
IN the matter Of fatalities. The storm
,couryed that commonwealth in all its length
and breadth. In Texas the towns Of Bangs
and Santa Anna were heavily visited.
throughout Iowa a hurricane prevailed q
greater part Of the day and night, and the
property damage will probably be heavier
than in any other State.
Missouri ssems to have been lightly
visited, and Minnesota and Wisconsin felt
only the dying breath Of the giant gale. In
Illinois the rain. wind and hail were heavy,
but cniy in Chicago and its suburbs was
there any loss OF life. The fall Of the seven
story brick building on Pearce street ID
responsible for the death Of eight persons
and the injury of dozen Others. In the
suburps Of Grand Crossing four person.
were injured by the collapse Of house, and
st Woodlawn four others were hurt in a
similar manner.
a careful estimate Of the number Of
killed and wounded throughout Kansas by
the storm makes it nearly 1G0 killed and be-
tween 200 and 300 injured. The tornado
came from the southwest and went across
the western part Of the State, spreading de-
She was blown through the side OF a wrecked
barn. and left on the back OF horse unhurt.
Sevan people were killed and dozen
others badly injured by the tornado in the
little town of " armego. Kansas. The killed
are: Char.es Taylor, wife and chilli; Mrs
Albert Eggers and two children, aged three
and five years respectively; Joseph johnson,
a farm iabore:.
ne storm struck J. C. Lambs house ct
Santa Anna. Texas, wiping 1t out Of exist
ence. Next .Mr. Heath's house fed the demon,
and in few moments it was torn to pieces
and str4wn all over the prairie. j. w. Halls
bouse was next struck and demolishe!.
Then it attacked Mr.. Bases house. Here
Mr. Story had died only about five minutes
before The storm struck this house with
greatfury, killing a boy and wounding eleven
rf the inmates.
The house Of L. I. Woodward was demol-
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The Chairman Of the Republican StsI
COMMITTEES said. THE Legislature is prc!
ably Republican, although there will haI
to be second election to dectde the exaI
figures"
The Senate will probably stand about
Last year. In the Assembly the Democra
may make net gain o. few memberS q
as the Republicans have thirty-two majostI
In tho present Assembly, and q majority
fifty-one on joint ballot, the few membe|
gained win make no apprectable dinerend
A late dispatch said: Brown, the Repul
lican candidate for Governor, has pluraiij
of 853 over Wardwell in seventy tow1
and districts. A careful estimate OF {
remaining twenty towns and disEicta ieayI
Brown safe plurality. The Rspubhca|
have undoubtedly a plurality for all canq
dates for State offices Z" fsass
A sufficient number Of Republicans VI
returned to the Legislature 70 insure the
election Of Senator Aldrich TO the Untt
States Senate.
Chilean Minister Montt was In ProvideEs
during the day watching the working oft
Australian ballot system. He viii reporf
its working ia bis Government.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-04-20
BLOWN INTO ATOMS.
Nine Russian Workmen Periah
Smokeless Powder Factory.

Nine Russian Workmen Periah
Smokeless Powder Factory.
st. Petersburg, Russia, was thrown IN
state of the most intense excitement tho
or night by a most terrific explosion.
much has been heard here lately OF the 81
ish work of Anarchists that for a q
every one believed that they had attemH
to destroy some Of the public buildings.
It was soon learned, however, that the
plosion was due to an acci lent at the rS}
factory for the manufacture OF smoke
powder, where five tons Of gun cotton
exploded. j
The shock was tremendous. The " |
city was shaken, and houses swayei on Il
foundations as though from the effects Of
earthquake. The building in which the
cotton had been stored was blown into SD
ters.
Nine workmeu were in the building VI
the explosion took placs and every onA|
them was blown to pieces. Some os--tI
limbs were found $50 yards away fromI
building.
Houses mile and quarter away II
the scene were made to oscillate by the SD
Of the explosion. Windows were shattei |
and crockery and glassware were throw
the floor and smashed. The loss from tl
causes alone will be quite heavy.
There Is no possible way OF ascertair|
how the explosion occurred, as every mai
the gun cotton building Is dead. It
thought thati it was due to carelessnsss.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.

TIE Connecticut Supreme Court decided
that the claim Of Austin Brainard, Execu-
tive Secretary of the Governor, against
Controller Staub for salary must be allowed.
FOREST fires ragged all over the Cape Cod
district in Massachusetts, for two days.
Much damage was done in the magnolia
woods and several tracts Of forest were
destroyed.
THE temperature in New York City on
April reached the highest point scored on
any April since the records have been kept.
At P. N. 1t was eighty-three degrees in the
shade.
MRS. MEHITABEL DAYTON, OF East Had
dam, Conn, died, aged 1A years and eleven
months She Is said to have been the Oldest
person in Connecticut.
BOAT containing pleasure party OF SIX
persons was carried over dam near Cole
raine, Mass, on the Dearfield River, and i've
of the occupants were drowned.
MRS. MINNIE EMO, aged thirty-two. was
shot dead at Lawrence, Mass, by her worth
less husband, Peter Emo, a Boston and Maine
brakeman. The murderer fled.
GOVERNOR ALBEIT Of New Jersey, has
refused to approve the bill legalizing the
BEADING Railroad coal combine. he refused
to sign it because of its doubtful consti'
tutionality and also because no assurance
that coal would not advance could be secured
from the allied railroads
WHILE attempting to light his pipe at an
electric light as he was told to do in joke by
a fellow-workman, Hungarian at Johns
town, Penn, was instantly killed.
A TERRIFIC cyclone struck Olean, n. T.,
wrecking ten houses and a church. One
woman was killed and a number OF people
seriously injured. There were sixteen peo-
Die in the church, which was lifted from its
foundation and carried twenty feet away.
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THE RALEIGH LAUNCHED.
Another American Cruiser Takes the
Water at Norfolk, Va.

Another American Cruiser Takes the
Water at Norfolk, Va.
The United States cruiser Raleigh has
been successfully launched at the Norfolk
Wa.) Navy Yard. Fully 10000 people wit
messed the interesting event. At twsnty-four
minutes before twelve o'clock the signal
was given, and Mrs. Alfred W. Hay.
ward, Of Raleigh. N. c., daughter of
Governor Holt of that State, stand
ing between Secretary Of the Navy Tracy
and Ensign Hilby P. Jones' broke the bottle
on the bow Of the cruiser and she began to
move of as easily as il under her own pro-
peller. It was just three-quarters OF min
ute from the time the bottle was broken
that the Raleigh was stopped by her anchors
in mid-stream.
known as cruiser No. 8, is Of 3l88 tons dis
placement, is to have twin screws and heavy
protective decks. Between her poop and
forecastle decks Is an open gun deck.
Her length In load line is 300 feet. ex-
treme breadth forty-two feet and mean
draught eighteen feet. Her indicated horse
power Is 10000, and the contract calls for q
speed of nineteen knots. The engines will
be triple expansion, vertical inverted and
direct acting, the common stroRe oein2
thirty-flve inches. The bunking capacity
for the coal supply is $50 tons.
She will be heavily armed, her main bat
tery consisting of one si1-inch and ten four
inch rapid fire breech loading rifles on center
pivot mounts, protected by thick steel
Shields, to be worked as part OF the hull or
made fast to the carriage. The secondary
battery will consist Of two six-pouuderA two
three-pounders one one-pounder and two
-millimeter revolving cannon.
There will be six torpedo tubes with open.
ings about four feet above the water worked
from the berth deck. fixed fore and att, four
of which will be training tubes and will be
placed at the sides Of the forward and after
berth decks.
The Raleigh is the first vessel Of the new
navy which has been launched from Gov
ernment yard to be put in commission, as
she will be ready for service inside Of q
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PERISHED IN THE FIRE.
Escape Cut or by a Powder Explosion
That Wrecked the Building.

Escape Cut on by a Powder Explosion
That Wrecked the Building.
Shortly after midnight terrific explosion
startled Fort Madison, Iowa, and it was dis
covered that the frame building occupied as
a meat market on the ground floor and as
dwelling above was shattered and in
flames. The fire department was quickly
at the scene, but so rapidly did the
flames spread that nothing could be done,
When it was discovered that nine people
were imprisoned in the burning ruins the
excitement became intense, but the greatest
efforts of the firemen could do no good: Two
of the victims, Samuel Kitchen and henry
Meimeyer, got out of the building, but IN
s,1ch horrible condition that they soon died.
The bodies of Mrs. Kitchen, Miss Day,
and the baby were so tightly clasped in each
others arms that they were separated WIN
dificulty. It Is thought the fire was the
work Of an incendiary, and the explosion
came from a keg Of powder in the lower
story. The explosion wrecked ths stalrways
andsprevented escape. The victims weret
8. v. Kitchen, aged thirty-fVes Mrs. =.
v. Kitchen thirty; Samuel Kitchen,
twenty: three children, aged two, three ana
five: Mrs. Sydney Day. aged eighteen; Au-
gust Meimeyer, boarder, aged eighteen;
Henry Meimeyer, boarder, aged eigheeen'
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CHINESE MUST 90.
The Stringent Geary Exclusion Act
Passed by the House.

The Stringent Geary Exclusion Act
Passed by the House.
The House of Representatives at Wash
ington passed the Geary Chinese Exclusion
act by a vote of 179 to forty three.
Hereafter no State court or United States
court is to admit Chinese persons to citizen
SHIP and all laws in conflict with this pro-
vision are repealed.
All Chinese persons now in the United
States are to apply to the Commissioner Of
Internal Revenue Of their districts within
one year after the passage OF this act for
certificates OF residence, and any such per-
sons found within one year after the bill
shall become a law without certificate OF
residence are to be judged unlawfully IN the
United States and subject to the same fines
and penalties as though they had come un.
lawfully into the country at the first in
stance.
Che provisions of all treaties now in force
between the United States Government and
the Chinese empire in so far as they, or any
OF them, conflict with thu provisions OF TINS
act be and the same are hereby abrogated,
set aside and repealed.
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FIFTY-sECOND CONGRESS.
In the Senate.

65rH DAY.-Mr. Morgan introduced a
series Of resolutions to precipitate silver
debate e-fhe Army agent provision IN tne
Indian Appropriation bill was adopted.
66rH DAY.-Mr. Morgan asked that con-
sideration Of his silver resolution be posi-,
poned-The Indian Appropriation Dill
was debated Mr.. FELTON,, by request, IN
troduced a bill appropriating $500, 09O to pro-
mote the fibre industry OF the United State
and to enable the Secretary of Agriculture
to make display of fbrous plants, etc., at
at the Worlds Fair.
9th DAY.-Mr. Morgan, in speaking on
his silver resolutions, criticised the act OF
July, 1890; Mr. Sherman made reply on
the part OF the Repuolicans-Mr. Hoar
reported bill providing for the appoint
ment of two additional judges for the Court
of Claims, in order to facilitate the dlsposl-
ton of causes in that court.
6STH DAY.-The discussion of the Indian
Appropriation bill (the clause requiring
Army officers to act as agents. was con-
tinusd-The Senate, having referred TO
the Committee on Foreign Relations Una
House Chinese Exclusion bill. adjourned,
69rH DAY.-The Senate passed the Indian
Approximation bill. Another vote was taken
on the motion to strike out the house
am mendment authorizing the President to de-
tail army officers to act as Indian agents.
The motion was lost-twenty.five to twenty
eisht-and the amendment is retained ID tne
bill-Mr. Wolcott spoke on the silver
question.
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HELPED HIS LYNCHERS.
4 Mob Breaks Into Jail and Hangs q
Man to Telegraph Pole.

Joseph Lytie, the mau who hacked his
wife and two daughters in horrible man.
aer was taken from the County Jail at
Findlay, Ohio, by mob of nearly 100 de-
termined men and hanged.
As the mob entered the Jail LYtle called
their attention to the cell he was occupying
as the one they were looking for. 1t took
thirty minutes to batter down the cell door,
when the doomed man was dragged out and
thence to the Main Street Bridge, two
squares away.
Hers Lytle was strung up to an iron cross
piecs of the bridge. just as he was being
pulled up a shot from revolver rang out
on the nignt ai- and the rope was shot in
two, dropping the victim to the ground. He
was then hurriedly taken to the nearest tel.
ezraph pole. where the lynching was com.
plstsi. Twenty shots were fired into the
body. L} tie died without struggle. .
Lytls left nots asking that his body
should be turned over to his brother with
the request that he be buried beside hi,
mother.