The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-02-07
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.

Rouvier, French minister of finance, II seri.
ously i'll in Paris with the grip.
Miss Thorndyke, Of Boston. recently married
Count Banucles, Spanish ambassador to Ger
many.
Pantanella's large -four warehouse in Rome
was destroyed by fre on Saturday. The loss
will be large.
Mrs. Ward, the San Bernardino, Cal, Christian
scientist, has been acquitted Of causing the
death OF George Lord. j..
The four leaders of the recent anarchist attack
at Jerez, Spain, have been sentenced by court
martial to be executed February ..
At Gurdon, Ark, Frank Taylor, well-todo
farmer and his wife were crushed TO death whilo
attempting to repair outbuildings
Peter Leonard, New York crank has been
arrested for hanging around Inspector Byrres'
house and claiming the latter had s5JT0o0 of his
money.
violent gale ragged at Bilbao, Spain, causing
much damage to small shipping. boat was
capsized in the harbor and three British sailors
were drowned.
White Spencer, aged 40 years, and his son
John, aged years, were blown to fragments by
a nitro-glycerlne explosion on Saturday, at
kahoka, Clark county, Mo.
Judgemnt for $4,000 has been entered at
New Iory against the Monterey Mexican Gulf
Railway in favor of the Banco Sternaciole Hi
Elmer Breck, alias J. S. stratton, notorious
forger and street letter box robber, who escaped
from the Atlanta, Ga, Jail last October was con-
yicted at Denver on Saturday of forging s., coo
check.
Most of the passengers baggage on the
stranded steamer Elder has been landed, and
is being forwarded as rapidly as possible to
Southampton. Wreeking vessels are transfer
ring the cargo.
hall <,;t 1iad
in Berlin Saturday. In recognition OF her SER
vices as a nurse among Union soldiers during
the late rebellion, the United States government
granted Mrs kimoali a special pension.
William Lord Moore, OF London, and his part
ner, i. Ross, of New York, of the European
Claims Agency. have been shown up as swim
dlers of gullible people who paid them money
TO prosecute claims for English property.
The steamer City OF sydney arrived at Santa
Barbara SATURDAY morning from San Francisco.
Captain Louis Kempf, q. S. N, reports that she
steamed 14S1 knots hour in her last trip,
placing her in the third-class mail service
The Texas supreme court decides tina. as the
law relating to railroad accidents summons
specifically as liable the owners, proprietors,
etc, and omits the receivers. the latter cannot
be held responsible for injuries inflicted, nor
compelled to pay any damages.
Secretary Bryant, of the Western Waterways
Association. appeared before the Senate CON-
mittee on commerce Saturday and presented a
memorial adopted recently, urging upon con-
gress more liberal appropriations for the i'm
provement of Western waterways.
Chairman Walker, OF the Western Traffic
Association. has promulgated decision author
izing the lines in the Association to pay COM
mission on wcst-bound immigrant passenger
business, not exceeding sl075 per ticket from
the Missouri river to the Pacific coast
The officers OF the steamer Lepanto, at ew
York, were badly frightened on Saturday, when
they discovered matches between cotton bales
which were being transferred from Savannah
line lighter for shipment to Europe. The work
OF loading was stopped and an investigation
made. Some careless decKhand may have
dropped the matches.