The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-02-20
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Order has been restored in the state Of Ceara,
Brazil.
An earthquake shock was felt 1t Algarve,
Portugal, Friday.
The Massachusetts, Republican convention
will DO held on April 20.
John Hollingshcad, the English theatrical
manager, has been declared bankrupt.
Fire in Louisville, KY, destroyed $4,000
worth OF property in the Weller block.
Sir George Campbell, Liberal member of par
lament for Kirksldy since 1875 is dead.
Wyoming has quarantined against New Mex
leo cattle, and the territory objects to this.
rich strike OF gold is reported in the Key
stone mine, in the Eta district. South Dakota
The Texas legislature will convene on March
IA, and among other things will reapportion the
state.
The Bossick mine at Silver Cliff, COL, has been
sold to New York and San Francisco syndicate
for sl,o0o.O0O.
A baseball league in opposition to the Cali
fornia league has finally been established, with
McCloskey, OF Sacramento, as manager.
The will OF the late Mrs. Valesco. filed at san
Rafael, Cal, bequeathes 100000 worth of prop
erty in Marin county to her five children.
Miller Pilsbury, OF Minneapolis, addressed
the House committee on agriculture in advo-
cacy of the Washburn anticipation bill Friday.
The whisky trust is backing syndicate which
will endeavor to buy and combine all the Chi
cago breweries not controlled by the syndicate.
The state department denies that Reid, minis
ter to France, has resigned. He will remain
there until reciprocity treaty has been negotl-
ated.
Christian Hulner and c. W. sommermyer,
chief owners of the Eau Claire, Wis. button
factory, have been arrested for violating the
federal contract labor law.
In the lower house OF the Utah legislature q
memorial that had passed the council for an
antipolygamy amendment to the United States
constitution was defeated.
Richard Klemm, son-in-aw OF DR.. Daenzler,
editor OF the st. Louis 4R-eiger, and Louis
Which, editor OF Die Ldternc both denounee
as false the report that they are to fight duel.
In the Delamater trial at Meadville, Pa, the
court decided that there was not sufficient evil
dence showing that G. B. AMI 7. A. Deamater
had knowledge OF the insolvency of G. w. Della
mater.
John Hyer, the Jersey City absconder, who
escaped from a San Francisco detective on an
overland train, appeared in the Jersey City
police headquarters on Wednesday and sur
rendered.
The National Dairy and Cheesemakers' Asso.
citation passed resolutions urging congress to
enact such laws as to protect the producers of
pure dairy products from the illegal sale OF oleo-
margarine.
The application of the Santa Fe road for per-
mission by the Transcontinental Association to
make a $3.50 rate on second-class emigrant
traffic from the Missouri river to the Coast, has
been denied.
Five of the most luxuriantly equipped cars
ever built by the Pullman company will take
the congressional delegates, foreign ministers
and other invited guests to Chicago to view the
Worlds fair work.
The American Newspaper Publishers Associ-
alton has elected officers follows President,
James W. Scott, OF Chicago; vice president, E.
II. Woods, of Boston; secretary, l. L. Morgan,
OF New Haven, Conn; treasurer, w. NJ. Laffan.
The British steamer Sir Walter Raleigh, bound
from Philadelphia for Plymouth, is drifting at
sea in a gale with broken shaft. The officers
and crew are aboard her, and it is hoped that
with the assistance of her sails she will be able
to ride out the gale.
Executions on Friday by hanging were: c. G..
Cummings, colored, for killing of David Will
Jams, colored, at Savannah. Ca; ]. Lehman, for
murder, at Custer City, S. D.; William smith,
colored, for murder OF Dominick CONNER,
white, az Gretna, La.
The supreme court of New Jersey decides
that the title to twenty-acre tract OF land in
Jersey City belongs to the municipality and the
American Dock and Improvement Company,
and that the New Jersey Central Railroad Com
pany has no right in it.
The Minneapolis Journal prints a two-column
report OF the decision OF the supreme court iden-
tifying General Russell A. Alger as one of the
promoters and organizers of the Diamond
Match Company, which the chief justice says is
an unlawful corporation.
At Nashville, Tenn, on Thursday, the real
estate congress formed a permanent orsaniza-
ton and elected 3. NJ. WE'LL, of Milwaukee, as
president. Vice pre- idents were selected from
each state delegation present Buffalo, \. Y, is
the next place OF meeting.
Rioting between whites and negroes is feared
near Patficksburg, Ky. A number of whites
We're recently discharged by the Ohio & Big
Sandy railroad on account of trouble with
negroes. The whites wero incensed that they
gave band OF seventy-tiye negroes warning to
leave or be whipped The negroes are arming
themselves and riot is probable