The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-08-14
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Four men were killed and twelve badly in
jured by the accident at Ogden. N. j., Friday.
The Inman steamer City OF New York has
lowered her own transatlantic record by forty
minutes.
II. A. Cooper. of Racine. Wis, was nominated
for congress in the West district Republican
convention, on the 2l0th ballots
The cxar has countermandtd the orders for
the great military maneuvers AZ Kraanoe SselO,
as the country 10 q morass ON account OF tho
floods.
of seven swedes riding on a hand-car near
Schrieber, Ontario, on Saturday, three were
killed and four seriously wounded by being
struck by locomotive.
The naval college at Newport will be re-
opened on September 1, in charge Of Captain
Mahan. and practice drill will Do given to
officers new in the service.
Henry Clews, the New York financier, advo-
Gates the prohibition of dealings in silver on
the stock exchange, as the market in being
manipulated by operatora
Three men, arrested on suspicion of being
concerned in the murder of Bishop Foiingo In
Italy, have confessed that they committed the
crime. They say robbery was the motive.
Although copious rains have visited the
drouth sections along the Rio Grande In Mexico
they have been too late for this years CROP and
the suffering among tho poorer classes is in
creasing.
Charnay, the French explorer, will prepare
plaster OF Paris casts of the Aztec curiosites he
found IN Mexico for the purpose of making an
exhibit at the Worlds fair at the request Of the
managers
Mischievous boys exploded a sardine box
filled with powder under q cafe window in
Maria Kirke, Belgium, burning two persons
and leading to exaggerated reports of q dyna-
mite explosion.
Tests were made at the Sandy Hook proving
grounds on saturday with the disappearing
pneumatic gun carriage and cannon weighing
thirty tons. The tests were satisfactory. but
others will be made. The carriage. if accepted.
will cost ZOO
The suit against the Standard Asphalt Com
pany for s9,00l. value OF asphalt alleged to have
been taken from British possessions on the
island Of Trinidad, will not be heard unless the
queen instructs her attorneys TO fle surety in
the sum OF $50.
The Metropolitan Trust Company, OF New
York, has brought suit against the Southern
Central Railroad Company and others, inciud-
ing the Reading road, which had acquired an
interest in the Southern Central, to forecloss .
mortgage OF $4,000.
Four OF the crew OF the Gloucester, Mass.
fishing schooner Helen I. whitten, while out
In the dories became lost In fog, and after
being on the sea for ten days with only one
biscuit ard some water were rescued In terri
bic condition on Thurs lay morning by passing
steamer aud tazen to tiaiifAx. Nova Scotia
Thirty-seven miles ut wire was used in wind
ing the big Brown wire segmentaI gun ut
Bisrisboro, Pa The gun is intended TO be the
beat OF its kind. It's tensile strength il $1,000
pounds the square inch: elastic limit, 10000
pounds TO this square inch; eiongation after
rupture, IA per cent. The bore 10 five inches.
At Haley, Idaho. Friday, more than N000
worth Of county warrants were st6lsn from
Johp Grifiths. superintendent Of ths Idaho
sampling Min Company. The warrants were in
| a safe, and while Griffiths was out Young man
named Cooper. employed in the Office took the
warrants and LETT town after selling SL5o0
worth