The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-03-06

| TO compromising the IelODy, anu oIucrcu fscAbs
| to come into court Reiss finally pleaded guilty
| and was fined 5000.
Bishop Leveque Nicolos and Monsigneurs
| MetrophaRe, Ambrose and Seoulowsky, en-
route for San Francisco where they will estsb-
| lish a Greek church, said in Chicago on Thurs
day that the reports of famine In Russia are
false.
Forty ssalers were drowned or frozen to death
| off the coast of Newfoundland last Saturday.
| Most of those lost were fathers, and there Is
great lamentation among their families. The
Legislature has adjourned as q mark OF SYM
pathy.
All Juah, q Chinese laundryman of New York,
| accused OF attempting to assault lo-yesr-old
Italian girl, Amelia Menola, was roughly han
died by mob of angry Italians Thursday night,
and but for police interference might have been
killed.
Henry Raab engineer, was killed, and Mail
Agent Hughes, Express Messenger Hayden and
David Evans, q passenger, badly hurt by the
derailment of a train on the Baltimore & Lehigh
road, near Little Gunpowder Falls. Nd, on the
Sd inst.
The Hamburg American Packet Company and
the Prussian authorities have arranged to in
spect ali Russians going via the company's line
to the United States, and ii diseased the immi-
grants will not be permitted to pass Prussias
frontier.
A resolution has been introduced In the
House for investigation OF the management of
Yellowstone National park and the frequent
charges that have been made of hotel and stage
coach abuses in this great government res
ervation.
Perry Sears was acquitted at Santa Rosa, CAL,
Friday on a charge OF numbering John Roeble.
Sears, on his arrival at Sonoma, Friday evening,
was escorted to hotel by torchlight process
sion, headed by brass band, and q reception
was held.
The Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indian reserva-
tons will be opened to settlement not later than
April 10. There are 100000 acres In these reser
vations. The Indians will receive by allot-
ment about 100000 acres. leaving the remainder
for settlers.
President Frenzel, of the indianapolis Street
Railway company, has been acquitted OF con-
tempt and the property turned over TO him. He
will retain the new men and rs-employ all the
old hands who did not participate in obstruct-
ing the cars
Cardinal Gibbons has addressed a circular
letter to the archbishops and bishops OF the
United States in favor of the celebration with
religious observances in all Catholic dioceses OF
the 18th OF October next, commemorative OF the
discovery of America.
Three young rowdies of Kansas City, Mo-, tried
to murder A. 8. Hsckett, q groceryman, on
Wednesday evening, by entering his store as he
was counting cash and shooting him. inicting
scared off by his cries.
Representatives of the various organizations
OF railway freight claim agents formed na-
tional association at Chicago on Friday, and
elected F. D. Howell, Of Philadelphia, presi-
dent and S. A. McWh orter. of the same city, as
secretary and treasurer.
Private Secretary Halford, who has returned
to Washington City from visit to Virginia
Beach, Va, says the president and party are
having a very pleasant time. free from Interrupt
ton, and will probably not return TO Washing
ton City before Monday.
It has been definitely decided by the Union
Pacific, Missouri Pacific and santa Fe that the
report Of the Kansas railroad commissioners of
January 6, regarding fifth class tariff. shall go
into effect as soon as legal notice can be given
The Rock Island still holds out
Secretary Rusk and Dr. Salmon, chief Of the
bureau of annual industry, are urging upon
the House committee on agriculture the neces-
sity for an immediate deficiency appropriation
of $4,000 to execute the meat inspection law
during the remainder Of the year.
The Portuguese grain tariff is expected to
foster the cultivation OF wheat so that the coun-
try will be Independent OF other sources OF sup
ply. The duty has been temporarily suspended,
to permit purchase OF 10000 tons OF foreign
wheat, and thus reduce the price.
People in the vicinity o. Alexandria, Ind, are
terribly excited over an assault on Miss Alice
Blades by two glaes blowers who had been board
Ing at her fathers house. She was so abused
that she will probably die. There will be q
lynching when the men are caught.
joint resolution has been reported from
committee to the House, changing the dates Of
the beginning and the ending OF the terms OF
congressman; changing the time at which the
annual sessions of congress shall begin, and the
date OF the commencement OF the term OF presi-
dent and vice president
Charles Waterbury and Samuel Sutherland
| were sentenced to four years and John Mccain
to two years in prison, at Bridgeport, Conn, on
Thursday, for KIDNAPPING Ward Waterbury, a J.
year-old boy and nephew OF the first named,
for the purpose of securing money from the
boys father for his return.
G. W. Geryille and wife, Hank Welcome Il
L. Marshall, G. W. Sherman, Mrs. Sherman and
six children were among the fifteen Eastern
people injured by the wreck OF the B. & o. lin
tied express near Clarksburg, W. Va, on
Wednesday morning. The axle OF a driving
wheel broke and the train crashed into q stone
embsnkmsnt
The House committee on agriculture has au-
thorized a favorable report on the bill submit
ting the question of oleomargarine transpo
ton into state or territory, or remaining
therein for consumption, sale or storage, to the
police powers OF such state or territory, to the
same extent and in the same manner as though
it was produced therein.
The British steamer Plato bound from Liver
pool for Brazilian ports, was abandoned Tuesday
in a sinking condition 100 miles west OF the
British steamer which landed them at Fal-
gross tons and her engines Of 10 horsepower.
She owned in IiuerD0ol