The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-03-09
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Whales are spouting freely OF the coast OF
Hawaii.
Cholera is raging in Herst and advancing
along the Herat- Meshed road.
The Kentucky stallion Earl, with q record Of
2:23a4, has been sold for $1,000.
The G. A. r. California department is holding
its annual encampment at Fresno.
John Parnell denies that Avondale, Charles
Stewart ParnelIs Irish residence, is to be sold at
auction.
President Harrison formally received Won
Holeben, the new German minister, Tuesday
morning.
At the Tunkhannock, Wyoming county. Pa,
jail on the sth, Charles Well was hanged Tor
vile murder.
The copyright convention between Germany
and the United States has passed the second
reading in the reichstag.
decree has been issued permitting the ex-
port OF corn from the government OF kootas,
Russia, in Trans-Caucasia.
Bishop Horstmann has arrived at Cleveland
and will take charge of the Roman Catholic
diocese OF that city at once.
Charles Anderson seaman, was swept off the
steamer Emily on her last trip from Coos bay
to San Francisco, and drowned.
G. w. Nealor has been sentenced to ninety
aine years in the Texas penitentisry for killing
Isaac Webb at Dallas year ago.
Brigands are plundering the inhabitants of
Asiatic Russia. The thieves do not hesitate to
pillage the houses OF Russian officials
All the machinery on the D. N. Reavis ranch,
near Chico, Cal, was ruined by an incendiary
fire Tuesday. Loss, 100000; fully insured.
bill has been introduced in the New Jersey
legislature to legalize the recent absorption by
the Reading road OF several competing lines
The Atchison roads gross earnings for Febru-
ary N Vhnia e. Co, san
system, were sS,059, 25l, an increase OF s32i,74a
The GuadalQuiver river, in Spain. has risen
flooding the towns of Villaneuva del Arzobispo
and Jaen and causing an enormous amount Of
damage.
Rabid dogs of Springfield, O., bit four people
and a score of dogs on Tuesday. reign of
terror exists, and the police killing all dogs
on sight.
At Cincinnati. Tuesday night, during q family
quarrel, J. W. Greer was killed by his wife and
brother-in-law. Greer was formerly prominent
merchant
The police of otranto, Italy, have arrested 13s
persons suspected of being members of the
Mala Vita society, the principal object OF which
is brigsndage.
On February 13 Samuel S. Boone tourist
from san Francisco, committed suicide by
shooting himself in the head at the Hawaiian
| hotel, Honolulu.
Inc members oil the Presbyterian church OF
Hiawatha, Kan, held a prayer-meeting Tues
| day afternoon to pray that the Worlds fair be
not kept open on Sundays.
Portugal seacoast towns suffered much dam
age during the hurricane of last week The
| Tagus river has overlooked its banks and it is
| feared will do much damage
| During an election in the state of Minas
Geraes, Brazil, the southern part of the state
proclaimed separation from the northern part
and elected provisional government.
Seventy students of the Guignon, France,
agricultural college, raided that village yester.
| day. They were armed with clubs and beat the
villagers and smashed cottage windows.
An unauthenticated statement is made by an
| Antwerp, Belgium, paper that the United States
had offered to purchase the Congo Free State
aud that the king had rejected the proposal.
| Miller Il sibley, of Rankin, Pa. have sold a
2-year-old and yesrling FLY by st. Bell for
$4,000 and $500 respectively: also the Elec-
tioneer stallion May King (2:231O for $4,000
An Indian outbreak occurred IN Is Paz, b.
! livia. Government troops were sent and COM
| pletely routed the Indians, killing over 1000
OF them. Thirty Of the troops were wounded.
". f. Mitchell of Jackson, Tenn, attem pied
| an assault on a 6-year-old girl while drunk on