The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-14
we're served on the president of the Panama
Railroad Company, but he claimed they had no


Gresnock England, were burned on Tuesday,
causing loss of 10000. As result the price
OF crushed sugar advanced in the markets
A party of Maya Indians killed twelve wood
choppers near Kelise, Mexico, recently, after
cutting off their ears aud noses to make them
confess the whereabouts of their comrades.
British punitive expedition, numbering
100 men, under command of Colonel Scot's
marched from Lagos. West Africa, Thursday
morning to attack the Jebu and Egba tribes
Hon. A. G. Porter, American minister to Italy,
has arrived in Rome The resumption OF fuit
diplomatic relations between the two nations -
regarded with special favor by all classes In
Italy
The first Indictment at Boston against the
whisky trust officials has been quashed. Tho
new indictment covers the defects In the one
now Quashed and the trust officials will be re-
arrested.
bill has been introduced In the Dominion
parliament asking royal assent to establish
reciprocity in wrecking between the United
states and Canadian vessels and to renew the
modus vivendi
The Kansas City Journal received special dis
patch from Guthrie, Oklahoma, on Wednesday,
stating that 100 Cheyennes were driving tho
white settlers from their claims on the reserve
lands recently opened.
The Turkish minister Of public works has
requested the Porte to address q circular TO the
provincial authorities inviting them to SEND
samples OF their articles OF industrial products
to the Worlds fair at Chicago.
The Mississippi vallee deep water convention,
In session at Memphis, Tenn. passed the Gus
tomary resolutions as to the duty OF the United
States to keep the Mississippi river and Its
tributaries in navigable condition.
Ths Worlds fair is attracting the attention OF
European artists. Nearly all OF the leading
French artists will send works, and Mesday, the
celebrated Dutch artist. will be sent 70 Chicago
as the official representative of Holland.
The neighborhood of Bonham, Tex. 10 wild
with excitement, and when the negro who out
ragged Mrs. McDonough and murdered her little
stepson is caught, he will be burned at the
stake Several suspects have been arrested
J. b. Stetson has resigned the presidency OF
the California Traffic Association because OF
the publication of Manager Iced 9 letter to the
executive committee, in which he invoked the
aid OF political parties In the fight against rail-
road rates.
The house of tho Dominion parliament over
whelmingiy defeated Dalton McCarthys bill to
abolish the French language and Roman Cath
Ollie parochiai schools in Northwest Territory,
and also the bill to prohibit the Importation OF
alien labor.
Jim Rodmsn, VIII Anderson and Bob Bruce,
three of four negroes who killed Marshal Carter,
at Toccoa, Ga, early on Wednesday morning.
when he caught them trying to crack the safe OF
the National bank there, have been caught aud
may be lynched
majority of the members of congress at a
preliminary meeting Friday decided to approve
the acts of the government without proceeding
to tho election OF president of the republic.
The situation in the state OF Matte Crosse is COM
pletely tranquil.
The Rat Printers Protective Fraternity, in
session at Milwaukee, have decided to retain
the mortuary benefit provision In their laws.
The employment OF a national organizer and the
establishment of an employment bureau have
been determined upon.
Milton Everett, in jail with George Fried, his
brother-in-law, at Springfield, Mo-, has con-
fessed that the latter killed Deputy Sheriff WILL
Jams and assisted In the lynching of J. w.
Bright an alleged wife slayer, in fancy county,
Mo-. about six weeks ago.
Emin Pasha was forced to retreat from his
march on Wadelai, in Africa, owing to lack Of
ammunition and provisions and the heavy rains
which turned the route into swamps- He be-
came ill and blind, but still hopes to recapture
Wadelai with Stuhlmann's aid.
The Southern Railway and Steamship Associa-
ton composed of the Southern Pacific, Mis-
souri, Pacific, Santa Fe, Missouri, Kansas d
Texas railroads and the Mallory and Cromwell
lines of steamships, now in session in New
York, will be reformed on new lines.
C. P Huntington, president of the Mexican
International railroad, has ordered the imme.
date construction of a branch road from Mon
clova station to the great coal mining camp OF
Sierra Mojavs. Monclova Ia forty miles south
OF Eagle Pass, Tex, and Sierra Mojava sixteen
miles northwest from Monclova.
Rio Grande City, Tex, advices say that Mexi-
can soldiers under Lieutenant Sadie, and forty
two OF Garzas guerrillas under Flores, Ramon
and others had fight near there the Next
can side. Flores and nine outlaws were killed
and the remainder dispersed, fleeing across the
river. They are outlawed on both sides.
A dynamite bomb exploded at the resi-
dence of Minister of Finance Matte, at Caracas,
Venezuela, on Tuesday night The explosion
was evidently the work of rebel sympathizers in
revenge for the loan by Matte to Dictator Pala-
clio of large sum of money said to have been
supplied by ex President Blanco. No one was
hurt
Colonel Jacob Rupert, jr., on the star of
Governor Flower, and a millionaire, was
rested by detectives I'm London Wednesday on
suspicion of being Benjamin Brown, who bun
koed II. L. Walter, manager of the Tacoma
branch of the London and San Francisco bank,
and Rupert had some difficulty in proving his
identity.
John Allen, Eugene valgenburgh and Dick
stears were killed, Gus Maiconb was fatally
hurt, and Arthur Robson, Z. z. Elton, Charles
Flynn, Charles Burt, Albert Hall and Sanford
Walton were seriously injured by the explosion
of a boiler In Midland Salt and Lumber Com
pauy's sawmill at Midland, Mich, on Thurs
day. The mill was wrecked.
A company has been organized at Phoenix,
Ariz to build the largest storage reservoir for
irrigating purposes in the world in Box canyon,
near the junction OF Tonic creek and Salt river.
The dam viii be 20 feet high; the baekwater
will extend sixteen miles to the sierra Ancha
mountains; the capacity will be l03,05s, o40so0
cubic feet OF water, and the reservoir ia 10 cost
81, 100000.
The annual report of the national secretary OF
the Ancient Order of Hibernians shows a total
mem bershp of ls3,23s, increase OF 1851;
total amount paid for benefits. s3es,67o; for
burying deceased members, s73.4i2; for burying
deceased brothers wives, $4,000; sundry
penses s207,65 total amount of money held by
the order s70S 1882; total value OF cash and prop
erty, $875,27O.
At the auction sale of the Toumas collection
of pictures at the Hotel Drouit, Paris, Thurs
day, Meissonier's painter at the EASEL was
knocked down at $4,000: Corot's Peasant on
Horseback" at s, 900; Corot's "Crepuscule," at
$500; "a Nude study" by lie Fevre, at 5000,
and Frornentin's "Centaurs" at $500 Over
$4,000 was realized today. The sale will con.
tnue tomorrow
Jessie Pierce and Robbie Brown, Anniston,
Ala cotton factory girls and rivals for the afec-
tons OF a young man, had a rough and tumble
fight Thursday. Finally Jessie knocked her
rival down and jumped her. The other
girls entered the serimmsge, and before men
could part them Miss Brown received injuries
from which she is dying. ana three Others are
insensib!e, not TO mention minor Injuries.
New York Catholic clergymen and laymen are
considering the plan Of summer assembly
similar to the Chau.auqua summer school.
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