The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-01-20
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

colonel Dupuy, general eouiLnaiudnt OF marine
of Uruguay, is dead.
The Hungarian minister announces that
specie payments are about to be resumed.
The British brig Wellington has been wrecked
in O collision and two of her crew drowned.
snowstorm In Spain has put stop to rail-
road and Geographic communication with
France
A shock of earthquake has been felt on the
Island of Zanti and in various districts of the
Peloponnesus
Samuel spriggs pay clerk in the United
States navy, died st Vallejo, CAL, Monday night,
of consumptio
The Cunard line steamer Pavonia which
sailed from Liverpool on January T. for Boston,
was towed into that port Tuesday morning with
q broken shaft
The Frankfort Zeitung has been confsoated for
publishing an immoral article on Guy De
Maupassant, the French writer who recently
became insane.
Hervey Blowing was arrested on Tuesday near
Globe, Arizona, for holding up stage several
days ago, when he secured Wells Fargo box
and 81, 200 in bullion.
The queen intended to attend the funeral of
the Duke of Clarence, but yielded most I'M
willingly to entreaties not to expose herself to
the risk of taking cold.
At Toledo Tuesday morning fire destroyed the
Robinson electric street railways brick barns,
with thirty live electric motor cars. The loss is
estimated at about $4,000.
Charles Atwood, of New York, was arrested in
Philadelphia Monday for trying to work the
green goods racket on Anton Olson, OF Echo
City, Utah. The latter was also arrested
At Lancaster, o., Monday morning natural
gas explosion destroyed the residence of Judge
John 5. Brasse, partially demolished two
churches and damaged fifty other houses
The trial of Billy Considine, considered the
chief conspirator in the celebrated Perrien abb
duction case at Detroit, terminated with ver-
dict of not guilty. This is a great surprise to
the public.
A. G. Miller, a graduate of the University of
California, associate professor OF political
economy and finances in Cornell university, has
accepted similar position in the new Univer-
sity of Chicago.
Persian priests fomented an uprising on the
tobacco question, against Kallazdash troops,
resulting in the rout of the latter, with eight
killed. Two hundred rebels were killed and one
hundred wounded.
The council OF the Victoria board of trade met
Tuesday and recommended that fortnightly
mail to the North be established. The latter is
being referred to the city members to press on
the Ottawa government
There Is an oath bound society in Seward,
Grant and adjoining Kansas counties, and the
members are sworn TO kill Sheriff Dunn, Attor-
ney Pitzer Judge Botkin and two or three Others
Theywill be prosecuted.
Henry G. Dowd, "The Slasher," was arraigned
in New York Monday morning, He says he cut
Miller in self-defense, and denied the other
crimes. He was held without bail The grand
jury has indicted him for assault in the first
degree.
). d. Rogers, OF Boston, has been notified tnat
he with two brothers and two sisters, are direct
heirs to the 5000 600 estate of the late John
Rogers, their uncle, of Glasgow, Scotland. The
sisters are in Maine, one brother in California
and another in Texas.
DR.. Bredermann, director OF the chemical
laboratory of the university of Berlin killed his
betrothed, Marguerite Meyer and sufcided
The whole affair is surrounded in mystery DIR.
Bredermann was AZ years of age, while his
betrothed was only IL
At French cabinet council arrangements for
a representative of each ministerial department
at the Chicago Columbian exposition were de-
cided upon bill for the credits necessary to
carry out the plans OF the ministers will be
shortly presented to the chamber OF deputies
AT san Francisco Tuesday the International
League of Press Clubs elected these officers:
President, NJ. II. De Young, san Francisco; sec
rotary, c. W. Price. New York. and long list
OF vice presidents and an executive committee.
| The next meeting will be held in St Paul.
In the mountains of Northern Arkansas Peter
Baker, d farmer, was found murdered In his
| house. His wife and man named Johnson
| then lett the country, but both returned few
| days ago The neighbors suspected them OF
/ putting Baker out OF the way. The couple
| were captured, dashed together back TO back and
| then hanged by the same rope until dead