The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-12-18
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

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Moorish pirates have captured tbs Spanish
schooner Leon, carried the crew into the noun
tairs, and refuse to surrender them till paid
$l5o,ooo ransom. The spanish government will
probably pay the money.
The Wells-Fargo Express Company has ~
stunned the blame for the loss of two packages OF
money shipped from New York few weeks
ago TO Galveston, and will make good the entire
loss Of SIS, 600 to the banks.
The house committee on elections has decided
to report in favor of Edward scull, Republican
sitting member from the Twentieth Pennsyl.
vania district, in the contest brought for his
seat by Thomas Grevy. Democratic contestant
Wednesday night at Bellevue, Tenn, nea,
Nashville, q negro outraged q respectable white
girl named Emma 'Brien. A posse started in
pursuit, and it is reported the ravisher wal
caught and hanged to q tree and his body after
wards cremated.
For three months no official salaries have been
paid in Samoa except those of chief justice and
president OF the council Even the king Is mol
exempt from the prevailing desritution. Public
bankruptcy impends, and appeals for outside
help will be made soon.
The Louisville Commercial Club has Endorsed
the Nicaragua canal, recommending that the
United States own, complete and hold 1t, and
has called a state convention of commercial
Sc~iCs III LOul9Vlike Oh jduuoIy ~ W 4u0AS =
accommodation to congress.
Premier De Bouchevi!le, of Quebec, had an In
terview with Lieut-Gov Chapleau Wednesday.
during which he insisted on having his resigna'
ton accepted. The lieutenant governor &C.
eepted the resignation and summoned la
Iaiilon to form a new ministry.
Presiden: d. 3. Robinson, of the San Antonio
q Arapsas Pass railroad, admits the purchase
OF his road By the Southern Pacific. The price
has been agreed upon, and only details remain
to be settled He will transfer the road to the
southern Pacific about January L
At St Joseph. No., the prosecuting attorney
will begin suit against forty-three companies
doing business there for violation OF the anti
trust Law. The punishment for violating the
law 10 forfeiture and fine of 500 for each day
that has passed since the violation.
At Ironton, Mo-, at o'clock Friday morning
there were two distinct earthquake shocks, FOL
lowing each other in quick succession The
vibrations were sharp and quick, and accom-
panied by q noise like the crashing of masses Of
chains. No serious damage was done.
An explosion OF dynamite occurred at Mines
Vile, Pa, Wednesday evening with terrible re-
suits. Thomas Waiter and Michael Parrish
were blown almost to atoms Dominick Wal
tiers, q contractor, and Michael Mares were ia
tally injured. The cause is not known.
Fire broke out in the opera house at Sumter.
s. C., Friday night. In spite OF every effort, 1t
could not be checked till it consumed that
structure, together with eight business blocks.
consisting OF the principal part OF the town.
The fire ragged for five hours The loss cannot
be estimated.
The United States court of appeals has granted
an injunction in the suit of the Edison Electric
Company VS. Sawyer Manufacturing Company,
with proviso that the Edison company must
supply all the Westinghouse plants installed
before the Injunction was Issued with lamps at
reasonable prices
An American syndicate, said to be composed
of Higgins, Mills, Senator Jones and F. Lynde
6tetson, President-elect Cleveland's law partner,
have experts examining McKennas silver mine
near lquique, Chilli The opinion of Chilean
experts is that the mine is played out and the
title ciouded by lawsuits.
Mime. Miilet, wife of the painter OF "The
Angelus," had a paralytic stroke q few weeks
ago and lies in a very helpless and pitiable con.
dition. Not long ago her youngest daughter,
Mile. Marianne Millet, fell ill and died, ana the
widow, who, by the way, lives at Barbizon, has
never recovered from the shock.
CARTHAGE, n. Y, Dec 16-Fire broke out At
10 o'clock tonight in the Hubbard block and
spread with such rapidly that by midnight
had been burned out and the fire is still spread
ing. WATERFOWL has been appealed to for as.
sistance. The losses will be heavy.
1t 10 said that the police of San Jose de Guate.
mala recently arrested Sonora Noriaga while
that lady was on her way to Salvador, and con-
Quoted her to Guatemala City, where she was
beaten to death with rods in the plaza before
the prison. 1t appears that the unfortunate
woman supported the cause of Salvador in 1890.
The vendetta between the McForrills an
Jones, at Waynesborough, Miss, eliminated
Wednesday afternoon in a resort to arms. j. NJ.
Jones was shot through the right side C. Nc.
Forrill shot in the right side and chest. both
being seriously wounded. Walter c. McForrill
was also painfully, but not seriously wounded.
O'Connor, the newly appointed British minis.
ter to China. has delivered his credentials to the
emperor. OConnor did not insist upon his
majesty giving him an audience in the inner
palace. This action has settled the diplomatic
difficulty arising from the emperors refusal to
hold such ceremonies within the sacred pre-.
cincts.
The New Orleans bridge bill, introduced in
the senate at the suggestion OF the Southern
Bridge & Railway Company, which desires to
build bridge over the Mississippi river above
New Orleans, has been taken up today by the
house commerce committee Nothing will be
done with it until the people OF New Orleans
can be heard.
Another mill has been started at Hamburg fol
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third of the kind now running The establish
ment OF these mills Ia due to the efforts OF
Charles Murphy. the special agent of the United
States agricultural department, who was sen,
to Europe to work up the use there of corn Al q
food product.
Action in trespass has been entered against
the Eclipse Lubricating Oil Company by Mr.
Roach, whose wife and child were burned "a
death IN the great fire and food at Oil City in
June last. 1t is alleged that tho works owned
a large tank OF beuzne and gas which cause ed
the explosion and confagration in which the
plaintsf's wife and children were burned to
death.
The body of Patrick Macadury, of Brooklyn,
\. Y, was found Wednesday in the hold OF the
Anchor line steamship Bolivia at Glasgow from
New YORK, embedded among grain. Macadury
was sewing bags in the hold when the Bolivia
was loaded with wheat from lighter. 1t il
supposed he was overwhelmed by the grsin,
which was chuted in at the rate of several tons
per minute.
Further particulars of the attempt on the life
OF President Hippolyte, OF Haiti, have been re-
ceived. While he was walking III his garden
several men rushed upon him. He called for
he p and the guard caught the would-be assas-
Gins before they could harm him. 1t is reported
that the coHspirators were tried and shot. IL
is understood they acted in the interests of ex-
lied conspirators.
The ahattoir and extensive stockyards of the
South san Francisco Land and Improvement
Company. in San Ma,eo county, near
the limits OF san Francisco, have been
opened, and the slaughter OF cattle hogs
audeheep has commenced. 1t is the largest