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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-06-01
Negro Rising in Florida Suppressed.

JACKSONVILLE. Fla, May 3l.-Deputy
Sheriff Williams and posse of ten men
went to Greenlands last night to suppress
negro uprising. Early last week Section
Boss Henderson, on the st. Augustine
road, shot and killed negro workman, it
is asserted in self-defense, as three of them
were fighting him at the time Henderson
fired. Since then negroes have been search
ing for Henderson, who is white man,
and under the pretext that he was con-
cealed in his own house, they set armed
guards about it and refused to let Mrs.
Henderson or the children out. There are
only few whites in the neighborhood,
while the negroes number two or three
hundred. For four days Henderson's
family lived in constant terror, and only
today help was sent for. Williams and
posse found nearly 800 armed negroes rid
ing and walking about the village threat
ening violence to the Hendersons or to
hold them for ransom until the death was
avenged. The posse soon scattered them
and made some arrests. The names of the
ringleaders were taken, and they will be
indicted. A deputy removed Henderson's
family to the house of relatives in South
Jacksonville.
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offerings from 100000 bushei receipts
rushed in, and from reinspection OF the
grain in store, together with sharp calls
for margins, soon put the firm in trouble,
and when one bank refused to certify the
firms check, the offerings increased
and amid scene of the widest con-
fusion in the pit, sellers shouted offers
on descending scale till theprice touched
so cents, when the announcement was
made that Coster & Martin had failed.
Covering by shorts at the bottom figures
caused a reaction to 55 cents. There were
rumors regarding the solvency OF other
firms. but no other names were posted.
There are all sorts of wild statements as
to Coster IL Martins liabilities. 1t is def
nitely known, however. that in addition
to the capital required TO carry through
the deal up to today they needed 81, 100000
this morning to take care of the days re-
ceipts and other offerings. There was q
rumor that the firm in it's efforts to corner
the market ran up against some such
financial whale as Armour. with the re-
suit already stated.
New YORK, May 31.-The collapse in corn
at Chicago had little effect on the New
York market beyond soaring few shorts.
The short interest here was very small.
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GREAT FLOOD In INDIANA.
Three Persons Drowned Near Indianap
olis-Another Tornado in Kansas.

Three Persons Drowned Near Indianap-
olis-Another Tornado in Kansas.
INDIANAPOLIS, May 31.-This city and
Central Indiana have had few such rains
as fell last night and early this
morning In fact it was cloud
burst. The streets were filed with water
which flowed over the curbs into the
yards. Rogues' Run, which runs through
the city, became a raging torrent, and
many people. had to fee for their lives.
The electric cars plowed way through the
streets like steamboats,. White river and
creek are on rampage, and several
northern suburbs are reported to be under
water. Information received from outside
the city tonight indicates the loss of at least
three lives, Carl Weaver, John Hender-
son and the latter's little boy being
drowned in Fall creek. The rain con-
tinues tonight, and the river is rising.
Many houses in the lower part of the city
are flooded. and great damage has been
done. The lowlands in the Wabash valley
are covered, and corn and wheat crops
destroyed. At Wabash manufacturing es-
adjustments have been compelled to close
because Of high water. Reports of dam
age come from all towns in the vicinity.
The railroads are suffering much incon-
venience.
INDEPENDENCE, Kan, May 31.-The
house of James Sullivan, near here, was
demolished by a tornado last night. Two
people were killed and SIX others slightly
injured.
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THE MAURIrIUs HURRICANE.
Twelve Hundred Persons Killed and
Four Thousand Injured.

Twelve Hundred Persons Killed and
Four Thousand Injured.
MARsEILLss, May 31-The mails which have
just arrived from Mauritius confirm the state
ment that 200 persons were killed aud 1900
injured in the recent hurricane.
The hurricane was preceded by violent mag
netic disturbance and the sea rose nine feet,
the highest level since the cyclone of 1915
Scarcely house in the colony escaped damage
Many churcher and public buildings
were destroyed. The church of the
Immaculate Conception is in ruins,
but the cathedral, by q strange chance
escaped. The dead include a large number of
the leading inhabitants There were fearful
sights of distress in the street. A factory on the
Martin estate collapsed, killing 200 Indians.
Half the sugar crop was destroyed and the
planters losses are incaleulable.
About noon the storm broke with furious
Kissing, and for ninety minutes a pitiless tor
nado ragged, accompanied by deluge Of rain.
Buildings collapsed, roofs were blown off aud
trees blown down. Then the barometer
suddenly began to rise. the wind
lulled and many people went out, believ-
ing that all danger had passed. Alta o'clock the
wind burst forth again in tenfold violence
from directly opposite quarter Its fury was
maintained for two hours. At 6 o'clock the
weather again became calm. Fires then broke
out in the eastern suburbs and destroyed what
the wind had spared
The country districts suffered heavily, but
nothing compared with Port Louis. Here
the residents who survived the disaster were
almost too daZed and unnerved to be OF much
assistance in the work of. restoring something
like order in the state OF chaos which existed.
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listers wind Plan of Rebellion.

BELFAST, May 3o-The Telegraph has
published plan OF resistance to the man.
dates of the Irish parliament. should such
body be established. The article was
written by prominent Irish Unionist.
and says:
The men Of Ulster will not allow the elections
to occur. The election writs will be publicly
burned By the sheriffs Of the counties and
the mayor OF Belfast Immediately
they sre received. Judges and
magistrates taking commissions from the new
executive Will not be recognized. The police
VIII be reoryanzied with special eoHstables
sworn to replace the regular police The queen s
taxes Will be paid, but the taxes levied By the
Dublin parliament will not be paid. The Gus
tom house is 70 be seized and held until the
question Is settled. In the event OF war the
North will be in a better position, both as re-
CARDS credit and geographical position, than the
South. Belfast is unassailable, while Dublin is
open TO direct immediate attack.
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Monetary Conference Assured.

WASHINGTON Cry, May 3L-Eight Eu-
ropean governments have accepted the in
vitation to participate in a momentary
conference. There is no longer any doubt
of such a meeting. The president will
probably transmit the correspondence to
congress IN few days.
PARIS, May 31-In the deputies today
Soubayvon interpellated the government
favoring a silver standard of currency.
He concluded by asking the chamber to
adopt an order of the day approving the pro-
gramme of the United States and France
as arranged for the monetary conference
of 1881 Rouvier, minister of finance,
said the French government was opposed
to abrogation of the Latin monetary
union, and would reserve the right of lib
erty of action, both now and in sthe
future
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to such lands has vested In he Indians by
virtue Of this occupancy. So that in the
opinion of the committee congress d en-
tirely free to legislate concerning ths
lands embraced in this reservation, and
make such disposition of them as it deems
proper. An erroneous idea seems to have
grown up that the Indian allotment act
and its amendments have given sddi-
tional sanctions to executive reservations
and operated to confer titles upon the
Indians occupying them they did not BE-
fore possess. The language of that act ID
simply an authorization to the president
and is as follows:
In all cases where any tribe or band of Indians
has been or shall hereafter be located upon suy
reservation created for their use, either byteaty
stipulation or by virtue of an act of congress Or
executive order setting apart the same for TIER
use, whenever in his opinion any reservation o.
any part thereof of such Indians Is advantaseous
for agricultural and grazing purposes, 10 Gauss
such reservations or any part thereof to b suf.
veyed, or resurveyed If necessary, and to alos
the lands in such reservation seve,slty to sny
Indian located thereon.
At the time of the enactment Of this
statute there were fifty-six executive res-
ervations, embracing perhaps from 75,0OA-
600 to loo, co., 900 acres of the public Lands.
in which the Indians had no right or
claim of title, and which could be extin.
guished by act of the president. 1t would
be preposterous to place such construc-
ton upon the language of this act q
would divest the United States of its title
to these lands. 1t extended no further
than legislative recognition of executive
reservations. No part of the Colville res
ervation has been surveyed. No alloi-
ments have been made upon it. No selec'
tIons for allotments have been had, and IN
fact no basis of selections by individual
Indians for allotment purposes yet exists
Brazil has sold 81 10000 per cent. treesufy
bonds to Rothschild at OF.
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QUEBEC THIEF CAUGHT.


Postmaster Paquin, of Hull, Extradited
in California, En- Route for Canada.
Victoria, 3. c., May 31.-tSpecial.I-
Dominion Detective O'Leary reached here
from San Francisco tonight with Paguin,
defaulting postmaster Of Hull, Que
bee, whom he has succeeded in extra
diting in the superior court of
San Francisco. The extradition proceed
ings were based on the robbery OF 81. His
populations amounted altogether to $27 900.
Paquin was interviewed by the Posr-iSTEL-
LfGEEcER correspondent tonight. He stated
that he is guilty and not sorry to be going
back home again at government expense.
He seems hardened, although one week
before he cleared out. Oh February 20,
he had married one of the hest-connected
young ladies in Hull. He is little ex-
citabie Frenchman and has been post
master for thirteen years. They leave
again to night over the G. p. Il. for Hull.
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Senator Dolph Was Quoted Correctly

WASHINGTON CRY. May 30.-[Special. l.
Miles c. Moore, of Washington, has taken
occasion to state in certain Washington
papers that Washington City dispatches
to the papers in his state did not state the
fact when explaining that Senator Dolph
did not make the statements attributed to
him in regard TO the Washington senators
and their attitude toward the Columbia
river improvements few weeks ago. The
dispatches sent out in reference to the
matter by the Posr-INTELLIGENcER CORE
spondent were authentic in every particu-
lar. 1t can be said that the exact language
that Senator Dolph used in denying GER
tain statements made IN the Moore inter-
view was given verbatim.
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Two Generals to Retire in June.

WASHINGTON City, May 3l.-Brigadier-
General D. S. Stanley, commanding the de-
partment of Texas. Will be placed on the
retired list tomorrow on account of age,
and Brigadier J. c. Kelton, adjutant gen.
eral. will close active service in the army
for TIE same reason on the oath prox.
The successor Of General Stanley will be
either Colonel w. Il. Shafter. First infan-
try; Colonel f. 4. Carr, Sixth cavalry;
Colonel +. s. Otis. Twentieth infantry;
Colonel w. Z. Carlin. Fourth infantry. or
Colonel ]. w. Forsythe, Seventh cavalry.
and the next adjutant general will be
either Colonel Williams, Colonel Mckeeyer
or Colonel Ruggles.
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In the House.

WASHINGTON CRY. May 3i.-After rou-
tire business the House went into COM
mirtee of the whole on the postotfice
appropriation bill, but little progress was
made. The free delivery cause gave rise
to good deal of discussion and vote on
a motion 10 increase the appropriation for
the purpose disclosed less than majority
present On motion of Henderson Of
North Carolina q resolution was adopted
revoking all leaves of absence except on
account of sickness, and directing the
scrgeaut-at-arms 10 telegraph absent
members that attendance is necessary for
the transaction OF business. Adjourned.
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THE WATER FRONT.

Steamer Michigan arrived in from Portland
yesterday and loads lime for San Francisco.
Schooner Ida Schnauer sailed for San Fran
cisco last evening with 270, 1000 feet of lumber.
The little steamer Michigan broke down yes
terday and the Alta took her run to Port
Blakely.
Schooner La Gironde, schooner Seguina and
bark Theobold have all arrived in port to load
lumber for SaE Francisco.
Today is steamship day: Steamer Mexico will
probably sail for Portland this evening; the
City OF Pueba is due from San Francisco, and
the Umatilla sails for that port at clock this
afternoon.
Steamer Wasco had IS tons OF sewer pipe out
for Whatcom yesterday; the Mabel had 81 tons
OF general freight out for Snohomish and way
points, and the J. r. Mcdonald took out 80 tons
for Bellingham bay and Blaine.
Stesmer Mary F. Berlsy began running On the
Vashon island route yesterday. She makes
three trips week to the east side OF the island,
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, and three
trips to the west side Monday, Wednesday and
Friday, leaving every day at O'clock II
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SHERMAN ON SILVER.
He Begins His Great Speech
Before the Senate.
General Stanley and General Kelton to
Be Retired This Month
Silver Conference Assured.

WASHINGTON Cry, May 3t.-In the Sem
ate the calendar was laid aside at o'clock
and the bill to provide for the free coinage
OF gold and silver was taken up. There
were about dozen senators on each side
of the chamber Sherman had been In his
seat for the preceding half hour waiting
tor the bill to be taken up. Teller ana
Stewart were also present and in frequent
consultation. Sherman said he did not re-
gard the silver bill as partisan or political
measure, but as largely local measure,
and that there is no question compared
with it in the importance of its effects on
the business interests of the country. He
went on to defend the financial action OF
the Republican party and his own part in
it. In passing aiIusion to the national
banking system Sherman said these banks
would soon pass away, not because they
were not the best banks in the world, but
because the United States bonds on which
they rested would be paid off. He in
sisted that the system fully justified
itself He said the discrimination Of
the coinage of silver dollars in 1873 and
the substitution of trade dollars was made
upon the representations of California and
other silver states, who wanted to transport
the law was that the senators could not
see ahead. If it had been known that sill
yer was going to fall as rapidly as it did,
he would have kept the silver dollar and
put it on the same footing as fractional
silver. The suspension OF silver coinage
by the Latin union and the increase O..
production had given great blows tosilver.
1t was not true that he was unfriendly to
silver.
Sherman then went on to denounce the
bill under consideration as a wrong to the
American people in principal and detail;
in every aspect fraud on the creditor, a
deception to the debtor. and it meant
demonstration of gold. The very threat
of free coinage silver, he said, was doing
more than anything else to disturb the
business interests of the country. At this
point Sherman yielded to motion to ad-
iourn.
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Wilmington and Haytian Republic to
observation-disclosures Crew Strikes.

Wilmington and Haytian Republic to
Acknowledgements Crew Strikes.
The Merchants Steamship Company,
which owns the Wilmington, has pur-
chased the Haytian Republic, and she will
be run with the former vessel on the route
between Vancouver and Seattle and Port
land. Captain Moody, who is on the Will
mington temporarily, is to have COM
mand of the Hatyian, and expects her
out in about two weeks.
Freights seem to be rapidly increasing
on the route. Captain Moody said the
Wilmington had 400 tons of freight wait
ing for her at Vancouver, and also a cargo
at Portland waiting to be brought up.
The Wilmington got out of dry dock on
Monday, after having her bottom cleaned
and painted, key put in her wheel and
new shoe put on. While she was
loading some freight at Tacoma
for Seattle the Japanese crew
which caused the arrest of Captain Ross
here on her last trip, stopped work for
some reason. When she arrived here
Captain Moody, who is now in command,
employed union longshoremen to dis
charge her, to their agreeable surprise.
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HIGHBINDERS' STREET BATTLE.
Two Cinnamon Killed and Others
Wounded at Sacramento.


SACRAMENTO, CAL, Nav 31.-About IL
O'Clock tonight a highlander war broke
out in the Chinese quarter not fifty yards
from street. There have been several
outbreaks Of late which have resulted only
in the occasional wounding of some China
man. Tonight. however. war broke out in
earnest, and for half minute there was q
perfect fusillade on Third street, in front of
one of the highlander dens, also on I
street, in front Of the headquarters of an
other society. Shots were exchanged
across the street in rapid success
Sion, like the rattle of musketry
during battle. For while
perfect sheets of flame shot from each side
of the street, and the air was full of flying
bullets. An electric car happened to be on
the track between the contending hosts,
and storm of bullets whist,ed through
the omen car about the heads of the pas
sengers, who climbed out the best way
they could. The conductor and gripman
put on the brakes and abandoned their
posts in haste.
When the smoke of battle cleared away
two dead Cinnamon were found and one
shot through the thigh. How many others
were wounded and got away is not known,
and it may be more were killed and hidden
by comrades.
One gang did its shooting from bal
cony. One man, a peaceable cigarmaker,
who has a wife and two little girls, was
shot while in his own place of business,
and died in the arms of his wife. The
police have arrested seven Cinnamon, all
of whom were armed with big pistols,
several of the weapons having recently
been discharged. 1t is a wonder number
of white men were not killed. There is
great Indignation among the white citi-
zens over such outrages.
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Suicide of a Rich Young Woman.

New YORK. May 3i.-Miss Lillian Nor
folk, one of the handsomest. wealthiest
and most talented young women on Long
island. was found by maid today in a
bathtuo filled with water. Her hair was
bound three times about the throat and
fastened. One hand, which turned the
faucet, clutched the metal in a grip of
death. The face looked calm and peace
full She had strangled herself with her
own hair. Various causes are assigned for
the deed, prominent among which is dis
appointment in love.
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Arrested for FaIsifying Bill OF Lading

OMAHA, May 3l.-DanieI Farrell, j., a mer-
chant of this city, and his shipping clerk, Ed
ward II. sharp, were placed under arrest today
on an Indictment found by the federal grand
jury charging violation Of the interstate COM
merce law. The offense consisted in a
falsied bill OF lading whereby 20 cents
per loo pounds saved a
car load OF syrup to salt Lake Farrell said the
transaction was entered into between his clerk
and the inspector of the Western Railroad
Weighing Association without his tFarrelPs)
knowledge. When he found it ont he ordered
it corrected, but for some reason the car went
through on the manipulated bill. Farrell
charges Superintendent Carmen, OF the Weigh
ing Association of Chicago, with laying trap.
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Dynamite to Clear Great Northern
Bridge-The Floods Subside.

Dynamite to Clear Great Northern
Bridge-The Floods Subside.
The high water in the Stillaguamish
former log jam 300 to 400 feet long
against the center pier and south abut-
ment of the Great Northern railroad bridge
on Saturday night. and it was feared that
the pressure caused by the strong current
might weaken the bridge. AS long as the
water was high logs were hauled out of the
jam by a locomotive with block and tackle,
but on Monday the river fell considerably
and yesterday the logs were blown up with
giant powder.
The rivers to the north had all fallen
considerably yesterday and the bottoms
were free from water, little damage having
been done. The Lake Shore road will to-
day begin repairing the track at Machias,
which was washed out by the Pilchuck.
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WASHINGTON CRY, May 3l.-An attor-
ney of San Francisco was at the state de-
partment today and had a conference with
Solicitor Partridge in regard to the claims
of thirty-seven sailors of the United States
steamship Baltimore against the Chilean
government for injuries received during
the Valparaiso riots. He urged prompt
action in the matter. He was told that
the claims were carefully considered and
would be acted on with as little delay as
possible. He was reminded, however, that
governments were VIGOROUSLY slow in &C
ton on such matters.
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Willamette Valley News.

Albany, Or, May Especial ALLAN Bros,
dealers In groceries, were attached by the sheriff
today at the instance OF Portland creditors, and
will probably make an assignment The assets
are =, 900; liabilities, $4,000.
SALEM. Or, May 3l.-ISpecial. MIR Harding,
who arrived from Kansas a few days ago, hav-
ing cut his throat en- route to Oregon, died at
the home Of his brother, Jsnk Harding, near
Gervais, last night He made the attempt at
suicide several days before 1t was discovered.
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out-Str Francis Cutting; bk in tow OF tug
Lorne at $50 a. m.
NEAH BAY, May 31.-5 p. m.-Heavy rain:
brisk southeast wind. Tug Tacoma in bay.
CLALLAM BAY, May 3l.-5 p. m.-Heavy
rain; brisk southeast wind.
PORT CRESCENT, May SIS .. m.-Light
rain; light southeast wind
PORT ANGELES, May 31-5 p. might
rain; light north wind. Tug Discovery in bay.
PORT TOWNSEND, May SL-fSpecial. THE
British cruiser Melpomene will sail from
Victoria tomorrow night for Unaiaska to patrol
Boring sea. The British ship British Isles went
to Port Blakeley today to load lumber for Port
Prize. The cargo will be finished at Port
Gamble. Nor bark Parthenfa was towed TO Por
Blakeley today to load lumber for Melbourne.