The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-11
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Premier de Bousherville, of the province of
Quebec, will retire from Office after parliament
adjourns.
John +. New, consul-general at London, will
sail for New York Wednesday for visit to his
home at Indianapolis.
Burglars in attempting to rob the bank at
Toccoa, Ga. on Monday night, killed the watch
man and then He'd without booty.
England has removed all restrictions on cattle
coming to Great Britain from Canada, and the
shipping of live stock has begun at Montreal.
Governor Albeit, of New Jersey, viii order
suits at common law and in chancery against
companies in the state belonging to the Reading
combine.
The members OF the Spanish press of New
Mexico met at Albuquerque and formed press
association. with a view to demanding certain
privileges.
Fire in the suburban town of Fairville, near
st. Johns. N. B., on Monday destroyed forty
houses and ffty-three families are homeless.
Loss, $4,000.
Denver people are happy and excited over the
reported strikes at Rico Col, of rich silver ore.
Denver capitalists had invested over 100000
in the last month.
The Spanish government is making extra
ordinary efforts to make q creditable showing
at and to contribute to the splendor OF the
Worlds fair at Chicago.
Hon. Patrick Greville Nugent, of the British
house of commons, has been indicted for hav-
ing recently assaulted Miss Marion Lymetta
Price in q railroad carriage.
Clarence l. Dow, who married Mile Price. q
high kicker, has joined the army, and as a
cornetist has joined the First Infantry stationed
on Angel island, in San Francisco harbor.
Judge MITCHELL OF the supreme court of Penn
sylvania, has decided that buying grain on mar
gin is not gambling unless neither buyer nor
seller contemplate delivery OF the article pur-
chased.
Tho Redding and Weavervile stage was held
up on Tuesday evening by two masked men,
about q mile from Redding. Cal. The treasure
box contained nothing and the mail was left un-
touched.
The reports read at the hotel mems conven-
ton at Detroit on Tuesday showed a member
ship OF 1864. and $1,000 IN the treasury. L A.
McCreary, of Detroit, was chosen a. president,
and Walter Barnes. OF Chicago, was reelected
secretary and treasurer
The editorial excursion trains en- route from
Chicago and st. Louis for the San Francisco
convention, reached Kansas City on Tuesday,
bad roadbeds delaying the run. 1t is expected
that there will be 800 delegates on the trains by
the time they reach San Francisco.
Hon. Albert P. Leonard, Republican candidate
for governor of louisiana, Major Andrew Hero,
and Judge Morris Marks went to Baton Rogue
to demand the seat for Leonard, under the con-
stitutional provisions. This is preliminary to
request for congressional Investigation of the
election.
Judge Gresham, OF the federal court at
Chicago, has decided that the certificates of
the receiver of the Grape Greek Coal Company.
OF Vermillion, Ill.,, do not become q lien on the
property OF the company. The decision estab
fishes precedent that may be applied in the
case of the United States Rolling stock Co.
DR.. Gaskins, of Baltimore, and another I'M
known physician of that city, fought duel on
Monday evening on the Potomac river, Virginia,
near Washington City. In the fight, the un-
known raised his rapier when his antagonist
stumbled, and Gaskins thrust his sword into
the formers neck, infiicting a serious wound.
The case of Charles Durkee VS.. Franklin H.
Read. millionaire of Chicago, was on trial in
that city on Tuesday. Read is charged with
conspiring, as administrator of the estate Of ex-
Governor Durkee, of Utah, with Harvey Durkee,
to defraud the legal heirs of their inheritance
and with inearcerating the widow in an insane
asylum. The case was taken under advsement
by Judge Gresham.
Representatives Brooks, Wheeler and Cald.
we'll have been appointed a subcommittee to
consider the matter of annuling the govern
ment's mail subsidy contract with the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company at the request of Rep
resentative Bowers, OF California, who alleges
that the company has violated its contract in
not calling at San Diego, the only United States
port of call on the route.