The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-03-21

Hon. william v. Allen, the newly elected
senator from Nobraska, managed . baseball
team at Madison. Nsh, in 1ssa
The pope has notified the French bishops a {
his intention to crown his Jubilee By the beaut.
idcation Of the French heoEins, Joan Of Ara
Richard Heath and ". 7. Policy were sr.
raigned on March 20 at Fresno for the NcWhir.
tor murder, and given until April II to plead.
Eight miners were killed near Chesterfield
England, on March 20 BY the breaking of the
cage from the cable while gang was descend.
ing.
At . BudarPes celebration of Q Hungarian
revolution annivsrsaIy forty-sight resolutions
were adopted In favor Of Independence BY 1000
persona
Democratic. Independent and Republican
members OF the Nebraska Legislature viii push
impeachment proceedings against crooked state
officials
The Ncbraska legislature heard svidence on
March 20 which showed that the Capital National
bank. OF Lincoln, was utterly tnsolvsnt when il
Wa closed.
A fearful blizzard ragged in Ct Johns, N. f.. on
March 10, ana three feet of snow fell Five men
were drowned near there BY the swamping Of .
ski9 in the ga;a
Gen. Portugal's cavalry has attacked santa
Ana, Rio Grands do Sui. Brasil. Gen. Fernan-
dss with 1,o0o troops II pursuing the rebels, who
are In full retreat
The committee appointed BY the Tennessee
Legislature to investigate the charges against
Judge Dubose has reported that 1t could ind NO
ground for his impeachment
The Minnesota house Of representative has
instructed Walsh, . committeeman who has the
coal combine letter book, to refuse to obey the
orders Of the court for it production.
While fording Northrup's creek. four miles
from Hornitos. CAL, on March %. the MERGED
and Aariposa stage was wrecked and "Old Josh"
AcCloud, an old driver, was drowned.
John H. Wise. who Il mentioned - collector
for the port of San Francisco, 10 said to he in.
eligible because he 10 . wooden importer and
importers are prohibited from appointment.
ALI the abbots Of the Benedictiue monasteries
have boon summoned to Rome, to be present ct
the laying Of the corner stone Of the college OF
St. Ansslme. on the second Sunday after Easter.
Alta big meeting held in Boston March Is.
under the auspices Of the city, to pay a tribute
to the memory of Gen. B. F. Butler. Hon. F. T.
Greeuhalge delivered . eulogy of the dead gen.
eral.
Joseph NJ Choats, the New York lawyer, has
confirmed the report that he had bsen retained
by San Francisco Chinese to fight the new ex-
clusion law. Maxwell Evarts will assist him in
the case.
The Wholesale liquor house OF the James
Walsh Mercantile Company. of St Joseph, Mo-,
has been taken possession of by creditors. The
liabilities are $l4l.79S. with reported assets az
gregating $175,t0O
The Shoe and Leather Reporter, of Boston, says
that an American tanners trust has been formed
and arrangements made to concentrate under
one management the entire sole leather produc-
ton OF the country.
A sawmill boiler exploded near Rome, Ia, on
March 20, killing John Adams. Eugene Gates,
Townsley Boldojier and Eshelman A. Berry
and injuring . number of others, A. Hill and
Theodore Lilly fatally.
The question of the annexation OF Hawaii and
the revolutions in Honduras and Peru have
added fuel to the embers of rebellion among the
Cubans and the departure OF the flibustering
expedition from Key West 10 looked for daily.
John F. sarles, IT,, treasurer of the American
Sugar Trust, has been required by the United
States circuit court to show cause why an at
tachment would not compel him to answer GER
tain questions In the suit Of the government
versus the sugar trust
The hrst debating contest between Princeton
and Yale universities took place at Princeton on
March Is The subject was: "Resolued, That
peaceful annexation of Canada would be bene-
fcial to the United States Princeton took the
Affirmative and Yale the negative.
Capt Horace Staples and his son, w. n. Sta
Piles. OF the American ship Robert L BeIknap,
wrecked of Natuna islands in the China sea on
January 16 last, have arrived in New York.
They suffered greatly after the wreck, living
i've days in an open boat in . tropical climate.
Justice Brewer, of the supreme court, at .
meeting of the Congregational Club at Washing
ton City on March 20, held that it was wrong for
congress 20 discriminate against and ostracise
Chinese Aliens, he said. should be permitted
70 vote only after twenty .ons years residencs
In the United States.
The question of American and French inter-
ference with reference to the island of San Do
mngo, Is causing much excitement in Spain,
and the ministry is determined to resist any ag-
gression. A dispatch from Paris denies any
knowledge on the part of French officials OF the
landing of French troops on the island.
The hearing of Chief Arthur, of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers. and Chief Sar,
gent, Of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire.
men, for violating the order of the court In re-
fusing to raise the boycott on Ann Arbor cars on
other lines, has been set for March 81. aud pend
ing the outcome the boycott has been suspended.