The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-10-19
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.


The good roads congress Is in session At Chi.
cage.
The paid attendance at the Worlds fair for
tuesday was 27s,i4S
Prairie hres are raging In South Dakota No
rain has fallen for several weeks, aud the grass
IL dry and crisp
The German Epworth League Of the United
States IL holding . conference ut ST. Louis, 100
leagues being represented.
Mrs. Timothy Donovan, of Morris Run, Pa,
the thirteenth victim OF the Jackson, Mich.
train wreck, died Tuesday.
The national Republican committee viii meet
about January Is Republican prospects are
growing brighter every dsy.
The Australian Canadian cricket match at
Toronto Tuesday was won by the Australians
by an inning and seventy runs.
1t Is settled beyond question that the schooner
C. Benson went down with all on boari OF
Port Coltorn, Lake Erie, during the late storm.
The schooner r. c. leighton. .oi Port Huron.
Mich, went down In Lake Erie during the terri
bic storm of Friday mig ht, aud all Ola board per-
ishei.
Jack Levy, of England, and George German, OF
New York, bantams, fought NJ the Olympic
club. New Orleans. Tuesday night before 2,5oo
people. German won la the eighth.
The report that young Charles Fair. the crazy
millionaire. had been arrested at Port Costa,
Cal, was untrue. He and his bride, Maud
Nelson. are speeding eastward on O Santa fe
train.
Four more victims of the wellsvilie, o., train
wreck are dead. They are: Robert Jackson,
engineer: Robert Ferry. train electrician; Alex
Frazier. baegagemau, and Ronert Fowler, train
electrician.
At the congress of agriculture Tuesday Col.
Bingham. of Ohio. severely criticised the speech
OF Secretary Morton. In which he said that
among the most dangerous, insidious foes the
American farmer had to contend with were
grangers alliances.
A. w. steembioch. his daughter Ida and son
William, we're suffocated by gas Tuesday night
Of the Raiser hotel. Chicago. Their dead bodies
were discovered Wednesday afternoon. The
family came TO the Worlds fair from Hampton.
Ia. and blew out the ga
The secretary OF the interior has approved tbs
decision of the assistant attorney general that
half breeds who were paid scrip under the &C,
of 1854 are not now entitled "Indians' 70
sllotments. The case came up under disposition
OF the Sioux lands under the act of lisa
The we,lman Iron and steel company's plant
at Chester, Pa. has been sc ned by she sheriff on
Judgment OF t64.ooo The company has . cap
ital stock OF 81. 100000 with a total investment
of 81, 10000 The cause of the failure 10 the de-
preston ia the iron aud steel trade
work train and q local train on the New
York a Pennsylvania railroad eollided near Al
toons, Pa, Tuesday. aad the debris caught Ore
seventeen men were iujared Those most scri.
ously hurt are John Richards. George sInarta,
John sayers, James NJ Duffy, George wrandI
The subcommittee of the Judiciary commit.
tee. which has the Henderson sugar ttust reso-
luton In charge. has not acted adversely. but
the members say they are unwilling TO report
ia favor OF an Investigation unless more evil
denec OF the existence OF = trust Is presented.
Congressman Curtis OF Kansas has Introduces
ball To discontinue the Office of collector ol
customs az a larxe number of ports where the
expenses exceed the receipts Among them are
Coos Bay aud Yaquina. or.
The bill which recently passed the house, sus.
pending for year the operation OF the mining
laws which require 500 worth OF work on every
mining claim, meets with opposition from the
miners Of the Black Hills. 5. n, who tnss, that
the benefits OF the btll shall rot extend TO non
residents.