The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-02-21

Gov. McKinley's liabilities in the Walker
failure exceed $4,000.
The trial OF DR.. Graves, the alleged poisonsr
OF Mrs. Bsrnaby, has been cot ct Denver for
May q
The report of an earthquake in Yellowstone
National park 10 denied b. the men In charge Of
the buildings there.
The Farmsrs' bank. OF Pittsburg. has closed
it, doors pending an investigation by the state
bank superintendent
The sheriff OF Salem, Or. has identified man
who IL wanted at Salem for forgery.
The tests of the Rapief fuse In the expert
ments of dynamite guns on the Vesuvius at
Port Royal, g. c., are unsatisfactory.
Capt. James B. Reminton and three men were
drowned off Black island in the Delaware river
Monday BY the sinking OF the steam barge Reli-
ance.
The stockholders OF the Crescent mills of Fall
River, Mass, having discovered that Treasurer
Warren had entered fictitious assets will offer
the property for sale.
Dir Edward Gray said in the commons on
Mon lay that England had not yet received
Official information concerning the United
States position in Hawaiian affairs.
Rev. Henry Preserved Smith has denied cate
gorically the report that he and DR.. Briggs had
agreed to secede and found a new church in
case the presbytery declared against Briggs.
terrible storm swept over the no ttheast
coast of Scotland Monday. Two fshirig boats
went down off Wick with nineteen menvand one
of Banff with nine men. All were drowned.
Minister Giez man. of Nicaragua, has received
q cable from the minister of foreign affairs in
his country telling him to deny stories of the
country being involved in financial difficulties.
Rebels who forced an entrance on February Is
to the town OF Wazan, in Morocco, were
hemmed in BY the closing Of the city's gates,
and then butchered BY the citizena The streets
ran with blood.
The United States court OF appeals In New
York has decided that Charles A. White who
was arrested for the larceny of stocks and bonds
belonging to his wife in Cheyenne, Wyo., must
return to Wyoming for trial.
Charley Mitchell visited a saloon in New York
Monday aud began abusing the bartenders, who
resented his insults with empty bottles, knock
ing the windy pugilist on; in one round.
Friends fnterfered and got him away in q hack.
Bark Harry Morse, now at San Francisco, 10
coming to the Sound to load lumber for Shang.
hal. where she will have extensive repairs
made. The reason assigned for having the work
done in China is that it costs much less for
caulking there, owing to the absence OF trade
union regulations.
A dispatch from Lisbon states that the minis
try has resigned at Madrid on account OF the
failure of the c0rtes to approve tts financial
scheme; also. that Spanish advices from Cuba
are to the effect revolution 10 threatened at
San Domingo in consequence OF q concession in
customs with an accompanying grant of land to
An American syndicate.
Secretary Foster denies having made any az
rangements for the sale of $25, 1000 United
States bonds to New York bankers. and Gays he
does not think 1t will be necessary for him to do
so. He intimates that certain American capital.
lists conspired to get large quantities Of gold out
Of the country and then threw the responsibility
onto their agents to avoid criticism.
The case of Frank J.. Symmes and others,
stockholders in the Sutro Tunnel Company,
against the Union Trust Company. of New York,
to have the dec ee Of foreclosure and conirma-
ton of sale of the tunnel company's property to
the trust company. In January, 1889, set aside
on the ground of fraud, 10 being argued in the
United States circuit court at Carson. New.
Capt Deering. once chief officer of the steamer
Haytien Republic aud now commander of the
schooner Olsen, suspected of smuggling opera
tions, has seriously embarrassed the local
authorities in the Investigation OF the Olsen
opium smuggling conspiracy, ut San Francisco,
by secretly marrying the chief witness for the
prosecution. Mrs. Mary Essie West. A. the trial
on Monday Deering's attorney made the point
that wife could not testify against her hus-
band The court decided that she would have
to testify.