The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-04-07
CONDEMNED DISPATCHES.

The Iowa Legislature has adjourned sine
die.
The sye.r-old son Of T. y. corson. .
butcher. vas killed At his fathers
slaughter house, Sacramento, Cal, Tues
day. The boy fell into vat Of boiling
water used IN scalding hogs and VAS
scalded TO death before he could b re-
scued-
w. Fl. Hart, attorney general Of Cali
Princess Co.onna- Ex-Secretary benjamin
+. Tracy has bssn engaged as special eoun-
sci TO assist the attorney general IN the di-
vorce proceedings TO be begun in the
California courts.
Miss Alice Lingst, OF Sand Beach,
Dauphin county, Pa, 8 years old. and
weighing 3SS pounds, started Wednesday
night for Coear d'Alens, Idaho. 70 marry
Harry Crssher. whom abe never san.
gagernent resulted.
Tho Chocsaw council adjourned without
making provision 70 treat with the Dawes
commission, but on the contrary passed .
provision against sectioniEing or msking
any change IN their country, and VIII nghs
any attempt by congress to reped the
treaty obligations
The Dirigo. the firse steel ship built in
the United States, has reached Phiiadei-
phis on her maiden trip from Bath. Ne.
where she Was constructed, and will take
cargo OF $4,000 gallons Of oil for Japan.
She Is BIZ feet long. IS feet beam, . feet
draft, 2, $50 tons register.
Moroni Duncan, . stockman. formerly
owner Of the Rock Springs Reviep, persisted
In the blizzard which swept Wyoming last
week. Duncan was travelling to his ranch
when overcome by the storm. His body
was found half eatea by coyotes thirty
miles from Rock Springs.
The naval appropriation bill Is prepared
BY the naval Affairs committee OF the
house contains . provision granting
have served in the navy and marine corps
for i've consecutive years and who havs
been honorably discharged.
The new concentrating plant and hoist
ing works of the Horn silver mine as
Frisco, Utah, were totally destroyed by
fire Thursday. The timbering of the shaft
is on IRE, and the ground IL supposed to DO
caved in for . distance of 800 feet All the
men escaped. Loss. 100000.
The annual distribution of seeds by the
agricultural department has been pracsi-
caiiy completed. The amount distributed
is 80 per cent greater than last year. Each
congressman received 5000 moro bags Of
seeds than in any prsvious year. The ap-
propriation for The present fscal year was
@l35, 400.
The dynamite cruiser vssuvius will
probably b altered into . torpedo boat, -
. result of . provision Of the naval appro-
priation bill Three torpedo boass will b
built in place Of the second dynamite
cruiser, not yet begun. The steel plate
appropriation has been cut from $3.50. 600
to $a0O, COO
Six weeks ago Christopher wilkey and
Henry Wells, Of Columbus, twenty miles
east Of Quincy, Ill. made joint agree
ment to commit suicide. Wiikey vas
found dead In bed next morning. Wells
died last Saturday. having taken NOR
phine. Both were prominent farmers and
in i'll health.
The annual banquet OF the Iroquois
Club, Chicago. Was held Monday night,
$50 persons sitting at the feast. The most
prominent speakers were John E. Russell,
of Massachusetts,; Senator Lindsay. OF
Kentucky; Congressmen Turner, of Geor-
ga: Bynum, Of Indiana, ana Tom John
son. Of Ohio.
James Owen O'Connor, . famous char
acter in New York. died in an insane asy-
lum last week. He had been dementsd for
. number Of years, his hallucination being
that he was gifted Shakespearean actor.
Having wealth, he was able 70 hire theaters
and present Shakespearean plays, but was
invariably rotten-egged. Finally he
stretched net across the stage.