The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-06-23
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Midw inter fair admissions Friday were
10, 135.
Isaac simms. q miner. was scalded to
death In mine No. 2, Blockton, Ala, Fri
day.
The Republicans OF the Fifteenth Ohio
district have renominated Congressman
II. C. Van Voorhis-
Gov. Waite, of Colorado, Is unable to
place his newlv-appointed officials in
charge Of the state penitentiary at canyon
City.
The Funston Moore election contest. for
the Second Kansas district, was decided
in favor of Moore, Democrat, by the house
committee on elections
New York and New Jersey, with cap
ital of $. 600 900. has been incorporated
under the laws of New Jersey.
Seven prostrations by heat were reported
in Chicago Thursday, although the mer-
curry did not rise above 50 degrees. Two
OF the number, iaborers, will die.
Fire Thursday night destroyed the broom
shop. the wire department and the novelty
department of the Auburn. ". Y, prison.
Loss, $40. 900. The origin is unknown.
The prisoners were taken out safely.
A scaffold in the Etna building, Indian
apolis, fell Thursday, injur:ng these work
men: Christopher Doyle, Clelland Juph.
Emmett kearney, Mike Moriarity, Sammie
Ricketts,, Judson Whitestone. Ricketts,
and Doyle will die.
The torpedo boat Ericsson lett Dubuque,
Ia, Friday. The construction will be
completed in Rock Island in three or four
days, when she will be manned by crew
of Mississippi steamboatmen, who will
take her 70 New York
The cotton warehouses OF Burr Bros. on
South Water street, Philadelphia, were
burned Thursday night, and these six
tremen were crushed by the failing walls ::
Joseph Hart, James Shenan. Frank Burns,
Robert Dalton, Robert ]. Grady, Miles
Sweeney.
The fire in the Mary Lee mine. near
Birmingham, Ala, continues. OF fifty
men who were overcome by the heat and
dragged out four are dead, two more are
expected to die at any minute, and twenty
others are in q critical condition and many
may not survive. Two men are still miss
ing and are believed to be dead in the
mine.
George B. Henderson, a Wyoming cattle
man, in 1881 expected to be murdered and
insured his life for the benefit of his
wife, the agent assuring himself that the
proceeding was regular. Henderson was
murdered and the company refused TO
pay on the ground that the policy ex-
cepted death from intentional cause. The
Federal court decides in favor of the
widow.
William L. Grout, millionaire of East
Orange, Mass. so years old, has been sued
by his paramour, Mrs. Mary r. Sherwin.
bright, winsome and "a years. for $40. 600
salary as travelling companion. Mrs. Sher-
wins husband left her because of her in
timacy with Grout and Mrs. Grout is
suing for divorce, Notwithstanding that
Grout got divorce in Arizona last winter.
The big Sutro tunnel in the Comstock
mining region. Nevada, has been attached
to force the settlement of claims aggregat-
ing $4,000 against the Comstock Tunnel
Company, which now controls the prop
erty. The original cost of the tupnel is
said to have been 100000 but owing to
the decline of mining operations on the
Comstoek. the property has greatly de-
preciated in value.
The International Printing Pressmen's
| Union, in session at Toronto, Ont. elected
these officers: President, Theodore Gallo
kowsky, st. Louis; vice president, Fred
M. Young, Omaha; second vice president,
| S. III. Shambrook, Toronto; third vice
president, William Guenther. ST. LOUIS:
secretary and treasurer, James Nelson,
Brooklyn. The convention decided to
meet In Philadelphia next year, and TO
affiliate with the Typographical Union.
There are Indications that the Ezeta
case will cause our government 10 assume
definite position in the matter of right of
| asylum. Although the Salvadorisn refu-
gees. with one exception. are safe on the
United States steamer Bennington, the
Salvadorian provisional government is de-
tHmined to press its demands for the sur
render of Gen. Antonio Ezeta, vice presi-
dent OF the late government. It is likely
the other refugees will not be included in
the demand