The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-03-04

At last accounts the president and party
were NJ Cape Hatfer<s light
The secretary OF the navy hiss vetoed the
movement 20 secure new naval station
for California.
The Jackson brewery. Of Cincinnati. has
failed. Cxnisaf. So. 900, assets sd. GO.
liabilities $i5o0Oa
The spriag meeting OF the new Memphis
Jockey Club viii begin April and con-
tinne fifteen days.
Gov. Fuller. Of Vermont, ard Gen.
Aiger. Of Michigan. visited the San Fran
cisco far Saturday.
The troising mare Henrietta, 2.ooA. has
heen sold by Erastns Corning 10 New
York persons for $1,000.
The purses hung up for the trosting
meeting az Terre Haate. Ind, between
August Is and 10 foot up So, 900.
The Unised States ship Yorktown n.
rived at San Francisco Saturday evening.
thirty-six days from Caiiao, Peru
The house has passed by unanimous
drew Franklin, veteran OF the war of
1872.
An explosion on Saturday morning in
the barrel department OF the Moosic Pow
Ger Works NJ Moosic. Pa, killed Thomas
Wierr and wounded TWO others.
Mrs. Eta Walden. II years old. who had
Quarrelcd with her 1-vear-otd husband,
committed suicide at Winchester. n.y.,
Friday. by taking carboiic acid.
The plan of reorganization OF the Nicar-
aqua Canal Company adopted by. the
stockholders under the leadership OF John
X. Bartlett will be carried out, the Hatch
faction having Withdrawn opposition.
Frank Groaf, Q boatman; Nick Bevley,
r oil faf nd
we're out on San Francisco bay In . stid
breeze Saturday and have not returned.
ALI were drunk and they were probably
drowned.
Thaddsus Hamilton. president Of the
Brewers Metallic Bunk Company, of New
York, shot and killed himself in the Ged-
new house, in that city, Saturday. He
was . native of Butte. Mont. and was
driven insane by business troubles.
Senator Calvin Brice. tells story of i'm
prisonment in . Mexican prison for which
he was innocent. He is at FL Paso. Tex,
en- route TO Washington City to press
claim for damages.
A terrible explosion Of chemicals oc-
Cured Saturday night in the drug store Of
Baltic h Co.. Shreveport. La, blowing
out part Of the wall. Fire followed. caus-
Ing damage to Baillie & Co. and three
other concerns Of Sis, 900.
BY gas explosion at the Kansas City
Clay and Coal Company's mine. near
Leeds. Kan, Friday. Eugene Parker. col
ored. aged 30, and Thomas Guggins. aged
q, were killed. and O. L. Wilson. aged IS.
and West Sattsriey, aged p, fatally in
jured.
The wsrship Marion. which sailed from
Yokohama February 10. ran into q ty-
phoon four days later and was obliged to
turn back seriously damaged. The repairs
may consume so much time as to render
the Marion unavailable for the Boring sea
patrol.
George Siddons and Danny Russell
fought near Newark, n. j., at 126 pounds
Friday night. Siddons had the best Of it
throughout, and Russell fouled him so re-
peatedly and deliberately that tho referee
gave Siddons the decision In the twenty
seventh round.
The entire family Of r. L. Snyder,
merchant at Sedgwick, Kan, were acct
dentally poisoned by an unknown sub
stance in coffee Friday. Mrs. Snyder died
quickly in terrible agony. Mr.. Snyder
fingered until evening. and 1t is not ex-
pected that the three children will survive.
Last September the navy department
ascertained that illegal practices were be-
ing rssorted to by the employees Of the
Carnegie Steel Company in the manufac-
ture of armor for the government. 1t was
ascertained that while all the armor
manufactured ~as good portions OF 1t were
not up to contract. The steel company
appealed from the secretary of the navy to
the president who. or January 10, assessed