The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-10-28

An earthquake of ten secon ds' duration
was felt at San Diego, CAL, Saturday night
at IL :o5 O'Clock.
Chile has decided TO negotiate loan Of
$40, coo. 900. preferably in England. with
view TO getting on gold basis not later
than July. 1896.
At the Philadelphia races Saturday the
winners were: 2.24 class pace. Happi-
ness, 2:fstf; 2:I3 psce. Rebus, 2:13s<: 2:fS
trot, Georgia, 2:lelz; 2:4 trot. Ashmaid,
2;21L.
Annie Crossman Fawcett, daughter of
Gen. Crossman. of New York, has obtained
a divorce at Chicago from her husband,
George ID. Fawcett. an actor I'm Old Ken
lucky" on the ground of iniidelity.
All the offices of the interior department.
at Washington City, except the geological
survey and pension offices, have been
closed till Monday because case of small
pox has appeared in the building. The
persons directly exposed have received
twelve days. leave of absence.
Fire at Pensacola, Fla, Saturday, de-
stroyed the coal chutes belonging to the
Export Coal Company, the immense ware
house of the Louisville & Nashville rail-
way, and valuable property situated on the
Louisville Il Nashville coal docks. A
sailor on the Norwegian bark Eloise, was
killed. Loss. $il5,0o.
The Baptist General Association OF Mis-
souri, has adopted resolutions protesting
against the appropriation of money for
religious bodies for so-caled educational
work among the Indians. aud recommend
ing legislation to prevent appropriations
for the purpose of founding seotarian
schools. or any institutions of eccIesiasti-
cal origin or connection.
The steamer Persian Monarch is to be
thoroughly oyerhauled and repaired and
changed from a steamer TO a four-masted
sailing ship, after which she will probably
enter the trade between New York and
San Francisco. Her carrying capacity
will be very great, as her gross tonnage Is
S.923 and her net tonnage 2, $50. She WAS
built in 1850 at Dumbarion. Scotland.
The Carnegie Steel Company has COM
Ps'sd the ea5Ss''s for the a Sa,
bull. in San Francisco. It is
the largest piece of armor plate work
ever turned out AZ Homestead, or In
America. 1t weighs 400 tons, and will
require fourteen cars TO carry IL to the
Western coast 1t will DO shipped this
week.
Secretary of the Navy Herbert has de-
tailed . court-mariial composed as follows
10 meet at Mare Island October 80 and try
Executive Officer Martin and Navigator
Elliott, of the warship Adams, for strand
ing that vessel on the Alaska coast last
summer: Cspts. +. J. Higginson and j.
]. Read, Commanders Clark. II. X. Mich
oias. Edwin Longnecker and q. r. Ide;
Lieutenant Commanders 4 Z. Germore,
Il. I. Jasper and +. J. Drake and First
Lieut.. L. III. Draper judge advocate.
Hamburg has prohibited the iTnporta-
ton of American live cattle and fresh
beef. on the ground that two eargoes con-
tanned several animals suffering from
Texas fever. Conssgnments which are
proved TO have left America by October q
are exempted from these provisions. but
the animal. imported must &c killed at the
abbato.r there Immediately after being
landed. The department of agriculture
protests on two grounds. that diseased cat
tie have not been sent 20 Germany, and
that Texas fever IS NOS contagious or meat
OF cattle suffering with fever dangerous.