The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-09-14
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Mr.. and Mrs. J. G. Fetters were killed
at Edon, o., by Wabash train an hour
after their wedding Thursday night.
The undertakers in convention assem-
bled complain Of hard times. and assert
that the prices of caskets have been re-
duced
McKeespovt, Pa. celebrated its centen-
NAL Thursday. Cows. Pattison. of Penn
syivania, and Mckinley, of Ohio, partici-
pated in the ceremonies.
The St Paul Railway Company directors
have declared the regular semi-annuai div
idend of 81 per cent on preferred and 2
per cent. on common stock.
Mgr. Satolli denies having received a
letter Of recall from the pope. He thinks
the news as given out must be at least in
exact, as he knows nothing of il.
F. j. Mann. of Portland, Or, the owner
of the horse Trumout, has mysferiously
dropped out of sight in Sacramento, Cal.
He then had large sum of money about
him-some s.. 60o0-when last seen.
The Tazewell county, H.. board of SUI
pervisors has voted TO pay Little Bros.
s.. roo for the destruction Of their property
at Hillyard By rioting miners last June.
The owners demand SO, 600. The riot has
already cost the county several thousand
dollars.
The fireboat Yosemite, of Chicago, ran
onto Hyde Park reef Wednesday night in
a fierce gale and was wrecked. The crew
signaled for aid by soaking their clothing
in oil and burning IL. After several trials
the life-saving crew rescued the crew OF
the fireboat.
A portion of North Memphis, Tenn,
was swept by a tornado Wednesday morn
ing at IL 80. destroying and damaging
property to the extent of So. 500 and killing
a negro, Robert Cuth. and injuring two
other persons slightly. The portion OF the
city visited is the seat OF lumber mills.
Fire that broke out Thursday afternoon
at the corner of East and Folsom streets,
San Francisco, DESTROYED thirty buildings
and injured Others. Loss, 500, 900; insur-
ance. $1,000. The heaviest losers are
Somers q Co, dealers in hay and grain,
and Scott & MeCord, draymen. These
firms lose fully SIC. 900 each.
Riot was narrowly avertsd at Dearborn
and Adams streets, Chicago. Thursday.
The building trades council had notified
the contractor to discharge seventy-eight
non-union Edison Electric Company men,
but refused. The men were armed and
forced to flee 70 avoid bloodshed. Seven
hundred and fifty men struck.
Prof. G. Wright, of Oberlin college. who
ccompanied the Cook Greenland excur-
sion party, says that on the morning the
Miranda sank nearly the entire crew OF
sailors were so intoxicated that they had
10 be helped from the vessel when she
weat down. The reef on which the Mi
randa struck. he says, vas plainly marked
on the chart
Two men were killed and a score of peo-
pie injured in q cyclone at Charleston.
Mo, Wednesday, during which train
was blown from the track. The dead are
Palmalia Dempsey and Frederic McClel-
Ian. Eldorado, Ill. Among the injured are
Baggagemaster Coyle, ~ Davis, Eldorado /;
- Dexter. Centertown. o.: w. III. De-
camp. Hamilton, O.; A. ID. Leming. Alto
Pass. Ill.,: Ii. w. Dexter, Moorehouse,
Mo-; @. w. Humphrey, Leonnra. Mo. I;
George McCiendon, Joplin, Mo-: Mrs.
}. W. McCuiiom, Dexter, Mo-; q. IL.
Miller. Corning. Ark.