The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-10-06

Fire at Nashville. Tenn, Friday, de-
stroyed the Young Mems Christian Asso-
ton building. Loss, $4,000; insurance,
$4,000.
A party Of campers at Fort Ross, Cal,
were poisoned by eating toadstools. Two
women named Clark, from Heaidsburg.
are dead
The national convention Of the Nom
Partisan Women's Christian Temperance
Union will be held in Washington. Pa.
November Is to Is, inclusive.
A small mineral we'll at Parkersburg.
Va, owned by George Schultz, blew up
Friday. killing Frank Haley and fatally
wounding Samuel Cook and George
Schultz
The Deering Company. OF Chicago, has
decided not to purchase any more twine
from the Cordage trust, and will manu-
facture its own Irvine in plant now under
construction.
The American bark Albemarle was
burned at sea September Is. The crew
took to the boats and were picked I'D on
the water by the British bark Rosehil
and landed At Bermuda.
stroyed Ten Brock Bros general store,
loss $4,000; Sherman Bros building.
$4,000; Nortman building. $50 900; Hebel-
ier's store and building, $4,000.
freight train on the Santa Fe left the
track. near Smi;hteid, No.. Thursday.
Engineer Neill Ketchum. Fireman Tom
Warren and Head Brakeman NJ. E. Hum
neil, al of Monett. Mo-, were instantly
killed.
The annual reunion of the Army of the
Tennessee was held at Council Bluffs
Wednesday and Thursday. Cincinnati
will entertain the army in 1895 The Sher-
man monument fund Is $65. 600. and will
be raised to twice that amount IN the next
year.
A. NJ. Byers, of Pittsburg, Pa. who is
confined in the Pennsylvania hospital for
the insane. has been declared to be hope
iessly insane. His wife, who spent two
years trying to get her husband from the
possession of his brother. will go into
court and ask to be made trustee Of her
husbands personal estate.
Ground has been broken at Anderson,
Ind. for the National Tin Plate mill, the
frst building of which will be So feet by
500 feet Six mills are to be in operation
within ninety days and six more within
eight months. This will make one of the
largest plants in the United States. The
company has just been incorporated with
capital of $50. 000
The whisky trust has decided on policy
of retrenchment which will save $12 600 .
mouth. The rebate payment will be abol-
ished as soon as the outstanding rebates
are settled, the expensive managers of the
individual houses will be cut of. clerks
and bookkeepers a the district offices will
be discharged. and the work viii be con-
/ centrated at trust headquarters.
The Southern Pacific has agreed to sell
from its San Francisco Office through
transcontinentaI tickets over the Oregon
Railway Il Navigation and Great North
ern, either by the eli rail route of the
Oregon Railway Il Navigation or by its
water route from San Francisco. This
goes far to make it possible for the trans
continental lines to bring to life their old
association.
The United States steamer Ranger, one
of the first vessels despatched last spring
| for patrol duty in Bering sea. steamed
into San Francisco Friday morning and
soon afterward departed for the Mare
Island navy yard. The Ranger and the
| United States steamer Mohiean left
| Unalaska together, bat as the Mohican's
| machinery is disabled she is coming down
slowly, under sail.