The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-03-19
CONDEMNED DISPATCHES.


Bill Nye has decided to stop lecturing.
Judge d. l.. Snodgrass has been elected
chief justice OF the supreme court Of Ten.
nessee.
Parson Davies. Peter Jackson's man.
ager, says he is going to force Corbett to
make Q match or back out.
Secretary Carlisle asks an addition al
appropriation of $40, 900 from congress for
carrying out the Chinese registration act.
During a heavy g1ls Off Redondo beach,
CAL. early Saturday morning. the schooner
Maria Smith, went ashore and is now high
and dry.
Matthew J. .Byrne. OF Los Angeles, is in
Philadelphia endeayoring to interest the
unemployed In the movement on Wash.
ington City.
Sousa's band began five-weeks' engage
ment at the San Francisco fair Sunday.
The attendance IS increasing and promises
to increase steadily
Hundreds OF tramps are leaving Texas
for Los Angeles. ostensibly 10 join the
industrial army" and participate in the
march upon Washington City.
Hill has joined forces with the Western
senators in urging the early consideration
in committee of the territorial admission
bills. Utah will come first, then Arizona.
fed from New York to avoid investiRa-
ton. is in Pasadens, as is also Mayor Gill
roy. Of New York, IN exile for the same
reason.
A tornado struck Trickham, Coleman
county, Tex, Friday night, blowing nu-
merous houses to pieces. Four children
Of w. ID. Watson were killed and he him
self injured.
A splendidly equipped stock barn and
SIS, 600 worth of blooded horses, belonging
to John Kopp. at Greensboro, KY, were
destroyed by fire Sunday. Lightning
started the blaze.
The Methodist churches Of San Fran
cisco have begun a great series OF revival
meetings in large tent on the new post
office site. Rev. c. II. Yatman, Of New
York. being the leader.
There will be no contest over the will Of
Annie Pixley. her husband, Robert A.
Fulford, having awarded the actress
mother $4,000 and a life allowance and the
sisters $l0 900 and an allowance.
A prairie fire has been raging for several
days in the southern part of the Cheyenne
county strip. Oklahoma. ana a number Of
farmers have lost everything. Ii is feared
that some settlers have lost their lives.
The Life and Annuity Association, OF
San Francisco. has a petition in insoiv-
cuCys tnEouSu its pfeSiueut. "A. H. THU.
Liabilities are shown to the amount OF
S59, 80. 30, while the assets are only S., 72a
There has been another row in the
Topoiooampo, Mexico, colony. A large
number of colon,sts have withdrawn and
will locate new colony in the rich valley
OF the faqui river, an the state OF Sonora
The Poorman mine. in CGur d'Alene
has been sold to English capitalists for
s8oo0 The principal owners have been
Ben kingsoury, Patsy Clark and John
Noyes, of Butte. and w. c. Gillette. Joe
Davis and Joe Wooiman. of Helena.
The bark Montgomery Castle is reported
at New York as having been boarded by a
huge wave OFT the Azores islands, which
carried away all the officers ana seven
men. The remainder of the crew do not
understand navigation, and IL is feared tho
vessel will be wrecked.
The San Francisco is cooling a. Rio and
Will saii for BiueEslcs, Nicaragua, when
ready; tho Detroit will ssil for Hampton
Roads, Va, bearing the Annapolis cadets
from the Charleston. The New York aud
Charleston will remain q, Rio and the
Newark AZ Montevideo.
Presiden. Dole, Of Hawaii. having con-
tended that the cession of Pearl Harbor
TO the United States as coallng station
was limited % eleven years. ex-senator
Edmunds, the author of the amendment TO
TIE reciprocity making the grant, contra
diess Doe point blank and says the grant
IS perpetual.
The Washington City Times, q morning
dalIy receiving the Associated Press dis
patches. appeared SUNDAY. Marshall
flashing is editor in chief. and ii. J. Brown
Is manager. The paper is strongly backed
hy the labor organ xations, and IS unique
In Ehe fact that FULLY 400 persons are an
seEested as STOCK holders N its success
storm unroofed and overturned sew
era houses s. Gainesville, Tex, Saturday.
Inc mouse OF }. {. Welsh VAS struck By
lightning. Mira Welsh sas severely
burned ana may die. At Mountain
Springs, ten miles south Of Gainesville, a
heavy hsiis,orEn prevailed. Stones as
large As hens egg fell for bali an hour.
In the army appropriation bill the Law Is
repeated which puts general service clerks
ana messengers on the retired list. The
medical corps is TO be reduced gradually,
no mes appointments 10 re made until
the total Is dosn 20 ninety, or thirty-fsvs
neio~ the present force. The allowance 10
TIE various serarsments Ia as fellows:
s9ee.sseuce, 81 TO 600: ouAytermaarer. T. .