The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-10-09
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Prairie fires have burned over a large
district in Brown countyi > p, ana
Russian has been burned TO death and
several persons Injured.
Judge Hagner. at Washington City, has
rendered decision OF the supreme court
OF the District OF Columbia In two cases
involving title To the Potomac flats, and
BY il gives fun effect to the governments
title TO those lands.
william Smith, 60 years Of age, one Of
the oldest citizens OF Copper HaThor:
Mich shot his wife Monday evening and
then blew his own brains out with re-
volver He died instantly. The woman IS
still alive, but viii die. Jealousy was the
cause.
Pacing Billy Butts has been sentenced
10 twenty years in San Quentin on two
charges OF manslaughtsr. Two years ago
land. Cal. and killed two men. he film
self was badly wounded, and has not yet
recovered.
The three members of the California
state bank commission were arrested at
MERGED Tuesday, charged with misde-
meanor in having failed 10 do their duty
in their investigation OF the broken Mer-
ced bank. They were allowed 10 go on
their own recognizance.
The records OF the treasury department
show that 1872 persons paid income taxes
aggregating S77.l30 before the adverse de-
stitutionality was rendered. OF the whole
number 100 have applied for and received
the amount paid, aggregatins S4S.oi9
Serious conflicts have taken place at
Catholic students of the university. due TO
the fact that the government suspended
professor who published book declared
hetetical. Many persons were wounded,
and the disorder was with difficulty sup
pressed by the police.
Several Of those injured by the falling
of the floor at the church cornerstone
laying at Lorain, O.. on Sunday cannot
recover. Among them are Mrs. Kate Deit-
rich and Mrs Jacob heefner, internally
injured; Nicholas Wagner. skull frac-
tured: Mrs. William Burgett spine in
jured and John Eustin, hurt internally.
Christopher Ewald. a middle-aged man,
fatally wounded Mrs. John Stegeman at
Highlands. col, Monday, then blew out
no work his wife supporting him by TAX
ing in washing. He heard that Mrs. Siege
man had said the poor farm was the prop
or place for him, and for this he shot her.
The Spanish bark Joven Lolo has been
wrecked near Rosario. on Colorado reefs,
Cuba Five of the crew were drowned
The captain succeeded in swimming
ashore. The captain and seventeen OF the
crew of an unknown Dutch steamer
wrecked on Colorado reef have arrived at
EspenanZa. province of Pinar del Rio,
Cuba.
The attorney general has rendered an
opinion which hereafter will govern the
departments action, holding that white
lead manufactured from pig lead pro-
adjustments from mixture OF domestic
and imported ores is not entitled to draw
back under the provisions OF section p OF
the new tariff act.
James Moore was instantly killed and
Doc Morrison fatally injured by an explo-
sion of giant powder in a shaft of the
Matchless mine at Leadville. Col. Tho
explosion occurred Monday evening, but
the men were not found until Tuesday.
Morrison lay at the bottom of the shaft
all night in terrible agony, his eyesight
4 ,-a1 md frfe F,ttl
mangled.
The cruisers Condo Vendito and Infanta
Isabel. aided by the gunboat Maria Chris
tina. are hard at work trying TO save the
guns and some Of the ammunition of the
cruiser Cristohal Colon. sunk of the Gu
ban coast as well as the safe of that yes
sci. which contains quite sum Of money.
wreck All the crew are safe, in spite of
assertions 10 the contrary.
The committee of the Pittsburg council
investigating the city attorneys Office has
received itemiZed statements from two
banks which show that Assistant City
Attorney W. II. House has received in the
past ten years on city deposits interest TO
parent record is made. There is one more
bank 10 hear from. which viii probab bly,
run the amount mp 10 $4,000.
H " Pillsbury the winner al the Has
tings chess congress- has received a let
ter from the ST. Petersburg Chess Club.
inviting him 10 take part in a tournament
TO be organized for the month OF Noven-
Der next. in which SteinitZ. TarraSch,
Iasker and Tschigorin viii also be invited
10 participate. MT Pillsbury is not able
10 say whether his business will permit
him to accept the invitation.
The North Atlantic squadron will go TO
sea again in a few days from Chesapeake
bay TO resume evolutlons. II is probable
Ahat the entire squadron. reinforced by
The Mane and the Texas and perhaps the
Indiana viii continue these eVolutions on
q larger scale in Southern waters during
the approaching winter. though the de-
tails OF the winter cruise have not yet
been definitely arranged.
The state department. which is the Gus
todisn OF the funds paid by Spain on the
Mora claim. Will pay the money 10 the
different narties I'm interest on Thursday. or
POSSIBLY today The amount finally agreed
on for Antonio Mazimo Mora. principal in
the claim. - $S6IoNa This sum has been
reduced somewhat by assignments. and
the actual amount 10 he paid Mr.. Mora
will Toe slightly above S7oool0.
4 movement Is on foot in Mexico TO have
The United states abolish the tonnage
dues charged Mexican vessels. Al pres
emf the extensive fruit trade between
New Orleans. Mobile and Mexican ports
S. carried ON entirely in American vessels.
there not being a single Mexican vessel
steam or salt. SIN the business L is claim
ed that this rs because the United States
imposes @ lax OF 81 per ton and 10 cents
ad valorem on the Mexican vessels and
cargo.
Wr.tS % haheas corpus were servet
Tuesday morning UIou CIV Yang and con
Lam. propretors az the Chinese village
O. the midway AZ the Atlanta exposition.
commanding ther2 - bring before
the court the bodies Of women charged
by Luu L.ug. an Atlanta Iaun-
cryman. Nth being held IN tnvOlun-
tarN scrHitrde t2cS. who appears In the
bought in th5ua was TRANSPORTED hrro
against her VIII The writ peag -akcr On.
under the thirteenth amendment TO the
constitution