The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-08-23
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.


Sonoma, Cal, was fatally shot and beaten
on Thursday by "a Chinese servant. who
then committed suicide.
The Grand Union hotel at Conger's. N.
Y. took fire at o'clock Thursday morn
ing and. with the contents. was totally
destroyed. Loss. $500.
a disastrous fire. I'll, second within
eight months. swept the business portion
of state Center. Iowa, "Wednesday, wip-
$4,000.
severe earthquake has shaken the
town OF Coin. IN Andalusia. twenty-one
miles west OF Malaga, Spain Serious
damage has been done. Coin has pop
ulation OF 10000.
Cyrus p. Cameron, a travelling man en-
pIoyed by NJ G Liiley & Co. of Column
bus. o. dealers in military equipments.
shot himself six times with pistol in the
Wedell house. Cleveland. Thursday. death
being instantaneous.
Railway Mail Clerk Colver, of San Fran
cisco, has not been suspended for the
charges he made against Superintendent
Flint. His case viii bs taken up when
Assistant Postmaster General Nelson re-
turns to Washington City.
George /. johnson. OF Phoenix. Ariz..
bought 5000 worth Of dry goods on credit
from Murphy, Grant * Co. San Francisco.
lie at once held mammoth sacrifice sale
and blew in the proceeds on high living.
The dry goods firm is prosecuting him.
The offer of the Union Iron Works. OF
San Francisco. to furnish sixty men to
speed the Olympia across the Pacific win
not be accepted by the navy department.
The Olympia will make the trip to Japan
at the ordinary moderate rate usual 10
other vessels OF the navy.
Charles I. Bishop. first vice president of
the Bank of California. San Francisco,
has contributed SS00,0O0 TO schools and So
ciesies in the Hawaiian islands. The mon
ey is to be used 10 promote the interests
OF a number of institutions sustained by
the late Mrs. Bishop in her lifetime.
Robert ". Hutchins. vice president OF
the Clark a Courts Company. the largest
stationery house in the South. and son of
banking firm of Ball. Hutchins & Co,
shot himself fatally at Galveston, Tex
pistol
on tho monument at the Preside. San
Francisco. TO the four soldiers killed in a
railroad wreck during the strike of 1891
appears the inscription: Murdered by
strikers" The American Railway Union
demands that the line be removed, and
the local officers refusing, will appeal TO
the secretary Of war.
The passenger steamer seaford was
sunk I'm the English channel Tuesday by
collision with the freight steamer Lyon.
she carried 255 passengers and - men, and
s ~f os, s a ,, og ,ne lyon ne paSsen
lean passengers value their property lost
al $4,000 to 100000.
Coroner Fitzpatrick. OF New York. has
ordered the arrest of Thomas Murray
foreman; Charles Behrens architect: Ed
ward j. Youdale. assistant architect and
Thomas w. Walker, Contractor Parker's
assistant. for their connection with the
Ireland building which fell last week,
killing sixteen men.
George s. Montgomery, millionaire
member OF the Salvation Army. is organ
iZing at Oakland. Cal, an expedition to
invade Japan and Christauize the inhab-
| itants. The plan has received the approval
OF Gen. Booth. who Will send a few re-
cruits from London and the party Will
| sail ~ about n month.
The materials composing John Browns
| fort arc 20 BE- taken back 20 Harpers Fer
| ~. Va. carly In September. They were
| taken 20 Chicago before the Worlds fair
| hut the enterprise proved unsuccessful
I public-splrited people contributed the nee
/ essary funds for their return. in response
( 10 Miss Kate Fields appeals.
The bequest OF i. G Wilmerdins
amounting 20 SiNo.eO9. for the establish
nlent or a school of mechanical arts in
/ connection with the university OF CALI
| fornis. viii he turned over 10 the regents
| today. 1t viii be "a school to teach bows
/ trades ~ which they can earn q living
with their hands. with plenty of work and
/ not too much study The school will
/ probably be located in San Francisco.
/ Tho hearing is IN progress at San Fran
! cisco or q suit Tor an accounting broug ut
/ BY Theodore Fox against John w Mac
( KAY. Senator John +. Jones and the Com
/ stock and Consolidated California & Vir-
| ginla Mining companies The amount in
! VOWED Is almost s. 60 0sa PLAINTIFF al
| leSes fraudulent management on the mart
! Of the defendants by which the stoCk
/ holders were defraudcd.
The Early Settlers Association. OF I'm,
| huuue. has settled on a rlan for n ,uonu-
mcnt To b placed over the grave Of Ju-
heu Dubuque. whose remains rest on a
/ rocky point inst below the CITY Tho DE-
/ sign Is after ruined Rhine castle and the
/ dedication ceremonies viii taka plaCe
/ July Z. tS96 y park Of thirty-siN acres Of
/ ground will be donated by the civ nS
( county. surrounding the monument. Iu
btque came IN i5SS and died in lslo.
The Port ROYAL : c. dry dock fs ~.
/ all that IL should BE-. and possibly n a.
/ attempt were made 10 dock a hlg shin like
/ the Indiana or other firsg-class hattie
( ship there might b. a great deal or
{ trouble. The weak spot 81 the dock Is s. :
/ the entrance. and whether IL IS due 10 th.,
! soft condition cf she soil around tho on
! trance or some defect in the building will
/ not he made plain until the Official renorr
~ the board. which was present at the