The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-06-26
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Gov. Matthews. Of Indiana has appoint
ed BENJAMIN Harrison trustee for Pur-
due university for term of six years.
John Devonshire, clerk OF the United
States district court for the Western dis
trict OF Louisiana, has been indicted on a
charge of embezzlement of $1,000 of the
court funds
William Caesar. the West Indian negro
who. on March %. murdered his mistress.
Mary Martin, in New York. has been
sentenced TO die by electricity in the week
beginning July %.
Near Aaronsville, Morgan county. Ill.
the family OF Gustav kunz contracted
anthrax from eating the flesh of dis
dren are dead. The father and the re-
naming children are convalescent.
Three sailors of the American ship Til
lie f. Starbucl deserted at Honolulu,
attempted to sail for Mexico. They
grounded on a reef and were captured
by the police. The pirates are now in
Jail.
Henry A. Warren, a Los Angeles re-
porter who played insane in order TO ne
able 10 get inside the asylum at High
lands and write II up. has been adiudged
guilty OF contempt and sentenced TO pay
a fine OF 500 or serve loo days in Jail
The Reading Railroad COMPANY will on
July default for the NTH successive time
in the payment of semi-annual interest
on the general mortgage bonds. and the
holders
of these bonds will then amount 10 about
S. 0o0c 600.
Edmund iTeurstel. a New York lawyer.
has been arrested on a warrant charging
him with forgery, The specific charge IS
the forgery OF a check for $500. although
the amount involved is said 10 reach
many thousands OF dollars. The complaint
is brought Sy Eugene LacouF.
There was sold at auction in New York
Tuesday lss 272 shares OF Oregon Railway
a . or { - T4al asa
stock was bought by A A II BoiSse-
vain. w. 5. oadmen and r. s. Bangs
representing the committee OF collateral
trust houdholders OF the oregon Short
Line and Utah Northern railway.
Application has been made in the
Tinted States circuit court for a receiver
for the Racine Gas Company. Of Racine
Wis T. W Andrews of Washington
makes the application. CHARGES fraud on
the part Of the present management. The
company is capitalized al $ltoooo
A court marital WAS held ar Prezems7al.
for the murder 81 a sergeant. Three nom
commissioned officers and ten privates
who We're chosen by lot 20 90 the deed
were sentenced 10 death. and the re-
condemned men have already been shot
From twelve 10 sixteen cars Of fruit
daily are being shipped from Sacramento.
cal This is about one-half the usual
crop being very short Bartlett pears
Will ~ less Shau half a crop Gamers
are Offering SIS II 81 per ton for aprieotS
an6 s. I'd for RaTtletts.
United States Minister Strohel repo-ts
from Santiago Chile. under date OF Nav
-. that Julius Neg Aaur. an American
citizen. - years old. Was found dead in
= small h0te5 May {. The minister buried
him took charge of his effects So in
Chilean currency ard n little clothing
The minister is seeking information as
- his ute<rsdcnrs.
An sncendiary fire. In the Preside San
Francisco. early Monday morning de-
- goycG the canTeeu and almost burned
tlrss. men sleeping There. Two escapssf
The third. Ernest R2lVh, the barkeeper.
v-ae Nent 80 bezf al midnight partly ar
toNtcatgzf. Vas badly burned before ne
wsss rescued II l. believed the same in
c-utiavy seq are 90 the gun she'd last
, eek.
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