The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-11-27
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Sharp earthquake shocks were felt Tues
day morning AT Athens. Greece, n at
Livi6ia. Thebes and Corinth.
William Rovce shot and killed HIS mis-
treSs. Nellie Patten. at Sioux City. Ia,
Sunday evening. He was Jealous.
Conductor ]. ". Robn, who was terribly
scalded in the Santa re train. wreck az
Shoemaker, ". NJ. Monday. died IN a hiss
pital at Las Vegas Tuesday.
David 2. Hannigan. the acquitted slayer
OF Solomon H. Mann. OF New York city,
has been committed 10 the Hudson River
hospital for the insane at Poughkeepsie-
The Canadian parliament viii meet on
January. :. This WI be ehe sixth session
n enc parliament. a most unusual thing.
The Manitoba school question VIII be a
great subject OF debate.
Hyman Hettenhost. a weli-known pugi-
list and raine OF Brooklyn, shot and
killed his TWO children and himself sun
day night. He was the proprietor OF q
college of physical instruction IN Brook
lyn
At Portland. Me-, Tuesday. Gov. Ceaves,
on behalf OF the state, presented TO the
new battleship Name an elaborate silver
s~entation exercises. at which the officers
OF the Maine were guests OF the governor.
at noon.
An order in council has been passed. ap-
pointing as Canadian commissioners 10
confer with the United States engineers
on the deep waterways scheme Nessrs. 7.
C. keefer. Thomas Monroe and O. A.
Deep Waterways Association.
Irwin Bros printing works. located
at Chilworth, Surrey. England. were burn
ed Sunday night. One hundred valuable
manuscripts and works in course OF pre-
patration or ready for publication were
destroyed. The publshitg house Of Un-
win Bros. is also known as the Gresham
press.
The board appointed by the secretary OF
the navy. with Admiral Walker at its
head. has made a report on the location Of
8. recommending that they be placed
eleven feet below the water line, as on the
Texas. in accordance with the English
system.
At Ottawa. Kan. P. j. Youngberg acoi-
dentally took strychnine Monday night,
and in twenty minutes was dead. lie
went behind the prescription counter IN
his sons drug store TO take some medi-
cine. He mixed the dose in a glass grad
uate in which strychnine had been meas
ured. and took enough of the poison TO
cause death.
Joseph w. WANT. an engineer. was in
stantlv killed. Andrew Muggins. engineer,
fatally injured. and several others severe
" scalded by the explosion of a steam
music hall. New York. Tuesday. The
damage to the theater building was small.
andrew Higgins the assistant engineer.
The directors of the Childs-Drexel home
for union printers decided. after the evil
dence before them had been carefully con-
s.GtTel, 10 Selu d committee 10 COtoIdn0
Springs to investigate the charges that
have been preferred against Super:ntend-
ent Schuman, OF the home. The following
directors. were appointed to make the in
~vestigation: +. A. Colby. of Colorado
Springs; l.. c.. Shepherd, Of Grand Rapids;
Henry Dossey, OF Dallas, Tex, and Alex
ander Duguid. OF Cincinnati.
4 terrible accident resulting in great
loss of life occurred at Palma, capital of
the island of Maforica, thirteen miles
south of Barcelona Spain. Monday.
Eighty persons. most of whom were wo-
men. were employed in emptying old
cartridges outside OF the walls of the
town. when one Of the cartridges explode
in some manner. There was a large guam
tity. of powder that had been taken out of
the cartridges lying about over a large
area. and this was ignited by the dis
charge OF the cartridge. A tremendous
explosion followed. which shattered the
masonry of the town walls. which were
extremely thick. and did much damage to
buildings. Thirty-seven women and four
teen men were instantly killed. Thirty
five women and five men were seriously
injured. and twenty have died.