The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-09-28
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Tsta Robinson aged y .. Springfield.
Mass committed suicide SSs1-ay night
T-re1uited love was Ire cause
A result OF the gales On ire Frenrh
near Bayozns. and tae crew drowned.
The big wooden elephant which was
hsE14z S5yns years ago for use as hotel
q, Co1ey Island. Vas burned Sunday
night
The Tokyo newspapers deny tae asss--
tson published n London anas Russia ard
Japan have agreed upon :3.as pro-es-
tora-e n Korea.
The Lea1oa Times announces thar Gen.
Meredith Read daughter. Countess DE-
Foras. has gwen birth 20 a 9aug aser a.
TIE Chateau MarC4ax. a Ttaanoz.
Ben Butler. a negro aged .. shot and
killed Thomas Carter and wounded Ed
ward Nelson. both eolore1. a. c&ke-wagk
mar 8ackeye Stone. Nd SUNDAY norn-
Ing.
4 dasyardiy assassination teok yIaca
near B'sS;on, La. Saturday night. the VIC
I'm being Edxard Bssssy; Tae 'op o rs
fired from q shotgun
4 Ma5rid dispatch 20 the London Stand
ard says taaS gales have done much dam
age % iessgI agh. railway and lisa boats
on the Northern coasts. and that many
steamers are overdue.
Col Joseph Hill. formerly assistant gen
erai manager o. the Naadaisa. and one o.
tae best-aEown railroad mea IN the com
> a
after prolonged Illness
The steamer g. r. Booth Capt Nesbi,t.
from Philadelphia. SsptsTn Der iU. for Cork.
has arrived al Queenstown Sic nearly
fo1rdeTeG IN the recent gale. her decks
being swept By tons OF water.
]. G. Cassbaan. rather than place
himself Ia tne hands Of tie officers and
undergo trial for the murder OF A $.
Barnes. fred 4 pistol ball into his brain
a. Meridian. Miss. Satarcay- He died
Sunday.
c. II. Tombs. a young business man OF
S. Louis. aged -, SHOT and killed HIM
ssf while IN bed Sunday. AS there was
no one present. the coroner returned u
widow and one child
Thomas German and Mat Carr were
cfemased near Lansing. Mich. last even
ing IN Cars log house 1t is supposed
t14t The men qaarreaed. fatally wounded
each other, and the lamp was overturned.
setting fire 10 The building.
TIE Rlo GTa1de Western railroad has
issued notice that by Wednesday. Sep
TENDER 81, the road viii be II condition 10
Iecelya ous ness. both passenger and
freight. Serious wasaouts. caused by a
cloldbarst last Thursday. have impeded
traffic.
An extra freight train bound for Wash
ington City vas wrecked on the main line
Or the Baltimore & Ohio Sunday evening
near RiyerGale Park. Nine box ears were
smashed aud piled IN heap. and Twelve
more were badly damaged Brakeman
Morgan, OF Baltimore. Is missing. ana IS
believed TO De under the debris.
James ". Henderson. a prominent at
Sorney OF Richmond. Ind. secretary OF
commissioners and chairman or the Demo-
cratic county committee. has been arrest
ed on a charge Of having embezzied s.. 800
from woodward Lodge !: Q. Q. F.. Of
~al.A ne VAS secretary. he 3 under SO
bonds.
The state department has received OF
fetal Information that Samuel T. Tolon.
wno was taken into custody by the Span
been released. Tolon. who IS said 20 De a
citizen Of the United States and until re-
Gently a resident OF Matanzas. was arrest
ed as he was about 20 board the steamer
Seneca FOR the United States
4 freight wreck occurred SATURDAY night
on he phiia3elun4a & Reading road, zine
miles southeast OF Melton. An empty en-
CINE colllded with a heavily laden coal
train. throwing eleven coal cars off the
track. and buring Engineer Mitchell. OF
TIE former. peaeat n the runs. Fireman
Kelley. OF the same engine who jumped
or. was so badly injured that he died.
John Lee spohn a photographer OF C.s-
c.nnau. claims 10 be the 9th Earl OF I.ud-
lew, !scoani Preston. and Baron OF Lua-
land and Baron L;diow In that OF the
United Kingdom. He is satisfied he can
establish his title By l.neal descent. The
has been extinct since 1872.
Three big rats attacked the 2-months-old
baby boy 81 Isaac Asher a. Baltimore
Saturday night. gnawing its face. head
and neck 50 that IL d,ed In short time
The mo her OF the child had gone 10 mar
ket. and the father had left K sleeping
In room on the second floor. while he
Went into his store downstairs But a
short time had elapsed waen he heard
the infant crying. and as he entered the
room three big rats Jumped from The ba-
by's coach and scampered of.
A daring hoii-up occurred on the Short
Line railroad between SewaH and Clifton,
eight miles from Charleston. W. Va Sar-
urday- Joe Thompson. who came from
TIE West about year ago. learned TIA:
W. l.. Wilson. bookkeeper ana paymaster
Of the LonEaale Company. al CIIntop. who
had e so with him. was gong up the
road 70 pay OF the men. When the train
reached a lonely SPOT in the mountains
Thompson held up those tn the engine at
the point % a revolver. grabbed the money
from Wilson ard Jumped. Wilson shot NJ
ThonpsoH, Thompson returned The fire.
shooting Wilson fatally. Thompson mace
good his escape.