The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-05

CONDENSED DISPATC HES.

Heavy storms continue AZ Colon. ard
shipping business IS paralyzed
Municipal elections were heft through
cut Ontario. Canada, CT Monday.
Thirry-s.x buildings wer~ destroyed b.
fire In Farmyll.e. Va On M-nday.
Gerard college. philadelphia celebrated
its as,ieth anniversary o. Monday.
WIarecke's perjodlc comet has beea re-
discovered az tie Lick observatory.
Tire erttre sSst side CT ne town 81 C---n-
nercs Tex. has hsen destroyed ky IRE
4 contract has been closed for the con-
structioC of a beet sugar factory in Ogden.
A draft q constitution to- ;hs Greater
Republic - csn-7al America has Teen com
pIeIed.
George T. Dllard. special agent OF the
New York Mutual Life. died az aponiexy
IN Atlanta Ga
About 1loo poscoffces throughout the
country sere assigned 70 the money order
class January :.
Or George #. searie. c. 8. p. has been
invited 70 accept The Office Of director or
The papal observatory al Rene.
James e. kellosE. the reputed founder %
the defl1nct hrsn OF e. s. Dean & Co. has
SURRENDERED to the New York police.
Joseph Arthuy's new play. The Salt o.
the Earta" was presented A. Wailack's
theater. New York. On Monday night
Foley. uader sentence et dsash at Lib
erty, Mo, for TIE murder Of his mother
ard sister. still strennously protests his
innocence
20 the number OF - have decided TO with
draw from tie l. A. W. They want Sun
day racing
Hon. ". r Morrison. whose term as
member OF the interstate commerce COM
mission has expired, has resumed the pFac
iice Of Law,
The German Trans-Ocean.c Electrical
Company. has been formed At Berlin for
the purpose Of erecting electrical stations
II America
excluding payments on account OF the
Union Paciic sale. were 81, ia 81 in excess
Of expenditures.
Total coinage OF the United Safes minis
during December was: Gold. s3,s-e.s42; sill
Yer, s1,$47.le1. minor coins, sl3s.6si. Silver
dollars coined were sl,6o431o
The sultan has ordered that contracts for
guns FOR the Turkish navy be given 10 the
krGpps. and those for the proposed new
iroaclads 20 the Armstrong;.
British ship Blairgowrie was beacheG at
the shore Of the Scheldt, Antwerp, TO avoid
sinking. She had been in collision with the
North German Lloyd steamer Bonn.
The Pennsylyania supreme cour, has az
Mark Baldwin vs. Chris Won der Ahe for
$. go damages for false Imprisonment.
Gen. W. W. Averill, the old cavalry
leader. has been awarded Judgment for
$50, eA as his share n the profits OF tire
Barber Asphalt. Company, On paving con-
tracts
John D. Rockefeller has given the Uni
versity OF Chicago sos. 0e0, swelling its in
come for tbs coming year TO as 90. the
amount needed 10 carry On the work as
planned.
William Haley. travelling IN a box car
from Fort Worth 20 Dallas, was killed IN
the car by some unknown person, his Skuli
being fractured and bis face horribly
mangied.
A i0-year-oId son OF George F. Smith, OF
San Jose, Cal. found an old revolver in
the garnet OF his hsnse. pointed II at his
5-year-old sister. pulled The trigger and
killed her.
Henry E. Adds, A. J. Pope and Abram
Isaacs. publishers Of the socialist paper
The Firehrsnd, were convicted in the fed
eral court at Portland Of sending obscene
matter through the malls
Aspen miners are rowing with the
sneIter people over the difference in the
quoted price % silver as furnished by the
su.elters. as compared with the regular
ports.
James Scott. engineer on a Santa Pc
freight, went 70 sleep In his cab. and in
consequence a collision followed with an
otner freight train at Argentine. Kan. One
man was killed and several others were in
5uged.
a H Revis a member Of the Salvation
army. under arrest for theft in San Ber-
rar6ino. Cal. came into court with long
tabGlated statement OF his various thefts,
ard asked that he be punished for each
separate one. besides the ofenses charged
In the Information. 10 which he pleaded