The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-05-01
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

D. K Parsons Of Chicago. has offered
another 8s!oo 70 the endowment OF Bera
college. Kentucky.
Gresham High Duty Pumping Engine
Company. OF New York. has applied for
voluntary dissolution
Hotel Thornton and two other blocks in
Sturgis, Mich, burned Saturday morning.
with loss OF 1890
The Santa Fe road IL reported a. intend
ing to put in m 0rientai line OF steamers
10 run from San Francisco.
August Strassburg OF New York. has
fled a petition in bankruptcy, with EAbil-
tiles OF .2<s and no assets
The war department expects to enlist SEQ
for service In Cussa and the Philippines.
Three hundred houses In Cuta have been
burned The remains OF seven women and
four children have been taken from the
ruins
girl named Mildred Wilson arrested
In San Francisco for sagrancy. claims 10
be heir 10 property valued at half nil
lion dollars.
A " Miller. wee president OF bank
that recently failed at Golden. H.. COM
nnftted suicide BY shooting himself twice
tn the head
Yosemite has sailed for Guam The Yose-
mite is 10 remain st the island for the use
OF the governor.
Finnish-Americans. In a mass meeting
~
10 use It's good Offices 10 have the cars
recent ukase revoked
Six Japanese Judges. sent by their gov
ernrnent 80 make a study az International
law In England and Germany. passed
through San Francisco Saturday
Edward Harding and ] ID. German were
buried under 20 tons OF slate which fell
or the Pen Argyle quarry. Pennsylvania
A third man. Ar Italian. was also killed.
The discovery has been made that some
ating inside the state peniten;iary Of Col
GRADE. The counterfeiis made are silver
dollars.
The Phoenix Bridge Company. of Phoe-
nsxsiile. Pa. has received contract to
build twelve steel bridges for the Russian
government 20 be used on the Eastern
Chinese railway.
Charlton II. Lewis has been appointed
20 the Emily Sanford chair of English
literature at Yale. This lis the irs, time
the chair has been filled since its estab-
ishrnert six years ago.
dispatch from Odessa says three non
commissioned officers an officer and four
priya,es have been kiile! in on explosion
which occurred In ore OF the barracks
there. Six men were injured
Miners brough; BY the Kansas h Texas
Company 10 Cerryyale. !. T.. on arrival
found strike on hand and refused to
work They have brought suit against
the coal company fer their expenses
Lookout Inn on Lookout mountain by the
order Of Railway Conductors. II Il the
intention Of the Order IT Railway COnduc-
tors 10 convert the hotel into univers-
ity
Charles f.eiska p Simmons and Arthur
Billings the three soldiers convicted ~
participating in the RIO: near the Preside
when Rehfeld's saloon was burned sailed
FOR Manila In the Morgan City TO Join their
regiment
Chaucelsor " F. Mcdowell for nine
years ~ The bead ~ sH@ University -
Denver. has seen s.ecad president rs the
stafa agricultural college 20 Succsa! Tr
Aston Ellis. WHO has held tia. place for
ten years.
The United States cable ship Hooker
starts from New York for Manila Mon
day. Sire viii Iay 20 miles 81 cable con-
r~cfigg tire Islands ~ the Philippine group
The Hooker - the Spa nssh prize Panama
the second captured during the war
Physicians in Montreal undertook an
operation - remove blind eye from n
N-yezr-olA boy. When the patient recov-
Srs4 from the sresf hscics used IL was
FOUND he vaS totally blind the physicians
~ mistake having removed the wrong eve
Tire plants IN Cleveland O. have been
Transferred - the American shiv1utidiuR
COMPANY. TIE recently organized trust.
lard SriEb0ilssing Tngnrsny's plant Strip
o~ners Dry Dock Company and the
Slone Iron Works Company.
Several intoxicated soldiers ot ,aa Sec.
end Illinois regiment attempted TO Sc; fire
Ia sor1e snail wooden S~aEis IN sstgsssa
Ca. and Es5@s Lieut. John Aageskf "a
officer - the day. tried 10 dispense them
TIE soldiers resisted him. and In tire rxkt
thsi followed private vas badly wound