Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-11-07

Crimes and Casualties.
,,po,Is. Oct. 3O-Mrs. Frank Chairs,
living at Curtis creek, near Walkers p"vil.
;,, Anne Arundel Co., shot her husband
f,,1,lv Yesterday and then shot and Instant
IL killed herself.
DETROIT, Oct 30.-M the wedding OF
.to lourhter of l.. u. Heath at spring
,,,, last evening, all of the guests, OF
,,lo,, there were more than one hundred,
,',,ro made i'll by poison in some irgre-
,;or, Of food, supposed TO be arsenic IN
baking powder G! the iiavorinS OF cake
,nronrh several were dangerously ill for
,,,,lrr of h0,i.s, all are expected to re-
cover
N,nuyp. Oct 30.-Thcra have been
heavy rains throughout the entire country.
A. MALARIA water spout uprootcd trees
and injured many persons AT Vera AZ
n,ri, the river overlooked and Hooded
,,rmi,,cs throwiny I 900 men out Of work.
Ty,lty-onc persons were drowned and 80
horses and 100000 p'setas worth Of ore
c,.rirl away. At Curvas several lives
,,crc lost and one house destroyed. Ma
.,l,r, are taking advantage of these events
to ,cprcdatc on property The SaragosSa
md Barcelona railway is submerged for
distance Of lG Kilometres.
So Tp,NcI3cc, Nov. John Melon
p w,4 shot and killed, today, by Dan
ii l,rrican, special policeman. The row
WAS thc result Of drink.
Boise CITY, 3.--An old man by the name
Of Nelson Henry Hanson had sent his son
money to cpa, 70 this country and de-
minded interest. Last Saturday they had
some words about it at the old mans house
on the Paycttc, thiriy-thrcc miles from
here, and on the sons starting TO leave
without paying the interest, his father
took down Il shot gun and filled him full
of buck shot in the back. The son is in II
critical condition and the old man is in
Jail.
san FRANCISCO, Oct 30.-The coroner
of Alameda was notified yesterday of the
suicide by hanging of Mrs. Edward j.
Dodge, recently from Sacramento.
ASTORIA, Oct. 30-Wm. Evans, aged
%, Il native of Plymouth, England, fell
from the fore royal mast head to the deck
of The British ship Aagl0 Norman this
morning Death was instantaneous. He
came out ON the ship II'm. Tailor.
CoRNwALI, Ont, Oct, 31.-Clark Brown,
convicted of the murder of his father and
sister ut West Winchester on the night of
the "a Of September, was hanged here
this morning. IIecontcssed that the muir
der WAS committed 10y him.
PorGuKErrsIE, Oct. 31.-Thc trial of
Mrs. Mary Z, Lounsburg for the murder
Of her husband, Rev. Dexter l.. Louns-
bury, at Slrattord, Sept. 24th, begun today
Mrs. L"unsbury pleaded in a scarcely
audible voice " Not Guilty.
ASTORIA, Oct. 31.--'rhc body of Frank
Eagan an employee in the Upper Astoria
boot and shoe factory, was found today in
the harbor. He had been missing for scv
cral days. Eagan was we'll known III
Portland, having worked at his trade fol
some time in that city lie was for several
years an enlisted man in the army and was
recently discharged from the 21st L. $. in
iantry
LONDON, Oct 31>--In llolbstad, in tho
Wider district Of Bcsaraba the well.
used by German colony have been poi
soncd with arsenic. A hundred person.
are i'll and five have died The pcrpetra
tors of the crime have not yet been dis
covered
PHILADELPHIA, Oct 30-Isaac Jacob
son. II sailor, recently convicted Of TIT
murder at sea of Charles ID. Brooks, mate
OF the ship Sea King, on the 18th of Au
gust last, was today sentenced TO be hanged
on the 4tl of January next.
SAN BUENA VENTURA, Nov Ain tn,
district court this morning Judge Fawcett
after reading the order of the supreme
court fixed Friday, Dec. 9th, us the day
lor the execution of +. A. Spraguc, con
'icted OF the murder of T. w. Moore, il
April 1878. 1t is said that petition will
pe at once circulated asking the governor
"commute the sentence ON the GROUND
mat the witness on whose testimony h,
was convicted broke down on subsequen
TRIALS of other prisoners; and that Austin
Brown, the principal witness, has been dc
eloed by the supreme court to have beer
accessory
DAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 5.--Joseph Bow
man, proprietor of fish market on Six
.eeh'h and Mission streets, went to tn
mousse of Mrs. Hayes, whose niece, Mis-
oafr' he wished to marry, and on her re
,uSai 10 consent to marriage, shot Mr..
hayes in the arm and Miss Carr in tn
shoulder. He then blew his own brain
out Neither of the women are very SC
riously injured.
WOULD DO FOR A BURLsouE.