Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-11-08

| Svuu onofWauS cIotk IN the employ O1
Noble Jones, commission merchant
was found on the upper floor at l3:
Lasalle street, with his neck broken and
a cash IN the right temple. He had
been dead some time. It is supposed te
he the work of foot pads.
FOR EIGN.
A Question OF Time.
CoNsTANTINOPLE, Nov. 6.-Russia and
the Porte are unable to agree as to the
time to commence to pay the indemnity
The Porte claims it ought to begin in
March; Russia claims it ought to begin
in January.
English Grain Market.
LONDON, Nov. 6.-The Mark Lane Ex.
press, In its review of the British grain
trade during the past week, says the
floods have further retarded wheat saw
ing. 1t appears inevitable that the area
OF the wheat crop of 1882 will be nateri.
ally reduced. There is little or nc
change in native breadstuffs. Floor has
been IN less cOnsumptive demand. For.
eign breadstuffs have been dull and
steadier. Red wheat on Monday was
6dl91s cheaper. Flour Is difficult to
sell, and maize is in very small SPOT
supply, and fetches fancy prices, rang
ing from 36s to 38s. CargOes off coast
are very quiet. and prices are un
changed. There we're six fresh arriv-
ais. Five cargoes were sold, four were
withdrawn, and eight remain, including
hve OF red winter. Cargoes forward
were dull and rather weaker. Sales OF
English wheat during the past week
were Al ,32S quarters at 45sslld, against
6O,545 quarters at 46s Sd during the cor.
responding period of last year.
The Premier Explains.
| Gladstone, in answering further ques.
tlons by Bourke, informed the House
that Arabi Pasha occupied the status
OF prisoner who surrendered uncon.
ditlonally; that when the war closed the
municipal law came into operation, tax.
ing the place of the martial law. Arab
therefore, is being tried very properly
under the municipal law.
Amendment Lost.
Debate on the cloture question was
resumed. An amendment was offered
BY Lord John Manners, Conservative
that any division upon oloture shall be
taken BY secret ballot, was rejected by
139 to IS.
On q Strike.
A mass meeting of livet makers al
Blackheath adopted resolutions declar-
ing their intention to continue the strike
Tor an advance Of 10 per cent. in wages
The nailers of StaffOrdshire aud Wor-
oestershire have been on strike for a
fortnight, notice to employers demand
inx an advance OF 10 per cent. being ig.
nored. The chain makers Of Stafford
shire have inaugurated strike for The
same advance, but employers yielded
and the strike ended.
The Preacher and the Singer.
The mission of Moody and Sankey al
Cambridge Is suspended on account OF
the illness of Moody.
Hard Aground.
GAsPE, Que, Nov. Cit is reported
that the steamship Arragon went
aground off Fox Bay, Anticosti, about a
mile from shore, ON the night Of the 3rd
inst. They were throwing railway iron
overheard, and had little hope Of get.
ting her of. No news since.
Getting Ready for War.
BERLIN, Nov. 6.-The German Minis.
ter of War has made known his decision
to extend German forts and strengthen
Notifications on the Baltic coast. New
armored forts with heavy batteries will
| be constructed near Pillam and Wrenel
and an extension of fortification OF
Eastern and Western Prussia and POsen
will be pushed forward with as great "a.
pidity az possible, in order to meet the
extension by Russia of Notifications or
the Prussian and Austrian frontiers
Everything indicates that the German
government realizes the presence of 9
great and growing danger, but that thu
suddenness with which it has developed
has neither terrified this government
nor found it unprepared to meet the
emergency.
Terrible Slaughter.
LONDON, Nov. IA dispatch from
Durham says two batteries of Transvaa
Beers had An engagement with Mapgck
the kaffer chief, Who defeated the
Beers. Mapgck fsigned a retreat, aul
thereby drew the Boers into an ambus
cade and killed three hundred of them
only q few escaped.
4 HssDltal On Fire.
HALIFAX. Nov. IA fire broke out a
midnight in the Eastern and PrOvincia
Asylum, an immense six-story bricl
structure, containing about four hun
dred patients. At half past l o'clocl
halt the building was in flames. Tn,
fire originated in the bakery, where tw,
cords Of wood we're stored, The fame
catching this spresd rapidly, soon en-
veloping that part of the building uset
- hospital. The inmates rushed abou