Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-06-22
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IN North Carolina.
Leonard Sylvanian Jules Sondeau.
the French novelist t. is dead.
AT Corpus Christi, Tuesday. two
Mexican horse thieves We're lynched
La the Fourth Congressional Dis
trict of Georgia Mcdaniel received
every vote cast.
The statement of the Imperial
Bank of Germany shows an increase
OF specie of s, S,5S0,0OO marks.
1t is stated that the Arab insur
gents, of Iemen. achieved a great
victory over the turks at Arba
The French Chamber of Deputies
adopted the bill changing five pei
cent. rentes into four and a halls.
The stockholders of the Cincinnati
Il Eastern have voted to extend the
road from Portsmouth to Gallipolis
A Denver paper reports that Gen
John A. Logan has purchased an in
terest in great cattle rancho in New
Mexico.
At Elmira, Col. Bonnelrs hotel
burned, together with the trotting
horses Rosa B. Bob Stewart and
Lady Beekman.
There are over 100000 bushels of
grain loaded for shipment in the
lake vessels which are lying in the
Chicago harbor
AT Rock Run Furnace. Alabama,
b. o. Bass killed Butler Sparks, who
was shielding boy that Bass wished
to chastise
The Massachusetts House recon
sidered and ordered engrossed the
I'LL permitting women attorneys to
be Justices of the Peace.
The Inman Line of steamships is
said to be for sale. The Guion and
the Anchor Line. companies are both
possible purchasers.
Eliza Pinkston, the celebrated col
ored witness, who figured in the cleo
toral investigation in 1876, died in
Jail at Canton, Miss, as pauper.
At Annapolis, Md, William Pack,
for whipping his wife, was given
twenty lashes, the first enforcement
of the low furnishing wife beaters in
that county.
Three Cinnamon recently bought
property in Mott street, New York,
paying therefor $1,000 and intend
becoming citizens of the United
States.
The remains Of Frederick A. and
Charles L. Ward, assassinated by the
land clam party in Northwestern
Dakota, reached Chicago yesterday
morning.
At Wallhalla, $. G., Frazer Cope
land was hanged for the murder of
w. j. Hunnicutt. From the window
of the Jail he declared his innocence
A Minister'S State Temperance
Convention of Kentucky has de-
clared in favor of the prohibition of
the manufacture and sale of spurious
liquors of all kinds.
Queen Victoria will be able to
stand unassisted on her feet before a
fortnight. Her injured knee is
strengthening daily. Her Majesty's
general health is also greatly i'm
proving.
In New York the strike of Span
ish and Cuban cigarmakers still con-
tinues. Only two firms have given in.
About 200 firms are affected and be-
tween 800 and 1000 men are out.
At the farm of Joel Platt, at Sa-
betha, Kan, a deaf and dumb son of
Platt set fire to barn and was
burned to death. His mother, in at
tempting to rescue him, was fatally
burned.
The combined anthracite coal in
terests have agreed to work three
days during each of the first two
weeks of May and to carry ON the
production upon full time during the
remainder of the month.
Adolph Strouch, the celebrated
landscape gardener, and for many
years, Superintendent of Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati. is dead
He was about 63 years old He had
suffered two weeks from a paralytic
stroke.
st. Julien joined Maud S at Ches-
ter Park. The horses now gathered
in the stables at the Park are valued
at half a million dollars. Monroe
Chief has been sold in Lexington for
$4,000 to Hugh White, of Arizona.
Sec. Chandler has issued instruct
ions to Rear Admiral Baldwin, com
manding United States naval forces
of European station, to proceed with
his personal staff to Moscow to at
tend the forthcoming coronation of
the Gar.
A special committee of the Illinois
State Legislature is now in Chicago
to investigate the business of dealing
in options in view of the contem-
plated enactment which provides all
grain and stock brokers in the State
shall pay $1,000 year OF license.
The submerged hull of the United
States ship Oneida, lost on the Jap
anese coast. IL years ago, was blown
up last month. No relics We're re
covered, though human skeletons and
various unimportant articles of the
ships furniture We're brought to the
surface.
Elisha Kirby, a rough character
living in Carbonate, ILL.,, murdered
his brother in law, Isaac Pulls, by
shooting him through the head on
the street last night The affair
grew out of family quarrel. There
is much excitement and threats of
lynching
1t is reported that OK Senator Sar
gent. of California, now United States
Minister at Berlin, has involved him
self in serious difficulty with the
Government of Germany, by criti-
cising its action in excluding Ameri-
can pork, and that his resignation is
probability.