Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-01-20
STATE NEWS.
A Brief Summary Of News Gathered From all
Parts Of the State.

A Brief Summary Of News Gathered From all
Parts Of the State.
Everett is to have new flour mill.
Several people have died of la
grippe at Spokane.
A disease affecting the care is very
prevalent at Ellensburg. 1t afflicts
both old and young. 1t is very pain
full.
l.. ]. Ames, furniture dealer, Of
HOquiam, died suddenly of heart
failure Tuesday night. He carried
SIS, 900 life insurance.
Philip Hunter was convicted in the
United States court, at Seattle, Fri
day, for opening letter addressed to
Philip Welner. The letter contained
money orders for $50.
The body of a man was seen float
ing in the Columbia river, at Marcus,
Friday morning, but was carried by
the swift current of the stream under
the ice before a boat could overtake it.
Robert Jameson. q mining expert
OF Vancouver, b. c., committed sui
eide ut Seattle, Saturday, by shooting
himself through the head. Despond-
ency over legal troubles is assigned as
the cause.
After suffering 80 hours Frank Nc.
Naily, residing on farm near Edge.
wood postoffice, in King county, died
Sunday from the effects of coffee made
from water that had been polluted by
poisoned rat.
Ed. Fay, who killed Deputy United
States Marshal Rowan and man
named McGrath, at Skagway, last
January, has been received at the
United States penitentiary on Nc
Meals island to serve an eight years
sentence.
William Metzger, of Williamsport,
Pa, has written to c. J. Freygang, of
Fairhaven, asking if local capitalists
would interest themselves in COM
pany to develop the Whatcom county
coal fields and make tests for petrol
cum and natural gas.
Mrs. Frank Moran, whose husband
is member OF the well-known firm of
Moran Brothers Company, Seattle, fell
down the stairs at her home at 8lS
Prospect avenue, Seattle, Wednesday
afternoon, OF last week. The fall
broke her neck.
Eric Freder, who had been under
treatment at Spokane hospital, en-
tered a coupe Sunday evening, and
asked to be driven to a hotel. When
the vehicle arrived at the hotel Freder
was dead. He had left the hospital to
take train for Harrison, Idaho, to
attend the funeral of relative.
Miss Lindsay, teacher in a Port
Townsend school, tainted Wednesday,
and the pupils became panic-stricken.
The pupils screamed as loudly as they
could and alarmed children in adj
joining rooms, who thought the school
house had caught fire. The noise
made by the children revived Miss
Lindsay, and order was soon restored.
Charles Close, who was lost two
WINS dSO ia Vic WOOuS near w llu.
wood, has not yet been found, and it
is probable that no further trace will
be found of him until the snow goes.
Searchers came upon his trail severvl
times, only to lose it again. One
party had found where the lost man
had camped. He had evidently shot
bird and cooked it.
Sunday night, at Colfax, Mrs. Geo.
Mansfield sent her little boy to the
Farmers drug store to buy some Ep-
som salts. He returned with a pack
age of medicine, and the woman took
dose. Very soon she was in serious
condition, and physicians summoned
recognized symptoms of poisoning.
For several hours her life was DIES.
paired of, but finally she was declared
out of danger. Analysis of the drug
sold showed that carbonate of potash
had been given instead of EPSON salts.