Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-01-30
LATE EASTERN NEWS.
TN. New Castle Horror.

have Decll tlheA A'oAA =,
colliery at Newcastle under the
TYNE. where the explosion occurred
Yesterday. OF II persons got out
alive five have died and others were
1virn A fire in the pit since the
disaster has hindered the efforts OF
cx,,,o. ers and prec!udos all hope OF
more victims being rescued alive.
4 later report places the total num-
her of deaths ut 70. Another ex-
plosion is feared.
M,rinr Disasters mud Loss Of life.
\ recorla,ot last years disasters to
shipping Registered in San Francisco,
shows total loss of S,233 tons of
registered tonnage, and an aggregate
value of cargoes and vessels of $780,
600. Four wrecks were attended by
loss of life, the total number of per-
sons drowned being A. The other
fatalities recorded are loss OF three
lives 10y the breaking OF II capstan,
and the drowning OF IL men 10y fall
ing into the sea from yardarm.
Woman Susrmgists before IA Senate Corn
mittee.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.-Mrs. Wal
lace of Indiana, Lucinda H. Chan
der of Pennsylvania, Susan b. Az
,nony and other delegates to the
y umsn's Suffrage Association, made
argument to-day before the Senate
Committce in favor of 18th amend
ment to the Constitution TO enfran-
elise woman.
Jntensiiied Distress i'm iceland.
LONDON, Jan. 23--The distress in
Ireland is intensifying under the in
huence of hard frost and biting cold,
which during the last four days sue
ceeled the mild weather which had
prevailed since Christmas. Glare
Lowell Read, addressing his constit-
uents at Diss, Norfolk, yesterday,
detailed his experiences from recent
visit to America, and highly eule-
giEcd Americans.
A Big Consolidation.
NEW York, Jan. 24.--It is ru-
mored that the consolidation of the
Union Pacific, Kansas Pacific and
Denver Pacific railroads was accom-
plished this afternoon, the new COM
pany to be known Us the Union Pa
cifc Railroad Co. The following
persons were elected officers: Sid
ney Dillon, President; Elisha At
kins, Vice President; Henry McFar-
land, Secretary aud Treasurer; Fred
Ames, OF Boston, Carlos s. Greeley,
of St. Louis, Ezra Baker, of Boston,
J. G. Dexter, of Boston, G. NJ.
Dodge, of Iowa, Russell Sage, Jay
Gould, Scion Humphreys, David
BOWS, of New York. w. l.. Scott, of
Erie, S. H. H. Clark, of Omaha, T..
7. Eckert, of New York, j. Sharpe,
of Salt Lake, with the President and
Aecretary as Directors.
Terms OF Settlement with the Plates.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.--The con-
ference with the Piute Indians from
Nevada has been satisfactorily ended.
The Secretary of the Interior to-day
signed the following, with which
Winnemucca and his associates ex-
press themselves highly pleased.
l.
live on the Malheur Reservation who
will make that reservation their per-
manent home are to have lands al
lotted to them severally at the rate
Of 100 acres to each head of fami-
ly and each adult male. Such lands
they are to cultivate for their own
benefit, allottments to be made un-
der instructions from their agent as
soon as enabled by law to do 80.
The department is to give the In&-
ans patents for such tracts of land,
conveying to each occupant n fee
simple as the lot occupied. Those
of the Piutes who, in consequence of
the Bannock war, went to the Yaki-
ma Reservation and who may desire
to rejoin their relatives, are at liber-
ty to do so without expense to
the Government for transportation.
Those who desire to stay on the
Yakima Reservation and become
permanently settled there will not
be disturbed. None of the Piutes
now living among the white people
and earning wages oy their own
work ' will be compelled to go to
the Malheur Reservation, and they
are at perfect liberty to continue
working for wages for their own ben
ef as they are now doing. 1t is
we'll understood that those who set
tie on the Malheur Reservation will
not be supported by the Government
In idleness, They will be aided in
started their farms and promoting
their civilization; the support given
them by the Government will, ac-
cording to law, depend upon their
Willingness and efficiency in working
for themselves. The Piutes will
leave for home on Monday.
Of the Iowa Legislature.
Dies MONIES, Jan. ga canvass
OF the State Senate to-day resulted:
Blame Il, Grant 3, Sherman 90,