Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-07-09
LATE EASTERN NEWS.

LATE EASTERN NEWS.
u.riue Disaster--A Portland Bound ves-
sci Lost.
LONDON, July 3.-The British bark
Orient, Capt. Barr, from Cardiff,
January 9Th, for Portland, Ogn., has
been seen abandoned.
The British bark Vesta, Capt. Nor
denholz, from Newcastle, March for
San Francisco, was totally lost of
the Patagonian coast in latitude 470
south, on the Sd of June. Her crew
wos saved.
A Heroine In Distress.
New YORK, July Airs. Dubois.
niece of Capt. Worrell, deceased,
who commanded the California
clipper Gray Fsnther, and who navi-
gated her uncle's ship on the Pacific,
bringing it safely into port during
his illness, is here now sick and des.
titute. all her relatives being dead.
The Heyald makes an appeal for her.
Appropriations for surveys.
WASHINGTON, June 30.--The Com
missioner of the General Land Of
flee, with the approval of the Secre-
tary of the Interior, has to-day made
the following apportionment out of
the total of $3.50, 600 appropriated
by act OF Congress for surveying
public lands during the fiscal year
which commences tomorrow: To
Arizona 10000, California s35 600,
Oregon SIG, 600, Washington Terri
tory 10000.
Progra NINE for schuAz's Western Tour.
Secretary Schurz proposes making
an extensive trip to the West this
Summer, leaving Washington about
the middle of July. He will go to
the Pacific Coast, and after spend
ing about ten days in California he
will return by way of Fort Hall and
visit the Bannocs Indians in Idaho;
thence through the Yellowstone Ma
tional Park, which is under the con-
troll of the Interior Department, to
the Grow agency in Montana. From
the Grow agency the Secretary will
proceed down the Yellowstone and
Missouri rivers to Bismarck, stop
ping at Forts Custer, Keogh, Buford
aud Berthold.
A Mammoth Fight.
CHICAGO, July Cat Troy Mills,
Iowa, on Saturday, while 18th of
July celebration was in progress, the
mar shall of the day struck man for
insulting woman. This was the
signal for free fight, which lasted
over two hours and in which over
300 men took part. -Four of the
combataLts were fatally injured and
rs others received painful wounds.
Physicians from all the surrounding
towns are in attendance on the suf-
ferers.
Fine Crop Prospects in ireland.
DUBLIN, July 6-The weather all
over Ireland up to the present time
has been most favorable, and it is
expected that the potato crop will
be enormous. 1t promises to exceed
anything seen in Ireland since tho
period anterior to 1917. Root and
cereal crops are also luxuriant.
Steamer Explosion.
MINNEAPOLIS, July AT 6:25 this
morning the Lake Minnetonka pleas
ure steamer Mary, owned and run
by Capt. Halstead, while lying at
the wharf at the st. Louis Hotel,
exploded her boiler, completely
wrecking the boat which sunk imme-
diately. The following is list of
the killed and wounded: VIM.
Chadwick, engineer of the Nary,
instantly killed; John Steward, pi-
lot Of the Mary, fatally injured and
dying; E. S. Perkins. fireman of
the Nary, scalded about tho face
and necl; Frank Adams, clerk Of
the St. Louis Hotel, scalded and
hurt in the eye; A. S. Diamond, of
Minneapolis, shocked and Frustrated;
Colored Jim, porter at the ST. Louis
Hotel, scalded and bruised; Lang,
porter at the st. Louis Hotel, scald-
ed and bruised; Harry, a colored
boy, very badly hurt-arm dislocated
and badly scalded; English George,
scalded and bruised. The boat was
on her way to Wysetta to take on
board 100 excursionists, and had
stopped at the St. Louis Hotel en-
route. The Mary has for a long
time been considered an unsafe boat.
Her boiler is the third of the same
make that has exploded on the same
lake in the last three years, each
time with fatal results. 1t is claimed
- that there was but GO pounds of
steam in the boiler at the time of the
explosion and plenty of water.
DIR. Turner's Condition..
New YonK, June 3,-To-day the
condition of DR.. Turner, who is at
tempting to fast forty days, was I'M
changed, except slight increase in