The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-07-22
NEWS ITEMS.


The postmaster at Richmond, Va, is short
81, 300 overdrawn his account
The Ute Commission is getting ready for
grand council with the Indians.
The weather has been very hot in New
York, and caused many deaths.
The Emperors of Austria and Germany are
to have meeting and talk things over.
Value of exports of breadstutfs of the
United States, for the year past figure up
1896, 272.
The loss of oil works and oil by the storm
aud lire at Custer City, Pa, last Friday and
Saturday, was about Sl30,O00.
Friday whirlwind swept over Hanover,
n. H., wreckng some buildings, iniuring
two men and doing considerable damage.
| The exact number of Chinese in San Fran
cisco, as ascertained by the census, is 20, 549.
Exaggeration has frequently placed the uni
Der at so, 000
The Chlian fleet has notified the Peruvian
authorities that Lima will be bombarded if
peace is not soon made. The inhabitants
were leaving the city.
On the Long Island railroad gravel train
with many laborers, running under wire
rope that swept the train, wounding twenty
| llNe ana kllllng SIX outright.
1t is claimed that the Democrats in Maine
will no longer fuse with the Greenbackers,
but have a regular State Convention, and
run Democratic State ticket.
The White River Agency has been visited,
and the remains of Agent Meeker buried in
a suitable manner. The Indians say they
are hungry and peaceable now.
Through the west OF England weather has
been bad for farmers some sections are suf-
fering from the overflow of rivers; railways
cannot run and the hay crop is lost.
The President has signed the commission
of John B. Neil, of Salt Lake City, as Gov
ernor of the Territory OF Idaho, vice Mason
Brayman, whose commission expires July
Odd.
The national board of health continues to
hear encouraging reports from the south.
SO far there is no indication of yellow fever
at Memphis, which is being very jealousy
watched by officials.
Ten miles of the Denver and Colorado rail
road have been washed away between Pueblo
and Colorado Springs, and much damage
done for 81 miles by storm and flood. Hail
stones fell two feet deep in places.
A violent wind, hail and thunder storm
swept through Monroe county, Michigan,
Sunday Afternoon, cutting swath seven
miles long and half a mile to mile wide,
taking trees, buildings, crops, etc, clean.
Prominent democratic organs are already
beginning to admit the possibility very
serious admission for Bourbon organs in Nir
ginia-that Garfield and the republican ticket
may secure the electoral vote of Virginia.
Reports have been received of heavy and
| daluanlnp storms in Wisconsin and Michigan
although the injury was confined chiefly to
crops, which are represented as having suf
fered great injury in some sections OF both
States
A Pittsburg dispatch says that the glass
trade OF that city is at a stand-still OF the
forty glass houses on the south side
not one is in operation. About Is, 900 men
and boys are idle in consequence OF the sus-
pension.
Daring the year 1879 the total sum Of ex-
penses III working the Comstock mines was
eleven millions OF dollars, while the entire
produce of the mines was only four millions.
Share holders, therefore, suffered dead loss
of seven millions
The Chilians captured africa in three
hours fight and the city was then sacked
and almost destroyed by the soldiers over
whom the officers say they had no control.
Fortunately foreign men OF war in the har-
Dor had taken many families on board.