Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-02-16
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tons IN present congress amount "
$63, 900.
Richard Wagner, the great Ger
man composer, died at Venice, last
Tuesday.
The coffee crop at Costa RIGA 10
reported at only one-half its usual
supply this season.
The dispatches say that Young
Spreckels is thoroughly in earnest in
erecting sugar refinery in Portland.
The Illinois Legislature passed
resolution to pension the veterans OF
the Mexican and Black Hawk wars,
except jeff Davis.
The State of Colorado gives $21,-
GOO and the city of Denver $50 900
to the q. A. II. to hold its National
Encampment in Denver next Sum-
mer.
At Turner City, ILL.,, signs of
returning life twice caused postpone.
ment of the funeral of Mrs. Slick,
who apparently died of heart disease,
Thursday morning.
Leading cattle men of Colorado
express the opinion that the loss of
cattle on the ranches by the recent
storms will not exceed per cent.
The loss of sheep is something more.
1t is stated that $50 bodies have
been stolen from graveyards in the
vicinity of Montreal during the
Winter, one-half of which were sent
to medical schools in the United
States.
The New York Chamber of Com.
merce has issued petition to the
President protesting against the
action of Germany in prohibiting the
importation of American bacon and
hams.
The leading rubber factories have
agreed to close up for the present.
which throws out of employment
5000 persons. This is caused, 30 it
is stated, on account Of the cost of
crude rubber.
Leo Hartmann, Russian nihilist,
arrived in New York on the 9th. He
says the Gar is permitted to live
because of his police protection and
that the revolutionists are not able
to get ct him.
Anew York dispatch, of Feb. 10th
says: Annie Pixley's new play
"Java," at the Grand Opera. was
written especially for her and fills
the house nightly.
Marshall Jewell, formerly Gov.
ernor of Connecticut and also Post
master General, died in Hartford,
after brief illness of pneumonia,
February 18th. He was 81 years Of
age.
The Southern Railroad depot, at
Cincinnati, was undermined by the
high water, on the 18th instant, and
fell with q loud crash, engulphing
many people. Several lives are re-
ported lost.
The telegraphic feat of commu-
nicating over an unbroken circuit of
wire from Boston, to Guaymas, on
the Pacific coast in Mexico, a dis
lance of $500 miles was performed
q few days ago.
! On the 18th inst. at Frankfort,
the Kentucky river was 43 feet at noon
and rising three-quarters of an inch
an hour. 1t is expected to continue
to rise till nightfall. One thousand
people are homeless, and much dis
tress everywhere.
The food at Louisville is unprece-
denied, except by the great inunda-
ton of 1847. 500 people in the
submerged portion Of the city are
homeless, and 1000 persons are
thrown out Of employment by the
suspension OF business.
A London dispatch says: The
outlook Of crops generally through
out the earth is gloomy in the ex-
IRENE. No part of the continent,
east or west, has escaped rains and
inundaticns. The immediate de.
struction of property has been WIDE
spread, but is insignificant al COM
pared With the damaged prospects Of
the year.
! At the opening of parliament the
Governor Generals address from
the throne said: "While passing
through the United States I was re-
joiced to observe many evidences of
regard for the empire of which this
country forms SO large a portion.
May this friendship, SO fully returned
by Us, be as enduring as it is natural,
and advantageous to the mutual in.
terests of both of the great nations. {"
On the 9th the Ohio river was 81
feet and three inches above low water
mark and rising two inches per hour.
The Washington and Baltimore. the
Cincinnati, indianapolis, st. Louis
and Chicago and the Dayton Short
Line trains are unable to reach the
depot at Newport, Ky. Two hun
dred families were compelled to
remove from dwellings,, and many
more we've driven to the upper
stories.
The authorities at Cincinnati and
Louisville are providing for the wants
Of the people homeless and destitute
from the flood. $4,000 has been
subscribed in the former city for
that purpose and SIS 900 in Louis
vile. The water ia more than 36
feet deep CD the falls, and Ga feet in
the channel below the falls. The
rise is G5 feet at Cincinnati, but the
water, on the 14th had receded half
an inch, Inspiring hope that the
worst is over. The damage to pro-
perry is very large.
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