Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-02-09
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bi" are over.
Electric Flashes.
Inc first Cilncae newspaper made
It's appearance III New York last
Sunday.
The pension bill goes up TO near
SlU2 u0u, $500, as reported by the
pension committee of the Senate.
Great loss of stock is anticipated
i'll Wyoming and Nebraska, OWN,
10 the severe cold within the past
week.
vt Putman, ONO, Fletcher Reed
il young man ma iii Of religious eX-
c!lclnVHt, set "A straw stack on fire
and Jumped III the flames, after lie
had cut Iii, throat HIS remains
were churrcd bones when found.
Commercial reports place The
number OF Pacific Coast failures for
the present year at IS, Of which II
were III California and four Ill
Oregon, and III which the assets we've
so 900 AMI the liabilities $50 900.
\ statement is published at Chi
ca%o that the Atchison, Topeka aud
Santa Fc road are considering the
question of extending their line to
Benson, connecting with the Sonora
Railway to iuaymas, IL town with a
fine harbor on the gulf of California
The plan, if carried out, is said TO be
of establishing Il line of steamers 20
Japanese, Chinese, Australian and
Pacific sand ports.
Two Weeks ago the coal shovelers
at Harper's rolling mills. Newport
Ky, struck against reduction OF
wages on the i;h. Harper supplied
their places with Cincinnati men.
These men, on their way to work,
under escort of the police, We're at
tackled and beaten with stones. The
chief of police and two policemen
were hurt, bat not seriously. The
mob, n last accounts, numbered
over 1000.
Adyiccs from the Canadian North
west state that ranch companies OH
Bow River district lost several thous-
and head OF cattle owing 10 the
severity of the Writer. The Col
chan Ranch Company have been
Obliged To drive cattle southwest
from Colgarry district to Fort Me-
Ltol, where, owing 10 the winds
from the Pacific Coast, the climate is
mlldcr.
Capt. Henry Freeman, formerly
Government Inspector III the mines
of Australia, who has been prospect
ing fJr;in III Mexico the past yea!
and h iii. mas returned 10 st. Louis
bringing with him II ton of rich ore
and smelted tin, found III the State
of Durango, Mexico. He says he
di,cov ;rcd very rich deposits, and
obtained liberal and valuable grants
from the Mexican Government for
working mines.
The good people of Washington
have been devoting good part of
THEN time to cllticiZ II = Gen Sherman
for giving IA grand dinner to the
Marquis of Lornc on the 18th ult.,
which fell on Sunday. The Gencr.
al does not defend himself On the
ground that he did not permit dane
ing. He simply says he was COM
PEELED to entertain the Governor
General of Canada On Sunday or
not at all. Some of Serman's adj
mircrs who are backing him for the
Presidency are afraid that the Sun
day dinner business will go against
HIM rs II Presidential candidate
among religious people.
DR. Magic, register Of vital sta,is-
ties publishes the results Of eleven
Years record and observation of
suicides i'll New York. The main
causes are traced to abnormal, ply
sica! or mental condition, disappoint-
ment, incompetence, business rever-
SEES and family differences. There
Is no apparent reason why Germans,
who rs class a,e Weather and
more Prosperous than the Irish.
sh"uId ST largely exceed the latter in
suicides, unless it be Il natural Sc
quence of the national temperament.
The Irish show II less number of
suicides, i'll proportion to their pop
uation. than any other foreign born
inhabitants. The number of males
who committed suicide during the
past eleven years Was 1,13. while
the number of females WAS 32S.