The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-07-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


III san rIauCISCo 10 Naiueu az @S,VV,-
| 600.
Real estate in Olympia has advanced
| fully 200 per cent. in value in the past
two years.
The Northern Pacific Railroad will
in all probability be completed by the
last of August.
There were twenty-six cases of sun
stroke and p,ostration III New York
in one day; three proved fatal.
Mrs. A. II. Stewart is reputed to be
the second largest United States bond
holder. She has S30, 200, 900 invested.
On the 22nd INST. the o. r. & n. Co.
will shorten the running time between
East Portland and Walla Walla nearly
two hours.
Out of total population of about
| SO, ,0O0,0O0 in this country, there were
in 1880 little over $4,000 people in
sane, idiotic, blind, deaf and dumb.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher affords
an illustration of the easy-come easy
go habit. He earns more than S300O0
Il year and yet never has amy money.
Glass shingles are now being man
ufactured at Pittshurg, which are said
to he more durable and impervious to
rain than slate or any other material.
Six failures are reported in WASH
| ington Territory during the last three
months, with estimated liabilities to
| the amount of sol, 100; assets 300.
BY the taking off of 1890, 476 last
month the debt nf the United States
was reduced on 1St Of June To Sl,569,-
| ls9, 4OS, of which 81, ,3SS, 2229, $50 was in
terest bearing.
The. government is taking measures
to restrain the European ranrer inn
migration to this country. The law
relating to the subject is defective and
II bluff is in order.
| Eight young ladies' who recently
graduated from the Normal school at
Winona, Mimi, have gone to the Ar
sentine Republic toiake charge of the
| Normal school there.
Mrs. Pope, a resident of Milan,
| Tenn, was stuug on the nose by bee
and died from the effects IN few min
utes. She was apparently in good
health at the time.
On the National Park branch Of the
Northern Pacific five miles of track
|
will he com, ,.leted by August LIST to the
National Park boundary line.
The first ticket frem Helena to st.
Paul was sold To the First National
bank of Helena for $3.50, the regular
ate beIug $50. Butte promises to
louble this price for her first ticket.
Two large buildings for soldiers
|
! nane. The whole fort is receiving II
Through going-over in anticipation
Of the arrival Of General sherman.
a rifle match was shot at Fort Town
END, between five Il. &. volunteers
and five L. :. troops from the garrison.
seven shots were fired, ut 200, 400 and
500 yards; won by Americans; scol,:
Ills To 3:l4.
Three more of the convicts who es-
capped from the Salem penitentiary a
short time ago, We're captured near
Woodburu last week and were re-
turned to the prison, one of them be-
ing dead and the other two wounded.
Blaine and Conkling had each been
nearly twenty years consecutivcly at
Wa >hington and would have been
there yet if Guiteau's bullet had not
| cut short the career Of ole and II fool
ish' political suicide the career of the
other.
Five rauper Polish families arrived
in New York recently on the steamer
iydian Monarch. The emigration
authorities have informed the steam
ship company that these immigrants
| must be returned to London whence
they came.
The New York Herald prints resume
OF the disasters 10y sea and land during
| the first six months uf the present
year, not including events wherein
less than three lives were sacrificed.
The list shows that nearly three thous-
and persons perIshed.
| An agreement has been arrived at
between Nj. DeLe>seps aud the Gov
ernnent of Great Britain, which pro-
vides for new Suez canal parallel Ia
the ore in existence, ter reduction of
canal dues, and for the appointment
oi English surveyor traffic.
| The number of passengers reaching
the Columbia river and Puget Sound
by ocean for the fir~t Elk mouths Of
the present year was 3u,9iI as against
II, s56 tor the same period last year, all
increase of IL per cent. For the cor
! responding months the freight lists
shuw an iminr tonnage brought by
lSi slliils Of l&u.y1i toiss, Asagaiust ~