Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-12-26
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Small poN is Increasing IN Philadelphia
Bachelor house apartments are failure
600 \'w York.
SUNDAY cunning ia against the laws Of
\,N York state.
IT, Rp-fon the yearly tax averages s27.30
tu each 'rthabi'ant.
thcrr were ~ deaths in Boston during
tLs month ~ October.
Nit,rs X Hendricks. wholesale pro-
vision dealers. have assigned.
Ulliih. MINI. - still excited over the
. 10 aI-,nv,iics ia That region.
Business is rcviving again in the New
Eus and manufacturing centers.
Thcclcrk- at Washington are beginning
20 read upon civil service reform.
The \cw York Tribune turns its wrath
nn the Hawaiian reciprocity treaty.
There are ioi college graduates in the
Michigan IIou~c of Representatives..
Miniature city Of Pullman, ILL.,, is on
exhibition At the New Orleans fair.
The Denver and Rio Grande Railway
,aruius- for November are S496.i8.
pr ilrury Coon. former police judge
# san Francisco. died in that city last
week.
over $50 men and 800 women are out
~ work through the shoemakers' strike
in Philadelphia.
The CITY Bank of Schenectady, n. V,
capital # Sl0o.0n
Dor the frat time since July. 1879, the
monthly statement OF the public debt
shows an increase.
Nearly all the carpet weavers whose
wages Lave been reduced in 1909 Phila.
,lrlph,A looms are women or girls.
Mexico has decided to excel at the New
Orleans exposition. Poor as she is, she
has contributed son, 900 for the purpose.
Two hundred weavers at the Manville
cotton mills Woonsocket, X. l.. struck the
other day against a reduction OF 20 per
cent.
Chief Justice Waite of the United
States supreme Court, Is confined to his
house in Washington city, by serious
illness.
The Edgar Thompson Steel Works Of
pit,-burg, have ordered suspension of
work in all departments fer an indefinite
period
Mr.. Elizabeth Powell. of Farmingdale.
l.. l.. 20 years old and twice a widow, has
married young.peddler. She has snug
fortune.
Deputy United States Collector Silver
nan Of Pittsbu-g. last week captured and
destroyed N eonshine distillery near Car
rolton. pa.
The total immigration from the British
isles Ia the United States during Novem-
Der was 7,i9D. The figures for November
were 1927.
Sherman Day, distinguished pioneer.
died ut Bcrkely, Cal, last week. He was
father 81 Clinton Day, who 10 well known
in Portland. Or.
4 New burg, n. Y, woman has recovered
sihO for a broken rib. and anatOmists es-
innate that at this rate her bones are
worth $4,000.
a gas war II raging In Savannah, Ga,
and the price Of gas has already fallen to
Al per 1910 feet, with a possibility of its
going much lower.
Lieutenant Thomas Duffy, Of the East
ST Louis uilD police. has been arrested on
a charge Of being implicated in robbery
with Charles Clark.
II. Levy & Son, importersand manufac-
tsrers OF fancy goods, at Al broadway,
New York, assigned last week. with liza
bilitics about S2O0, 900.
II 4. rumored that all the parties to the
ballot forgery at Chicago, have become
known to detectives, and will soon be
prcscnted to the Grand jury.
Relatives Of Carrie J. Welton, the Wa
on Pixies Peak, Col, some time ago, have
determined to contest her will.
The hog cholera Is creating sad havoc in
the vicinity of Marshall, Me. 1t Is esti-
mated that the loss within a radius OF
half dozen miles has been $50, 600.
The House of Representatives of Yer.
mont refused to increase the Governor
mcagcr salary to $1,000, but added $500 to
the present amount and made it 81 500.
An old lady who hes been an inmate of
the Erie county IN. " almshouse for over
thirty years, has just fallen heiress to an
estate In Australia estimated at $l0O, 600.
Garieck & Cos. clay works, near Steu.
benyille. Ohio, were destroyed by fire
Sunday night. Loss $4,000. BY this
one hundred men were thrown out Of en-
ployment.
The board OF trade of Philadelphia has
directed the preparation OF mem Orial to
Congress. praying that the Spanish treaty
he rejected. The Lowell bankruptcy bill
10 endorsed.
Telegraph operators from all companies
In Poston met recently and formed pro-
tective association. 1t is understood this
action Is In common with other operators
throughout the country.
The Governor and Lieutenant-G Governor
% Missouri were greatly surprised the
nj her dav ut meeting each other In Wash
ington. as neither knew Of the others In
tention to leave the state.
The executors of the late Henry B. An
thony have another surprise in finding
that the Senator left $600, COO, or three
times the amount Of the generally esti-
mated value OF his estate.
United States Senator Mcpherson. Of
New Jersey, has just completed magni-
flcent residence on Vermont avenue, in
Washington, which cost S78, goo. He will
occupy II the coming winter.
Fred. II. Winston Of Chicago has CON-
nenced q libel suit Tor $lUV,UUU against
the Inter Ocean for printing an article In
its Sunday issue, connecting him unfavor-
ably with the Leman- Brand fraud.
The Hon. Flamen Ball, Of Cincinnati,
retiring from active law practice . few
days ago, took down the old gilt sign OF
Chase & Ball" hung up more than half
century ago by himself and Solomon p.
Chase.
Arthur W. Bowman, flduciary agent Of
San Francisco, charged with embezzle-
ment. was last week held for trial before
the Superior Court. lie was released on
honda Of 10000, furnished by his three
sureties.
The grape crop has been 40 profitable In
the HUDSON river valley this season that
the acreage will be very largely increased
next year Pea h orchards that have not
done well will he taken up and vines sub.
stituted.
At Baltimore. Md, last week, Alphonse
Mlchcaux shot and killed Matille Segar,
with whom he had eloped from Louvier.
Belgium. some months since. Micheaux
then shot himself dead. Both leave fami-
lies In Belgium.
The process Of hiring negroes in the
oyster industry Of Maryland 10 accom-.