Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-05-09
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Losses by forest fires III New York
and New Jersey are extensive.
The forest fires Oh Long Island
have been extinguished by rain.
A bill now pending in Congress
provides for free newspaper postage
The run of salmon in the Sacra-
meAto river Is Lighter then ever was
kuowp.
The steamship tmattila will he
raised cut ot lie wafer at .qu.lnalt
III June.
y fire at Detroit, Michigan, de-
stroyeu 100000 woItn Vi prop
erty Un tue 81.
First blood vi 1884 for Democrats
ihe Housier DEMOCRATS make CALLS
all over Indiana.
The 1leasnrer of the Presbyterian
BoaId Vi Publication, Boston, has
detauiteu With SIT, UUU,
The Guile village of G;.maL's De-
poi, New lorH, Was bUrued On the
~ hst. Loss, SlUU,OOO.
a street car cash box was robbed
Ill daylight, III New York city, last
week, ny five desperadoes.
Ii the new telegraph bill becomes
Il law a message across the continent
Will hot exceed forty cents.
The Ddndee Mortgage Co., OF
Portiand, Oregon, Is calling its iolns,
preparatory to closing business.
The destruction oi forest gruwiA
III Pennsylvania from fire the past
few weeks has been incaiculable.
The mining town of Arino, in
Pennsylvania, was destroyed by fire
from the adjacent forest Oh the 3D.
Inst.
The General Conference of the
African Nj. L. Church, with nearly
300 members, convened in Baltimore
Monday.
The town of Brisbane, Pa, was
totally destroyed by fire on the "a.
Loss estimsted at several hundred
thousand dollars.
Two men were drowned on Column
bia river bar on the ID inst, and
three were drowned recently in the
rapids of Clarke's fork, Al. T.
A powder mill at Scranton, Pa,
blew up last Saturday, from spark
of fire communicated from the burn
ing forest. One life was lost.
The boi ,r of the Whitney Mar
bic Works, at Gouverneur, N. j.,
exploded on the Sd inst, killing five
men and fatally injuring two more.
Owing to the discovery at Moscow
of plot to assassinate the car fest
ivities in honor of the coming of age
of the czarovitch will be held at
st. Petersburg.
There are said to be 10000 idle
men in Chicago, and similar reports
come from other cities where mechan.
les and others are suffering for the
want Of employment.
Loss by tho burning of the town
of Brisban, Pa, was 81 ,036 600, of
which one mill firm loses $3.50, 900.
One thousand people were thrown
out of employment.
The town of Thompson, Tioga
county, Pa. burnt; loss 100000.
Other losses from forest fires in the
state reach the amount of hundreds
of thousands of dollars.
1t response to the call of tho Rus
sian government for loan of
IS ,000, 900 to be used in the construc-
ton of railways, Seventeen times the
sum wanted was subscribed.
Tie Mineral Belt Railroad Com
pany OF Arizona ask the privilege of
purchasing FROM the Government Gao
acres of land for every mile of track
they may lay, at 81 20 per acre.
A bill requiring the Governor of
any Territory to be resident of
said Territory for two years preced-
ing his appointment has been passed
by the House of Representatives,.
During heavy thunder storm in
London on the 5th. q ball of fire fell
on a street. 1t burst with a loud
report. terrifying residents near by,
particularly those who witnessed it.
Italy is about to strengthen her
coast defences with ten steel guns,
each fifty-five feet long, weighing
121 tons, and capable of sending a
projcctile of more than 1000 pounds
weight.
The vote on the tariff question in
the house will be very close, with
the chances against the protection
lists. The motion pending is to
strike out the enacting clause of
Morrison's bill.
General Grant is still confined to
his house in New York and COM
PEELED to use crutches. He does not
90 out much for fear of attention,
and the old soldier is very sensitive
about his laneness.
The Marine national bank OF New
York has suspended, carrying with
it the firm of Grant a. Ward, of
which General Grant and his son
are partners. The suspension of the
bank is attributed to real estate
speculations by Fisk, its president,
who used the banks funds.
A New York special says that VIII
lard desires to return TO newspaper
life, but finds difficulty in disposing
of his Fifth avenue mansion which
cost nearly 100000. and is only
half finished. He has disposed OF