Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-11-21
Domestic kilograms.

frccma-onary. the world over embraces
u. la. 5i3 members.
VI. Ronstan, the new French minister,
has arrived in New York.
Maud : reduced her record to 2:O94 at
Lexington. Ky. last week.
The smallest county in Dakota is Clay,
which contains about 2Jn.OU acres.
y big scheme has been discovered in St.
Iaul To secure rich lands in Montana.
New Jersey is arranging to send an edu-
cational exhibit 10 the New Orleans Expo
~ition.
y tire al Palatka. Fla, recently, de-
stroyed all but two business houses; loss,
s3Si,UU.
The Sunday League of New Orleans re-
quests the Exposition managers to close
on sundays.
/ Gus Sorcnson. n large cattle dealer of
Cisco. I T., was shot and killed last week
by COW boys.
/ The Golding and Lake, two boarding
houses at Hot Springs, Ark, burned last
week. Loss. $1,000.
/ \ worlds fair is to be held in st Louis
IN lS12. To celebrate the discovery of
America ny columbus.
The New York, Philadelphia and Nor
folk Railroad was opened from Delmar to
Cape Charles last week.
More than 10000 tons of cotton seed are
annually shipped to Italy to be manufac-
tured into pure olive OIL
The President has appointed Governor
schuyler Crosby, Of Montana, First AS
siSiant Postmaster General.
/ Governor Trittle, in his report to the
Secretary of the Interior, says Arizona
should lie admitted as n state.
The total receipts of internal revenue
far the past wear were 1921 ,5yJ. 039, as COM
pared with Sl4i, la3, ai last year.
There is such glut of apples in New
York that farmers are selling their crops
"a low as eight cents a bushel.
Ninety-fve thousand sheets of paper are
daily consumed in printing Uncle Sans
money and internal revenue stamps.
+. !. Col. young LAWYER of n. V, has
fell heir To over $1,000 left to him by an
old negress named Aunt Katy Tanner.
The value of the 6OOO volumes pre-
scented To the Brown University by the
late Senator Anthony is said to be 81, 600.
lnTft HILLS ut w OOISOCktI, IL. L., SIut
down last week for an indefinite period.
Over I 200 hands are out Of employment.
In a collision on the Santa Fe road, near
Newton, Kan, recently. eighteen freight
cars were demolished, and one man was
killed.
a man at White Lake, N. Y, was stung
10y hornet at the base of the brain few
weeks ago, and has since become blind
and helpless.
First-class passenger rates from New
York 10 Chicago have been reduced to
sl0.5O by the Erie, West Shore and Lacka-
wanna roads.
The prison at Sing Sing, n. Y, cleared
sDtr6 during October, while the Auburn
penitentiary shows deficit for the same
month Of Si.7OO.
Minnie X. Johnson, employed as a
school teacher near Hillsdale. Mich, re-
Gently lost her reason and committed sui
eide bv hanging.
| A silver star marks the spot in the Bal
,imore and Potomac Railroad depot in
Washington where Garfield fell when
shot down by Guiteau.
A l3year old girl, who has simply little
blue spots where her eyes should be, but
who Is perfect In other ways, is said to be
living At Amherst, Wis.
The present season has been the great
est ever known In Virginia for grapes,
melons and other fruits, and also for
wheat, corn and tobacco.
| Charles II. Parker, aged 81, cashier of
the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, shot
and killed himself last week. His mind
was deranged from overwork.
Last week in New York prize fight oc-
CURED between John l.. Sullivan and Pro-
fcssor Latin, In which the latter was
knocked senseless In the fourth round.
A bill before the Vermont Legislature
provides n bounty of from 80 cents to
sl.O per bushel for grasshoppers. accord
ing to the season In which th.v are killed.
Miss Clara Barton, President of the
American Red Cross Association, has
taken out permit for the erection of the
associations first building Washington
city.
The management of the Georgia Rail-
road has decided to institute the custom
OF charging all the railroad employees
one cent mile, except when they are on
railroad business.
Iowa claims TO be the greatest pork pro-
ducing state in the Union. According to
the last census she had go 900 head of
swine, while Illinois had 5,l7O 266. and
Missouri 4,553.l33.
A negro woman named Wilson, confined
In the jail at Temple, Texas, for carrying
| concealed weapons, was shot by some per-
son who mysteriously entered the Jail and
made his escape again.
| A band Of from 200 to 800 bison or
mountain buffalo were seen in the Ma
tional Park few days ago. They were
watched bv gamekeeper, so that hunt
ers could not modest them.
At Cincinnati the other dav Mrs. Nellie
Henncssv, aged 70, committed suicide by
shooting herself through the heart. The
deed was prompted by the death of her
husband. who was shot on election dav.
The Utah and Idaho stockmen's conven.
ton at Ogden recently declared in favor of
General Brisbin, United States army. of
Idaho, a. their choice for president of the
81. Louis Stock Convention, which meets
soon.
Mrs. John Young, Of West Virginia,
was bitten In the hand by calf short
time ago and died In commissions in few
hours. and an infant which she had nursed
In the meantime also died in the same
way.
The owner Of Trinity triangle, small
|
posed TO belong to the city, but was lately
ascertained to have an owner, has offered
It for sale for $4,000. The city will prob
ably buy It.
A Philadelphia dispatch says: One hun
dred employees Of the Ontario cloth mills
refused TO 70 to work, owing to notice of
n reduction Of 10 per cent in wages. The
mill stopped and $50 hands are thrown out
employment.
Three hundred employees of Nelson,
Matter & Co.. furniture manufacturers of
Grand Rapids, Mich, quit work the other
day, rather than submit to demand to
work nine hours per day for the same
wages they had received for eight hours
work.
The steamer Van Etten struck a snag
recently, thirty miles below Fort Smith,
Ark, and sank at once. She was light
draught boat, and belonged to the Little
Rock, Pine Bluff and Fort Smith Packet
Company, and was loaded principally with
cotton seed.
The schedule in the assignment of r. A.
Wright, President of the Hanwell Furnace
~ Toiu Williams laJ