Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-07-18
Domestic kilograms.

~ sT'HhA' ia lst-s'' Wv 'N'''' 80
Till.
The wife IT Rear Admiral Ammen is
dead.
General bal,cock had $500" insurance
ou his llfr.
The Prc-iarn' has signed the Chinese
restriction act
Philadclphia's MAYOR j. lighting the Oh
~,rnr wr.kl,~.
Anthracite coal ha- been found near
" allingford. Conn.
The debt of Boston has increased 81.
500. during thu year.
Connecticut h. suffering from drought.
llny ~ almost a failure.
Chicago hrickmakcr~ fear Il shutdown
un accouui OF low prices.
Chicago has began health inspection
tn protect against cholera.
SARGENT. ~ minister L. Germany. ar
rived ia Sew York last week.
The corner -ion, al the Bartholdi ped
,-iai - ~ h, laid August LIST.
The Acton Sorakirhi wrestling match at
Cincinnati was Won 10y the former.
~ftfilf tfl ili' WV ~ ~ u '.''N
given up washing aud gone into farming
The House has passed the Fitz John
Porter relief Till over the President Veto
Chiragos directory hi, year shows an
increase Of IA. an names or 5000 in popu-
lation.
Chicago has decided To pave every street
IN the hu-inc~~ portion of the city with
granite
sales If wood have recently been made
IA Eastern cities AT lower prices than
since l~ai
GEORGE Derby had fourteen men ar
rested at Bcrea. o.. for sercnading HIM al
his wedding.
An Indiana Judge has decided that hold
rr- ~ passes injured on railway can col
lcct damages.
4 teacher IN a Pittsburg public school.
Miss Rachel Ewing 10y name. has resigned
NJ the age Of ~.
President Harris. Of the Northern Pa
clnc Railroad. has left New York for
trip over the road.
Ninecntc Pacabia New York manu-
featuring chemist. died last week from IN
haling nitric acid gas.
Several pcrsonc were killed and many
buildings demolished 10y hurricane near
Omaha. Neb., last week.
The works Of the Newark Medicine
Company, at Newark, Ohio, burned last
week. Loss about SsOO,oOO.
The Tccmer- Conley race at Lake Sebago,
In Maine, was again postponed, owing TO
high wind and rough water.
Among the attractions of the Fourth OF
July celebrations at Sioux City, Iowa, was
n cyclone. Damage, S'UO,OOO.
New York city has bought farm on
Long Island, where will be established a
home for the harmless insane.
Francis Scott Key. who wrote the Star
Spangled Banner is to have monument
/, In Patterson square, Baltimore.
The New York Home Of Refuge for dis.
charged convicts has in two years helped
a5 men to honorable positions i'm life.
The President has appointed j. "A. kas.
son, of Iowa, EAvoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plcnipotentiary to Germany.
| DomInick McCafirry, of Pittsburg, easily
defeated John Rcnnie. the Scotch cham
pion, In glove contest at New YORK last
week.
Alice Bessemcr. who twice before has
attempted suicide. succeeded last week at
Oakland. Cal, In her third effort by taking
-trychnine.
A bobtail car rolled over and over down
Union hin In Jersey City recently with
two men In u. They came out with few
whole bones left.
An indianapolis man has invented live
poultry car. II has numberless partitions,
storm curtains, cleansing apparatus, water
and fcod troughs.
Baseball men will arrest the printers
and reporters Of the Columbus, o., Jour
nal In retaliation for advocating the ar
rest of Sunday ball players.
Assignee Davis has filed an inventory
Of the affairs OF Grant & Ward, showing:
Liabilities, ei6. ~. Gi1: nominal assets,
or, ia .tss,; actual assets, 81, III.
The striped convicts suits have been dis
car,ied In the Ohio pen.tentiary, and pris-
oners have been furnished with clothing
the same IA worn by honest people.
An effort In being made by the New
York Early Closing Association to induce
wholesale houses 10 close their stores from
Thursday night to Monday morning.
Charles Harris. the murderer of DIR.
Barrsdcll, Of Fort Worth, Texas, was hOr.
ribly bitten by mosquitoes and Is infiamed
40 badly he IN unrecoxnizable and may die
thercfrom.
The Belvidere Iron Company, OF EastOn,
Pa, largely engaged In mining operations
In New Jersey. has suspended. 1t EN-
ployed i20 men. The work OF raising ore
did not pay.
A heavy wind and rain storm passed
1 A.. lrs1
Ing q woman and two children, and de-
strcyinv the Methodist church and several
other buildings.
During n display Of fireworks on July
lth. at New Comerstown, o., n bunch of
sky rockets exploded, Instantly killing
John Cleveland and J. Durfee. a number
~ others were hurt.
Curiosity prompted Mrs. Elberton, of
Decatur, m. To take look at the corpse
Of man who had blown the top of his
head off. but the sight 40 shocked her that
abe died almost Instantly.
The Boston Board Of Health has come
to the conclusion that the vending of fish
that had not been dressed IN a nuisance,
and will prosecute all persons who are
found Offering such for sale.
The telegraph companies are filling the
1
In defiance of law, and showing permits
for the erection said TO have been granted
hefor~ the law was enacted.
The following In the New York weekly
bank statement; Specie increase, 81, G33,
pO0: deposits. increase, 81, las. 100; reserve
increase, 81. isl .UO. Banks hold $l6, 300, 600
In excess of the requirements.
y. Staehle. a resident of Alameda, CAL,
s,mmittcd suicide recently by cutting his
throat with razor. A letter discovered
ON deceased stated that he had been sys-
tematically driven To insanity and suicide.
Delegations ~ metal workers from Chi.
cago, Milwaukee and other cities in con.
vention at Philadelphia. adopted consti-
tuition and formed n national union.
Shorter hours and better wages is their
object.
| In response 10 All invitation of the Mayor
Of Paris, Ky, the veterans Of 1919 held
their seventeenth annual reunion there
last week. and where few years ago three
score 81 veterans assembled, but four old
men gathered.