Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-12-19
Domestic kilograms.
The plague in Virginia is abating.


All ia quiet in the Hooking Valley once
more.
The Washington monument is COM
pleted.
Business In San Francisco is growing
duller.
The tie Indians are said to be again at
thieving practices.
New Works vote is COCO more than it
was four years ago.
=. 7. Barnum is quite sick at his home
in Bridgeport, Conn.
a Macon, Ga, man has been fined S5 for
attempting to commit suicide.
Maine has sent six carloads of exhibits
to the New Orleans exposition.
An attempt was made to burn the town
Of Mahony Plane, Pa, last week.
a pearl necklace Of only one row re-
Gently brought $4,000 in New York.
Steamers at the wharf will act as hotels
during the exposition at New Orleans.
Francis Murphy has inaugurated an
other temperance revival in Pittsburg.
The cowboys OF Texas have sent $3.50 to
the distressed Hooking Valley miners.
Boston has completed arrangements
that will dump all its sewerage into the
sea.
Frederick Klemm, a schoolmate of Carl
Schurz, died Mt Deadham, .dass., last
week.
Strikes in the East continue, and thou
sands OF men are thrown out of employ
mcnt daily.
The South Boston Street Railway Com
pany carried during the past year 6, 100, 30
passengers.
Fire losses In the United States and Ca
NADIA by fire for November are estimated
at S7,W0,O00.
The New York woman suffragists have
sent Earl Salisbury letter Of thanks for
friendly offices.
or the 1900 Cinnamon In New York and
Brooklyn, over $500 are engaged in the
laundry business.
The ship Yorktown, from New FORK for
San Francisco, struck Sandy Hook bar,
and returned, leaking badly.
John Kelly, a burglar, fatally stabbed
his cellmate, William Gaines, at the JOl-
let dll) penitentlary last week.
The force and hours Of labor are being
reduced in the shops at Baltimore of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
The Hartford Carpet Company, at
Thompsonville, Conn.,. employing 500
men, has reduced time one-half.
The diphtheria epidemic raging In Omro,
Wis.,, has assumed an alarming character.
All the public schools have been closed.
The Willimantic mills, Connecticut, EN-.
ploying nearly 1900 hands, makes gen.
cral reduction OF 10 per cent January lst.
Thomas Taylor & Co., carpet manufact-
urers of Pittsburg, have surrendered to
the strikers, loom flxers joining the strike.
The barbed wire makers held another
meeting at st. Louis, last week, and ad-
vsnced the price of wire 81 cents per
pound.
General Larkin Smith, q veteran OF the
Mexican war, and confederate general,
died at San Antonio, Texas, last week,
aged II.
The Illinois Supreme Court has affirmed
the validity of the Chicago ordinance, i'm
posing upon distillers license fee Of $500
per year.
Oscar Kauffett Harris, for twenty two
years q permanent Washington Journal
list, died in that city last week, Of con-
sumption.
1t is thought that the plague in Virginia
II disappearing, rain having fallen in the
afflicted section; still the suffering Of the
people is great.
Francis D. Moulton, well known as the
famous witness in the Beecher- Tilton case,
died In New York the other night Of par
alysis Of the heart.
| In Boston landlord has ordered Mrs.
Howe, of Woman's Bank notoriety, and
Mrs. Ewell, the magnetic physician," to
vacate his premises.
| New York city Is borrowing money on
long time bonds, carrying 81 per cent In
terest per annum. The bonds are selling
1t per cent premium.
Maryland has shipped to tho New Or.
It's. including 400 pieces Of native woods
and 300 specimens OF stone.
The people of New Hampshire have
again rejected, by a small majority, the
proposition to hold a convention to revise
the constitution of the state.
The Hawaiian treaty was signed last
week by Secretary Frelinghuvsen for the
United States, and Mr.. Carter, represent
ing the Hawaiian government.
A reciprocal agreement has been entered
into between the United States and Mexi.
co, whereby the pursuit Of hostile Indians
can be continued In either country.
Some boys smoking cigarettes near q pile
Of cotton In Goldsborough, s. c.. recently
caused 1re which destroyed twenty-five
business houses at . loss Of $4,000.
| Some sixty saloon keepers Of st. Joseph,
Mo-, have been fined 500 for selling liquor
without license. They were also debarred
from taking out license for two years.
EFF. Hallack & Co.'S lumber yard In
Denver was partially consumed by fire
Sunday night, with q stable containing
four mules. Loss, $4,000; fully insured
Mrs. Julia Pettis. . young colored wo.
man OF Chattanooga, Tenn, was burned
to death last week, by her clothes catching
on nre while standing in front Of q
hearth.
Ida Riecette, . member OF Mapleson's
opera troupe, brought suit against him In
New York and obtained judgment against
his property to the amount Of $4,000 due
for salary.
Joseph Cook, the Nebraska murderer,
who was hanged by mob at Blue Hills
and rcsuscitated by the Sheriff, has recov-
cred sufficiently to permit his removal to
Red Cloud.
Collections Of internal revenue the first
four months Of the fiscal year ending June
the previous fiscal year, 90. 996. 40; de.
crease, e2,623, 794.
John Pickett the other day at Gslena,
Kan, shot and killed William Allen, the
leading witncss in the approaching trial of
his brother. George Pluckett, for the muir.
der Of . man named Briggs, on the 30th
ult.
Governor Hoadley has appointed com.
mission Of eight members to procure and
President Garfield, ~ . part Of the Ohio
contribution to the national gallery at
Washington.
The contest Of the will Of Valeria G.
Stone, Of Maiden, Mass, by which large
beques u were made to religious institu-