Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-04-04
DOMESTIC TELEGRApHIC NEWS.

i'''it.itAi ~ ~ 'i'tNNA Sp''-''''' ~
week.
IN" "Rio" surprise Party" la, di~banded
~ lhrrshurS.
Wattrr~on ftvors the settlement Of the
~ ~ question.
General N. r'nan j. said to lean toward
TIE Democracy.
tn. dramatic festival At Cincinnati will
hc.'lu \iI. lit.
~ NrN l"rk. commercial circles have
boon N'rA VuI't.
il~' vrrk Chicago wa the scene Of n
'ru't iniIr tGht,
u T.. Hopkins. "A well known New nrk
fu.ruI4l-i. l. dead.
NJ, hb~hnp Gibbons has arrived ut bal
timnrc from Rome.
we prisoner, - 'apci from the Sonora,
y. NJ. jail recently.
HIGH water j. doing great damage on
the lower Mississippi.
VI Baton Rouge the river is now at the
high water mark Of lN~2.
The Chinese Minister al Washington
la, named Ia, baby America.
The population of Paxton. ILL.,, has in
creased - per cent since lNsa,.
tn, National bank of Boulder, Colora-
DO. Suspended payment recently.
Rev. Dr. Dorus Clarke, an aged Congre-
gatlonali,t, died recently i'll Boston.
District of Columbia business WAS the
special order in Congress last week.
Budd. of California, is working with 4
will IA the interest of his anti-opium bill.
The Republican State convention of
Texas will be held at Fort Worth, April
.rh.
General Grant thinks the Republican
chance. were never better than they are
now.
Samuel Prayer. convicted Of murder,
was lynchcd at Marysville, Kansas, last
week.
After locking the turnkey in cell. four
inmate, Of the Jail at Danvillc, H., es-
capped
The Electric Candle Company of New
York WAS DESTROYED by fire recently. Loss,
S.pnOu
The Boston House defeated the bill pro
viding that wife beaters shall be publicly
whipped.
-Four Oregon and Washington postmas-
tiers wcr, confirmed at Washington, ID. e.,
last week.
Professor Miller. the Australian athlete
who was to fight John l.. Sullivan, has not
yet arrived.
In the Common Pleas Court at Philadel-
phia. Mrs. Carrie kilgore was refused adj
mission To the bar.
Inccndiaries destroyed the Union school
building al Cadillac, Mich, recently, caus'
ing n loss of $1,000.
The pawn shop of Isaac Myer, of Ros,
ton, was recently robbed of five trays OF
watches and jewelry.
II Is estimated that the cattle to be
driven from Texas the coming season will
reach over 10000 head.
Edmunds and Lincoln are the favorable
candidates. in Massachusetts, for Presl
dent and Vice President.
Ii Is rumored that serious accident Oc
CURED last week on the Texas and Pacific
Railroad, near Big Springs.
Mrs. l.. W. Cromcr committed suicide al
Eureka. Nevada, a few days ago, by taking
two ounces of carbolic acid.
Rev DIR. J. S. Cantwell has resigned 6
passionate in Massachusetts to take charge
OF the Tnirersdfist at Chicago.
The steamer Thetis, purchased at Dun
dee. Scotland. for the Greeley relief eXpe
dtion, has arrived at New York.
The sale Of the library of the late Henry
{. Murphy, of Brooklyn, which consisted
of Il. liz lots. realized about $52,OOO.
Epizeotic prevails at Dayton, o., to al
alarming alarming extent, and it is re
ported to he worse than ever before.
The report that Land Commissioner
Lamborn Of New York had been asked t.
resign is entirely without foundation.
William Bcrner, on trial at Cincinnati
for the murder of William II. Kirk, was
last week found guilty of manslaughter
James Dwyer, prominent Mormon and
owner Of the largest book store in Salt
Lake. failed last week. Liabilities, Slo,OOO
The Calling Gun Company has received
orders for ten more guns for the Chinese
government, to be delivered within sixty
days.
Helen Ransier, a married woman and
the mother of three children, recently
shot and killed Adam Suffer at Syracuse,
NY.
ID. F. Croker, exchange of the CONNER
cial hank at Augusta, Ca, was robbed OF
e.. 800. while settling with the First Ma
tional bank.
The death Of William Hayden, of Pater
son, n. j., from pneumonia, was followed
in seven minutes by that Of his wife from
heart disease.
Wilson Edmunson, for long time con
ductor on the Central Pacific Railroad
committed suicide at Denver last week by
taking morphine.
| William A. Buffers, former millionaire
Of Chicago, is in the debtors prison at the
Cook county Jail because he cannot pay a
judgment of $500.
1t Is stated that yellow fevor has broken
out on board the IroquOis. attached to the
Pacific squadron. The vessel is Oh her
way to Sitka, Alaska.
George johnson, fireman, and Edward
Flanagan, workman at Diehrs manufac'
tory OF fireworks at Cincinnati, died last
week of their injuries.
The Cotton Exchange at Galveston
unanimously adopted resolutions urging
Texas Congressman to oppose the further
coinage of silver dollars.
Convict labor in the State prison at Con
cord, y. H., has resumed after being shut
failure of the contractor.
Commercial Advertiser, bequeathed by
the late Hugh J. Hastings to his widow
has been sold for S2OO,OOO.
The leading glass works at St. Loui.
and Alton have resumed operations, anC
others will soon follow, after idleness ex
tending over many months.
A serious break occurred recently in the
levee fifteen miles above New Orleans
and the Texas Pacific and Morgan Rail
roads have been overlooked.
a colony OF fifty leading farmers has left
the vicinity OF Fayetteville, Ark, for Idaho
and Washington Territory, and will sOOr
be followed by a party of 100.
Citizens OF Lincoln, ILL.,, called meeting
recently to request o. A. Carpenter t.
leave Logan county. The father and
brother Of Fora Burns were present.
The seceders from Hamilton College
have been refused admission to Union
College, the latter claiming that it could
not graduate men it had not educated.
Captain Charles {. Duncan, Shipping
Commissioner of New York, was awarded
six cents damages in his libel suit against
the New York Times. He sought $lUO, 600
Twenty seven clearing houses report
81. l29. 62s ,053 clearances the past week
showing an increase over the correspond
ing period Of last year exceeding 1l.6 pei
cent.
Six children from Vallona, Pa, while in
| search of sugar-water, tapped tree with