Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1885-02-20
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year.
Captain Phclan will b. emf ely well IN
two weeks time.
Boston i to have a crcratorium at the
mount Auburn cemetery.
ODonovan Kossa is improving rapidly
and i now able To he around.
Carter r. PAGE was fatally Shot 10y j.
l.. Jack III a duel at Port anuuth. Va. last
week.
Robbers recently attacked the stage and
rilrd The mail bags Of S5,tFO hear Lake
Prov idcncr. La.
Eight stores, three tcncments and the
Funtine Hotel were burned at Stafford
Springs, Conn, Sunday. Loss, $1,000.
Father I>idor Bouheaux, Il prominent
Jesuit. and President of the Marquette
College. OF Milwaukee,. visiting Chicago.
died Sunday.
Cassard < Sons pork packing establish
mcnt, Baltimore street, Baltimore, Md.
was destroyed 10y fire Sunday night. The
loss is about Sli,Hn.
The coroncr's jury sitting on the remains
of Hickey, shot by Editor Lynn of the
Wabash tInd. courier, rendered il verdict
of jtl>iiliab!c homicide.
An effort is being made in Boston to Sc
cure legislation for the protection OF mae
kerci in the spaw ming season, the purpose
being to obtain lcgisat on from Congress
on the subject.
4 train on the Colorado Central was
b.own from the track by Il hurricane a mile
from Georgetown, Col, recently, and went
down an cmbankment eighteen feet. y
number of passengers were injured.
At Peoria, ILL.,. on the 1th, in the 0istil-
lery Ortion OF the Firminich starch
works three boilers exploded. destroying
the building Two persons, the fireman
and Waterman are missing and ur4dOub;-
eddy persisted.
Henry j. Fisher. Il Chicago lawyer, WAS
diSnherited 10y his father in war time, for
joining the Confederate army. He has
just succeeded in breaking his father :
will, by which he enters into the posses
sion of fortune valued AT S20'.tn
The British steamer l}arramorr, recently
arrived at Baltimore, when two days out
from Liverpool, found in the coal bunkers
ten boys. stowawayS, all under ID years OF
age. Ii they come under the pauper inn
migrant law, they will be returned.
Petitions are hcing signed in Montana,
irrespective of party, to he forwarded to
the Senate, praying hearing of the case
of Marshal l'otkin on charges preferred
by eX Governor Crosby. claiming; that
Crosbys action was prompted by malice.
Annie and Ella Miller aged and Is re-
spectively were struck by the mail cN-
press at Mapleton, Pa, Sunday night.
Ella was instantly killed, and Annie scri-
ously injured, but will probably recover.
The girls were Oh their way home f'Om
prayer meeting.
The Boomer Convention III session at
Topeka, Kan, completed its plans for a
National Association, with Crouch prcSi-
dent, and arranged for general advance
in OKlahaina land on the 9th Of March. II
appointed committees 10 go and see ievc-
land and ISSUE an address To the pablo.
DR.. Franklin Pierce. of Worcester,
Mass, who was convicted of manslau1ch-
ter for causing the death of one of his pa
tienls by keeping her packed in clothes
soaked III kerosene oil until She was a
most literally ilaycd alive, has been sen
fenced to two years in the Hoase of Cor
rection.
Senator Morgan has reported favorably,
from he Committee on Foreign Relations.
a bill introduced by him few days ago "a
construct and maintain telegraph or ca
bile line between the l';siiic coast of the
United States and the Asiatic coast, with
an amendment providing that The line
must he completed within ten years.
The executive Offices in the new capitol
at Des Molncs. Ia, were thrown open to
the public on the 9TH inst. Governor Shcr.
man was assisted in the reception of guest
by eX-GsVernorS Stone and Merrill. 1t
was intended To have all the living eX-
Governors present, but Kirkwood, Gear,
Ncwbold and Carpenter did not appeal.
George Tilbury. of London. who is in
l'ittSburg i'll turIherance of IA plan To or
ganiZe an association of retaliation against
Irish dynamiters, says Englishmen in tins
country have abandoned all hope of relief
from the United States government. and
that the English society will take upon it,
self the work of retaliation and will soon
be heard from.
Secretary Lincoln has instructed Lieu
tenant Mcdonald not To turn over To the
Governor of Southern California HE Mex
lean mutint ers arrested at his Comman
in Arizona, near the border line. but To
holdsthem, subject to receipt by the de.
partment of state from the President of
Mexico Of proper extradition papers. This
action is at the request of the Mexican
RONtTHillent.
At New Brunswick, n. j., on the morn
ing OF the 9TH inst, n collision occurred
between two freight trains on the Raridan
river bridge. Four large oil tanks exploG-
ed, throwing the wrecked cars and burning
oil from the high bridge into the streets
below. Three large factories and seven
dwellings were destroyed, valued ut about
Sl.un.U0. Two brakemen are supposed to
have persisted in the flames.
At Weather ford. Texas. two young men,
+. \. Trees and +. b. Dorsey, were seri
ousiv stabbed Sunday night by man
named II. NJ. Martin. Martin arrived on
the midnight train with six children, his
father and mother-in-law. Accosting Trees
and Dorsey on the street, they directed the
strangers to a hotel. when Martin without
any provocation plunged dagger in the
breast of each man. lie has been arrested.
The committee of the United States
commissioners for the New Orleans expo
sltion which called upon the President re-
Gently left with him statement of the
financial affairs of the concern, showing
debts to the amount of $36 900. The com
mittee alec left with him memorial, set
ting forth the untoward circumstances
which have operated against the success
ful conduct of tn exposition, and PRAYING
for further aid from the government to
the extent of $500OOo.