Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1885-02-13
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Montrea! has It's dA namitc scare.
The Dominion parliament has convened.
France viii shortly declare war on
China.
Italy will aid the English forces in the
Sorldan.
Work has been commenced on the ice
palace a Montreal.
Berlin has an unusual number %! S!rlug-
er> within her gates.
fourteen persons We're killed al Urea,
Italy, br snow slides.
Dan Rogers. Victoria. Is. C., murderer.
WAS hanged last week.
Herbert Gladstone says En- land j, ON
the eve of Il gicaI crisis.
The Russian Grand Duke Scrpius ard
his wife have been rec0nciled.
\ socict: of American ladies' has been
formed in Pari, to maze garments Tor the
pO3r.
John Bright predict hat England and
America VIII eventually have common in
tereStS.
Twenty years ago the Danes imported
nearly all their sugar. Now they raise II
from beels.
Mr.. Mrcklr. editor of the London
Times. has married Alice, daughter at
James Pawn.
The Chinese legation al Berlin denies
that German officers are being enrolled
for the Chinese army.
Baron o IIagan, Of TuHahoguc, County
Tyrone, once Lord High Chancellor Of Ire
land. is dead, aged -.
Marin Mandebauni, secured her jew
elry at Hamilton, Ont. nv paying S6li
duty To the custom officials.
Bismarck is said TO have abannoned his
contemplated trip to Italy at the request
of the Emperor of Germany.
Queen Victoria and council have ratified
the betrothaI Of Princess Beatrice and
Prince ll.rzig. of Ba,tenhr5.
\ Hong Kong special says officials there
declined to allow the French man-of- war
Triumphant TO retit ut that port.
The town hall at Warminster, in Wilt
shire, England, was partially wrecked by
an explosion of dynamite recently
II is reported that Mayor O'Connor. Il
strong nationalist. declines 10 attend the
coming vicc-ro,al levce at Dublin castle.
\ permanent memorial To the late
Charles Reade is to be erected in the
form of a memorial church at Willesden.
a steamer lately arrived at London with
1000 carcasses of frozen New Zealand
sheep on board. all in irSt-rate condition.
| I.asker was honorrd in Berlin, on the
| first anniversary of his death, by the I'M
yelling of Il monument to his memory.
| Boycotiing of the Austrian Rcichsraih
by Vienna newspapers continues despite
the apology by the presiding officer of that
body.
The Bank of England gives notice that
there are in circulation perfect imiia-
tions of its notes for the sums of from
e. TO fJW.
Intelligence has been received al the
war office in London that General Stew
art s force is entrenched at South Mrt.nn-
neh, Egypt.
The town of Msila. in Alyiers. was Wis
tied by a Slight shock of earthquake re-
Gently. Eight houses were destroyed.
but no one injured.
Bishop jackson, who died i'm London
the other day, had nine daughters, for
whom he found husbands in nine Wears
of his own diocese.
The Turkish government has sent cir.
cular to European powers, protesting
against the occupation Of ports on the Red
sea without her consent.
| A dispat from Korti states that Net
cmr ell is garrisoncd 10y l3,,0O of 4! Nah
dis troops. under command of Olivier
Pain, an ex-comnunisi of Paris.
| The United States Consul at I.iverpno.
has requested the Mayor of that civ To
have published The act of Congress for;'id-
ding paupers landing in America.
The London .Tund0irI understands that
Germanyant Russia have informed France
that they are not prepared to j in in the
guarantee for new Egyptian loan.
Henry George has returned to London
from Scotland. He states that he was
agreeably surprised by the enthusiasm
with which he was greeted by the er,fters.
| The American ship Santa Clara, from
! San Francisco, has b. en- lihcled by the
owners Of the packet Admiral Morrison,
which the former sunk in the Irish chan
mel.
The directors of the Canadian Pacific
Company have declared a seni-annual di.
vidend of per cent, payable next month.
in addition to the semi annual dividend of
j per cent.
Cunningham, the man charged with
causing the explosion of London tower,
has been photographed and copies sent
TO New York and Paris for the purpose of
Identification.
ST. Petersburg has 1880 inhabitants,
having gained 2l3, GOO in fifteen years
Only Z53,OCO of the people are natives of
the city, and the proportion Of fema es is
l22 to 100 males.
A project is announced Of tunneling
Mant Blanc, notwithstanding the fact
that it will cost SIG ONO,O take eigh,
years time. and be the fourth tunnel
route into Italy.
The depression of the shipbuil,ling in
terests in Great Britain is exempliiied by
the fact that there was a decrease of 80,
coo tons in the new tonnage last year
compared with lSSa
The constitution of Portugal il to I've so
modified that the Chamber Of Peers shall
consist of 100 life peers TO he appointed by
the King and fifty peers to be appointed
by an indir. ct process.
Canadian millcrs are peiitioning the
Dominion government to raise the duty
on American flour from fifty cents to 81
per barrel. Over 80, 90 barrels were i'm
ported by the maritime provinces.
The London correspondent of the Free.
man $ journal telegraphs that 800 Irish
men are out of employment in the Fast
End, London, and that demonstrations
against the Irish have commenced
Paris lie Temps states that on the ar
rival Of the re Inducements sent to Ton
quin. the total force in that country, in.
Guiding Annamite sharpshoeters under
French command, will equal 10000 men.
| The Dublin Irish Times proposes that
members of the British press raise mon
ument to Hon. John Alexander Cameron