Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1885-03-20
LATE NEWS ITEMS.
Domestic and Foreign.

Domestic and Foreign.
San Francisco had $1,000 fire on the
"tk inst.
There are NOW two organized Chinese
churches on the Hawaiian Islands.
Extensive deposits Of manganese have
been discovered near BatcsviIie. Ark.
1t i, stated ly Washington journal
that the Dotsey ranch i'll New Mexico paid
: $4,000 last year.
The Canadian government has approved
the draft of the eXtradiiion treaty between
Great Britain and the United States.
The sensational ruInur7 of Fcnian activ-
ity i'll Ireland are untrue and no doubt
gotten up to aid stock jobbnG operations.
Matsada Sorakiclli. the Japanese wrcs-
tier, was married on the 1th to Miss Ella
Bonsail Lodge, Il Philadelphia ye,ng lady.
Beginning next monti lightning tN-
press train Is To run between LONDON and
Paris reducing the present time several
hours.
DR.. Albert G.. Goroen was hanged in the
county jail at Philadelphia. on the 9TH
inst. Tor poisoning his wife nearly five
years ago.
Gossip has fixed upon Miss Folsom, the
daughter of an old friend of President
Cleveland. as the future mistress # the
White House.
The Russian government has ordered
2,~U krupp guns, of the largest pattern,
with which to strengthen It's position i'll
Central Asia.
In the House of Commons the R'man
Catholics have sixty members. The num-
Der will doubtless be increased under the
redistribution bill.
1t is estimated that it will cost E20.GO
to repair the damages from dynamite to
the House of Commons. Westminster
Hall and the Tower.
John II. Warman treasurer of the Ma
tional Fulton County Bank, Grovcrsville.
y. y, has absconded. His accounts are
short, but the bank is all right.
The Texas House has passed il bill for
bidding the carrying of deadly weapons,
making the lightest penalty SOD and inn
prisonment in the county jails.
The Lord Mayor will preside over Il
great meeting soon to be held in London
to promote the work of securing ii national
memorial u General Gordon.
a large tract of bog contiguous To Lake
Dererevaah, Wc>tmeath, Ireland. is NOV
ing in northeast direction and the peas
antry in the vicinity are terrified.
1t is reported that $1,000 have been
raised To defeat the bill i'll the Pennsylya-
MIA Legislature To prohibit the manufac-
ture of Oleomargarine and buttcrinr.
There is movement to remove the
principal of the public :, Eool at Haley,
l. T., because, among other things, he pro-
nounces Indian "Injun," and plays bill
lizards.
The remains of Rev. ID. W. Cahil!s, the
Irish patriot and preacher, have been re-
moved from Holyhead Cemetery. near
f3rsokline, Mass, and are To be sent To
Ireland.
On March Sth, at Brooklyn, y. y. Val
entine lloeilner, IL baker, shot Susan Lesser
and himself while walking on the street.
Both are dead. The dead woman had re-
fused TO marry him.
A bill has been introduced in the Penn
sylvania Legislature To ,mpel the placing
underground in all elite, of that common
wealth of all telegraphic, telephone and
electric light wires.
They charge quarter 10 witness mar
SD i'll money was taken in at the door at
recent marriage at that place for the
benefit of the groom.
In the German Parliament there are 49,
Roman Catholics, PSI PIotestants, > Jews
and Free Thinkers. \ number of the
Professionals, however. go with the Catho-
lies in many measures.
Cold" says a Georgia editor. lis found
in int Ia,
in three, diamonds in tweaty-six, and
whisky i'm all of them, and the last gets
away with all the rest
a number of planters at Matamoras
Cuba, have determined to use the molasses
produced OH their estates as manure, the
low prices falling short of paying the eX-
penses of freight, storage. etc.
Mrs. Mackay has given the Papal Nun
clio OF Paris large cross studded with dia-
inonds and sapphires, in memory of the
marriage of her daughter, the Nuncio
having performed the ceremony.
Granada, Spain, has become a armed 10y
fresh shock of earthquake. Several
land slips have occurred and new ravincs
have appeared. At Albania portion of
the famous bathing place has fallen in.
"A treaty was concluded in December
between SchultZe, representing Germany
and the African International Association
and native chiefs, ceding to Germany
large territory on the Lower Congo, near
Nakki.
The moHgooses imported into Jamaica
to eat up the rats having accomplished
their task, the burning question now is
how to get rid of the mongooses, which
the blacks have a superstitrous fear OF
killing.
The American Bible Society has secured
the privilege of placing the Scriptures in
various languages on sale and for gratui-
t0us distribution in the main building OF
the Cotton Centennial Exposition at New
Orleans.
The James school house, East Medford,
Mass, was burned March 9TH. There was
panic among the children, and several
of them were il Ired. Six tiremen we've
also slightly injured. The building is
total loss.
Governor Martin, of Kansas, has re-
ceived letter giving positive information
that the famous Bender family of muir
derers are Living in Germany and enjoying
life on the money stolen from the victims
in Kansas.
An Arabian paper reports that the NAH
di promised Farag ll0, 600 thalers to betray
khartOum, but only gave him 1000, and
when Farag complained the Mahdi hanged
him. 1t is said the Mahdi captured l5,OUO
rifles at khartoum.
The Michigan Legislature has adopted
penal code making hanging the penalty
for murder in the first degree. Heretofore
the passage of the death sentence was left
to lthe option of the court. but no judge
ever exercised the privilege.
1t is reported that Bismarck i. support
ing the pacific policy of De Giers against
the military party in Russia, who want
war with England, and that he has sent
protest TO the Gar against any aggressive
movement on the part of Russia.
Great excitement prevails at Shanghai,
owing to news of the overhauling and
searching of several English and Ameri-
can steamers ell route To Tonquin, by a
French man-Ofwar. Serious losses were
caused owners and shippers by detention