Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1885-04-24
LATE NEWS SUMMARY.
Foreign aud Domestic.

y Ncwiur2h. \. Y. boy has b,tu l;r.cd
\ for swearrn. Oh he streets.
Twenty in,h,, -! SHOW fell at ST Via
ceat. Mich. GA he 9TH of April.
The wheat crop over large area of
West Nirg mia " II bc u failure.
Three pcr.I.~, ,t.l:i.:t railroads have just
PASSED into l!l,. i!Iiid, OF receivers.
III" E;,pii1u Government ha, ulti,rrd
, the RAISING If all army of } 1000 men.
/ John ". MaCi,ct has gone to Mexico ~
/ luok after hi, railway interests there.
; II" Rhode Leland Legislature has de-
/ feaicl the b;cuii,.! session. amendment.
! The yo.:.:; l:,li,, oi the Ontario Ladies
/ Co'lcg. L;;,e organized twY baseball clubs.
/ Suiur ) u . niiners are ahul. To strike
! in Eng and against Il reduction of wages.
! Queen Victoria :, reported a. bsn., per-
,ulI;tl!, I,ry iuIch opposed To Il war with
Russia.
Anuu-: IL" exhibits at the Crazy Quilt
! Show liz iinston is a tire-screen containing
$50 beads.
The Second AGycnti-ts of Concord, y.
| ii. rre4ici that the end of the " rid VIII
come May l3th.
Mrs. lie Sofa, vie Of the expression
OF Honduras. has bought house and lot
III New \ ork for S2:pWAI.
On the notification Of tie County 1t.
t"rncy, ever. lIqIur saloon in Aichis II,
karsa-. has ceased To- sell.
The Postmaster General ha, introduced
in the British Commons a bill fixing the
rate ut tc,t:iains al six pence.
Grand Army Posts in every Fart Of thu
couu;r, have !Trn sending resolutions oi
sympathy 10 Gen. Grant recently.
The Governor Of Victoria has issued an
order turh!ddinE The entry of foreign siiir>
into port ihIliiI, during the night.
The Supreme Court Of Iowa has unani-
mousiy decided that every provision of the
! Pr0hIhitorN Law - constitutional.
They are ir,in to get up 4 law in Hi
nois compelling railroads To reduc their
Rates FIR accommodations i'll sleeping cars
4 disease resembling che lcra has broken
ont at san Felipe de jatisa, Province OF
Valencia, SIain, and the people are panic
stricken.
Mrs. Victoria MorOsini Schilling has
witiidrawn her snit n ain her father foI
moneys Deposited in the Hanover Bant: hy
him for tier use.
In Tallahassee. Fla, n few days ago. a
couple were married who had only been
prr> onally acquainted for the brief period
of ten minutes.
a perfect skeleton, TO which was at
tached a bail and chain. was lately I'M
"arinrd twenty-five feet below the suI fac,
Of tlie earth near Savannah.
II. Quinn. nephew Of the Indian
Agent. who escaped, says fourteen per
sons were killed and many wounded il
the Frog Lake 'Manitoba massacre.
1t really looks as though the Cape Coz
Shlp-canal has made more progress within
"a year than in ihcpast 200 years 2,;Itn feet
actually dug. IL ives only about 3t0Jl
more.
II i, reported hat the negroes nenr Eu
faula. Ala, are looking for Il body Of Yam
kcc soldiers who are expected To mas
sacrt all tie " n.ies who voted for ClvSc
land.
The twelfth annual Convention Of the
Wyoming Stock Growers Association mel
at hey tnnc last week. The attend me,
WAS large. SIXTY seven lew rnen;h r,
were admitted.
While Joseph BohlEIpn was ATTENDING
to soine repairs on the roo q. The t,il,soI
House AT Cincinnati: he caught hold If Al
clcciIic-licht wire and was instantly + iilet
by the shock.
Six Thousand Canadian troops are sta
ton, d along the bouhGary line To prevent
The American Indians crossing. IL is sal,
| IN
FOUNDER cannon.
Al 4 ha; carnival held at Washington
Courthouse, o in, recently, the head rcal
worn l.y o:ir of the ladies was ten feet il
diameter. and her gentleman friend wor,
one the size OF Il gun cap.
Desoronlo, Canada, il said to be iiuh;cd
with gas made from suw.lust. t,l
Of which Yields 1900 feet Of gas, at "A net
cost, after dcuiucting the value OF by pro
ducts, of 81 &c per l,tO0 feet
On broadway, New York, between ca
nal and Fourteenth streets, there are stv
enty-ive large stores vacant. Dali times
and excessive rents manded by IL,
owners are the cause of this.
Near A>hevile. C, last week, a h use
was robbed of So QUO and the fanny muir
! dered. Tie victims were J. L. Joyce. aged
y; Margaret Joyce, aged 10; Charles Joyce
aged 2, and Mary Rice. aged A..
At the Chicago municipal election the
Democratic candidate for Mayor UInr
rison) defeated his opponent lSmith, 10y d
majority of S4. The Republicans claim
fraud and vii! contest the election
At the New Orleans Exposition, Cali
fornia has been awarded the sweepstake.
gold medal against the world for best va
rieties of citrus fruits. also two gold medals
| ,
A bellboy in Portland, Me-, hotel, Will,
running up stairs lately with some loos,
change in his mouth, stumbled and swal
! lowed the hole amouDt-two twenty ii "
cent pieces. two dimes, and eight pennies
; After n riot which arose out Of religion.
disputes at Winnebah, on the west coas
OF Africa, ii was found that three native,
had been killed and cut to pieces, theil
| rrma iuS hpiuu nrp M rod for cnnG ipr IN, ,
gigantic pie.
The tide Of emigration from South Caro-
lima continues to flow westward. Almos
every day bands Of colored people depar
for Arkansas and other Western States
intluei ced by the glowing accounts of the
: railroad immigration agents.
The Bariholdi Committee has so fal
raised about $lS5,tt0, of which over Sl6O,
600 has been contributed by citizens of New
York city. The sumof SIS, $50 was quietl,
raised within ten DAYS. There ia needed t(
complete the work about $125,000.
The returns Of the census taken in lSS:
give the population Of Russia in Europe IL,
numbering 1859, 52l. of whom 1861 81,
were males amt 20 227, 5i4 females, making
with the Grand Duchy Of Finland ant
other parts Of the Empire, a total ovel
l020O,Un.
|
issued schedules of the supplies required
by the Indians this spring, Including 81,
5O0,N0 worth of beef al d $50, OtO worth 81
dry goods. Advertisements for propos al,
will be printed in Democratic newspaper.
hereafter.
The length Of the wire used in the con
struction Of the submarine cables. now il
operation, Is computed to he ten times hi
distance from the earth to the moon. The
total length of the CABLES now used Is 6S,
200 miles, each cable containing an aver
age of forty strands Of wire, and making
over 9, 80 900 miles.
Reporters and detectives find about .50t
Social SITS in Pttsburg and vicinity, OF
whom not one in hundred is a real work
ingman, or has an honest means of livi
hood. They are all foreigners, and hav.
come to thi. country to get somebody else
TO support them. Among them were two
incendiary women speakers.
In celebrating with a Sunday dinner te
some Of his friends his eighty ninth birth
day, William Brown, prominent Demo
crat OF Marion county, W. Va, made q
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