Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1885-02-13
Domestic kilograms.

Ia. senate Of Nevada has passed a bill
Lacy Rect. a-cd H. years. was harmed
- dcath at traw louisville. Ga, Sunda!
The Mon knife Co.'S facto,y. Manga
IrL. Conn. was burned Sunday. Loss,
- on
WY slight shock OF earthquake was
f".t in Westminster county, New York,
ls-l Nreh.
puhl.c school, in Ncw York city cost
: R".o'' last year. The number ri pupils
tIH.hi MS 2,l.isr.
Prw> in Talma-cs d!root lynn tabernacle
rented for slG.1In with premiums IT ST.
-, au Increase over Last year.
Mrs.. l1ura De Force Gordon. of Cali
fornia. has been admitted to The bar Of the
I nil"d STATES Supreme Court.
The First National Bank building. the
finest huldinE in Milwaukee,. Wis. WAS
burned last week. Loss, $2.1,00.
The President has appointed John Charl-
tom incnh,r of the board Of Indian com
mi-Nionrr-. wee A"rcw. deceased.
John Drake. who murdered his wife
some time ago, has been sentenced I" he
hanged al IhOma-ton, ia. March 2'lih.
Waterbury,. Vermont. has voted to ahol-
i-h teaching music in the public schools,
the basis of objection being high taxation.
The Brown Oil Company Of Erie, Pa, it
il reported. is asking an extension, having
lost over Slni, Wn through Western agents.
Three Young women in Charleston, W.
Va, were pui,onc Saturday by drinking
water from Il barrel in which arsenic had
been placed
Tn sparring match a. Chicago last week
bciwcrn Burke and Dalton, WAS won easily
by Burke ia the fourth round. Dalton was
badly punished.
The New York Court of Appeals has de-
cidcd that the law prohibiting the manu-
facture of cigars in tenement houses is
unconstitutional.
The following is the New York weekly
bank statement Reserve increase. Sl,17,-
NM. Banks hold S.i5, so, COO in excess of
legal requirements.
The remains Of Edgar Allen poe's wife
have beer buried beside those of the poet
in the Westminster Presbyterian Church
cemetery. baltimore.
II is estimated that the forthcoming
public debt statement will show a reduc-
ton of the debt for January of between
S1,WD,OO and 81 100000.
Natural gas is so abundant in W. Va,
that the proprietors of oil wells furnish
the gas for 81 month for fire without re.
gard TO the quantity used.
The Consolidated Safety Pin Cos fac.
tory. adjoining Harry Hills theater, on
Crosby street. New York, was consumed
by fire Sunday. Loss. $4,000.
The Union Rolling Mills, Cleveland, O.,
which have been idle the past six weeks,
are again at work. The resumption z YES
employment To about 100 men.
Il. Nulparago, Il tcamstcr of San Fran
cisco, was run over and killed Sunday
night by az engine on the Preside extern.
sion of the t'nion street cable road.
An attempt was made to blow up Gar
RS dry goods store, corner Allen and
l,rand streets, New York, last week
The perpetrators were not caught.
The Commercial Cable Company and the
Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph Company
announce that hereafter they will make
no charges for dates in kilograms.
The master plumbers Of BROOKLYN. y.
Y, have organized against their union
employees, and are discharGing all plumb.
crs whom they know TO be union men.
DIR. Jean Baptiste Marchi>c, the oldcs,
re .ident of Utica. n. Y, d ed last Sunday
Ilc was born in Italy in 1859, and was at
tachcd TO the army of the great Napoleon
At "A meeting recently held at Appleton,
Wis, to observe the one hundredth ami.
vcrsary of Methodism in America, Sl3.0N
was raised to endow Lawrence University
The coored people who settled in Kan.
sas n year or two ago find the climate toe
severe, and large numbers are leaving fnl
New Mexico and other points in the South
west.
Rents in New York and Brooklyn will
certainly, it il said, come down i'm April
Ovcrbuiljing and dull trade will be the
principal arguments by renters in favor oI
the reduction.
a Springfield, Mo, man named George
Haynes has been arrested on charge oI
bigamy, having married within twenty.
one months three girls, aged respectively
l3, Is and l6 years.
During hall at Workman's Hall, Gin.
c matt, by the Bakers Union, the other
evening, Lizzie Kaufman, fell dead after
dancing. After the body was carried out
the dancing continued.
Secretary Chandler has directed resump
ton of work at the navy yards and sta
tions, which suspended January LIST. on
account of the failure of Congress to pro
vide for its continuance.
The children of the veteran General
William s. Harvey, have taken prelimin
airy steps to contest the marriage settle
ment which he made on his recently
welded wife, Mrs. Lizzie St. Cyr.
In Brady's saloon, Detroit, Mich. last
week. John Culhane and Michael Harri
gan got into fight, when Harrigau
stabbed Culhane several times, killing
him, and escaped. Both were toughs.
Charles Seamens. wanted i'm Nevada fol
extensive forgery, has been arrested neal
Crosby. n. Y, by Sheriff Staples of Erie
county. The Governor of Nevada has of
fered large reward for Seamen's car tn e
ODonovan Rossa was sFo. on the street.
OF New York February I'd, by young En-
ylshwoman and seriously injured. The
shooting is supposed to have beer
prompted by the recent explosions in Lon
don.
Three children, aged ], ) and years, be
longing to Wiley Cannon. were burned tt
death at Raleigh, n. c., Sunday night, b,
the burning of Cannon's house. The par
ents went Off visiting and locked the little
ones in he house.
Mrs. Langtrv has sent instructions &c
her agent in New York to buy for her the
house she formerly lived in on Thirteenth
street, IL it can be obtained at reasonable
price. She states that she has determined
TO become an American.
General Rosecrans has been authorized
by the House military affairs committee
"a report favorably the bill appropriating
S2n.O0 To establish n soldiers home in
California, provided the ground for il is
donated without cost Othe government.
The Ohio state miners union has issued
an address for reduction of 10 per cent
all over Ohio in coal mining. This prac-
tically ends the Hooking valley strike. as
it brings the rate to sixty cents in that
district, and fifty cents in most distri, Is of
the state.
There has recently Eeen completed at
the Buffalo, n. v. car-works a monster
snowplow for the Rochester and Pittsburg
road, which has two pair of trucks. is II
feet high from the rail to the e'evated
deck, ~ feet long and weighs -, $40
mounds and is loaded with 700 feet of old