The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-12-25
RECENT EVENTs.

Of walking 500 miles in six days.
The Senate has confirmed the ap-
pointment 5. b. Axtell, for Governor OF
Utah.
D. L. Watson has been confirmed as
Collector of Customs for the southern
district of Oregon.
Organized attempts have recently
been made by convicts to burn the State
Prison at Auburn, n. Y.
Jefferson Rives, one of the proprietors
ofthe Congressional Globe, dropped dead
of apoplexy on the Goth.
The specie shipment to Europe on the
18th was S1,OOO,OOO, of which S95O,OOO
was gold, the remainder silver.
The extensive tannery of Ziegler &
Co. in Cincinnati, was burned on the
10th. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
A boiler explosion occurred at Angel
lea, Wisconsin, on the 22nd by which
fifteen men were killed and twenty
wounded.
II is expected that the mills at Fall
River Mass, will start again on the first
of January, with q reduction of ten per
cent in wages.
A severe snow storm passed over the
Eastern and Middle States on the Goth.
A fall of twenty inches is reported at
Patterson, New Jersey.
Two emigrant ships have arrived in
San Francisco during the past month,
bringing about 500 passengers from
Australia and New Zealand.
1t is rumored that the MormOns in
the United States propose to found colo
nies in Mexico, with the intention Of
emigrating en- nldsse from Utah.
The value of the estate of the late
Mayor Havemeyer is estimated at from
three to five millions. The heirs are
the widow, six sons and two daughters.
Carl Voght, the Belgian murderer, has
been extradited by the United States,
and the warrant duly signed by the
President. He sailed for Europe on the
10Th.
The dollar contribution for the relief
of the Kansas and Nebraska sufferers
has reached 50, ,229. Money is now COM
ing in at the rate of 400 or 500 dollars
per day.
The German commission to the Gem
tennial exhibition at Philadelphia, has
been appointed. DR.. Jaeoby is Presi-
dent of the commission, with headquar-
ters at Berlin.
The Secretary of the Interior has off,
eialIy recommended Congress to apprO-
pirate Sl62, 900 for subsistence to support
the Sioux on the Red Cloud and Whet-
stone reserves.
The Secretary of the Interior has re-
ceived an official letter announcing the
acceptance by Great Britain of an invi-
tatiOn from the United States to psrtic-
ipate in the Centennial.
Letters have been placed before the
Department of the Interior reporting
danger of Indian hostilities in Warner
and Pitt river valleys, California, unless
the Indians are provided for by Govern
ment.
A row between white and colored
school boys, at Keller Market, on the
afternoon of the 18th, terminated In 8
general melee between whites and
blacks in that vicinity. One colored
policeman was badly hurt, and num-
ber Of persons injured.
a smash-up occurred on the Central
Pacific Railway on the 18th inst, at the
tunnel near Camp "a, by which fifteen
cars were thrown from the track, and
one brakesman seriously Injured. The
accident was caused by broken axle on
car of the freight train. The wreck
ing train was sent from Truckee to clear
the road.
The large new dam, just completed at
Haydensville, Mass, burst on the 19th
inst, and a large body of water, covered
with ice ten inches thick, swept down
the channel through the village. No
lives were lost. This dam was built to
replace the one swept away last May,
and was constructed of granite, bedded
into solid rock.
The steamship Japan " was recently
burned at sea, when about $50 miles
from Hong Kong. The vessel was aban-
doned about l o'clock at night, the Off
GERS, crew and passengers taking to the
boats. The captain, chief engineer, %
of the European, and 65 of the Chinese
crew, two cabin passengers and "a
Chinese passengers have arrived at Hong
Kong. Two boats and raft had not
been heard from on the goth.
The students of the boys Central High
School, New Orleans, visited the girls
High School on the 18th to compel the
removal of the eolored pupils. A COM
mittee of five entered the school, stated
the object of their visit, and threatened
to use force if necessary. The colored
girls present quietly passed out, and
the boys returned to their own school.
II is thought that the board will estab-
lish a High School for colored children,
and thus prevent farther trouble.
The medical department of the VIII
orr