The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-10-16
GENERAL NEWS

The yellow fever is gradually d, ing
out ai Memphis
The Hanlan- Courtney seulling race
takes place to-day.
Another rich strike Of ore is repofted
in the Sierra Nevada.
Considerable rain has fallen in Cali
I flrnia during the past week.
The California Grand I.ndre Of
Masons is in session at San Francisco.
Another Mollie Mcguire, Pete Nc
I Msnns, has been hanged ia PeunsyI-
vania.
The wnman's six day walking match
in san Francisco was won by Sherman;
337 miles.
George Howard, San Francisco ex-
/ pressmsn, was mysteriOusly murdered
/ on the l2th.
John Quincy Adams has accepted the
/ Democratic nomination for Governor Of
/ Massachusetts.
An attempt will be made the coming
/ Winter 10 get subsidy for tie Texas
/ Pacific Railroad.
The lS-year-old hoy, Murphy, won
/ the o. Leary belt in New York, making
/ sos miles in the six days.
! 4 six-day match between men aud
] horses at San Francisco succeeds the
women's walking match.
Judge Morrison, Chief Justice elect OF
/ California, will hold office eleven years,
at au annual salary Of ST, 600.
An inventor Of explosives and bis as
sistant were killed in the harbor at Boz
ton on Tuesday while experimenting
\ house near Stockton, Cal, was
destroyed by fire on the 10Th, aud "a
woman namei O'Neil was burned to
death.
VIM. Alvori was elected President
OF the Bank Of California at the election
nt officers on Tuesday, aud Thomas
/ Brown Cashier.
Two passenger trains collided on the
Baltimore and Ohio road on the llth.
killing the engineer and the fireman Of
one Of the trains.
Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont has
I given thirty-two "histnry talks" tn the
larger pupils Of the public schools in
/ Prescott, Arizona.
/ Ralph Waldo Emerson never was a
robust man, bat he has outlived most
Of his early comrades. Old age is rap
Idly showing itself upon him OF late.
The Chicago and Alton express train
wss robbed of sou, 900 by twenty masked
men on the 9th. The attack was made
at Glendale, fifteen miles east of Kan
sas City.
Col. w. r Johnson. the san Francisco
Secretary Of the Liverpool, London and
Globe Insurance Company, was killed
al san Rafael on the 18th 10y being
thrown from a buggy.
J. r. Alsip, a San Francisco defaulter,
was recently arrested ia Peru, aud was
beiua bro ght back. He jumped into
the bay - Fort Point and Is supposed
TO have been drowned.
4 revenue force in Georgia vas re-
pulsed on the 1871 by armed men while
attempting to destroy Illicit distiIleriss
Additional aid and arms were seut for
Georgia evidently needs hayonet role.
]. c. Flood, Of the Nevada Bank San
Francisco, has been ordered to show
cause why he shall not he committed
for contempt iu refusing 10 answer ques-
tions Of plaintiff counsel iu the suit of
Burke vs.. Flood ct al
The members of a sLerlf's posse were
fired on hy outlaws in Mendocino
county, Cal, yesterday, and one man
/ fDollsidl was killedaud another (WiuhN
fatally wounded. a large force is in
pursuit Of the rufiiaus.
One Of the best indications Of the
revival OF business IN the East Is the
fact that the European steamship com
panies have complied with the request
of the 'lOugshoremeu that their wages be
advanced TO 30 cents per hour.
Ralph Meeker, sou Of the murdered
Indian agent at White River, Col, has
been appointed special agent 10 visit
/ the agency to recover the bodies Of his
father and such other persons a. may
have been killed. He will also gather
up the papers Of the agency.
/ The elections in Ohio and Iowa on
/ Tuesday resulted in complete victories
/ for the Republicans. The candidates for
I Governor Foster in Ohio and Gear In
i Iowa. both have very large majorities.
/ The Republican gains have beeu great.
/ Truly, "a solid South will be met by
solid North"
\ fearful accident occurred at Jackson.
I Michigan, on the lOth, the west hound
express train of the Michigan Central
road colliiiHg with switch train
I Twenty or twenty five persons were
I killed, and as many wounded. The cars
Of the express train were 'telescnDed. -
or jammed into one another. A cnro-
ner's jury has placed the blame on Col
I Wtllf tue 1hlutud~itTt sawyer, the
switchman, aud Jones, engineer Of the
switch engine, all being guilty Of viola
I tion OF the cOmpany's rules
The bodies Of the agent and his EN-
ployes at White River Agency for the
Ctes have been found, all stark naked
aud horribly mutilated. \ barrel stave
was driven into the mouth Of Father
Meeker. All the buildings exeept one
were burned to the ground, and not a
living thing except the command (Gen-
eral Merrtrs) was found. The Indians
had taken everything except the flour
and decamped. No traces have been
found OF the women and children. and
their dreadful aud unmeutionable fate
calls forth the most profound symp4-
thy" The Indians killed in the fgbt
on the 18th ultimo numbered 81. The
Southern Utes will obey Ouray and
take no part in the trouble. II is now
said that a peace commission will be
able u settle further difficulties.
Judge Henry Hayden, Of Wisconsin.