The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-07-10
RECENT EVENTS.

Benefits yacht Jeanette sailed on
the Sth for the Arctic seas.
Morris won the professional scullers'
race of three miles near Boston.
The telegraph reports the usual quota
Of wife-murders and suicides this week.
A Boston dispatch says the Unitarian
Church at Scituate was burned on the
4th.
The American Hebrew Union Of Con-
RregatiOns is IN convention in New
York.
1t has been decided that tobacco can
go through the mails as fOurth-elass
matter.
The Hebrew Convention is endeavor-
ing to interest Israelites in agricultural
pursuits.
Burglars got 500 from the safe in the
post office at Marysyille, Cal, on Mon
day night.
Rev. Herman Bisbee, pastor of Hawes
Place Unitarian Church, Boston, died
/ last Sunday.
Spattenhuber, who killed Ivison at
Lebanon, Pa, in December last, was
hanged on the 81.
In many places growing crops in
/ Wisconsin and Minnesota have been
damaged by storms.
The Third Presbyterian Church in
I Trenton, y. J., was destroyed by fire on
the evening of the 4th.
New York dispatches say the Orange
men have decided to celebrate the 18th
I by excursions aud picnies.
The Attorney General has decided
that Captain Fades is entitled to $780,
u g. al, .e
sippi passes.
The wheat harvest in the Middle
States has been very large, fully fifteen
I per cent greater than last year, which
was also a heavy year.
a man and wife named Blake have
been charged with having beaten an
adopted girl, twelve years old, to death,
in Oneida county, y. y.
The following post offices have been
added to the list of money order offices
in Oregon: Lake View, Linkville, Mon
mouth, Prineville, Weston.
A New York dispatch of the 9Th stated
that the advance in the price Of wheat is
attributed to unfavorable advices Of the
condition Of European crops.
A Miss Horton, of Washington, has
sued John II. Morgan, son OF Senator
Morgan, OF Alabama, for breach OF
promise and $50 600 damages.
Miss Jessie Dunbar, aged p years,
was burned to death at POughkeepsie,
\ y. Y, on the 4th, boys having ignited
her clothes with fire-crackers.
A fire at Amherst, Mass., on the
morning of the 4th, destroyed the post
office, the Amherst House, Amherst
Savings Bank, and other buildings.
When an excursion boat landed al
Trenton, y. j., on the 4th, the wharf
gave way, throwing some seventy-five
persons into the river. Three were
drowned and several injured.
A cyclone in GOodhue county, Mime
sofa, on the night Of the Sd and morn.
ing OF the 4th, destroyed an immense
amount Of property, including the or
phanage under the care of the Nasa
church, and killed 2 number Of persons
There has been a steady decrease in
the number Of lives lost by accidents OF
steamboats, during several years, which
is attributable to the increasing eff
cheney Of steamboat inspection. But IO'
lives were lost on steamboat during To,
past year.
LabOrers on Long Wharf at Oakland
Cal, have struck for S2 instead of 81 81
per day. All Cinnamon were recent,
discharged and white laborers EN-
plOyed. Trouble is feared should th,
contractor attempt to substitute Chimes
! in place Of the strikers.
! w. l. Moore, sheriff of Inyo county
, Cal, was instantly killed on the 8
while performing his duty as an officer
by a shot received from one of two mel
5 engaged in an alteration. Both men
Michael Welch and Henry Tessier, ar
under arrest. 1t is not known whie
one fired the shot.
At Lake QuinsegnamOnd on the after
noon of the 5th, the steamer Isaac Da
Wis, loaded with passengers, careeneC
E and the hurricane deck broke off. Score
9 of passengers were thrown into the lake
-, There were about two hundred passeu
j gers on the bOat-one hundred on tn
hurricane deck-and as they pressed
q one side the boat careened over ava.
. from the wharf and caused the crowd {
: rush to that side, and threw the strug
. CLING mass into the water. As the boa
j gave way, the roof of the upper dec
a came crashing down on the engine an
broke of the safety valve, causing tn
: steam to rush out, the fearful noise ad
< ding new terror. Ten persons wer
r killed and five injured.