The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-07-24
RECENT EVENTS.

Nashville is reported in healthy con-
ditiOn.
Cincinnati is quarantined against
Southern cities.
a death from yellow fever occurred in
Brooklyn yesterday.
Little Rock is strictly quarantined
against yellow fever.
Pensacola is quarantined against all /
points west OF Mobile.
Strict quarantine is enforced by S.. !
Louis against Memphis.
Two cases Of yellow fever are reported /
in the New York hospital.
Macon, Georgia, had $780, 900 fire Oh
the lSthi insurance, S5S,0OO.
Last week was another prosperous
one for business in New York.
Heavy orders have been received at
New Orleans from the French to buy
wheat.
a severe storm in Massachusetts last
week destroyed much property and
many lives.
] General Miles is reported in the vicin-
/ ity Of Bear Paw Mountains, looking for
body Of Sioux.
The hundredth anniversary of the
battle Of Minisink was celebrated on the
22d at Goshen, y. Y.
Chicago manufacturers are holding
out against the strikers, and part Of
the latter have resumed work.
General William F. Barry, Colonel of
the Second Artillery, in command at
Fort McHenry, died on the 18th.
The Bodie Mining Company Of Cali
fornia has declared a dividend Of 81 per
share, the first from the new ore body.
Columbia won the college race at
Lake George, New York, on the 18th,
Wesleyan second, Cornell third. Time,
S:26.
a man named Frank Smith was shot
through the heart by man in ambush
at barn dance near Allenville, KY,
on the Goth.
A negro named Napoleon BOnaparte
was hanged at Sardis, Miss, on the
l9ih, for the murder Of Tom Butler, also
colored, In August last.
a number Of workmen were injured
by the falling OF a section of the new
round-house Of the Erie Railway at
Buffalo on the 2Oth inst.
Michael Ryan, John r lncorani aud a
Mr.. Keith were killed near Huntington,
4 H. ~
sion Of blast in a quarry.
Every month now the amounts due
= the Pacific railroads for transportation
, are withheld by the Government and
invested in five-per-eent bonds.
Cox, the murderer Of Mrs. Hull, in
New York, has been found guilty of
= murder in the first degree and sentenced
: to be hanged on the 29th Of August.
, prefer and scout, his wife and four chill
dren and four other persons were killed
by Sioux near Fort Peck on the Goth.
The House of Representatives OF
Georgia have voted to instruct the ju-
I dietary to prepare articles Of impeach-
> ment against Comptroller Goldsmith.
The yellow fever scOurge is rapidly
, spreading in Memphis. \ large num-
Der Of new cases have been reported.
There is a continual rush from the city.
e The ship st. Bernard, from New York
3 for Antwerp on June 9th, has been lost
on the coast of Belgium. Captain
!. Burns, the pilot and five men were
drowned.
The steamships Santiago de Cuba, oI
J, New York, and Scotsgrey, of London,
: collided in the Delaware River Sunday
q afternoon, damaging both vessels con.
siderably.
John Hope, convicted of robbing the
Manhattan Savings Bank in New York
;, Of SS,OOO,O0 in securities and cash, wa.
e sentenced to the State prison for 20 years
on the 18th.
- The six-days' walking match fol
women closed in San Francisco OF
e Wednesday. Nine. La Chappelle woI
l. the first prize, making 800 miles; Mis-
} Edwards, second, 262 miles.
). A shoe factory, employing 400 hands
- was entirely destroyed by fire at Pough
= keepsie, y. Y, on the 23d. Georg
Logan, engineer, was killed by fallinl
, walls. Loss, $500 goo; insurance no
known.
In fight between two companies O
Il troops and Lieutenant Clarkis Indian
" and 500 hostile Sioux, on the 18th, fou
E. Indian scouts were killed and two sol
re diers wounded. The Indians escape,
10 when Miles main column came up.
sr A boiler explosion occurred in tn
: car shops Of the Central Pacific RaiIroa
at Sacramento on the 10th. The fire
T. man was killed and several others wer
I'd injured. The damage to property
Of about $4,000. It being Sunday, ther
10 were but few persons about the work:
20 Six men started from Port Colbourn
In sailboat to attend the 4th at But
IN falo, New York, and the following not,
rs taken from bottle floating in LAX
I'd Erie, tells their sad fate: "July 8, l I
De M.-We cannot weather It any longer
10 blowing a gale; give up all hope; good
bye. Six men from Port Colbourne."