The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-08-21
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
The total number Of voters registered
In San Francisco is 5,3SS.
/ The Pacific Creedmoor team left San
/ Francisco yesterday for the East.
Governor Talbot, Of Massachusetts, has
decided to withdraw from public life.
A paper called the Record is to be
started by II. Y. Chadd at Yakima City.
Five men were drowned near Rocky
I River, Summer resort in Ohio, on the
| 18th.
Gen. John r. Mcconnell, Of Los An
geles, Cal, died at Denver, Col, on the
18Th.
Jos. +. Fay, a Boston merchant, was
muIdred on the l5.h. His safe bad been
robbed.
The Americans won the international
cricket match with the Canadians at
/ Ottawa.
Captain J. 5. Mitchell, from Evanston,
7 Wyoming, suicided at Desdwood, ID. T.,
on the 10th.
a powder mill at Newcastle, Pa, ex-
ploded on the IAN, making the third
time this year.
George Parish, a constable at Center
vile, Pa, was killed by Louis Wendall
I last Saturday.
/ The Arctic exploring yacht Jeaunette
/ has arrived at Ouualaska, aud all
aboard are well.
! a FIRE at Carrolton, Mich, yesterday,
/ destroyed property 10 the value of $780,
900; insurance, 200.
a man named Frye was murdered
D.. "a
four men whom he was entertaining.
The estate Of the late w. ). O'Brien
of san Francisco, is tied up hy the suits
Of Jonh ii. Burke against Flood ct ais
Tae brig Timaudria, from san Fran
cisco on a sealing expedition, was wreck
ed on Nounivak Island, May 2Oth. All
hands saved.
The Sprague- Coukling "muss" thick
ems. IL Is evindet that efforts are being
made 10 shield Conkling at the expense
I Of the other parties.
Rev. W. r. Tillinghast, high church
Z Episcopal clergyman Of Detroit, was
killed on the 18th by a boy who was
fooliug with a revolver.
The Mechanics Union Of Nevada have
gained a victory over the Virginia and
Truckee Railroad, and now Union men
only are employed on the road.
A heavy FainstOrm in New York city
on the 18th damaged buildings IN course
of construction, by undermining founia-
tions aud throwing down walls.
There IL serious trouble in Nevada be-
tween the authorities aud Italian coal
burners. Several OF the latter were killed
in an engagement Monday night.
Stewards body was believed 10 have
been found at Montreal on the 18th, but
Superintendent Walling, of the New
York Police, discredited the report aud
no action was taken.
Roach, cashier Of the Citizens Ma
tioual Bank at Washington, is a de-
faulter 10 the amount of $50 900. His
bondsmen pay 50 600 aud he turus over
his property 10 the bank.
Ex-Governor Sprague, Of Rhode IS
land, is said TO be indignant against
those who advise his wife TO get di-
vorce. He repels with Indignation the
iuuuendoes against his wife's virtue.
a construction train on the st. Louis
and Keokuk Railroad was thrown from
the track on the 18th, and y. Dubois,
the engineer. was killed. The couduc-
tor, Thomas Carr, had both legs broken.
The Secretary Of State has directed
Consuls in China 10 deposit all fees for
immigration certificates in the treasury.
/ The relation Of Chinese emigration 90
T the consular service will be investi-
gated.
I Mr.. aud Mrs Lamblett, living at
Folsom, Cal, we're attacked 10y an assas-
sin on the 18Th, and the latter was
killed The husband was stabbed
twice. lie has since triei % commit
suicide
Eighteen Thousand barrels Of oil were
set on iire al Parker, Pa, on the l4th,
by flash ol lightning. The burning oil
flowed down tue hillside, destroying
several dwellings, aud set another tank
OF ., 900 barrels ou fire. Total loss, $4,000.
a collision on the Atlantic City Mar
roW Gauge Railroad occurred near Glenn
eutou, Pa, on the l4th between an excur-
sion train of nine cars and freight
train from Atlantic City, resulting in
tile death of five persons aud slightly
iujgriHs two others.
The L. $. government has demanded
SlU3.U1J from the British government
as damages for outrages at Fortune Bay.
The fishery question Is likely TO result
in serious difficulty if an understanding
is not reached. II is felt that the treaty,
as construed ug the BTlllsu government,
does not give Americans privileges
. proportionate TO the price paid for them.
An immense wind and rain storm on
Monday and Tuesday swept along the
Atlantic Coast from Carolina to Massa-
} chusetts, doing immense damage "a
. buildings, growing crops and shipping
} AT Boston the spire Of the Freeman
d street Baptist Church was blown down
T and the stating Of Christ Episcopal
Church and the ornaments of ST. Mary's
Catholic Church were torn of. The
loss az B st0n Is hundreds Of thousand,
OF dollars. TIE Atlantic House, al
Beaufort, North Carolina, was entirely
demolished by the storm, the waves
. breaking the hotel to pieces. Front
street was stTewu with property. Tie
. other hotel j. badly damaged, aud many
private houses are ruined. There il not
a wharf left az the place Morehead
City also suffered terribly.
A college professor once said that she who