The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1879-08-28
GENERAL NEWS.

An oil train of twenty eight ears was
burned in Pennsylvania on the 2lst.
5. S. Richley's bank, at Columbus,
O., was robbed Of 5000 on the 18th.
Cubans in New York propose to aid
the revolutionary committee Of Cuba.
General Grant, it is thought, will be
President of the Darien Canal Company.
Louisiana Republicans will hold a
convention in New Orleans on October
Goth.
There is an increase Of so. 600 600 BUSH
els of Spring wheat ia the Middle West
this year.
Proceedings Of the court martial
against Surgeon General Hammond
have been annulled.
Utica Republicans have chosen Sena-
tor COnkling as delegate to the New
York State Convention.
Two farmers in Kansas, Dobbins and
Burns, had combat over debt on tue
22d, aud both were killed.
II is charged that ministers have fled
from Memphis, "leaving their flOcks to
the ravages of the fever"
Colonel John c. Cremony, a we'll
hnuN llul uhllHL AuN hulNOTs AAEu AZ
San Francisco )n the oath.
The business portion of Farmer City,
H., was destroyed by fire on the 24th.
Loss, 100000; insurance, 100000.
"Castle Thunder and other buildings
at Richmond were burned on the 26th
Loss, 100000; insurance, $4,000.
BY the explosion Of the boiler Of a
tug in New York yesterday, LeOnidas
Fuller aud Joseph Lefiay were killed.
Hines, a constable, was killed in Fort
Thomas, Nevada, yesterday, while try
ing TO arrest J. b. Collins, merchant.
The United States steamer Massa-
chusetts is ashore at Portsmouth, \. H.
She will be saved, but is badly injured.
No apprehension of a general fever
epidemic is felt at New Orleans, the
sanitary condition Of the city being ex-
cellent.
Several hundred employees of the
Lake Shore Railroad are on a strike ia
Chicago, their grievance being oyerwork
and poor pay.
a white man named Atwell killed a
negro named Allen in Memphis, on the
25th. 4 corOner's jury declared it justi-
fable homicide.
Workingmeu's and Greenbackersi
meetings throughout the East are Sc
we're in denOuncing De HOung's cow
ardly assault on KallOch.
Mrs. Nelson, wife OF one Of the part.
ners in the old steamship firm of Good
all, Nelson & Perkins, is suing for a d.
vision Of community property.
Large numbers of thieves infest the
fever-stricken city of Memphis. The
unprovided cOlored citizens say tina
they will have food at any price.
\ German named Kerster, living ia
Iroquois county, ILL.,, shot away hi:
wife's lower jaw on the 24th, and com
pleted the murder with an axe. He
then escaped.
Samuel Lauer, a member of the town
council of POttstOwn, Pa, was killed
aud several other gentlemen Injured on
the 25th by the falling OF an arch that
was being removed to make repairs at a
blast furnace Of the POttstOwn Iron
Company.
The Board of Underwriters OF San
/ Francisco have presented Capt. Arm
strong and his daughter, Miss Emma
| $500 each, for their conduct in hringin ng
| yellow fever ship from Rio JaueirO tO
| that port, aud to Thos. III. Patterson, O
the same ship, $3.50. Extremely com.
plimentary letters accompanied eact
| present.
There is trouble at BOdie, Cal, be-
/ tween the miners and Superintendent
| DAILY, OF the Mono and Jupiter mining
claims. The miners, on the evening o
the 23i, destroyed a cabin built by order
of the Superintendent over the Oyhee
shaft, and afterward resolved TO hang
Daily. \ man named GOhf was killed on
the morning of the 23d in a fight be-
tween the miners.
On last Saturday morning, Charles
De Young, Of the San Francisco CbrOH-
icle, attempted to assassinate Rev. l. :.
Kalloch, WOrkingmen's candidate for
Mayor. He rode TO the latter's study
and sent a messenger boy for him, aud
then shot him down, one shot taking
effect 10 the breast and the other in the
thigh. De Young was mobbed, and
was with difficulty taken to the City
Hall by the police. Tue Workingmen
threaten to lynch him if KallOch dies.
De Young has waived examination 10
appear before the County Court The
city has not been in such a turmoil
since Lincoln was assassinated. The
police and military guarded the ClirOn-
icle office to keep it from being sacked.
This Thursday mornings dispatches
say KallOch is out of danger.