The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1880-12-16
GENERAL NEWS.
correspondence

Ex-senator Starbuck died at Syracuse, \. Y,
on the 11th instant
Southern States, so it is reported, will partci-
pate in the Inauguration of General Garfield.
On the 18th inst, during fire in Guys bucket
factory, Cincinnati five fremen were burned to
death.
A large gang of counterfeiters was broken up in
New York on the 10th inst quite number being
captured and lodged in Jail.
Captain Jas. Davis, a deputy United States
Marshal, was killed near COoksville, Tenn, on
the 10th inst by party Of evaders of the revenue
laws.
Schroeder, who killed DR.. lie Fevre of Oakland,
Cal, for seducng his wife, and whose trial for
murder has been dragging along in San Francisco
for some time, has been adiudged not guilty.
The indictments against Byrne, Post, Hart and
Philip for lbelling General Garfield have not
been dismissed ION the ground of misjOinture,n
and'the trial will be had in the Court of Oyer and
Terminer
Deputy United States Marshal, John B. Har-
die has been killed by Alabama moonshiners.
Commissioner Raum has sent the Federal officers
instructions to use the most rigorous measures to
bring the murderers to justice.
4 young woman Mrs Kennedy, was murdered
and horribly mutilated near Salem, :. c., ON the
1lth, by two cOlored boys and cOlOred girl, aged
respectively IS, IS and - years. Subsequently
all three were taken from Jail by mob and
hanged.
\ disastrous fire occurred at Pensacola Florida,
last Saturday. Five blocks, embracing over one
hundred establishments, were DESTROYED. EIftV
families turned into the streets. The custom
house. post office, county clerks office, banks and
two newspaper buildings We're among the burned
structures.
'Paynes Ockahama cOlOnists,n organized for
the purpose of entering Indian Territory and set
tling lands reserved for the Indians are on the
border of Kansas, and seem determined Troops
watch their every movement, having orders to
prevent their occupying the Territory, and trouble
will probably ensue. Tne situation is critical
c. : Boutwell,, Chester 4. Arthur, Noah Davis
and Roscoe COnklng having denounced as a
''willful and wicked falsehOod' the reDorted as
sertion of Senator Bayard that they had defrauded
the customs service of S267 900 and divided il
among themselves, the Senator comes forward
with disclaimer that he ever uttered such senti-
ments.
John Kelly the New York 'bossu has been
Ousted from the office of Comptroller four Tam
many Aldermen having deserted him and helDed
to elect Allen Campbell to the Office. The Re
publican members voted against Kelly proving
the falseness of the charge that there was a bar
gain between the 'boss" and the Republican
party Kelly acts the man, cOngratuating his
successor and offering counsel and assistance i'm
regard to the duties of the Comptrollership The
Tammanyites have met and endorsed Kelly but
they denounce Iilden and his party as traitors To
Hancock. Their newspapers are very severe i'm
their structures on the four boiling Aldermen;
but other journals are well satisfied with the turn
affairs have taken.
The rivalry between the Panama and the Mic
araguan canal companies increases De Lessons
ate of the former, with Secretary Thompson as its
President (he has resigned the Navy portfolio to
accept the new positOn), thereby destroying the
effect of all the objections founded on the Monroe
doctrine.n Subscription books are open through
out the country, and the stock is being rapidly
taken. In opposition, General Grant and other
gentlemen have succeeded i'm getting before Con-
gress bill for the organization of the Maritime
Canal Company, their object being the cOnstruc-
tiog of a Nicaraguan canal. The preamble recites
that the United States Government has entered
into treaty stipulatiOns for the protection of such
a canal.