The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1880-07-01
GENERAL NEWS.


Chicago lass haiia million Inhabitants.
AInwaukfe. Wis, has 10000 iuhab-
itauis.
The Reno Savings Bank has sus-
pended.
ST Louis, in Southern California, is
destroyed by fire.
San Fraueisco's city tax has been
raised to l5.7 mills.
Hancock has callel on Tiiden, and
wes cordially received.
w. C. Budd, one Of San Francisco's
stOckbrOkers has failed.
The mortality in New York is large,
owing TO the excessive heat.
Texas Greeubsckers have nominated
W. II. HammOn ior Governor.
Scott won the San Francisco pedes-
trian match, making sos miles.
The car drivers on some New York
roads have struck for 3 per day.
VI. o Heath is nominated for Cover
nor Of Vermont by the Greenbackers.
Vermont Republican nominee for
Governor, Colonel Roswell Farnham.
Tammany Democrats announce that
they will support Hancock aud English.
All the cities in the Union except San
Francisco showed clearing house gains
last week.
For the year ending May 81, the ex-
cess of u. :. exports over imports Is
Sl62, lS3 693.
General Grant thinks Hancock's
chances Of election are good, but will
not support him.
Bradford, Penn, has been visited by
another fire, which destroyed 81 build
ings. Loss, S35 900.
DR.. Tanner OF Milwaukee has com
meuced ia New York the feat OF fasting
40 consecutive days.
A cannon burst at Democratic rati-
6eatiOn meeting at Wheeling on last
Saturday, killing two persons.
The ocean steamer City Of New York
was burned in New York haTbor, of
Brooklyn dock, last week. Loss, $780,
600.
Rev Dr. Talmage will soon visit CAL
ifurnia aud give a series of lectures. Ii
is improbable that be viii come TO Ore
gon.
Garfield is overburdened with corre-
spondeuce. He is answering letters as
rapidly as possible. He mailed 40 last
evening.
The passengers Of The wrecked steal amer
Of the Stonington line, /
will bring suit against the owners for /
damages.
In New York, on the Goth ultimo. 207
deaths occurred. During The week, ] ,Os3 .
We're reported. Cholera infantum Is
prevalent.
The counties Of Hancock and Adams,
Illinois, have suffered great damage by .
.he breakage Of the leyee and the inun-
iation Of crops.
The Irish Revolutionary Convention
IS in session in Philadelphia. It's OBJ
.ect is 20 devise measures for the liberia
ton Of the Irish people.
d. p. Newell, an insane Chicagoan,
who thought be had made a life-pre- /
server of lead, jumped into Lake Michi- l
gan with his Invention on. His body |
has not yet been recovered.
Columbia's crew won the inter collie /
giate boat race, though Princeton was I.
so close that a conference OF the judges |
aud referee was necessary before a de- .
cisiOn was rendered.
Another disaster is reported from
Long Island Sound. On Monday the
fk-A AHlhNaN yea -AalAhA AUNh ults anu
was burned to the waters edge. OF the
$50 passengers on board, at least 50 are
burned % death or drowned.
The New York foreign banking bill
has been signed by Governor Cornell. !
The tax is one-hulf OF one per cent on
all money employed in the State The
Bank OF California and Bank OF Nevada
are among the principal banks affected
by it.
Fearne, an English long distance
swimmer, swan from tie foot Of Thirty
third street, New York City, through
He'll Gate and Finishing on the 2Sth al
rimo. He accomplished the distance,
IS miles, through the fierce current 10
less than 3 hours.
The Treasury authorities assert that
counterfeiters are producing greenbacks /
and national bank notes which defy de-
lection. The 500 bills have deceived
many experts, and the secret service Of
ncers can get 90 clue 20 their authors.
Congress will probably call in all SlO0
bills. The bogus bills afe better en-
graved, If possible, than the genuine.