Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1882-12-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
thony Trollope Is dying.


The life of Justice Lawson of Dublin, has
been attempted.
Occupation of Egypt 10y British troops is
considered still necessary.
Mrs. Scoville is in Canada. where she con-
templates delivering lectures.
The London Times declares the trial of
arabi Pasha to he a colossal blunder.
The working people of Vienna are turbu-
lent, and threaten to storm the town hall
Ben Butler il spoken of as possible Dem
ocratlc candidate for the Presidency i'll 1891.
The town council of Dublin have refused
to extend the freedom of the city to General
Wolseh.
Bismarck is endeavoring to effect coal
ltion between the Liberal and Conserva-
tive parties.
A terrible collieryexplosion has occurred in
Derbyshire. England, whereby thirty -one
lives were lost.
Frank James is being lionized at Inde-
pendence, Mo-, by drivilling women and
milk sop men.
Irish papers state that i'll a recent speech
Gladstone declared distinctly for the neces-
sity of home rule.
George j. Reek, who killed Jim Anderson
at Eureka. New. has been released on the
preliminary examination.
Vanderbilt has sold $l0,0O0.OO0 United
States per cent. bonds for 81 IL, two per
cent. below the market value.
The poet Tennyson has produced a play
at a. Lond IN Theatre. 1t was received with
shouts of contemptuous laughter
The Persian authorities are alarmed at
Russia, which has moved her military sta
tion nearly to the Persian frontier.
The Southern Pacific Railroad has made
an offer to the Santa Fe Company for half
an interest in the Sonora Railway.
The corporation of New Orleans and the
city gas company is at outs, and the town il
left i'll almost total darkness at night.
The Government proposal to prohibit
the importation of American pork meets
with general opposition in Germany.
The French Government has resolved to
reject any Turkish demand for the Porters
consent to the investiture of the new Bey.
A socialistic uprising of no mean propor-
tions is more than imminent in France, and
the present Ministry is resting on precarious
ground.l
Vanderbilt has formed q acompany with n
capital of $1,000, 900 to oppose the Chicago
beef enterprise, which ships fresh meat to
New York.
The mansion of Bierstadt, the artist whose
paintings have gloritied the Yosemite, on
the Hudson, has been destroyed. The loss
is a million and half.
The meeting of Methodist Episcopalans
at New York has appropriated S9nO for
Oregon, S3500 for California, $4,000 for Ne
vada and $1,000 for Colorado.
The checker tournament between Wylie
and Baker, at Boston, has closed. Fifty
games we're played. Each won Il single
game and the others were drawn.
Willard Z. Hall, who was Governor of
Missouri during the latter part of the war,
and member of Congress for three terms,
died at st. Joseph few days ago.
Two men and woman have reached Gin
cinnati in canoe, having thus made the
voyage from Lake George, going thence to
Buffalo, thence to Allegheny and down the
Ohio.
The Duke of Aosta il bethrothed to the
Princess Theresa of Bavaria. The Duke of
Both ladies are cousins of the King of Ba-
varia.
The Postmaster General, in his forthcom-
ing report will suggest to Congress the ad-
visibility of discontinuing the privilege
granted Wells, Fargo IL Co., to act as letter
carriers.
In Dauphin county. Pa, Mrs. John Hept-
ner perished i'll fire with one child, after
having made three trips back and forth from
burning building and saved the lives of
four others of her children.
Mrs. Langtry, the English beauty, was fa-
vorably received upon her first appearance
before an American audience, which is de-
scribed a. the largest, the most intellectual
and refined ever assembled in New York
theater.
The Turf, Field and Farm says: Orrln T..
Hickok has left for Chicago and San Fran
cisco. st. Julien and Overman go overland
with him. He expects to match the latter
against the present crack of the Pacific
Coast, Romero. He wants TO trot the race
before Christmas.
Josiah b. Smith, living near place
called Westminster, in the vicinity of
Santa Ana, California, in fit of religious
fanaticism, cut his 13-year-old sons throat
while the boys mother held the unfortun-
ate victims head. The murderers explain
that they acted in obedience to a revelation
from God. Father and mother are both
Mormons.
James Lynch, whose knowledge of the
wool business is conceded by the trade gen
orally, said: II think this coarse California
crop will be Is, ,000, 900 pounds less than last
year. The shipments from California dur
ing the past month reached 20, 600
pounds, but it is estimated that the product
of the year will be 5000, 600 pounds short of
that of last season.
Acting U. S. Secretary of State, Joslin has
decided n case lately where husband and
wife were voluntarily divorced in order
that the wife might make an entry of land
under the homestead law. The woman subse-
auently lived with the divorced husband.
The decision holds that, in consequence
thereof, the woman cannot be considered
the head of family within the meaning OF
the law, and the land entry is fraudulent
A fearful thing occurred at Halifax. Nova
Scotia, on the 9Th when a fire broke out in
a moor house containing 400 inmates. No
mind can picture the scene of horror as the
lame, the halt, the blind and sick endeavored
to escape froW the impending doom. AL.
though the attendants must have worked
with heroism to save the lives of their
fellow beings, thirty eight poor wretches were
roasted to death--fifteen men and twenty
three women.
At Wellington, Kan, James Bean, Texas
desperate, who was lodged in jail for having
killed City Marshal Brown at Caldwell last
Summer, died from wounds received III his
engagement with the Texas officers who
captured him. He had twelve shot in him
and two Winchester balls. post mOrtem
showed his death directly due to a No. shot,
which struck him in the forehead and passed
entirely through the brain. He lived thirty
days thus wounded.
The German Minister of War has made
known his decision to extend the German
forts and strengthen the Notifications or
the Baltic coast. New armored forts with
heavy batteries will be constructed near
Memel, and the extensive Notifications OF
Eastern and Western Prussia and Poser
will be pushed forward with as great rapid
ity as possible, in order to meet the exten