Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-08-12
EASTERN NEWS.
....-.,. for the Pacific Ceass.
...oc,ArEo PRESS p1sPATcHEs

.z.ocrATEp PRESS pf5PATcHEs
.,.smers for the Pacific Coast.
o-u,nr1puA, Aug. 10.-The large
,arc Tacoma and San Pedro. built
s.H-smp 4 Sons for the Central Pacific
yi.osd Company, are now completed,
Trsmn has received contract for
1 more iron steamships for the
n"s,n,c Steamship Company, TO ply
$3.50 San Francisco and the sand
- Islands. The vessels are to be
...d es soon as iron can be got ready.
Tsas 1 are to be 800 feet long, AZ feet
-, rs feet deep. and OF ZSgO tons
S.,dsn. and capable of making l4X
kuots an hour
rvt,aerdiaary August weather.
r.,c.eo. Aug. 1.-THE past few days
hsye been very cool, uncomfortably SO
- times, and frosts are reported from
ao,therp Wisconsin and even IN the
.nhurbs of this city there was light
s,ost on Thursday morning. The cold
Ill has. however, done no damage to
ersin or vegetables, and prices On
.chsnre this morning are rather weak.
The propeller Nenomene Is reported by
har cantsin to have encountered in mid
isra on Tuesday, the Sth inst, a thick,
coid cloud. which burst on hei decks,
.,ssrino them with snow and siush to
shs derth of six inches. For five min
.tss fbe atmosphere WAS like that Of
riuter. but az the steamer was moving
rsnidIy she soon came into warmer
tsnpeis.ure. The event Gas unpre-
eedenied, bat the accuracy OF the fact
: vouched for by other officers and
,essenpers, and the story Is corrobora
tsd by the thermometers condition that
night.
Large Population.
Ths school census will make 567, 600
the present population Of Chicago.
Wsrklnsmen's Cnion.
Secrstary Morton, of the Amalgama-
tad Iron and Steel Association. says
thew adopted resolution guaranteeing
manufacturers that they would not ask
an advance on mailing and pudding
scale prices. For five years they have
not asked any guarantee OF the manu-
factursrs. They have secured better
constitution and code than ever before,
and laid basis of better understand
inc with manufacturers.
Talking I'm The Third Day.
WlsHNo1oN, Aug. lin the star
route trial Kerr continued his argument
for the Government.
End or Will suit.
Nxw YORK, Aug. lion October 10th,
1879. DR., Henry j. Phillips, surgeon in
the u. =. Army, died, leaving will in
which he excluded his wife, and after
making some small bequests gave the
rest of his estate to his relatives in Eng
land. His wife was twenty years his
Younger, and il the niece of Judge Nc
AIIister OF the Supreme Court of San
Fnucisco, who contested the document
on the general ground Of undue influ-
sncs, Surrogate Rollins rendered his
decision in tho matter today, admitting
the will to probate.
Gov. 80. John RenOnslnaied.
TOPEKA, Aug. l0.-The Rspu bliean
State Convention, by close vote, adopt
ed a resolution endorsing the Presi-
dents veto of the river and harbor bill
and the action of the Kansas delegation
in sustaining it. John p. st. John and
Scion Thatcher were then nominated
for Governor. The vote stood, st. John
287. Thatcher 81, johnson i2f. Martin 2.
Burned 10 Death.
CoILNsvILLR, Va, Aug. 10.-During
the absence of her parents little negro
eirl upset lamp on n stove: an explo-
sion followed, the house took fire and
the girl and three other children were
burned to death.
Attacked BY Indians.
r..~~~, A-o (utHn~l
Of Washington, has just returned from
Tres, Sonora, where he has been exam
ming mines for an Eastern syndicate.
On the afternoon os the 9th. with Jas.
Walton, of FL Paso, they were attacked
by band Of Apaches. thirty miles
southeast of Tres. Walton was shot
and seriously wounded in the left
shoulder and Clifford received q wound
IN the right side. Clifford saved Wal
ton from falling into the hands of the
Apaches by holding him on his horse
ill ont of their reach. He st ties that
Apaches.
The Yellow Fever.
GALVESTON, Aug. 1i.-There seems to
b. panic over yellow fever in Matam0-
re-, and dispatches from there regard
ing the number ofscases are aggregated
and contradictory. Absorbing to one
report, ia Laredo, tho number of cases
On the sth was fifty-six. A later dis
patch reduces the number of the same
day to forty, bat says there was large
increase. The daily averages Of deaths
for the week previous to the 9th being
only thirteen. There are only about
hfty cases of yellow fever ut Brownsville
Mprescnt, and the number of deaths is
not large, but the health authorities are
sf tbs opinion that II will become
epidemic. There is no yellow fever in
Texas except at Brownsville. Fort
brown Is in strict QuArantinel the fort
commander deciding not to move his
troops. A relief com mittee has been
formed and $500 subscribed.
Drowned Danes.
CHICAGO, Aug. 10.-J. G. Holm. the
uane who became notorious last week
fof having buried on the lake front sew
sM children, whom he was charged
ntn hrst numbering. having been ac-
Quilted OF the charge, but fined for the
irregular burial, became disgusted with
Onicago ways and started down the
sCo!a branch yesterday in small skiff
WIN son aged IA. Before going a
. ueaa distance his frail boat upset ana
ooso were drowned. His family are
destitute.
A storm.
.n. PAUL, Aug. ia heavy rain and
0under shower tonight causes some
eoncsm for the wheat harvest, which Is
no1 generally going ON throughout the
ns ntate. l. has not be learned how
'af ths rain extended.
Kentucky Report.
nrpERsos, Aug. ll.-This county
~ harvested the largest wheat crop it
aas ever known. Much of il was
1sesned early and sold for one dollar
=. ooshel. A great deal, however, is
M tnreshed and in many cases has
~ greatly injured BY wet weather.
many places il is sprouting in the
Buyers are now paying 80 cents
-. good article. The tobacco crop
s1'ee has been poor all season, has suf-
very serious damage from the
~ rains Of the last two weeks,
ca aae barley is suffering more than
~ y, !. varieties. The corn crop is good.
@ tnars is little or no old corn in this
sos.y, and farmers think prices must
nus good, even with good crops.
Aneae the Star Ra~se p,~e~~-sae-.