Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-07-29
PACIFIC COAST.
Marine News.

Marine News.
PoRr TOWNSEND, July H.-French
bark Louis, from Seabeck for Australia,
was towed out today by the tug Col
iah.
Schooner Earnest, of the Z. S. Coast
Survey, arrived here today from up
Sound, and will proceed to make an ex-
tended survey of the lower Sound dur
ing the next few months.
Bark Dublin was towed to Seabeck
this evening by the tug Colfax. to load
lumber for San Francisco.
A Batch or Portland Items.
PORTLAND, July D. The body Of
Charles Wilcox, missing from Cabinet
Landing for three weeks, was found in
Clark's Fork yesterday. He evident
ly committed suicide.
The news reached here tonight of an
unproyoked assault on George Cogswell,
a railroad employee at Rock Island,
Montana, by a notorious rough, named
Red, who beat Cogswell over the head
with bottle. fracturing his skull. Red
in under guard OF railroad men. who
threaten to lynch him should COgsweil
die. Several roughs vino have followed
the railroad train, and who have lived
on the laborers, were ordered to leave
the headquarters, and they promptly
obeyed the order.
Governor Thayer today COMMITTED
the death sentence of John c. Powers,
who killed Benjamin Cornelius, his
father law, July 4th, 1881, to impris-
onment for life. A petition for execu-
tive clemency was signed by 1000
voters of Oregon and Washington Ter
ritory.
A fire today dertroyed residence at
No. 35S, Front street. owned by John
Cogswell, of Eugene City. His loss is
500: no insurance. Mrs. Rustlight, the
tenant, losses $500; insured in the Home
Mutual Fire Insurance Company.
This afternoon William Woods and
w. b. Cantrell, two we'll known book
keepers, had quarrel on Fourth street,
when Cantrell drew arevolver and fire d,
but the ball went wide of its mark. By
ISLANDERS rushed in and separated the
cOmbatants. Woods refuses to make a
charge against Cantrell.
The State of California crossed in,
and the Oregon PASSED out the mouth
Of the Columbia river at half past ten
o'clock this morning.
More or the sachs scandal
SAN Francisco, July 2S.-The Chron-
icle this morning publishes scandal in
connection with Sachs family difficulty
to the effect that the trouble was caused
by Samuel G. Cook, of Los Angeles,
who in revenge for the refusal of Sachs
to loan him money to pay gambling
debt, spread stories of his own init
macy with Mrs. Sachs. This led to the
preliminary row between Sachs and
wife. He then went to Cooks lodgings,
an =, covering him with a revolver, gave
him an unmereiful thrashing, and sub
sequently shot Mrs. Sachs as heretofore
reported.
Dull Trade.
SAN FRANCIsCo, July 25.-The tone of
the merchandise market remains much
the same as of last week. There is NO
activity to speak of in any department.
Self Murder.
SAN Francisco, July 2S.-Nicholas Pc
terson, a young German saloon keeper,
suioided in the rear of his place of bus
mess this morning by shooting himself
through the head. Cause: Financial
troubles.
A Suicidal Family.
GRIMES LANDING, CAL, July 28.-L. b.
Tucker of this place, who has been
totally blind for eight months, suicide
last night by cutting his throat. He is
the third brother to commit suicide.
Judgment Reversed.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 2S.--The Supreme
Court has reversed the Judgment of the
lower court, in the case of Clarence
Gray, convicted of the muredr of Theo-
dore CLANCY, the editor of the Santa
Barbara Press, and granted the defend
ant new trial on the ground that
the jury were too literally supplied with
beer and liquor during the progress of
the trial.
Grand Oiiccrs.
San Francisco, July 2S.-The Great
Council of the Improved Order of Red
Men have elected the following officers:
j. A. Filchsr, Great Prophet; Charles
Spencer. Great Sachem; Mr.. Belts,
Great Senior Sycamore; A. A. Andrews,
Great Junior Sagamore; H. s. VIM,
Great Chief of Words; Adam Smith,
Great Keeper of the Wempu Grove; L..
Johnson, Representative to the Great
Council of the United States; Benjamin
Josselyn, Davis I4anderback, John p. II.
Wentworth, Great Trustees.
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