Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-07-28

RenO0lnato0.
CoL0NA. Iowa, July N.-The Repub-
loans yesterday renominated Thos. Up
degraf for Congress.
PACIFIC COAST.
An .. =. 4 \. Man Murdered.
PORTLAND, July IA special from
New York Bar, via Kiparia, says 4. II.
Cummings. the Oregon Railway 4 Nav
igation Company's warehouse agent,
was found murdered yesterday. His
head was split open with an Ak. and his
money drawer and purses ridsd Of their
contents. He was last seen alive at I
pm. Tuesday. with two Cinnamon. Who
vsre employed by him 70 load boats.
An Ak covered with blood and hair lay
on the floor at tho bedside. Cummings
had been in tho employ of the company
as nominal agent for eighteen months,
but his principal occupation was ware
houseman for shippers At PomerOy and
Pataha. He was = middle-aged man
and unmarried. Tho amount of money
stolen cannot be learned today. He re-
mittod TO the company two days before.
No clue to the murderers. The Coroner
Of Columbia county HIS been notified.
other ltens sr lssercss.
Articles were fled today incorporat-
ing the White Salmon laundering Com.
pany. Object: saw mill and lumber
ing business. Capital stock, $4,000.
Incorporators: Chas. Sweeny, W. L.
Childers and d. p. Thompson.
Freight train No. Z, east bound, on
the y. X. & n. road, left the track at
Jshn Days river, and the engine and
three cars run into the sand bank.
Damage slight. No ono was hurt. The
passenger train west this morning was
delayed six hours.
The Willamette Street Railway today
notified the city officially through the
Auditor that they could not accept the
franchise granted six months ago. The
reason assigned is a majority Of tho
stock in the Company's recent road on
First street. running tho entire length
Of the city. had been bonded TO them by
Joseph Holiday, but hs refused after
wards to deliver tho stock, and the city
had not yet reached such proportions a.
to support two lines running in tho Same
direction.
Tho directors Of the O. r. 4 N. Co TO-
day decided to change the narrow-gaGe
road from Walla Walla to Blue Monu-
tain, distance Of twenty miles, to stan
dard gage, and the work will commence
early next month.
George Bartly, aged q, wa thrown
down and trsmplcd by a frightened
horse at McMinnvills, Yamhill county,
on Tuesday, and died yesterday fro,n
his injury.
A Corvallis special aays Miss Tabitha
Morrison, of a pioneer family. while
riding with q young man near the top
Of Elk Mountain. was thrown bv . run
away team 70 the grade Of the river, ~
fest below. sustaining injuries from
which IL 10 thought she can mot r.
cover.
J.B. Harris, Superintendent Of Con-
struction OF the Oregon 4 California sx-
tension, said today TO IN Ovs2ossas r.
porsar that IL nothing intsrfsrsd with Z
continuous supply 10 The track material,
the road would b. dnishsd 70 Myrtle
Creek By A gut lst, ani TO the lowsi
end OF Cow Creek BY August 18th
Myrt'e Creek for the present will b sh'
terminal station, and the track y nov
being laid at the rate Of one mile ps'
day. The force consists Of 500 China
men AL 1000 white men. Nr. Harrii
expsots ~ b .vs the grading Of the go
ond division, between the SD and 6sss
miles, dors and the track laid BY mex
fall.
a sepsaesea ta ulsh 1aes.
SAs FsAnclsco. July T.-Ths onl!
plsusible reason 70 b asaignsd for sh'
shootinR Of Ars- Florence Sachs. By be
husband, Samuel L. Sachs. - jealousy
Sachs l. said for the pass two ysass =
have bssn In the habit Of induiRinl
| rrthsr freely in drink, and that On ssvs
raj occasions be abused bin wife. No
Iona sinos, il ID claimed. hs Ravs hsr
black s,when his fathsr-in-lAv stsrni
,dmouishsd him 70 nos rspsas bin treat
meat. Il = further seased that as q
s,mes Sachs vas anrsaeonably jsnloa
of his wife. His jsAlsasy vas fannie
into flame BY gossip ooanseeine n
vifs's name with that Of . certain youn
man. and also By the rsestpe OF :
Anonymous lsetss infeemine him 9
scandslous proceedings oa hes par
| For some time past the couple na'
been living on vsry unhappy tsfm
The shos paarsd Through her arm =
, nicting only Assh voand, vhsso =
attending physicians say = nos ssssoe
! Sachs d inns that the shoosan9 = =
result OF sonfas b had with his v'l
! | ard Il 4 ths wsApon vas dissnasesd
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