Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-01-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Inthony Trollope Ia daad,

| coU,OOV lOr u bOluitTs
The Pennsylvania House of Representa-
tives consists of 113 Democrats and SO Ro-
publicans
At indianapolis, Ind, Andrew Shillingee
| fell into tank Of boiling water and was
scalded to death.
Scandalous rumors are already aloat re-
garding Mrs. Langtry, in connection with
New York blood.
Five persons have been indicted for the
outrage on Miss Bond, of Taylorville, H.,
some five months ago.
At a wedding near Los Vegas, n. NJ, a
Mexican murdered two brothers, and then,
proceeding home, cut off his wife's ears.
The Utah Commissioners recommend that
a marriage law be enacted by Congress for
that particular section of the United States.
Graveyard gEouls are causing great ex-
| citement among the colored people of Phil
| adelphia, the graves of whose friends they
are desecrating.
The massacre of party of Americans
and Mexicans by Indians, in Chihuahua,
Mexico, is reported. The murdered persons
| numbered twenty.
u. s. Grant has sold his residene on West
Fifty-eight street, New York, to ID. e..
Amber of Florida for $4,000 and 1900
acres of land in Florida.
DIR. Harrow of the United States Army
says Guiteau's remains are ready TO be
| turned over to the person whom the Court
shall designate is entitled to them.
Ex-senator Harlan of Iowa, the father-in-
| law of Secretary Lincoln, says Lincoln is
anxious to leave public life if he could see
his way clear to get back to his law office.
The Potomac is frozen solid from Anal
ostan Island to Little Falls. says WASH
| ington dispatch. This is unprecedented
within the memory of the oldest river man.
/ lfoNf tha satr ~
Philadelphia North American, has accepted
| the Presidents appointment of Marshal of
the District of Columbia, and taken the oath
of allegiance.
| Packing reports from leading cities show
| the packing to date to be 1,S00,000 against
100000 hogs at this time last year. 1t IS
| thought the winter packing will fall short
about 10 per cent.
| Chairman Shallenberger of the Committee
| OH Public Buildings thinks there will be
| very few reports this season favorable to
new buildings, and intimates that San
| Francisco will not be given anything.
| Senator Miller has introduced a bill in the
| Senate TO pay Caroline McDougal, widow of
the late Rear-Admiral McDougal, a pension
| of $50 month, from the passage of the
Act. Mrs. McDougal resides in San Fran
| cisco.
| Mrs. Pacheco is lying seriously ill in New
York with infiammatory rheumatism, and
the doctors have ordered her to 20 to Flor
ida. Representative Pacheco will accom-
pany her on the trip south as son rs she can
| be moved.
| In Dakota. Minnesota and Manitoba
| the cold has already become extremely
severe, and the thermometer has registered as
| low as 81 degrees at Winnipeg, Manitoba,
| while in the other sections mentioned il has
gone to 81
| The Sultan of Turkey did not attend the
| mosque one day lately, and it has since
transpired that an attempt to assasssinate
him was contemplated. The Sultan is COM
pletely terror-stricken, and hardly dares to
show himself outside the harem.
The old Mormon Temple at Kirkland,
Utah. where the first stake of Zion was set
and where first Brigham Young and Joseph
Smith once reigned supreme, is open again.
The .Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of
Latte'-Day Saints have taken possession
of it. ~. M
The remarkable statement comes from
the President of Denver bank, that daring
the past year his institution has lost $780,
| coo in paper while it was being transported
through the mails from Denver eastward,
and that within the same period other Col
orado banks have in similar manner
been robbed of $1,500,0O0.
|
blindfolded with long stockings the twenty
two ostriches at Central Park yesterday,
and shipped them to the ostrich farm to be
established in California. The farm con-
sists of 500 acres<About 70 miles south of
San Francisco, and the cost of taking the
ostriches thither from New York is $1,000.
The English Lily is liable to !, ave Amer
lea in anything but state of purity, if
| Eastern gossip is to be relied upon. She
1 =. f,,IIx ~tx.I
a great success would be achived. but Bos-
ton don't "turn out" and society's door
| at the hub is closed in a very determined
manner in the face of the Queen of English
beauty.
Joe Coburn, the pugilist, has been dis
| charged from Sing Sing Prison, having
been pardoned by Governor Cornell. He
was sentenced on March q, 1877, to ten
| years imprisonment for assault with in
city. He spent the first part of his SEN
tence in Auburn prison, but about two
| years age was brought back to Sing Sing.
| BY his uniform good conduct his term was
reduced by communication to six years and a
half.
| The memorial presented in the House by
Haskell of Kansas, from non-Mormon oiti-
zen of Utah, sets forth that the Edmunds
| law, though step in the right direction,
effected and will not effect the desired re-
| forms; that, although it disfranchises II, 900
persons who would otherwise be voters, yet
such disfranchisment has no pratical effett
| on the remainder of the sect since the dir
| franchised portion dictates the course Of
| those who are not disfranchised as COM
pletely as before.
SPEAKING of the pension population the
Pension Commissioner expresses his regret
that no provision was made in the last
census for its enumeration. The best up.
Proclamation that can be made shows that
| Of 2,063, 391 soldiers who enlisted during the
war, pensions have been applied for by or on
account of only 26 per cent. Tho report
concludes with the statement: ''From the
best available information it appears that
there is surviving soldier population of a
over 100000, out Of (which claims for PEN
sion in the future may be made by those who
have suffered pensionable disabilitie'."
The Chicago 1sibune's Washington spe-
cial says: The recommendations Of the
Tariff Commission on the sugar question
will meet with bitter opposition from the
| importers and refners, who are gathering
their strength for the fray. tfhey declare
| that while a nominal reduction of 10 or II
per cent is recommended, there is actually
no reduction whatever, and that the en-
bOdiment in the law of the recommends.
tons of the Commission in regard to the
sugar tariff will make the law more conf
plicated and offensive than ii now IL.
Secretary Teller has modified his instruc-
tions to Registers, Receivers and Surveyors
General, issued September I'D, to read as
follows: mo application by an association
of persons for patent to placer claim
will bp ailowad 10 embrace more than 1GO