Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-10-23
EASTERN NEWS.
A.sscrArEp PRESS pIspATs hxs
n>eeher's Views ON Mormonlsm and
the Pacific Northwest

a ssacIATED PRESS DIsPATt hH
Reeeher's Views on Mormonlsm and
the Pacific Northwest.
Nrw YORK, October 2l.-Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher has Just returned.
Speaking of his trip through Dakota,
Montana, Oregon and Washington Ter
rity he said: In the very near future
thew are going to be magnificent States
In Utah he made the acquaintance of a
number of gentlemen VINO were former
" connected with the church there.
He procured documents from them with
which he will study the Mormon ques-
ton. The conviction on every side was
that Edmunds' bill would be failure,
and the desire of the Gentle popala-
ton there is that the Territory shall be
governed by a commission appointed by
Congress-, similar to the metlod of the
government in the District of Columbia.
Something has certainly got to be done
toward hedging in, for Mormonism II
increasing very rapidly. The M0rmons
are well organized. Their chief men
are shrewd and sagacious, and possess a
thorough knowledge of human nature
They are selecting in every direction
the best timber and valley lands where
irrigation is possible.
"Of all the country that / have
been over" concluded SIR. Beecher, a" il
was young man and wanted TO set
tie down / should 90 to Oregon or
Washington Territory. A young man
who has got health and strength and
good habits cannot possibly fail there.
He can 90 out and raise wheat, go lHto
the numbering or shipping business, or
into manufacturing. The immigation
tide has not really poured over into these
States yet, but II young men were OF M
opinion they would not stay Ia the
States, but pour over the Rockies to
where the elm ,te is charming, winters
very short and summer very long and
mild"
Fire nj New Market. Md.
ANNAPOLIS, Md, Oct. %. - Basil's
block ut New Market is ablazs. 1t con-
tains the largest business houses of the
city. 1t is thought that two or three
persons have been burned to death.
The Mayor has telegraphed TO Bilti-
more for assistance.
ANNAPoLIa, Oct. 22.--Iiater--T Ten ware
houses and nine stores werc burned,
loss $4,000.
Two persons we're killed, Chas. Legs
and his aged aunt. Miss Lizzie Wat
kins, whom Lege. after he was ont of
the house, went back to save.
saints ON the Wing.
New YORK, Got. pa party of thir-
ty-six missionaries. on the way from
Utah TO Europe. reached this city this
morning. They are accompanied by
George q. Cannon, John +. Caire, his
successor in the House of Representa-
tives, Mrs. John Q. Cannon, going to
join their husband in Switzerland; Mira.
John G. Reeves, wife of the central
ticket agent of the Utah Central Rail-
way; Mrs. Augustus Long. who is going
to meet her husband from India, and f.
Richards who comes here ON legal bust
ness with his wife's party. They re to
sail for Liverpool and from there will
be distributed throughout Great Britain,
Scandinavia, Switzerland, Germany and
Austria.
Bloody Amray.
AUGUSTA, Oct. pa bloody and fatal
fight took place yesterday near MoBean
church in Burke county. Ga Saturday
there was difficulty between two young
men, Symms and Rogers, at the base
ball grounds, in which Symms out Rog-
ers Oh the hand. After church yester-
day the difficulty was renewed. Thomas
Symms and his Sons, Frank and Tom.
we're shot by F. B., j. M. and Warren
Rogers, Rufus McNorrel and John 7.
Fox. Thomas b. Symms was shot five
times and killed Frank and Tom
SYmms were mOrtally wounded. John
Rogers was shot in the face by friend.
The Symms family are reported to have
been anarmed. All the parties are re-
specially connected and well to do
farmers.
The Charley R0ss Case.
PrrrsBURaH, October PA telegram
from st. Louis, stating that a,w clew
had been found to the Charley Ross
mystery, has been corrob0rated by the
statement of gentleman from Wyo-
ming, who says that Henry Mosher, a
brother of the Mosher who admitted
the kidnapping of Charley Ross, was
lynched near Cheyenne five wssks ago.
Mosher begged that his life should be
spared "a hours, and said he would give
the world information for which 1t had
been seeking for years past. aud ad-
united the custody of a person held for
ransom for more than year. He said
he had been driven too far west by the
hot pursuit of detectives. Time was no,
allowed, and the secret died with him.
The crime for which Molher was
lynched Was the killing of j. H. Went
Eel, and the inurderoas assault on john
knight.
A Fatal Fire,
MIDDLEvILLs. Mioh., Oct. 22.-Dur
ing fire three men and boy were
buried beneath falling walls aud burned
to death.
Arrived In safety.
New YoRK, Got. 22.-Steamship Helm
DIAL, reported on fire, has arrived in tn,
lower bay. She has on board three cabin
and 305 steerags passengers. She re-
ports that on the evening Of the 2lst
instant smoke was discovered cominG
from the lower main hold. Steam wai
turned on to keep the fire down. Th'
cause Of the fire has not been ascertain
cd. The people on boArd are not n1u
in peril, however.
Dead.
CHICAGO, Dot. 22.--The wife OF Gen
Arson Htager died here this afternoon
The Massaehuse to- Campaign.
CucAao, Got. 2a.-The T,'i6uae's Bvs
ton special says: The political canvas
in getting very warm. Robinson ant
Butler are makiAg two and three speech
es day, special trains being engages
to allow them to cover various town
and cities. Both indulge In personal
tiles, and both claim that victory is ~
sured. Butler still olings TO his stor
that the tanning of human skins Ia a.
industry in Massachusetts,, and on Fri
day he sent q man before the unite'
States Senate Committee to testify &
that effect.
The National Merse show.
NEW YoRK, Oct. 22.-The FIRST annu,
exhibition of the national horse sho,
association of America, opened thl
morning in Madison Square Garder
Nearly all entries were completed an
numbered, including all those horse
entered for special preniu,As, 400 an
mails. or these 355 are entered for res
ular prizes; the latter class includes
number of fancy carriage and coac
horses, a. we'll as horses of the IRE an
police departments. James X. Keen
has two horses entered in the list q
thoroughbreds, which number MIN
General Grant has entered his pair {
gray Arabian ponies.
Ann Hrn ncssro Reylstletl.