Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-07-07
NO.. 16.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Galveston is now the second cot
ton point in the country. Receipts
this season, 100000 bales.
Toronto Union plasterers have
struck for higher wages, and refuse
to work with non Union men.
At Oxford, Miss, S. Nj. Thompson
was shot dead while resisting arrest
by City Marshal Butler.
Henry X. White, New York, dealer
in straw goods, has failed. Liabili-
ties, $150,OOO; assets, 100000.
There is an aggregate paid-up cap
ital represented by the Cincinnati in
surance companies of 50, 100000.
At Lexington, Ky, Alex. McClin-
took and son sold SO head of Jersey
cattle for $17O70; highest price, ST.
720.
AT Keystone, Ind, William Walk
or shot and killed George Shaw
during an alteration. The murder
er escaped.
Col. Iges., commanding at Fort
Assiniboine. has information that the
Cree Indians are preparing for a
general war.
Near Benham, Tex, Robert f.
Tamplin, well-known farmer, was
shot and instantly killed by Frank
Smith, mulatto, former tenant.
The Mobile and Alabama Grand
Trunk Railroad was bought at fore
closure sale for $350,000 by George
Arentz and other purchasing trustees
for bondholders.
At Memphis the jury in the case Of
Adlai Fl. and James Proudft, on
trial for killing Axel Winberg last
January, returned verdict of not
guilty.
The Massachusetts Insurance De-
partment has! s!issued 1927 certificates
to insurance agents, permitting them
to do business in that State for the
ensuing year.
Henry Revells. q colored resident
OF Vicksburg, was hung In the pres
ence of 10000 people His case had
been before the courts for five years.
Mcdonald, the last of the train
robbers who murdered Conductor
| Cain, was found guilty in the Cir
cult Court at Clarksville, Ark, of
murder in the first degree.
Fire at Cape Girardeau, Mo-, de-
stroyed the foundry of Charles Teurth,
livery stable of F. A. Kage, and two
residences. Loss, $15, 900; insurance,
$4,000.
| The Texas Central Railroad has
| defaulted in the payment of interest
to the State on loal,s made to it prior
to the war. The amount in default
is about $28,000
The motion for new trial of the
libel suit of DIR. Mclean against the
| Detroit Evening NeiUs, in which the
plaintiff was awarded $2O,OO0 dam
ages, has been denied.
| A new counterfeit So gold coin has
made its appearance. 1t purports to
be a coin of the United States, struck
| at New Orleans in 1S43. 1t is heavily
plated and 49i grains light.
| "Hon. Bardwell Slote" (Wllliam j.
! Florence) was swindled out of $25,
| in New York, by spurious reporter,
who enlisted his sympathies in favor
of the Ohio flood sufferers.
Some one registered at the Bramble
House, in Lafayette, Ind, as @.
Reynolds, of Cincinnati jumped from
a high window of the hotel, and dis
appeared, leaving his valise behind.
The United States Marshal ar
rested eight alleged Kuklux, charged
with breaking up negro meeting in
Delta county, Tex, several weeks
ago. when there was shooting on both
sides
1t is said that the Salvation A rmy
will build a permanent barracks at
Syracuse, N. Y. which will accom-
modate 1000 persons, and that they
have purchased lot for that pur-
pose for 1000
A sturgeon weighing 178 pounds
and measuring seven feet was caught
in the lake at Oswego, N. Y, few
days since. A chain had to be fast
ened around its body to lift it from
the water.
In the contest for the Democratic
nomination for Governor of Kentucky
the number of delegates pledged to
Jones has been increased to 199.
Knott now has $50, Buckner 125,
IOwsley c. Jacob "a
Prof. Donald MacLean, of the
Medical State University, who OBJ
|tained a heavy verdict for libel
against the Detroit Ne,cs, has been
lappointed: Surgeon-in Chief OF the
Michigan Central Railroad.
| A Naval Court martial has been
ordered to meet in New York for the
trial of Commander Frederick r.
Smith, charged with scandalous con-
duct in making duplicate assign
ments of his pay.
! Near Paris, KY, two brothers
named Reeves, farmers, quarreled
about the proper depth to plant corn.
The lie passed. when one shot the
other in the left breast near the
heart. The wound is supposed to be
fatal.
\ A boiler explosion at Gueyer's saw
mill, near Napanee, Ind, killed Wal
lace Brundage and A. Reckert, and
fatally injured three brothers, John.