The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1879-07-05
Burned to Death.

Only $4,000 dollars OF the
40, ,000,000 dollars four cent. re-,
funding certificates have been
disposed of. 1wenty-eight mills
lions, six~hundred and thirty>twe
thousand and six hundred collars
in certificates have been converts
ed into four per cent. bonds.
The Western Wheat Harvest.
NEW YORK, July 3.
A Tines Cincinnati special dis
patch says the wheat harvest of
southern Ohio and Indiana is
nearly over. The crops have
been saved in good condition, and
Is one of the finest ever raised in
this region. In many places
farmers say it will average forty
bushels TO the acre. The total
+ yield of Ohio viii be fully fifteen
per cent. grerter than last year,
which was also heavy har' est
year. Harvest hands have gener-
ally been paid $3.50 per day.
New Money Order Offices.
WASHINGTON, July 3.
Three hundred and lwenty>sev~
en- new money order offices were
opened on Monday.
Lives Lost.
From varluns causes one huns
dred and FIVE lives were lost on
steamboats, during the past twelve
months against two hundred and
sixteen for the preceding twelve
months. During the past twelve
months thlrty>one lives have
been lost by accidents from going
ashore and during the previous
twelve months fortv-seven. Iu
1875 the number OF lives lost in
steamboats, was SIX huadred and
seven ;1n 1876 three hundred and
ninety. four; in 1877 two hundred
and tweutyAiour; In 1879 two
hundred and two. The steady
decline III the death rate is attrl~
buted to the increasing efficiency
OF steamboat inspection.
Only S5,0OO,0OO.
The Attorney General decides
that Captain Eades is entitled to
$4,000, 900 for twenty-six foot
channel at the mouth of the
Mississippi.
Sehurz to Go Visiting
WAsHINGToN, july 4.
Secretary Schnrz contemriates
visiting the different Indian ageH-
cles during the present Summer.
The Authorities of the Indian de-
pariment announce that seyen-
hundred horses have bceh run
off by white men from the Red
Cloud Aency, and the militia Y
authorities cannot interfere on
account of the posse comitatus law
of last year, although the stolen
horses were driven past camps
Sheridan and Robinson.
Fight Among the Big Fishes.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 4.
Suit was commenced to-day in
the Twenty-third Judicial Dis
trict Court by join II. Burke, OH
behalf of himself and all other
Consolidated Virginia stockhold-
ers, to recover $1,000.000 from
James G. Floed, the Pacific Re-
finery and Bullion Exchange, and
| the executors of the estate Of the
estate of W. S. O'Brien, deceas-
ed. This suit has the effect OF
tying up the estate OF W. S.
O'Brien, which was about to be
distributed, Is similar in prInci-
pie to those now pending, malS-
ing four suits now before the
courts, aggregatlng forty one mll>
lion and four hundred forty-ioui
thousand dollare.
The Sons Succeed the Father.
LONDON, Jaly 4.
1t is formally announced thai
the business of the late Baror
| Rothschilds will bescarried on by
! his three sons.
i Postponed One Year
ST. PETERSBURG, July 3.
] Owing TO lhe dullness OF trade
and the general feeling of the In
security OF business, the Industria
| Exmnition contemplated tor Mos
COW in 1880 Is postponed on
year.
! The eottonsplanters Of Washington c ].
Mississippi. have issued m. mortal to til
Northern people, demonstrating aaains
the proposed effort Of certain part es u
further encourage negro emigration BY
ssndipy boats down the Mississippi an