The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1880-03-06

chihuahua for Laredo, and captured three
drivers and the live stock The teamsters
escaped and brought news to Eneeras.
Twelve men have gone in pursuit. The
Indians were well mounted and armed,
and went toward the Rio Grande river.
a Fatal Row.
QUERo, Texas, February ga brutal
and bloody fight occurred between three
men, Martin, Holland and Coward over a
game of pitch, in the course Of which Hol-
land was killed. His mother was fatally
shot and Martin was fatally injured.
Verdict set side.
BosToN, February 28.-The supreme
court has set aside the verdict of man,
slaughter in the case of Charles II. Hart.
well, conductor of the freight train which
aster on the Old Colony road in October,
1878.
EmiRrants and Chinese Eastward Bound.
OMAHA, February 29.-This afternoon
special train arrived here from San Fran
cisco having on board 250 emigrants bound
east, they having taken advantage of the
$S5 rates to New York Among them
were about 90 Chinese, occupying one car; !;
25O Chinese emigrants will pass through
tomorrow.
Deadly Figh..
Bates school house, about four and one
half miles northeast of Seward, was last
night the scene of u vindicitive and bloody
quarrel, in which one man lost his life
and several others were seriously injured.
There had been preaching in the school
house, and at the conclusion of the meets
ing two of the participants engaged in a
scuffie which soon developed into grand
fight. Some fifteen or twenty pistol shots
were fired. the first of which mortally
wounded William Bates in the head, who
has since died. Four others were seriously
injured by pistol bullets. The only cause
for this fatal and lamentable occurrence
is neighborhood feud growing out of the
district school dictatorship.
Disgracefnl and Deadly Encounter.
PHILADELPHIA, February 2S.--A prize
fight took place this morning in room
on Vine street, between Edward Douglass j,
of Philadelphia, and Frank Harris, of
Jersey City. Both men were terribly pun
ished, Harris having his skull fractured
in the last round. He has been insensible
all day, and it is thought that he cannot
recover.
City Officers Indicted.
ELIZABETH, New Jersey. February 2S.-
Thirty-four indictments, in aggregate,
nave DtCt AOuuu hSftiHSt bnC COthDLEOliST,
the city treasurer, and city clerk for con-
spiracy to defraud the city. The indict-
ments chiefly charge the officers with
having bought bonds at the market pri ce
with their own money, aud turned them
into the city at par and interest, dividing
profits. Other accounts are for paying un.
authorized claims TO councilmen, to the
National Bank Note Company, and others
Death OF Pedestrian.
WHITEHALL, New York. February 90
David Hoag of Mineville, died at Fort
Henry to-day, from the effects of NOR
phine and other stimulants given him
while walking q hours race at Glenn
Falls, last Friday, of which he was the
| winner.
Fire at Chicago.
CHICAGO, February 29.-Goodwiller
| Brothers box factory, and Hanson's pic
| ture frame mandatory, at the corner of
| kingsbury and Indiana streets, were en-
tirely destroyed by fire at four O'Clock
/ this morning. Loss, $4,000 to $50, 900
| little or no insurance.
| Trouble.
New YORK, February 29.-The Atlantic
and Pacific Telegraph Company, which
| has had working understanding and ar.
| rangement rs to the relative amount of
4
| graph Company, had prior to such ar.
rangement, compact enabling them, the
| Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company
| to control the wires along the line of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad. To-day
however, the telegraph war has assumed
q still more complicated shape. The Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad Company
served notice of its intention to take
control of and operate the telegraph
lines of the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph
Company, and the Baltimore ond Ohio
| r. r. Company, between Washington, d.
c., and Marietta and Cincinnati, Ohio,
Washington. Columbus, Ohio, Newark
Ohio and Chicago, Illinois, heretofore
operated by the Atlantic and Pacific Com.
| pany, under temporary license. After
notice had been served, and the lines all
taken by the railroad company. and in
junction was served on President Garrett,
of the Baltimore and Ohio r. r. Com
| pany, at the Windsor Hotel, in this city
to restrain his company from taking pos
session of the lines which were put there
by the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph
Company, in 1857 under an arrangement
made by General Eckert, then President,
ID. II. Gates, then the general superinten-
dent of the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph
Company This arrangement, it IS alleged
provided that the railroad company who
were at that time afraid of consolidation
between the Western Union and the AT
lantic and Pacific companies should at any
time have the option of taking lines a
cost. On Saturday last a contract was
concluded between the Baltimore anC
Ohio K. r. Company, and the American
Union Telegraph Company, having tel
years to run, whereby all telegraphic worl
and business of that railroad shall bt
managed in connection with the Ameri
can Union Company, insteed of the West
ern Union and Atlantic and Pacific Tele
graph companies.
A Samaritan of the Seas.
The steamer Alexandria arrived to-da
from Mediterranean ports, bringing IN
telligenee that the Wilson line steame
!, Hindoo, bound from New York for HUI
was abandoned on February 22d in La
81 so, Ion. Al 09, on her beam ends, wit
her funnel gone and decks swept. Ih
!. first and second officers and quartermaste
had been washed overheard, and tn
remainder of the crew and passengers, D
in number, were taken on board the Alex
andria and brought to this port. IN
/, Alexandria also on February 10th fell 1
with the brig Julia from Port Cabello, fo
Swansea, in sinking condition, and too
off her crew, s in number.
r The Death Penalty.
r SAVANNAH, February 27.-John Henr
{. johnson. a negro, was hung this afternoo
sor the murder of Daniel McDermott 0
t March 7th, seaman. johnson made a
e address expressing the belief that h
0 would 60 to heaven.