The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1880-08-07
TELEGRAMS.
rne wreck Discovered.

AcbOW EcNcE ~ NAOUAaCs
MOBILE, July 27.-The English bark X. |
low fever. The second mate is very i'll, |
and everybody on board has been down |
except three men. Two have died.
MOBILE. July 27.-The two men who !
died on the infected vessel were bnried at |
sea. The captain and two sailors are now |
convalescing. The Wood has been quar- |
antined about mile from any vessel in |
the lower quarantine station and is on the |
extreme point of Mobile bay, SO miles |
from the city.
Sea Lion Captured.
New Brunswick, N. j., July PA sea
lion was caught here Saturday night by
Richard Welch, harbor master. 1t is
eight feet long. 1t is supposed to have
escape from Coney Island Saturday.
sudden Death.
New YORK, July 81 Chas. Barlow of
r. G. Dun < Co.'S mercantile agency, died
suddenly at his summer residence in Long
Branch to-day. He was apparently in
perfect health yesterday.
DR.. Tanners Thirtieth Day.
Dr. Tanner is in improved spirits to-
day aud none of yesterdays unfavorable
symptoms were manifested. From mid
night until noon he drank only 4 half
the thirtieth day of his fast.
hegro Campmeeting In Ohio Broken up
by koughs.
CINCINNATI, July GA colored Baptist
campmeeting at Danville, ten miles south
of Hilisboro, Ohio, was the scene on Fri
day night and on Sunday afternoon of
bloody fights. On Friday night party
of drunken roughs went to the camp ut
about 10 O'Clock and began an attack with
! pistols, clubs and stones. They were re-
| pulsed and William Dickmau, of their
number, shot through the abdomen.
/ Sunday afternoon, party said TO num-
| Der 2o0 again attacked the camp, and
most desperate fight followed and ended
! in breaking up the meeting. ltis thought
that some OF the colored people were
| killed, but they dispered SO rapidly that
| the facts could not be gathered. No ar
rests have been made.
Financial.
| New York, July 27.-Total gold en-
| route from Europe 81 600 600. Offers for
bonds for the sinking fund will be re-
| ceived tomorrow.
| Edison gives mp fhe Light and tries am
other Project.
| Edison has given up his efforts to devise
an electric light and is now working on
! noisless. smokeless and dustless electric
| locomotive.
Site for the Obelisk Selected.
A site has been selected in Central park
| for the obelsk.
Fatal Accident.
! A two-year- old child was burned to a
crisp and young lady. named Annie
Palmer, probably fatally injured here to-
| day by the explosion of an oil can, with
which she was lighting fire.
Discharged.
DEADwooD, July 27.-Capt. /. NJ West,
x>superintendent and contractor of the
Black Hills Placer Mining Co., charged
with embezzling $500 shares of the Com
pany's stock, valued at S23, 900, from
Josiah Hale. was discharged after prelim-
mary examination to-day. 1t is rumored
that money was used to influence the
decision. West has left the country.
Prospects OF the Cotton Crop.
NOZZLE, July 27.-Prof Riley, chief en-
tomological commissioner of the United
| States, addressed members of the Cotton
| Exchange to-day, and reports the worm
in most fields throughout large extent
| of territory visited by him. He says that
if planters pursue the worm and the
| weather is good, there may be very good
crop.
Combination Broken.
PHILADELPHIA, July 27-Rumors were
in circulation to-day that the various
parties to the coal combination were at
loggerheads, and that the Philadelphia
and Reading company will hereafter pro-
duce coal in quantities to suit its own
interests and without any regard to the
agreement upon which the coal combina
ton is founded. Ex-President Gowan
says all the parties will keep on with the
present plan of stopping three days in
each week. There was no fight and no
hitch or break or anything of that sort.
Victims of the Collision.
DETROIT, July 27.-The bodies of all
but four of the victims of the collision
have been recovered An official investi-
CATION has been begun. The funeral SER
vices to-day were largely attended and of
unusual solemity.
Burned to Death.
A small grocery store was burned early
this morning and single man named
, Charles Peterson, who lived over the
store, was burned to death. He came
here from California three years ago. and
; was carpenter by trade.
Extensive Fire.
: The Ives saw-mill and five million
shingles burned; loss, $4,000; half in
sured.
ST. LOUIS. July 27.-Verubrachts furni-
ture factory was burned; loss, S25 600
!. Fire at Quincy, Illinois.
QUINCY, July 28.-A fire broke out at
noon in f. C. Pfonehmitt's planning mill
corner of Ohio and Fifth streets. in the
manufacturing district, at Ills. The mill
is burned and Gardner's governor works
Bonnet & Duffys old foundry, Harris 4
Beebe's tobacco works and other smaller
concerns are burning Pfonchmitt's loss
- \ unit hNr1 insn Tho
total loss will not be less than 100000
and perhaps more.
Dr. Tanner stnI Lives.
New YoRK, July 27.-Dr. Tanners con
tl,tion remains unchanged He took his
r. usual drive at d and rdturning at 8, hav
ing filled demijohn at well, retired a
I045. His pulse is "a Temperature, 9S SO
respiration, IA; weight, 130 pounds.
: This is Dr. Tanners 3lst fast day. HI
is bright and in good spirits, and walked
half mile to day with firm step ant
: elastic gait.
Narragansett Investigation.
MEw LONDON, July 29.-ln the Nara
gansett investigation, one passenger tes
tilted to-day to seeing an old grey heade,
woman clinging TO boat which wa
/, loaded with men and women, and the,
refused to take her aboard. He believes
she was drowned.
The seawanhaka.
New YORK, July 29.-In the Seawan
IS haka investigation, the evidence showe'
to-day that there were no life preseryeT
in the saloon aft of the ladies' cabin o
i, the lower deck.
20 Reiserates his former Statement.
es Rosros, July 29.-The captain of ii
schooner Eupice Newcomb, reiterate
: the statement made when he was j
Boston on his last trip, concerning u
firing upon him by the Spanish war We
sci, aud is positive that when the alta
Z happened he was ten miles from II
Cuban shore.
The Ute Comnaission.
g Los Pfsos, Col, VIA LAKE CRY, Co
ID July 29.-Ihe commissioners held
council yesterday. The Indians st
decline to sign the treaty in its prese
form. ObiectioEs we're raised at the Ia
meeting TO their removal to the junctit
Of the GunnisOn and Grande rivers |
account OF the poor soil. Anopportnni
ID was ollered for the chiefs and headm'
10 come forward and sign the treaty, 3
not singIe Indian accepted the invil
ton. The commission will brook
further delay and have given the "
until to- morrow to decide what coui
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