The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1880-03-27

The secretary has also addressed a co M
munication to the Indian commissioners
of the senate and house of representa-
| tives, informing them OF the threatened
difficulty and urging prompt action upon
! the pending agreement. 1t is said at the
war department that troops are now sta
toned at convenient points near the res.
| eryation and if it is deemed necessary can
readily be called into service to keep OIL
invaders and preserve peace. 1t is under.
stood that proclamation will be issued II
/ the invasion continues.
Fire at Branchyi,Ie. y. q.
BRANcHyILLE, March 17.-This town
was set ON FIRE at two place simultaneously
at o'clock this morning. Among many
other valuable buildings destroyed, was
the post Office. Most of the government
property was saved.
| strike at st. Louis.
ST. LOUIS, March 1.-THE mechanics
working in the Missouri Pacific Railroad
| Company's machine shops, embracing
| beilermakers, blacksmiths, carpenters,
painters etc, numbering about 400, struck
o-day for 10 per cent. advance on wages.
/ Trouble about the Wires
WHEELING, West Virginia, March IL
| This morning a difficulty occurred be-
| tween the B. & o. telegraph authorities
and the w. e. line. It's claimed that the
W. U. has cut the wires of the b. K o. on
/ the poles on Market street formerly OPP
| Grated by the American < Pacific Com.
pany. The 3. & 0. Telegraph Company
replaced the wires and then cut the wires
! of the W. U. Company on the Atlantic x
Pacific poles, which they claimed were
/ placed there without their knowledge or
consent. Tonight men were placed on
/ watch. The matter will probably be
| thrown into the courts for settlement.
! Watchmen are guarding various lines to-
night
/ Cold Weather Ina Texas.
GALVESTON, March 17-Reports from
various portions of the state show that
the fruit and corn crop is materially in
| jured and in many instances entirely de-
| stroyed. There is snow, ice and seet in
many places, and rivers and creeks in the
eastern part of the state are very much
| swollen.
Big Suit.
| New York, March 1.-THE Lake Erie
and Western Railroad Company began
SUIT too day for the recovery from James
w. Henry of 81 ,307 900 with interest, from
| July 1879. The cause of debt is not stated
| definitely.
The Kansas Wheat Crop.
LEAvENwoRTH, March 1.-THE Times
| publishes returns respecting fall wheat,
| showing the acreage to be 20 per cent
larger and its condition fully 30 per cent
better than last year, and the yield will
| exceed 30000,000 bushels.
| Ship ON Fire.
| New YoRK, March 1.-THE ship n. b.
| Palmer reports that ON February 18th,
in latitude 300, longitude 30o, she spoke
the steamer Derwent, from Glasgow for
the Island of Trinidad, with the cargo in
| the after hold on fire for four DAYS. The
| steamer hoped to be able to reach Trini
dad
Railroad Matters.
ATcHIsoN, March lit is announced
/ that the Central Branch Railroad has
been consolidated with the Union Pacific,
and will on and after the lst PROV cease
! to be a division of the Union Pacific
Road and will resume it's old name of
| Central Branch of the Union Pacific, and
its main line will be extended ct an early
day to connection with the Union Pa
! ciiIc. The Central Branch now operates
320 miles of road, traversing nearly every
organized county of northern Kansas.
execution by Mob.
WINCHESTER, Illinois, March 17.-At l
| O'Clock this morning one hundred masked
| men boldly rode up to the county jail,
| battered down the door, disarmed the
guards and iailer, and with revolvers in
| hand, compelled them to give up the keys.
They then opened the cell of Joseph j.
| Field and dispatched him with number
of pistol shots.
Murder and Suicide.
CHICAGO, March 17.-Partin Power, 200
West Fulton street, in a fit of insane des-
pondency, shot his wife Bridget, probably
fatally, this morning, and then fred two
shots into his own head, killing himself
instantly.
In the Clutches.
Clarence Davis, the bigamist, who APP
pears to have five or six wives in various
parts of America having one or two in Cam
ada, was held to bail this morning by
police justice in $4,000 to the criminal
court.
; AURORA, Illinois, March 17-Early this
morning, Mrs. w. Baldwin, was found
dead in bed with her jugular vein severed,
and beside her lay her unconscious hlls-
band, with several gashes in the throat
arms and abdomen. His wounds are not
serious. Baldwin came from Vermont,
and they were married three weeks ago.
Cause unknown.
Outrageous viliainy.
BosToN March 17.-Homer Wellington,
lately withdrawn from the firm of Utely
4 Boynton, commission merchants, has
been arrested at the instance of his
father-in-law Oh d charge of being a de-
faulter and forger. Wellington's family
have been seriously sick at times, the dis
ease being called gastric fever His in
fant son and wife recently became ILL.,
The wife secured some porridge which
the husband had prepared for her, and an
analysis showed arsenic sufficient to kill
ten persons. Arsenic was found in his
possession when arrested. He is said to
have made confession. he police say
that his infatuation for another woman
was the cause for the crime
Execution Of a Fiend.
PONTIAC, Illinois, March 17.-Johannes
De Boer was hanged here to- day. His
crime was peculiarly atrocous-the mur-
der of Miss Ella Martin, a girl of seven
teen, whom he first attempted to outrage
as she was going home from church. and
failing in that. he kicked and beat her so
severely, that she died the next day.
0utra ye by strikers.
/ CHICAGO, March ls.-For some weeks
there has been trouble among the coal
miners at Rapid City, Illinois, on account
of some strikers wishing to return to work.
Mystic warnings with skull and cross
bones and signed "Molly Mcguire" have
: been distributed among those who We're
,, presumed 10 he weakening Tuesday
! night, Taylor Williams was shot through
, the heart, in his house. Two suspected
, men have been arrested and held for trial
More trouble is expected.
a Eadnian's Awful Chine.
Sr, Louis, March 18.-A horrible trag-
edy occurred early this morning in the
suburbs OF this city. Conrad Hienan,
! who was in,i recovering from delirium tre-
mems, attacked his wife as she entered his
ROOM driving knife into the lungs OF
! their infant which she held in her arms.
lie then buried it in her heart. He
also stabbed brother who attempted to
disarm him, then broke away, ran to-
wards the river, and has not been seen
since.
LArER-Iiienan was arrested this after
, noon in Carondelet at the extreme south
! ern part of the city. raving, incoherent
! maniac, begging protection from pursuing
: ! demons. The infant will die.
Coal Miners Convention.
PrTTsBuRG, March l8.-The bitnminous