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

CIuett, Brother q Company, shirt and col
lar manufacturers; ]. Stettheimer < COM
pany, collar manufacturers, and Hermann,
| Ankron & Company, felt skirt manufac.
turer, burned today. Cluett Brothers,
loss, $150s000; insurance 100000. Loss
on building 100000; insurance $50,000
]. Stettheimer & Company's loss was $20,-
GOO; insurance $4,000. Hermann. An
kron & Company's loss, SIS 600; insurance
$4,000. Loss on dwellings,, 5000; insur-
ance $3.50. All firms are making efforts
to Immediately resume. The girls en-
| ployed saved all the machines.
Strikes and Compromises.
| ST. LOUIS, March 20.--Workmen at the
Missouri Pacific machine shops at Sedalia
and miners in the coal mines of the road
| in that vicinity, quit work TO day. Gen.
eral Superintendent Talmage will reply
to the demands OF the employees to-
morrow, but the nature of the reply is not
known. All the yard men on both sides
of the river stopped work this noon The
Union Transit or bridge company, having
acceded to the demands of employees no
| interruptions occurred in the bridge traf-
| fic. ALI trains left on time. The short
road between East st. Louis and Caron-
delet, met the demands of the EMPLOYEES,
and stated that the Chicago and Alton
| Company would do the same. Strikers
! places are being rapidly filed. The Iron
| Mountain road increased the wages of its
employees recently, and there is no
| trouble there. The meeting held by the
strikers on the East St Louis railway to-
night, resulted in nothing but an express
sion of determination by the strikers to
hold out
The Piano Makers Strike.
New York, March 20.-The locked out
on Monday. The men locked out from
the other factories were told to-day that
they could return to work on Monday
by abandoning the union.
Outrage In Louisiana by Striking Negroes.
New ORLEANS, March 2o.-Striking lead
ers had stripped Is plantations, when
ringleaders were arrested by the state ar
tiliery.
light Hour Labor Movement i'm St. Louis
Sr. LOUIS, March 2l.-The trades as
sembly held mass meeting this AFTER
noon, and unanimously adopted resolu-
tions urging the adoption OF the eight hour
movement, and calling on congress to es-
tablish an eight hour law, declaring that
they would do their utmost to destroy the
congressman of any political party who
speaks against it. The meeting was very
earnest but orderly.
Sc AhtfRony
MISNEApoLIs, March 20.-Manager Hill.
Of the Manitoba road, has bought of But
terfeld, of New York, the entire water
power of St Anthony's Falls for $4l5, 700.
These cover 1000 feet ofshore and 40 aeies
Of land, and water power of 20 feet head.
There is a stipulation that other roads
may come in on equal terms.
Indian Hosfiiities
GALVESTON, March 5l.-Netcs' specials
from Fort Davis says the Indians attacked
a ranch twelve miles from a mining camp
in Chinatis mountains and killed one man
and carried off boy. Lieutenant Bulls
and troops are pursuing.
Another Discovery OF Masonic EmbIem..
New YoRK. March 20.-The New York
Herdlds special from Paris, March 10Th,
says Our correspondent communicates
by telegraph to-day facts which will re-
v;ye in still higher degree the interest
excited among students of Egyptian mys-
teries some two or three months ago, by
Lieutenant Gorringe's discovery of Ma
sonic embems underneath the pedestal
ofthe obelisk at Alexandria, destined for
transportation to New York. Interesting
and important as were the discoveries of
Commander Gorringe and DIR. Fentor,
they were not exhaustive, and the prac-
ticed eye ofanother distinguished Masonic
dignitarv, has Just detected an additional
series OF emblems of value and signifi
cance far greater and more unquestionable
than those previously reported. Mr.. S. A.
Zola, grand commander and president of
the Scotch Ancient and Accepted Masonic
rights for Egypt and Egyptian ex.grand
| master ofsymbolic Masonry, has exam
| ined the foundations of the Alexandria
obelisk and has discovered another series
of stones which not only bear all the
existing Masonic emhlems, but furnish
the key which has heretofore been lack
ing to explain the entire dimensions and
proportions of what proves to have been
| an elaborate Masonic ediice including the
obelisk itself, the pedestal, the staircase
and the hidden foundation. Mr.. Zola,
processes to be able by his discovery to
throw vivid light upon the ancient
Egyptian origin of Masonic symbolism
which is SO euergetically disputed, and ii
is expected that the publication of his de-
tailed drawings which have been secured
for the Herald, will finally settle more
than one of the problems which lie at the
very foundation, not only of Masonry but
of the obscure and complicated religious
system of the early Egyptians.