The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-02-18
VOL. 6.
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY.


numerous deIanltS occurred on PaflS
bourse on the Sth.
Ferdinand de Lesseps is reported SER
iously i'll at Cairo, Egypt.
Eleven cases of smallpox were reported
at New York on the 9th.
Sullivan says he will continue in the
prize fighting business.
Stock brokers of Marseilles, France,
have suspended payment.
There was general improvement on
the Paris bourse on the 9th.
Seven new cases of smallpox and four
deaths at Chicago on the 8th.
The Bank of Belgium has raised the
rate of discount to 5 per cent.
Oregon Railway & Navigation Com
pany stock advanced three cents on the
9Th.
The river at Little Rock, Ark, caused
considerable damage by overflow, on the
8th.
The steamer Gaelic brought $50 Chi
nese passengers to San Francisco on the
7th.
Arthur's nomination of Paymaster
Walmough is vigorously opposed in the
senate.
NJ. 4. Webb's wholesale paper and
trunk house at Fort Wayne, Ind, has
been closed.
One hundred and thirty EIGHT depu-
ties have joined the revived republican
union in France.
After two unsuccessful BALLOTS for
clerk the assembly of New York adj
journed.
Osgood Putnam, of San Francisco. won
the $50 Boylston prize at Harvard Uni
versity.
Stillman, the correspondent of the
London Times, has been murdered by
Amants in Albania.
The steamer Casino foundered in the
Black Sea on the 9Th, and n lives were
lost.
The furniture house of Mccullough
& Co., at Minneapolis, was burned We'd
nesday night, the Sth.
Harlow, Spencer & Co., of st. Louis,
have failed on account of drop in grain,
losing $50, 900.
Berthold Auerbach, the celebrated
German novelist, died at Cannes, France,
on the 9Th.
Jesse Barber was hanged at Winns-
boro, s. c., Friday, for murder of his
stepfather.
There has been considerable with
drawal of gold from the Imperial bank
at Berlin.
An old established firm in the corn
trade at Riga, Russia, failed for $50 900
on the 9th.
Another s8orkingmens club was organ.
ized in San Francisco by Dennis Kearney
on the Sth.
Giant powder works at Newburg, N. Y,
exploded, killing two men and injuring
another.
Hardy's dry goods store on Grand St.,
| New York, was damaged $25 900 worth
on the night of the Sth.
| Ryan says he will never enter the prize
ring again. He thinks Sullivan the
greatest fighter in the world.
A lamp explosion in st. Louis brew
cry killed one person and wounded sew
eral others.
| The natives have burned town on the
west coast of Africa and plundered Brit
ish and French factories.
The whole German press have appar-
ent orders to direct attention to Russia's s
attitude in the Balkan states.
The house inyalid pension committee
decided that all pension bills hereafter
reported shall not grant arrears.
VIM. r. Preston & Co., of New York
dealers in grain and cotton, are reported
as having suspended Oh the 9th.
Judge James Grant Of Iowa has beer
elected president of the turf congress o1
the National Trotting Association.
Stillman, correspondent for the Lon
don lines, who was reported killed IL
Albania, reports himself all right.
The senate naval subcommittee will
probably oppose the nomination of Stew
ensQn as pay director of the navy.
A fire in the roof of the Baldwin Hote
at San Francisco, on the morning of the
Sth, destroyed $500 worth of property.
The marquis of Huntley, who recent,
fled from England on charge of EN-
bezzlement is coming to the United
States.
The Rock Island and Pacific new ele
water will be com pleted in ten days. [
is located on Twelfth street and thu
river, Chicago, and has a capacity o
300, 900 bushels.
Careful examination of the Needy ele
vator where the fire occurred, at Chicago
indicates loss of $40, 900 to 500, 900, de
pending on the condition of the corr
which was injured by water.
The situation in Basutoland is grave
All chiefs are reported in favor of join
ing the rebel Massuppa. The Durbal
Beers crossed the border and attacks
Chief Montisego Jan. 10th, but were re
pulsed with loss. Fighting was still
proceeding on the 31st of January.
The ST. James Gazette says: Granville
the foreign secretary, verbally and enel
getieally protested to Prince Labanof
Russian ambassador, against the actio
of Russia in reference to the terms of tn
treaty concluded with Persia, by whic
! the former acquired Akahltekka oasis.
Three hundred Jewish refugees fror
Russia will sail Saturday for the Unite
States. The chief rabbi at London point
out that thousands of Jews are likely
flee from Russia, and urges coreigionist
to help them migrate to distant and haT
pier lands. He says enormous sums wi
be required for this purpose.
The supreme court at Topeka, KS, d
eided s.s unconstitutional SO much of tf
prohibition law as prescribes punish
ment for drunkenness, on the groun
: that such provision was not expressed
the title of the bill. The court says pc
sons legally in possession OF liquor ca
: drink, burn or give it away.
Democrats are incensed because Sen
! tor Brown defeated the election of Nei