The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-04-22
VOL. z.
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY.
nv rELEa Arm TO DATE.

democrat and leading citizen of Sacra-
mento died very suddenly ct that place
on he 18th of aploplexy.
The Clarion has received o telegram
from Stuttgart, stating that King Char
les of Wurtemberg was converted to
Roman Catholicism and baptized on the
10th by the Pope.
Remarkable cold weather continues
and damage to fruit in Kentucky is very
great, according to all reports, and vege-
tation of every sort has been put back
several weeks, except wheat. which is in
very fine condition.
Moett, of Poughkeepsie, twice con-
victed of the murder of his wife and
twice sentenced to death, was granted q
third trial in the same court. His coun-
sci plead guilty of murder in the second
degree and the plea was accepted.
Orlando B. Pots,s owner of the old
World building, tly destroyed by
fire in New York, has been sued by the
proprietors of the Turf, Field and Farm
losses sustained in burning of the build
ing.
The governing board of Harvard Col
lege, voted 13 to IL that it was not adj
visable for the university to give any as
surance, or hold ont any encouragement
that it will undertake medical education
of women by Harvard college, in its med
ical school.
w. A. Hurlbut, president of the Chi
cago base ball club of the National Base
Ball League, died of heart disease at
Chicago on the 11th. He was the moving
spirit in the organization of 1876, and has
been president up to last year.
Reports received, by the agricultural
department up to the Sth shows a very
hopeful prospect for good crops in the
south. There in general increase of
acreage of winter and spring wheat and
oats, and q slight decrease of cotton.
The sawmill, salt block and drill house
of Phinne. Fisher e. Co. at South Sagi-
nav was burned on the 18th; loss, $15,-
600; insurance, $4,000. Two hundred
and fifty thousand feet of lumber owned
by G. F. Moore, of st. Claire, was also
burned; loss, $500; not insured.
The governing committee of the New
York stock exchange has placed on the
regular stock list reorganization first lien
bonds of the New York, Lake Erie &
Western Railroad Co., debenture bonds
of the Richmond & Danville Railroad
Co., and Oregon Short Line Co.
Four miners from Washington county
write that they have been cast into dun
geon at Chihuahua, Mexico, having en-
deavored to leave the mine, and say Mex
leans fred on the party from ambush,
killing two and fatally wounding an
other. They complain that the U. s.
consul refuses to aid them.
After sealed verdict finding Hawkins
and Gibbons guilty of gambling in Chi
cago had been opened another batch of
gamblers was put on trial without jury
and testimony began. It is the inten-
tion of defendants to let the remaining
cases go by default and appeal the whole
question to the supreme court.
During the illumination of Ro. common
in honor of the release of Parnell, the
windows of a house not illumined were
smashed, the house of Major Warning
attacked and windows broken. Serious
rioting ensued, the military was called
out and three rioters seriously injured.
The London Times says Chill has
struck its talons deep into the body of
Peru and cannot disentangle them. The
conquest and incorporation of Peru
straightway in victorious republic
would interest one as we'll as the other,
and will be preferable to the intolerable
relation which binds them together now.
Secretary Teller enters upon the duties
of the interior department on the 10th.
Important changes are rumored. Critics
say that Secretary Lincoln, the only
member of the cabinet appointed by
President Garfield will remain for short
time longer and then be superseded by
some one more in accord with the pres
ent administration.
Charles Morris, of Lynn, Mass, after
raising about $40, 900 by forgeries, bor-
rowing and raising money for sufferers of
all kinds, has disappeared, leaving his
wife and children. The names princi-
pally used in the forgeries were James
w. Pike, r. G. Judkins and George 81.
Harwood. He raised $4,000 for Jud-
kins, the principal victim of the recent
boiler explosion.
The rumor of the sinking of the United
States flagship Richmond is published
in London, among some of Lloyd's ad-
vices by mail, and evidently of very
old date. It is probable, therefore, the
rumor now circulating is the same which
originated in New York several weeks
ago, from the misconstruction of an off.
cial paragraph about the non-arrival OF
the Richmond at Panama. The Rich
mond was reported as having arrived al
Yokohama March l.
The senate has confirmed S. P. Rounds,
public printer; s. G. Wright, receiver Of
public moneys at Carson, New. The
| nominations of VIM. E. Chandler as sec
retary of the navy and Secretary Hunt
as minister to Russia, were reported bacl
from the naval and foreign relations com
mittees with Recommendation for confir
nation. The following are nominations
John Robert Graham Pitkin, marshal fol
the east district of Louisiana, and JohI
f. Convey, of Ohio, register of the land
Office at Olympia, w. T.
John F. Slater, of Norwich, Conn, has
signified his intention to create FUND
of 81 ,O00, 600 to be known as the John F
Slater fund, for the education of freed
men, the fund to be vested in board O
trustees, which includes ex-Presiden
Hayes, Chief Justice Waite, VIM. P
| Dodge of New York, Gov. Colquitt o.
Georgia, Jas. P. Boyce of Kentucky
and VIM. A. Slater, the donors SON
Slater explains: The general object il
the uplifting of negroes and their pos
terity by comforting on them the bless
| ings of Christian education. The dis
abilities suffered by this people and theil
singular patience and fidelity in the grea
crisis of the nation, established JUS
claim on the sympathy and good will o.
humane and patriotic men. / canno
but feel that compassion is due in view
of their prevailing ignorance which ex
lists, because of no fault of their own. L
after thirty-three years three-quarters o.
the trustees shall for any reason agree