The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-09-09

Johann Holbig, the celebrated German
scalDtor, is dead, aged 68.
Gov. Plaisted addressed an enthusias-
31st.
Gen. Crook and staff passed through
Kansas City on the 31st on their way to
Arizona.
Boyle police have promised to support
the Limerick men and few are on their
usual beats.
The net earnings of the Western Union
are reported for the past twelve months
at s17 ,000, 900.
Little Lizzie Selden, who was reported
as kidnapped at Brooklyn, has been re-
turned to her parents.
President Arthur and large party of
guests left Newport on the Let for Squan-
tum and Providence.
The Knights of Labor at Milwaukee,
Wis.,, have decided to vote for ticket
composed of their own members.
The tariff commissioners have arrived
at Detroit. Richard HawIey argued in
favor OF reciprocity treaty and revenue
tariff.
An official dispatch from Manila states
| that 531 natives and seven Spaniards
died there of cholera on Tuesday and
Wednesday.
The archbishop of Canterbury was
somewhat restless last night, owing to
slight return of fever. He has an unsat-
isfactory drowsiness.
A heavy freight train of IL oars was
wrecked near Danville, ILL.,, on the 31st
on the Chicago and Eastern Illinois. A
little boy was crushed to death. Damage
large.
| Six of the Sioux chiefs captured by
Maj. Ilges two years ago this season have
raised fine crops on the reservation of
Fort Yeates and send samples to military
i chieftains.
The supposed assailants of Miss Bond
of Taylorville, ILL.,, who so narrowly es-
capped lynching, have been released on
bonds. The unfortunate girl is some
| what better
The Secretary of War has approved
the record of the court martial in the
case of Col. J. II. Taylor, assistant ad-
| jutant general, and forwarded it to the
President for his action.
A heavy rain in Albuquerque for the
last three days finished up on the 31st
| with a snow storm in the mountains.
The peaks of the Landre range are now
i as white as in winter.
Nearly 1000 persons attended the we'd
ding of Romulus r. Colgate, of New
York, and Miss Susan L. Prince, daugh-
/ ter of Col. VIM. e. Prince, of the regular
army, in Newport, R. T., on the 31st.
Austin special: The governor has re-
1 ceised message from the county judge
of Hidalgo stating that yellow fever was
! spreading in ranches above Brownsville
on the American side of the Rio Grande.
The steamer Oceanic sailed from San
Francisco on the Both for Hongkong via
Honolulu, with cargo of 30 Chinese
steerage passengers. The latter nearly
all had registration certificates, aud the
majority are going back to China merely
on q visit
A freight train on the Wabash, ST.
Louis and Pacific railway was thrown
from the track at Ohalona, Ohio, on the
1st by misplaced switch. The engine
and eighteen cars were wrecked and the
engineer, John Conkling, and q tramp
seriously injured.
On the 31st Martin Hope Price, a
young Englishman living on Fred
i Il
was shot and killed by Mexican herder,
who then compelled Mrs. Hope to give
him all the money in the house. Taking
Hopes best horse the murderer escaped.
Bob Ford, Jesse James executioner,
was arrested on the street in Chicago on
the 1st charged with disorderly conduct
and carrying concealed weapons. The
Ford brothers have been living fast
lifo harn tho r1acf tro xvaoko wing IL,
cheap theaters and seeking notoriety on
the leyee.
The British steamer Armalbahm ar
rived at Boston on the 31st from Porte
Rico with cargo of sugar. She reports
yellow fever broke out among the crew
shortly after leaving port. One case
were sick with the disease upon her ar
rival. The steamer is at anchor at quar-
antine.
AT present there are thirty three wheat
chartered vessels in San Francisco har-
Dor, aggregating A, ,157 tons capacity.
Last year at this time the chartered ton.
mage was 62, ,259 tons. There are also
thirty-seven vessels in port disengaged
whose aggregate capacity is about 49, ,95a
tons, while last year at this time the dis
J engaged tonnage was but $3.50 tons.
A private dispatch received at Chicago
from Denver states that the Union Pacific
is cutting rates on freight from seaboard
, cities to Denver, and Offering induce
ments to shippers in the way of rebates
This course had to be taken to punish tht
. Burlington road because it will not agree
!, not to build any more roads in Nebraska
A war on rates is predicted as probable
result.
Chip Smith was executed at New
Haven on the 1st He met his fate bravelJ
; and was accompanied to the gallows b,
Sheriff Bixhee, deputy sheriffs Catlil
and Pend, and Fathers Mckinney. Mul
cahey and Dunn. About 500 persons
witnessed the execution. Smith said b.
wanted to meet his fate like o true soldie
of Christ.
! It is reported the great organ in th,
Boston Music hall has been sold to
western city and will soon be removed
and that new organ will be build in tht
) alcove where the predecessor of the grea
organ formerly rested, and that by NOV
j, ing back the front line of the stage whicl
! will be made possible by removal of th,
|, organ, 300 seats lost by the new seating
arrangement will be recovered.
8 Near Paris, Logan county, Ark, ol
8 the 30th, Swiss named Edward
. ScheizemaI, took his three children, o
!. four months, and four aud fve years old
D to we'll and threw them in Only tb1r