The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-11-11
Cholera has broken ont in Cairo,

q A secret dynamite factory has bet
. discovered at Charolles, France.
? Baker Pasha has issued AN order Z,
SIX hundred men to guard the seapor
along the Red sea.
Frank W. Jones, warden of the Aubur,
new York, state prison has resigned G
account of ill-health.
a. IL. Rhodes, of San Francisco. W,
admitted to the bar of the supreme cou
{ In Washington on the I'd.
Josiah Quincy, Jr., died at Wallasto1
Mass, on the ID. aged about s0 Ha ws
mayor OF Boston in 1916 48.
Twsnty merchants were lost and owe
loo sailors drowned during the terrib]
typhoon which occurred October 20 9
Manila.
Arthur Preston, colored, convicted G
the murder of Mary Dorsey at Bellai,
Hartford county, Nd, has been sentences
to be hanged.
There Is mile of forest fire in th
hatskills opposite Germantown, N. Y
ihe flames are working rapidly towar.
the mountain summit.
Gen. Buffers sister-in-law, Mrs. Hill
dreth, died suddenly on the I'd at Lowell
MASS, lnterrupting the campaign tour O
the general two days.
I Thirteen new cases of yellow fever a
Brownsville, Texas, and no deaths. The
weather IS still very warm. Total cases
to date, 225O; deaths, 178.
The law in Mexico abolishing custom
duty on money went into effect on the Cd
1t Is great relief to merchants of Texas
and is generally approved.
| A draft of an ordinance has been sinh.
mitted to the German buudesroth pro.
| nlDltlng the importation of American
swine, pork and sausage meat.
First Assistant Postmaster General
Hatton has purchased Hallett Kilbour,. e's
interest IN the National Republican and
18TH ~ oi-A %.
In Philadelphia two children-Theo-
dore Pache and VIM. Switzer-were
probably fatally burned by the explosion
OF a coal oil barrel with which they were
playing.
1t is rumored in consequence of the
TACT that Dufferin is to replace Malet in
Egypt, the porte is considering the ad-
visibility OF despatching a high commits
sioner to Cairo.
The British bark Wave King. which
1917 Fensacola on the oath ult. with
yellow fever on board, was towed back on
the "a, having lost one man at sea and
two sick on board.
Sulerman and Ayoub Pashas have ad
mitted that the man who started the con-
hagratlon IN Alexandria, together with
two leaders of subsequent massacre.
have been captured in India.
Maj. Philip Speed, prominent mer-
chant OF Louisville, KY, friend of
Abraham Lincoln and brother of his
attorney general, died on the 81. His
wife was niece of the poet Kents.
The physicians of Gov. Hendricks re-
port the disease does not seem 10 be
spreading. The conditions are more
favorable and they are more encouraged
than at any time since the disease ap-
peared.
Patrick Carey, New York longshore-
man crippled for life by the fall of q coal
tub INTO the hold of the steamer Batavia,
sued the Cunard Steamship company.
claiming S5O ,OOO damages. The jury on
the 3d awarded $4,000.
The London Times, commenting upon
the Longfellow memorial, saws it can
not think the form proposed suitable
one. Westminster abbey is preeminentIy
an English institution and should re-
main place of national and and not
cosmopolitan memorial.
great Increase in the number of large
hres IN Russia has caused nearly all in
surance companies to fall back on reserve
funds. Insurance premiums have lust
been raised by forty per cent. on the
advice OF delegates from English CON-
panies present at the insurance congress
recently held there.
During last spring 3 Frenchman named |
ioodenough left Greenville for the woods |
u the head OF Moose-head lake, Name. |
Nothing subsequently was heard of him |
Jill last week, when skeleton was dis
covered with both hands in bear trap. |
10 some was he got his hands in the jaws
II the trap and was unable to move them.
No assistance being near he died from
tarvation.
Theatrical sensation continues to be
he source OF conversation in certain cir
lies In Paris. Mirabeau, the critic of
figaro, accused of writing an article di-
ected against the actors and actresses of
'arls, and who was challenged to fight q
luel by Damala, the husband uf Sarah
5ernhardt, has written letter to Nav
lard, editor of Figaro, denying he has
ent an apology to Damala. Maynard
las been challenged by Louis Deco ia
md again refused.
A Berlin dispatch of Nov. Sd SAYS: The
of Russian armies against Ger.
many and Austria is being carried on
With great activity and without intermis-
ion. Gen. Todleben overlooks formid-
bic fortifcations at Brestalof. near
frodno. There is apparently a large
nd well equipped camp upon the right
ank of the river. The manipulation of
ailitary forces and the manner in which
Preparations are being conducted creates
ne utmost uneasines among all classes
t society.
Dick Little, for conspiracy connected
nth the robbery at Mussel Shoals, Ala
-ue. 10, 1881, was found guilty on the
d. Little proved he was in Kentucky
t the time of the robbery, which he saws
'as committed by Frank or Jesse James
nd Bill Ryan, who were hiding from the
Ulcers. He admitted that he at other
mes and places ran and robbed with the
ang. The verdict Is a peculiar one.
. r.cited belief In accordance with
hat Little testified. but says he is guilty
conspiracy nevertheless. The court
sentence and fixed $500 as ,
ond for the prisoners appearance next j
srm. Ih1s action is said to be taken | ,
ecause he Is valuable witness in sew
raj other cases against the James gang, /
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