The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-11-25
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journalist. in which the latter was
wounded. but not seriously.
Ex-Mayor Navin, the bond forger of
| Adrian, Michigan, was in the vicinity of
Ell Paso, Texas, recently, but being rec
ognized, he went over into Mexico, and
| cannot be taken.
The Stewart down town property cor
ner Broadway and Chambers street, N.
Y, is to be improved. Several new
buildings will be erected, and the Broad
way structure is to be raised two stories.
Railroad coal miners OF the Pittsburg
/ district resolved TO strike November Doth,
unless operators would concede them an
advance of half cent per bushel for
mining. The present rate is 81 cents per
| bushel.
Harrison, the boy preacher, has been
holding revival meetings at Grand Rapids
for several weeks. Three persons have
been driven to insanity by the excite
ment, the latest victim being Miss EN-
mons. a dressmaker.
A company with capital of $750,000
has been organized by prominent iron
men of Pittsburg, Pa, to erect works for
the manufacture of nails and spikes from
| steel. WAlCl udS 4ofS1 U0lOI0
been done in the United States.
At Salina, Ont, VIM. Trimble and two
daughters, aged % and 18. partook of a
supposed herb tea to relieve cold. Ali
were taken sick and Trimble and one
daughter died on the 17th. The other
daughter is not expected to recovery.
Jasper Spaulding, well-to-do-farmer
living three miles from Raub, Ind, on
| the 10Th knocked senseless his little son
and wife with whipple-tree and then
cut their throats with razor, after which
he cut his own throat with the same wea
| pom.
| At New York, while Watertown en-
gine, designed for the use of the fire de-
partment, was being tested it was over
turned, instantly killing an unknown
man, fatally injuring Geo. H. Sayre, of
Philadelphia, and breaking the shoulder
of boy looking on.
The English admiralty has received q
telegram from Suez stating that the Arabs
took Palmer's search expedition party to
a place where Palmer and his companions
were murdered, and where were found
buried in the ground Palmer's dispatch
boats and bag containing $1,000.
The case of Emanuel J. Hanson,
charged with grand larceny in stealing
two checks valued at $50 600 from the
Pacific bank, San Francisco, was resumed
before Judge Rix on the 10th. Hanson
was placed on the stand and cross-ex-
amined by the prosecution, after which
the case was continued.
DIR. G. W. Wiener, formerly of Balti-
more, where his parents now reside, was
found unconscious in his room III Den
yer, Col, on the 10Th, the Argand gas
burner on the table turned on but not
/ lighted All efforts to revive the asphyx.
lated physician proved futile, and
death resulted. 1t was probably the
result of an accident.
Vernon Seamon and VIM. Hamilton
were arraigned at the Toombs court, New
York, on the 10th, and char ged with ma
licious libel by George NJ. Pinney. The
accused is charged with printing and
disseminating in their city an extract
from San Francisco papers of Sept. 3,
1877, which reflected on the conduct and
antecedents of The complainant.
The remains of a man who had com
mitted suicide by shooting were found
near San Francisco on the 10Th and iden-
tilted as those of Edward A. Brewster, a
barber, who disappeared from his resi-
dence, 1905 Leavenworth street, S. F.,
October 22d, after setting fires in several
of the closets, which were discovered in
time to prevent the destruction OF the
premises.
The jury in the Patrick Joyce case for
the murder of the Joyce family at Cong,
returned verdict on the 18th of guilty.
Judge Barry sentenced the prisoner to
be hanged December Is. A fresh jury
was empaneled for the trial of the re-
naming prisoners charged with the MUIR
der of the Joyce family, and the trial of
Patrick Day began. He is accused of
numbering Bridget Joyce.
On the 10Th, at Robert Station, 20
miles east OF Hudson, on the Chicago,
st. Paul, Minneapolis aud Omaha rail
road, stock train, while stopping for
water, was run into by freight train
from behind The caboose, in which
were the conductor, brakeman, stock
men and several passengers, was smashed
to pieces. The conductor was burned to
death, nothing but his bones recovered.
The brakeman hal an arm torn from the
socket and died from loss of blood within
an hour. A passenger, named Fink, was
badly injured. A number of cars were
badly wrecked and many cattle killed.
The fine residence of Judge Sam Viii
son, on Pine, between Stockton and
Powell streets, San Francisco. took fire
from defective fue on the 10th, After
long continued attempt to smother the
flames by the occupants an alarm was
turned in, and the department, after a
vexatious struggle, subdned the fire.
There was no outburst of flames, which
crept slowly through every partition in
the house without showing themselves
Much of the furniture, pictures, ETC.,
were removed, but the house was finely
furnished. and Judge Wilson estimates
the damage at not les than 500, 600: in
sured.
Speaking of the destruction of western
forests, the New York Tribune says: I'm
these far western forests there is nothing
to take the place OF our eastern hickory,
oak, ash or other hard woods, but the
stores of Douglas fir and red wood, with
other timber trees like Port Oxford cedar,
the tidewater spruce, the red cedar, the
yellow and sugar pines, are worth more
than all the gold in all the mines of that
regien, to say nothing of their higher
value of conservators of those benehceni
climate conditions which are absolutely
essential TO our future prosperity, COM
fort and health. The one hopeful symp.
ton in the case is the wide interest which
these authoritative statements from the
census bureau are exciting. They ought