The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-12-30
LATESr NEWS SUMMARY.
Bx rELEoRApH TO DATE.

Austin perished; loss, $45, 900; insurance
$4,000.
The farm house of John Clark, in Linn
county, Kansas, burned on the night of
the 18th. Three small children perished
in the flames.
At Baltimore seventeen idle glass blow
ers have been arrested on a charge of
conspiracy and for attempting to keep
others from working.
At st. Louis clerk of n III. Fairbank,
going to pay the men at six o'clock on
the 18th. was set upon and robbed of
$500. No clue to the robbers.
Eight women were injured by an ex-
plosion in a cartridge factory at Mt.
| Valerien, France, on the 18th. Five have
died and others are not expected to re-
cover.
A building contemplated in New York
by the Mutual Life insurance company
is to be eleven stories high. At one point
it reaches height of 161 feet. 1t will
cost 81 100000.
At Waxahatchie, Tex, the city mar
chal, J. FL. Spaulding, was killed by
Chas. Smith, negro whom he was try
ing to arrest. Citizens turned out in q
body, hunted Smith down and riddled
him with bullets
The heirs of VIM. Blackmore have en-
gagged attorneys to prosecute their claims
for the ground in Washington, d. G +, on
which stands the capitol, white house,
treasury and navy buildings, and hun
dred residences and stores.
Alfred Clock, a respectable citizen,
aged 70 years, was enticed into house
In New York and swindled out of $8575
at bunko game similar to that played
Oh Chas. Francis Adams. VIM. Edwards
is arrested as one of the parties.
Nine prisoners recently escaped from
the Pleasanton, Texas, Jail, re creating
a reign of terror in taat county stealing
horses and shooting citizens. Cn the
10Th, they captured Mr.. Lewis, took him
to the woods and riddled him with bull
let's.
The Rochester, N. Y, City Bank, rated
the third strongest in the city, closed its
doors on the 20th There is said to be
deficiency of $50O,000 The cause of
the suspension is thought to be specula-
tion in stocks and oils by the president,
Chas. E. Upton.
A gas explosion caused a fire in the
store of John P. Lowell & Sons, Boston,
dealers in fire arms, powder, ETC., on the
goth. It was sensational fire for the
time owing to a constant explosion oi
shells, etc. Lowell loses S125 900 on
stock. Building damaged 100000
Creston, Iowa, is excited over the re-
cent death of German named Mast from
trichine, caused by eating diseased pork
ping with them are sick. Mast died
~ 81 4h1 .peo r
is thought the girl cannot recover,
The case of Mrs. Scoville, adjudgei
insane in Chicago recently, and ther
: granted new trial, has been stricken
from the docket oy agreement. It is re
ported the unhappy couple are reunited
and it is hoped this will end the domes
tic troubles of the Scovilles in the courts
The Malleable IRON Manufacturers
Association of the nited States met IL
Pitisburg. Pa, on the Goth, with CLOSED
doors. The result of the conference il
not known. It is understood to be to con
sider the advisabili5y of advancing prices
A general convention of iron men will be
held on the state of trade.
Michael Flynn, the last of til thre.
men arraigned for the murder of the
Huddys at Longh Mask, was convicted
at Dublin on the 10Th. and sentenced tt
be hanged January 18th At the tria
eight witnesses stated the prisoner wa
absent at a funeral thirteen miles ava,
from the scene of the murder on the ia,
the crime was committed.
Dora Huber, German girl on trial in
New York for suicidal attempt, th'
first case under the new statute, pleasant.
compromised with the law and avoidet
the prison by wedding young man fo
whose sake she swallowed phosphoru
and came near dying. The young maj
was willing to marry her, but she hat
supposed he intended to desert her.
Two freight trains were telescoped a
Melrose on the Troy and Boston road
on the Doth The locomotives aud thirty
five cars were wrecked. John Reardon
of Pittsfield, an ex brakeman, was killed
and Frank Brunlnges. of Pittsfeld,
brakeman, is dying from broken back
Engineers Chas. K liingheck and Georg
Cross and Dennis O Brien, brakeman
g are injured but will recover
The Atlantic giant powder company
of California, has entered suit in the q
! S. court at Pittsburg. against Marcus
Hulings for infringement of valuabl,
patents covering certain processes EN-
ployed in the manufacture of giant pow
der. nitro glycerine and other explosives
: If the case is decided in favor of th'
plaintiff 1t will give them almost mo
nopoly of the manufacture of explosive
in the United States.
Three well-dressed masked men enteret
j the office of the Detroit Copper Mining
company at MoreGcla, four miles soutl
of Clifton, n N on the 10th, and de
manded of Mr.. Church, the superinten-
2 dent, and his brother, to open the safe
at the same time presenting their revol
vers. The safe was opened and abou
one hundren and fifty dollars taken. /
package containing $1,000 was owe,
r looked.
1 Walter F. Shib1ey and Henry L. Kip
: ling were arraigned in the court of gen
/ eral sessions in New York on Dec. Got
:. and sent to the Tombs IN default of bail
, on charge of theft and attempted black
Q mail. Shibley was CLERK for VIM. Sui
pen, a lawyer, and represented himsel
to be single man. 1t the course c
business Sutpen conveyed to him b
= deed, to be reconyeyed when the tran
saction was closed, property to the valu
Il of $140, 900. Sibley also got possessio
J. OF a certified check belonging to Sutpe
d of over S14 900, and with this and th
a deeds disappeared. The next day KiE
!. ling called on Sutpen and offered to rt
turn the deeds for consideration.
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