The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-10-28
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Pleuro pneumonia has made its APP
pearence among herd of cattle in East
Lancaster, Pa.
DR.. Hamilton, of New York, claims
$25, 900 for his services during President
Garfeld's illness.
The annual session of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers is being held
at Louisville, KY.
Buzzaeds, it is said, are feeding on the
half buried of the poor in Mazatan, Mex
leo, cemeteries.
Judge Edward Hammond died on the
18th in Howard county, Nd, aged 10.
He was member of congress from '49
to '53.
Overdank, the man arrested some time
since at Trieste, while manufacturing
bombs has been sentenced to death.
Barry Sullivan, the actor, has consented
| to be nominated to parliament for the
Irish constituency on home rule princi
rles.
Eugene Bogardus. eldest son of the
famous pistol shot, was fatally injured
by being thrown from train at Talla-
dega, Ala, by a sudden lurch of the car.
John Mclaughlin, of Chicago, in the
criminal court was found guilty of man
slaughter in killing Thomas Carter and
sentenced to one year In the peniten-
tiary.
An accident on the Albany and Sus-
quehannah railroad killed one person,
fatally injured one or two mere and
dumped score of cars into the Susque-
hannah river.
BENZ. Legault of Beauharnois, Canada,
has entered action to prevent his widowed
sister, 60 years of age, and worth hun
| dred thousand dollars, from marrying a
young man.
A dispatch from Manila says cholera
continues to decrease since the last re-
port. The average of deaths is four
| daily. The disease still RACES on the
island Vesaya.
The keeper of the lighthouse on Lonely
Island has been called upon to explain
his conduct in connection with the al
legged robbery of the body of victim of
the Asia disaster.
The steam yacht for Jay Gould will be
completed by spring. It will be con-
structed of iron and steel and have steel
boilers, and will be 210 feet long, 27 feet
beam and 16 feet deep, and will have 1900
Indicated horse power.
The commissioner of the general land
office has transmitted for delivery the
patent for Rancho la Tursinea in Santa
Barbara county, Cal, to Jose Ramon
Malo. confirmed. The Rancho contains
IA, 780 acres of land, and the case has
been pending for ten years.
The funeral of Geo. P Marsh, U. S.
minister to Italy, in the Protestant GENE
terry, was simply, almost private. The
only official present was the American
consul general. The ex,secretary of the
legation was also present. Flowers en-
circling the American flag covered the
coffin
William Dickson, of star route fame,
has set for himself a life task. He
proposes to sue every paper in the United
States that has limited at what he eonsid
ers libelous reflections upon him in con
nection with the star route jury, and has
cut clippings from hundreds of pal ers
1t will take a considerable fortune to pay
the preliminary fees of the suits if he
adheres to his resolutions. Dorsey made
similar threats long ago, but no suit has
been brought.
Henry S. Slaughter, recently an en-
gineer of Howell & Bros wall paper
establishment at Philadelphia, Charles
Cutlery, an ex-employe of the firm, an6
Samuel Vance, a Car driver, were arrested
on the 10Th upon bills charging them
with the larceny of 600 pieces of wal
paper. They pleaded guilty. The rob
berry extended over number of years
and amounted to $1,000. Cases against
paper hangers aud others, charged with
receiving the stolen property, were dis
posed of the Goth inst.
Inquiry into the alleged insanity O.
Francis NJ. Scoville, wife of George SEQ
vile and sister of Chas. J. Guiteau, the
murderer of President Garfield, was be
gun in the county court in Chicago or
the 10Th on complaint of her husband
who appeared on behalf of the prosecu
ton. The day was occupied in the Sc
lection of a jury and hearing the opening
statements Counsel Scoville, in hi.
statements gave the history of the Gui
teau family, claiming q streak of insanity
had run through it since ITO, and tina
of II children of her father, five dice
insane and two of disease closely al1iet
to it, Mr. Blanch, Mrs. Scovills's attor
ney, in his statement, charged Scovillt
with inhuman treatment to his wife anG
stated he instead of she should be in tht
lunatic asylum.
The New York Suns Chicago specia
of Oct. 10Th says: Bonanza Mackey, o
California, passed through this city yes
terday en- route for New York. He wa.
accompanied by W. S. Hobart, John M
Harper and A. A. Hickox, of San Tran
cisco, and by Col. NJ. G.. Gillett, whs
joined the party at Lake valley, New
Mexico, for the purpose of escorting then
through the COW boy infested region be
tween Lake valley and the Santa Fe rail
} road, distance of about thirteen milee
The COW boys have established brigan
dage to kidnap wealthy men and hole
them to ransom Whenever Senator
Jones, who is interested in mining prop
! erty in New Mexico, visits that region b,
, always assumes an incognito in order Il
| escape the notice of brigands. Macke,
failed to adopt this precaution and Col
, Gillett, getting wind of the fact that {
$ reward had been offered for the capture
of Mackey by the captain of the COW boys
: he volunteered the service of himsel
and q strong party to escort the bonanz,
t king and his friends to the railroad
3 Although no effort was made to captur,
the millionaire number of small band
, of outlaws was encountered and Macke,
expresses himselfas satisfied that nothing
but the presence of his escort prevented
> them from holding him up at least. Ell
says that they would have secured moth
! ing but S5 note and nickel watch fo
: their trouble, but he congratulated him
} self on disappointing them to that ex