The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-12-30

adelphia, burned on the 21st; loss, $780,
600; insurance, $4,000.
All of the expelled juniors of Adelbert
college, Ohio. have been reinstated ex
cept two Of the most stubborn.
A Chinese gambling den was raided in
Baltimore on the 18th. They had opened
up business in the rear of laundry.
The Pacific Mali S. S. Co., has paid its
corporation tax to the state treasurer of
New York, to the amount of 81, 900
A fishing boat capsized in the bay at
San Francisco on the 21st and its occu-
pants, four in number, were drowned.
Near Corpus Christi, Henry Wilder, a
wealthy stockman, and Dick Linn. old
enemies, met on the road and Linn shot
Wilder dead.
The will of Jerome J. Collins, of the
Jeanette expedition, has been filed at
Paterson, N. J. It gives all his property
to his mother.
At Corsicana, Texas, on the 18th, a fire
destroyed seven brick buildings and 120,-
600 bales of cotton; partially insured.
The fire was incendiary.
At midnight on the 10Th fire occurred
at Grand Norks, Feb, destroying large
number of business houses. The loss is
S100, 900; insurance, $4,000
John r. Buchtel. of Akron, Ohio, will
make an additional gift of 100000 to
Buchtel college, January Is, the anniver-
sary of the founding of the college.
In storm at Huntsville, Mo-, on the
2ist, Deans milling house was blown
down, killing Albert Dryden and four
negro women who had sought shelter
there. Three or four others were slightly
wounded.
Tue Cincinnati national banks have OBJ
tanned an injunction in the United States
court, restraining the treasurer from col
lecting taxes. claiming that illegal esti-
mates were made of the value OF the stock
employed.
A. New York dispatch of Dec. 21st says:
Owing to the magnitude of the work of
preparation for the Passion play, its
opening has been deferred until January
10th. The Young Mems Christian Asso
citation was invited to supply 500 young
men for the Jerusalem scene as the null
titude, at good wages, but did not reply.
Michael Sullivan. miner, engaged in
lead mine at Bingham, Utah, fell
| through chute in mine on the 18th
| and broke his neck He was removed to
| Salt Lake and taken to the hospital His
| body is insensible, but his head and brain
are active. He lies in bed and smokes
and talks freely. It is case that puzzles
| physicians.
The trial of George McDermott, on
the charge of murder, was concluded In
Oakland, Cal, on the 10Th. McDermott
| stabbed and killed Ed. S. Kahill on the
| I'd of November at Livermore, under
what appeared to be very aggravating
circumstances. The jury, after short
deliberation returned verdict of guilty
of murder in the first degree. fixing the
penalty at Imprisonment for life.
At Fresno Crossing, CAL, on the 10Th,
Jose Bemal shot and killed Jose Budego.
Budego had announced his intention OF
going into Bemal's room and killing him
Bemal knew of Budegos intention and
as he forced the door open shot him
through the head, killing him instantly
Bemal went to Madeiro and delivered
himself ~, and on examination was dis
charged They were both Mexicans.
For long tim, an organized system oi
smuggling has been carried on by 6
sloop and boats between Victoria, B. c.
and various points on Puget Sound
The u. S. custom officers have been en-
deavoring to catch the guilty parties
but without success until Sunday night.
the 18th, when Officer Kain at Conner
W. T., discovered sloop belonging to a
man named Lawer Kelley, and seized it
placing Kelley under arrest. On board
the sloop was found large quantity o
Chinese wine that had been brought
across. Kelley was admitted to bail an6
the sloop towed to Port Townsend by the
revenue cutter.
Patents were Is >ued to the following
Pacific coast inventors on the 18th: Jos
c. Engign, Portland, cleat; Anson F
Fisher, Chico, Cal, foot power mechan
ism; George Goodman, San Francisco
illumination basement; John B. Kerr
Amador City, treadle power; Chas. B
Kirby, San Francisco, water raising
vince; Henry e. Lee, San Francisco
coffee filterer; Joseph and f. x. Fisher
San Francisco, balanced steam valve
Moses Salberger, San Francisco, shirt
Thos. Tenants, San Francisco, artifcia
horizon; James Ell. Winnie, Benicia, har
row frame; John d. Winter, Dovesville
washing machine.
Gov. Murray, of Utah, received dis
patch on the Goth from Deep Creek, stat
ing that the store of o. B. Devine had
been broken into, most of the goods
stolen, and the safe rifed of it's contents
Horses that were in the stable we're also
stolen. A band consisting of about fiftee1
men committed the crime, and they are
encamped in the mountains around defy
ing attempts to capture them. The gov
ernor WIS asked to send down squad O
cavalry, but not desiring to act too hast
lily, he has telegraphed for further partic
ulars. Deep creek is situated almost or
line between Utah and Nevada, ano
even should troops be sent it would take
at least six days to reach there. Tht
governor has conferred with Marshal Ire
land regarding the matter.
A Chicago dispatch of Dec. Dist says
There died yesterday st the Home fol
Fallen" in Des Moines, girl, whose
name is written in red letters in severa
cities criminal record. Ida Sloan, alia
"Gold Dust. She was pavement de
bauchee, and returning one night to he
disreputable lodging house, she quar-
relied with her roommate, broke he
skull with a water pitcher and in
drunken stupor slept with the corpse
Awakening. she swallowed q pint o
: whisky. threw the body in a closet, locket
the door, flung away the key and trampee
, the streets, drinking heavily until late a
i night, when she was arrested, and th
i next day sent to the "Bridewell." /
, week later the smell of tue corpse invoke.