The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-11-04
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY.
BY rELEeRApu TO DArE.

that reduced rates over various railroads
leading to Washington have been secured.
The jury in the case of Robert Ford,
the slayer of Jesse James, charged with
the murder of Wood Hite, after being
ont IL hours returned a verdict of not
guilty.
Major Archibald G. Constable, form
erly Of the British army and we'll known
throughout the United States in connec
tion with the organization of troops at
the breaking out of the war, died in
Bryoklyn on the 25th.
The Western Disrillers' Associate.
met in Chicago on the 26th and decide J,
in view of the low price of high wines.
| to still further reduce the production 10
per cent. This puts distillers to running
at 80 per cent. of their full capacity
| Indictments have been found by TIE
New York grand jury against w. d. c.
Rawson, telegraph operator, and Geo. E.
Rood, conductor of the New Haven train
charging them with the responsibility of
the Harlem tunnel disaster.
A train on the Detroit, Grand Haven
and Milwaukee road was ditched by train
wreckers, on the Goth, who removed TIE
!
where the bank is thirty feet high. The
down. But few persons were on the
train and no one was seriously i'll.
DIR. Geo. NJ. Beard, of New York, one
of the signers of the petition for stay
of proceedings in Guiteau's case, pre-
sented to the president June last, shortly
before the prisoner was hanged, has
written letter to Attorney General
Brewster in which he says: The alto
ney-general's opinion in reply to lie
petition for stay of proceedings con-
tanned two very important misstatements
of facts"
The president has appointed Geo. E.
| Waring, ir., of Newport, r. l.. member
| of the board of national health, vice
! Chas. F. Folsom, of Massachusetts, re-
signed. He has also appointed VIM. s.
Smith, of New York, Edward Kingsley,
of Massachusetts,, and Dwight K. Tripp,
of Rhode Island, commission to exam
inc and report upon $50 miles of road
constructed by the Atlantic & Pacific
Railway Company in Indian territory
and Arizona.
The body of Fred Shingler, man in
the employ of Joseph Regli, dairyman
was found on the Goth in slough two
miles north OF Marysville, Cal. The heed
was crushed in number of places, show
ing that murder had been committed
There was also deep cash on the chin,
as if made with an ak. Shingler has
been missing nine days. His pockets
were found turned inside out. The man
had been paid several hundred dollars
shortly before his disappearance.
A San Francisco dispatch of Oct. 26th
says: Last night Lively raid was made
by the police on the Bella Union, well
known resort where variety performances
are nightly given. The charge was foi
giving an immoral performance. The
police officers arrested the proprietor ol
the place, P McAtee, and 33 of those
taxing part in the performance. and
marched them off to the city jail. A
number of women were among those ar
rested. The raid created great commo
ton among the audience.
J. G. Tiffany, formerly Indian agent o.
Arizona, was arrested on the 26th
charged with conspiracy to eefraud the
government of upwards up $4,000 embez
element and perjury, in all five indict
menrs. Tiffany gave bail in $4,000 fol
examination. Tiffany says he resigned
the position last July and has been en-
gagged in the steel business IN New Yori
since April last He said he heard O.
the indictments but did not think the,
would ever be pressed, as it would no
do for him to tell some things he knew
A letter received in New Bedford
Mass, from Cape Grape, of the los
steamer Surprise, at Basket Island. neal
Punta Arena, gives particulars OF thu
loss and says the boats crew that he lef
at the island was subsequently massacret
by the natives, with exception OF Po1
uguese boy. He also says boats c-e
belonging to the British bark Rosenet
which foundered at sea, containing
mate and four men, were also murdered
by the natives, excepting the mate wht
was afterwards rescued by some friendl,
Indians and sent to Valparaiso, wher
he has arrived. A third boats crew hat
also been massacred by the natives q
this point.
The secretary of the navy has receive.
the official reports of Chief Enginee
Melville and Lieut.. Danenhower of Jh
Arctic exploring steamer Jeanette
Engineer Melvilles report is detailet
narrative of his experience subsequent t.
the separation of the Jeannette's boats a
the mouth of the Lena, including tn
adventures of the crew of the whale boat
the search for the lost party of Capt. d
Lond, and finally discovering their dea.
bodies. The report gives somewha
fuller details than have hitherto bee1
published, but it contains no fact of con
Sc tuence which may not be found in tn
reports, letters and interviews already j
print Lieut.. Danenhower's report is
detailed narrative of his journey hom
through Siberia from Buleen at the hea
of the Lena delta. to st. Petersburg.
The secretary of the interior has mad
a decision in the case of Wenzell vs. th
ST. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitob
railroad company constituting the thir
section of the act of April 81. 1875, whic
declares valid homestead and pre-emf
ton entries within the limits of expire
: railroad grants that may have been mad
at the time subsequent to the expiratio
| ! of the grants. The secretary holds th
| language Used in the act. AT the tim
subsequent to the expiration of th
. grants" refers to dates named III varlou
, granting acts to railroads as the dates 4
which roads should be completed, an
, not to the time when by Legislative G
judicial action forfeiture night be de
clared. He also holds that settiemer
and filing constitutes an entry within th
meaning of the act of 1877 as we'll q
under the general practice OF the Ian
department. As Wenzeli made his Sc
, tlement and filing 10 accordance with tll
. pre- emptlon law, his entry Is held