The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-10-14
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY.
Bx rELEeRAPn TO DATE.

shooting himself through the head.
G. Peterson, an employee in the mill
of the Seattle Lumber and Commercial
company, had his hand cut off by buzz
saw on the 5th
The owners of the steamship Eden,
sunk in a collision with the Lepanto,
have filed libel in the United States
district court against the Lepanto for the
recovery of S443, ,789.
A boarding house occupied by quarry
men was burned at Leemont, Va, Sept.
Both. Two young men named Coover
and Green failed to escape and were
burned to crisp.
Mrs. Charlotte NJ. Fisher, widow lady
residing with her daughter, at No. 10, on
Market street, San francisco committed
suicide on the 4th by drowning herself
in bath tub at the sanitarium. Ghe lady
had been much depressed for some days.
Emanuel Hansen, under arrest on
charge of grand larceny. charged to have
been committed in taking $40, 900 pro-
missory note from the Pacific bank, San
Francisco, is still in custody, having
been unable to secure bail in the sum of
800, 900.
John F. Burrell, late grand secretary
of the grand lodge of Masons in Illinois,
is in Jail in Springfield, charged with the
enbezzlemeDt of nearly $4,000 of the
funds of the order He waived examina-
tion, and in default of $4,000 in ponds,
was committed to Jail.
The National Woman Suffrage associa-
| ton concluded its session at Lincoln,
Neb., on Oct. 1st. Large audiences have
been in attendance at all the sessions,
and great enthusiasm was developed.
| Five hundred ladies and G ntlemen have
| pledged themselves to untirlng efforts in
behalf of the proposed amendment.
| Israel Landers. aged IA years, who
| lives about six miles from Stockton, CAL
| fell from the top of q ladder while repair.
ing windmill, on Sept 30th. and broke
his neck. Mr. Landers was one of the
49ers Of California, and was highly es-
teemed by all who knew him. He leaves
large family of grown sons and daugh-
| ters.
Geo. A. Wheeler, the strangler of the
girl Adela J. Tillson, was sentenced in
San Francisco, on the 1st, to be hanged.
Judge Terral denied him new trial, but
did not fix the time and place for the ex-
ecution in passing sentence. The death
warrant was issued after the sentence.
It fixes the day for execution on Monday,
Nov. 81, 1882.
A Boston dispatch of Oct. 1st says:
The Eastern railroads White Mountain
taain, which left Falsyans yesterday af-
ternoon, ran off the track at Rochester,
N. H., and Oliver Goldsmith, the en-
gineer, and M. Randall the express
messenger, were badly hurt An obstrnc-
tion had been placed upon the track,
manifestly the work of -wreckers.
The six days pedestrian contest for
Sir John Astley's long distance cham
pionship belt was concluded at Birming-
ham, Eng, Sept. 30th. Littlewood made
451 miles, doing Ala in seventy hours
twenty minutes, beating Doblers record
in America of Ala miles in seventy two
hours. Littlewood takes the belt and
ESQ; Day, of Birmingham, second, scor-
ing 377 miles, and Corbett, of Aberdeen,
third, with BAT miles. Pearce, of Amer
lea, finished sixth 800 miles. The COM
petitors walked twelve hours daily.
A Nashville dispatch of Oct. 9TH says:
This morning at half past seven o'clock,
Mr.. e. E. Bernard, of this city, discov-
cred that the nucleus in the great comet
!
ments. the longest OF which is estimated
at Is, 900 miles in length. The space be-
tween the fragments of the nucleus is
estimated at not less than 1000 miles.
Yesterday morning Mr.. Bernard observed
that the nucleus had assumed the form
of long stripe, not less than "a, 600
miles in length and 5000 in breadth.
A dispatch from Taylorsville, ILL.,, OF
Oct. 5th. says cold bloodedfhurder was
committed a mile north of Palmer. John
Leigh and James Regby, two farmers,
quarreled about the possession of some
land and became involved in lawsuit
from which Regby came out victorious
Yesterday Leigh approached Regby and
pretending that he desired to effect a
peaceable settlement suddenly opened
fire with q revolver, one bullet produced
fatal wound. Leigh escaped but 6
posse are in pursuit, and as the excite
ment runs high, lynehing is probable
Murderers have usually escaped the law
in this region.
Last May, General Ward, lessee of the
Dunkin mine, on Fryer Hill, says the
Denver Tribune of September 30th, was
"held up and robbed of $1700 while re-
turning from town. The police next day
captured two men, who were placed il
, Jail. Shortly after this General Ward
disappeared. A few days ago, while 6
party of miners were at work getting ou
one of their comrades, who had faller
down the shaft OF the Climax mine, the,
!. found coat and hat belonging to Ward
A sickening odor arose from the water
! in the bottom of the mine, where it is
thought Wards body is lying. search
ing party leaves tomorrow, which viii
probably result in the solution of the
mysterious disappearance of Genera
Ward.
Recently James T. Hair of Chicago
\ sold to Julius Festner, of f. G. Festnel
: & Son, of Omaha, the right of Nebrasks
t for Hairs patent hotel register for $500
taking promlssory notes for the same
r which were signed with the firms name
q by young Festner. Soon after the trans
action Festner senior, upon learning o.
J the affair, issued an injunction to prevent
f Hair from disposing of the notes, it being
J claimed tnat young Festner was insane
The young man hiss certainly done some
3 very insane things lately. and his father
| to protect himself in business, dissolved
} partnership. Hair, who retained posses
: sion of the notes was arrested on charge
/ of violating the Nebraska law in regard
. to patent right notes, as the law require,
: such notes to state on the face that they
were given for patent right The pen
I atty is $500 fine or six months imprison
,nent or both Hair gave bonds for hi,