The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-07-15
The Recres theater in Madrid, Spain,

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burned on the 9th.
Fire destroyed several stores at Pleas
anton, Kas., on the 9th inst. Loss $29,-
/ 900.
The Old Colony road freight handlers
at Boston have received the advance
wages demanded.
A report from Buenos Ayres says lead
ers of the Uruguay insurrection have
been killed at Uriah.
Two cases of yellow fever arrived at
Boston on the steamer from Matanzas,
Cuba, on the 9th.
The freight handlers of the Central
/ Union at New York have issued an ap-
peal asking aid in the cause of honest
| labor.
John K. Bower, business manager of
Fairbanks & Ewing, OF Philadelphia, was
drowned while yachting in the Delaware
river on the 4th.
Hinkle & Moores tobacco and pork
warehouses in Cairo, H., burned on the
4th; loss, about $25, 900. 20 hogsheads
of tobacco burned.
johnson & Arenson's s furniture factory,
Chicago, burned on the 9Th; loss, $50, 900;
insurance, $4,000. Several adjoining
cottages burned; loss about $40, 900.
The grain inspection fight at east St.
Louis opened on the 3d by arrest of the
| ST. Louis chief grain inspector for in
| specting wheat on that side of the river
| on the charge that it was without author
| ity.
| The sheriff of Kings county, N. Y, re-
fused to deliver to the =. S. marshal the
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count of Irregularities in bills of lading.
The marshal says he will have them if it
takes the whole navy to get them.
Fire in the fve-story block in Boston,
caused damage of $50 900; insured.
| The principal sufferers are Pulsifer, Jor-
dan & Wilson, Goodwilde, Wyman &
Co.. J. P. Flagg & Co.. T. r. Marvin &
Co., Frederick Ellis, Davis & Windsor
and Daniel Stanford.
In the senate the amendments to the
river and harbor bill proposed by Sena-
tors Slater and Grover, increasing appro-
priations for the Cascade locks from
$265, 900 to $500, 900, and adding $25, 900
to the appropriation for the lower Will
lamette and Columbia rivers, passed.
Stephen Coburn, younger brother of
Ex-Governor Coburn, of Maine, and a
prominent member of the bar, while
| temporarily insane from sickness,
| drowned himself on the 5th His only
son followed him into the river and in
| attempting to save him was also drowned.
Gov. Cullom, of Illinois, has received
dispatch from the sheriff of Christian
county stating that the Jail at Taylorville
was menaced by an excited mob who
threaten to lynch Pettis, one of the men
ARE sted on charge of being concerned in
the brutal outrage on Miss Bond, school
teacher The governor instructed him
to call out posse and telegraphed the
captain of the local militia company to
hold his command in readiness to assist
Miss Bond is not expected to live.
The adjutant general has received in
| formation that large bodies of Indians
are leaving Fort Stockton reservation and
moving toward Texas. Capt. Bayler tel
egraphs from Ell Paso, that the Indians
were driven from north Mexico aDd New
Mexico by the United States and Mexi-
can troops, and are also moving toward
Texas and serious trouble is anticipated.
The adjutant general to meet them, made
arrangements with the railroad to con-
centrate rangers near Ell Paso and he will
| GhhS EUAuldud III pCiSoA.
The following telegram has been re-
ceived at Boston by Col. FL. @. Mutt,
president of the Atlantic & Pacific rail-
road, from Albuquerque, N. M: Mon
day, at 3:37 p NJ, the first locomotive
passed over the Canyon Dialobo bridge.
One hundred and eighty miles of road
bad are ready for track, and contractors
are pushing it forward. Over 200 miles
of rails are on hand, and cross ties to lay
to the Great Colorado river. Track forces
are ready and material is moving and
track laying will commence at once. In
q few days the track will be in reach of
Prescott business and the gold, silver
and copper mines and pine forests. Con-
siderable activity is shown in coal fields.
Six mines are already opened and deliv-
ering coal, and everything is in readiness
to go forward rapidly.
President Garfeld's doctors were
handled without gloves in the senate on
the ;3d. For weeks and months past d
bill proposing to appropriate $40, ,O0C
for the payment of expenses of the i'll.
ness and burial of General Garfield has
reposed in the possession of Judge Tay-
lor. chairman Of the special committee
appointed to audit these expenses. One
item of $S5, 900 in this bill was designed
to pay doctors There was a minority
report from the committee protesting
against the payment of the sums recon-
meuded, and Joe Blackburn, of Ken
tucky. fortified with vouchers for whisky
wines and cigars furnished on the fun
eral train to Cleveland, proposed to fight
the majority report. Judge Taylor,
knowing that Blackburn was heavily
loaded with cruel facts, was afraid of the
consultation, and it was decided that the
senate should insert clause is the gen
eral deficiency bill to pay the trouble
some expenses. The committee on ap;
preparations accordingly tackled an item
, to the bill creating the first and second
comptrollers and the treasurer of the
United States board to audit claims and
J issue certificates to claimants to be paiG
by the Secretary of the treasury. The
sum of $780, 900 was recon- mended to bt
appropriated for payment in full of tht
claims. and not more that $52 900 of this
sum was to go to the doctors. As soor
: as this item in the bill was reached tronbl,
began. Objections were made that it wa
! not germaine to the bill, and consider
: able time was lost discussing the poin
of order. It was finally decided in tn,
negative by a vote of 20 to 20, democrat
generally voting against allowing th,
clause to be considered. Then followed
: one of the most unpleasant discussion
; heard in congress for many years. TIL
: medical men were handled without mere.