The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-12-02
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY.
BY rELEeRArH To DATE.

nearly covers the loss.
i The Northern Pacific Railroad Co.. at a
meeting in New York on the 22d, with the
! land syndicate, decided TO sell s, ,0O0, 900
acres of land east of the Missouri river
at 81 per acre.
| AT New Tyler, Tex, six prisoners
escaped Jail through the carelessness of
| the guard. Three were recaptured. A
negro murderer seized a guards pistol
and escaped.
| The First National bank of Denver,
! has sent out circulars stating that its
mails have been robbed every month for
the last year, at some point between Den
yer and New York.
Valley, counsel for the Joyce family
murderers, has forwarded to the viceroy
memorial praying for commutatfon of
sentences in the case of the five prison
ers who pleaded guilty.
An entertainment at Boston, in aid of
the widow of John Brown, was con-
tributed to by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe,
Madame Schetler, Oliver Wendell
Holmes and Geo. Heuschell, and re-
allied about $3.50.
There is trouble among the New York
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captains refuse to recognize the new su-
but they have possession of the station
houses and will not give them up.
Investigation into the poor asylum fire
at Halifax is finished. The jury found
the fire accidental, but censured the
asylum authorities for not providing for
the escape of helpless inmates in the
hospital ward at the top of the building.
Ludwiek Sallemeyer, a cabinet maker
| with Murrick & Roberts, discovered that
bonds and cash to the amount of $4071
had been stolen from his trunk on the
23d. Suspicion falls on his room mate,
Chas. Pope, who has left mysteriously
VIM. Buchanan and his accomplices in
the seizure of Clydesdale horses al
Alexis, are now being held in $1,000
bonds each for conspiracy and 500 each
for false imprisonment. Robert Hollo-
way has also sued them for 800, 900 fol
SANDER and the same amount for tres
pass.
Robert Mayfeld and Alex. King, col
ored, were lowered into the stack of 8
furnace at Birmingham, Ala, on the
22d, to make some repairs. The fire was
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overcame them and they dropped upon
the hot ore below and were burned tc
cinders.
Hopkins Hughes and Polk Rochfort
were Instantly killed, and James Roberts,
VIM. Hughes and Thos. Watkins, a con
tractor, probably fatally injnrned al
scranton, Pa, on the 22l by mass oi
accumulated lce falling to the bottom OF
the shaft of the Ford colliery where the
men were at work.
Gov. Stanford's California filly, Hinda
Ross, two years old, trotted half mile
over the track of the Gentleman's Driv.
ing park, New York, on the 22d. in
1:10I. The track was not fast owing tc
the frost in the morning and the sun o1
| the afternoon She was timed by John
Murphy and driven by Marvin.
A band of Piegans swooped down on
a party of Grow scou ts near Fort Custer
recently and ran off thirty ponies. In
the fight winch followed. two Piegan
soldiers were killed. United States
troops will be kept il motion in that re-
gion this winter, and the Canadian
mounted police are working in unison
with them.
Miss Emma Bend. of Taylorsville
ILL.,, was carried into the grand jury
room in chair on the 22d, her father
not being allowed to accompany her
Her examination lasted three hours
when she was seized with violent ner
vous attack, requiring the presence o.
her physician. she told the full story o
the terrible outrage upon her.
Seth Green requests to announce thai
the New York state fish commission ha'
Just deposited in the state hatchery fine
lots of salmon trout spawn. The com
mission will take orders till March Is
for the distribution of brook trout, Cali
fornia trout, black bass, Oswego bass
rock bass, yellow perch and bullheads
Ali persons wishing fish for the purpost
of stocking public waters are requested
to send their applications to Green o
Rochester.
At a meeting of the executive com
mittee of the Garfield fair association a
Washington on the 23d, it was decided
to extend invitations of the Garfield
guard of honor to justices of the su
preme court of theeDistrict of Columbia
members of the court of claims aud t.
societies of Mexican veterans and oldes
luuAOItdutS seven buOuSAuu tIck0V
were authorized to be issued for the us
of school children.
The second performance of Victo
Hugo's lie Roi D 'Amuse," was given il
Paris on the 22d. The first performanc,
took place fifty years ago. Presiden
Grevy, members of the cabinet, Gam
beta, the Duke D'Amale, the Gran,
Duke Vladmier, many Bonapartists an.
representatives of every class were pres
ent. The scenery was perfect and tn
performance great success and enthu
siasticaly received. Victor Hugo occu
pied box in the theater.
A Columbus, Ohio, dispatch of Nov
cident yesterday still is the small mum
Der who received anything like seriou
injuries. A later examination shows tn,
following persons received slight wounds
Mrs. G. J. Kennedy. Junction City
Kansas, right arm bruised; Harry Weld
residence unknown, cut in the forehead
Baggage Master Burris, of the wrecke.
train, hand smashed; James Lowry
brakeman, hand cut; George Smith, col
ored, postal. car porter, shoulder hurt
Engineer Stone hatkone foot hurt. Mrs
DIR. Summersly. of New York, passen
ger en- route to Leadville, rendered grea
service to the injured before othe
physicians arrived. The track wa
cleared and trains were running at
o'clock this morning. Detectives hav
been placed in charge of the place I
ferret out the party who placed the RAJ