The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-11-25
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Russia are interrupted by heavy snow
| storms.
President Greyy of France, is urged to
resign, as the only means of prolonging
his life.
| A dispatch from Poughkeepsie, n. T.,
says it is showing along the Hudson and
the Catskills.
| 1t is showing at Buffalo, Albany and
Boston; several inches deep at the tive
latter names cities.
| at Scranton, Pa, have begun working On
| half time.
| The Marquis of Queensbury has writ
ten to the papers defending his behavior
at the Globe theater.
LIE Revoke, Swiss journal. has been
seized at the frontier. It contained
number of socialist articles.
An examination of the steamer West
phalia shows the damage much more
serious than was supposed.
| The Nard Deutche announces that
taxes will be imposed on the sale of
| spurious liquors in Prussia.
M. Duclerc, minister of foreign affairs,
has decided to oppose an inquiry into the
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| Patrick Casey was found guilty at
Dublin of the murder of the Joyce fam
lily and sentenced to be hanged December
| II.
| A man named A. Stag, living Ave miles
| from Wolcott, Dakota, was found frozen
to death two miles west of town on the
18th.
| A new drama, "The Silver King" was
| produced at the Princes theater in Lon
don, on the 17th, and was a great sue
| cess.
During the absence of Sir Stafford
Northcote, Sir r. Cass will act as leader
| of the conservatives in the house Of COM
| mons.
The cabin of negro named James
Taylor burned at Higbee, Mo-, on the
night of the l7th, and two of his children
perished in the flames.
| At Holgate, Ohio, Jim Mccullough, a
troublesome citizen placed in the Lookup
to get sober, fred the structure and
burned himself to crisp.
The courthouse at Anderson. Grimes
county, Texas, was burglarized on the
18th. All the election returns were
| taken by unknown parties.
The body of Robert Campbell, for
merly of Vancouver, was found floating
| in the bay at Port Blakely on the 10Th.
| He is supposed to have fallen of the
wharf.
The body of a son of Bishop Ryadath,
| OF Salt Lake, was found in the stock yard
at Grantsville on the 17th, with ball
through the head. It is supposed he
committed suicide.
The strike of the printers in Vienna
continues. Eighteen leading firms have
closed their establishments owing to the
strike. Compositors ask an increase
amounting to 30 per cent.
The trial of Mrs. Mcconnell, charged
with the urder of John C. Riley, on
Francisco on the 17th. The jury returned
a verdict of not guilty.
Martha Robinson, colored, of Louis
vile, KY, was arrested on the 17tn for
stripping the clothing from her two year
old child and laying it upon its back on
the stove. The child will die.
J. B. Tinsley. of Knoxville, Tenn, a
stock trader, presented forged note to
the Cleveland, Tenn, bank on the 17th,
and when discovered, shot himself
through the head, dying instantly.
At Window, Mimi, two chlldrsa Of
the Rev. Mr.. Gleason, Methodist minis
ter, aged II and IA years, were drowned
in the DesMoines river on the 18th, by
breaking through the ice while skating.
John T. Raymond appeared at Mo-
Cully's theater, in Louisville, Kentucky,
on the 18th, in new play, I'm Paradise, :"
being its first production on any stage.
It was received with favor by large au
dience
VIM Breckman, a we'll known resident
of San Francisco, while out hunting with
several persons in boat near Alameda,
on the 17th, was killed by the accidental
discharge of his gun. He leaves wife
and several children.
An accident occurred on the 17th near
Salt Lake, resulting in the death of Nick
| Dubernardo, a miner. He was standing
at the mouth of tunnel, when q de-
tached boulder rolled down the side of
the mountain, striking him on the head
In row in Virginia, Nevada, on the
10th, between VIM. Miller and Dennis
Sullivan, Miller shot Sullivan in the jaw,
and the latter wrested the pistol from
Miller and shot him in the breast. Both
men are seriously wounded. The row
occurred at a surprise party.
Henry Crooks, of Washington, d. c.,
an aged colored man, who claims to have
been body servant of General Washing.
ton, and who says he has voted for 81
| presidents and never took drink or ut
tured an oath, went to the work house on
the 18th for term of three months for
vagrancy.
The barge Signal, loaded with 700 bar
rels of sugar, was run into by the steamer
City of Worcester on the 18th, on the
East rivers, opposite Williamsburg.
There were on board at the time Capt.
Taylor, his mother. wife, three children
and two deck hands. The barge sank
and all were drowned except Capt. Tay-
lor.
A detective has been for months fol-
lowing band of thieves to the lumber
region of Elk county, Pa About mid
night ON the 10Th, at the head of an
armed force, he captured thirty bandits
asleep in the forest, and lodged them in
jail at Driftwood. Their operations have
been mainly directed against freight
cars.
Merrill & WagDer's store at Hinckley.
ILL.,, which is also the postoffice. was en-
tered by masked men, on the night of the
10Th, who bound and gagged the clerk,
and blew open the safe, getting some
money, postage stamps and iewelry. in