The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-06-09
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mand at New York.
The general assembly of Rhcde Island
met at Newport May 29th.
The French transport Mytho has sailed
for Tonquin with 1900 troops.
The Pennsylvania senate has passed
the railroad anti discriminating bill.
A fire at Virgins City. Nevada. june
lst, destroyed $40, 900 worth of property.
Henry Ward Bsecher and family in
tend visiting the nofSa ome etime in
July.
Talmage, in recent sermon. de.
nounced the importation OF Mormon con
verts.
In ths election fraud case atsNew York
the jury returned asrdict of not
guilty.
Albert Morris, the skIsEed friend o 1
Garibaldi, died at Lindafia, England
recently.
A tornado passed over Council Bluffs.
Iowa, June 1st, damaging consi derable
property.
The commission to select place for
the capital Of Dakota have decided upon
Bismarck.
The governor of New Caledonia has
been ordered to send all available troops
to Tonquin.
Promoters of the Parnell fund hope to
raise EDO 900. America is expected to
furnish one half.
Robert Henderson was hanged at
Oxford, n. g., June 1st, for killing his
wife last November.
The U. S. steamer Manzanita sails to-
morrow for the purpose of inspecting
on the northern coast
a Vienna correspondent reports that
Turkey is making acoalition with Russia
against Great Britain.
At Memphis, the graves of the federal
dead in the national cemetery were deco
rated Sunday, June Sd.
Ex-Minister Pierrepont, large stock
holder in the O. 3. & N. Co., is on his
way to Oregon and Washington.
Count Charles Felix Bozenta Chlapov-
ski, husband of Modjeska, the distin-
guished Polish actress, was naturalized
recently.
On recent trip the steamer State of
California from Portland to San Fran
cisco, made the run in 45 hours and 90
minutes.
The iron manufacturers of Pittsburg
signed the scale of prices submitted to
them by the union men, thereby avoid
ing strike.
A terrible tornado passed over Green
vile, Texas, June I'd. Over $50 houses
were blown over and one life lost-a col
ored child.
LII A1~~k
been lost in the state of New Jersey by
railroad accidents during the past thir-
teen years.
At Kenosha, Wisconsin, the corner
stone of St. James cathedral was laid
Sunday. June Sd. The ceremonies we're
under the supervision of Archbishop
Heiss of Milwaukee.
Decoration day was generally observed
all over the country. At Baltimore the
blue and gray decorated the graves to-
gether. At Annapolis an oration was
delivered by confederate officer.
A Crystal Springs, Miss, dispatch of
June ID says: During storm this even
ing Mrs. Mayield's store was struck by
lightning and Miss Clara Cook was
killed. She was surrounded by several
ladies, all of whom escaped.
A Harrisburg, Pa, dispatch of June /
says: Susan Douglass, aged 27 residing in
Cumberland county, during the absecne
of her husband cut the throats of her
three children, a boy and two girls-and
killed herself. She was insane.
A Chicago dispatch of June I'd says:
Three families, numbering twelve per-
sons, partook of lemon cream pie, pur-
chased at bakery and restaurant on
Milwaukee avenue. All of them are now
very sick with symptoms of poisoning.
It is stated that sixty five other persons
ate of the same pie at the restaurant dur
ing the day. but as all were transient
customers it is not known whether or
not they were affected.
A Tombstone dispatch of June I'd says:
NJ. NJ. Mcdowell, prominent citizen of
Charleston, was shot and probably
fatally wounded by George Ellis this
morning. Mcdowell was standing in
front of his place of business, when Ellis
appeared on the opposite side of the
street armed with Winchester rife.
The latter fired Immediately, the shot
taking effect in the left side of Mcdowell.
passing through the lungs and emerg-
ing at the right nipple. Ellis claims
Mcdowell had threatened his life.
Belleville, Ills, was troubled recently
by striking coal miners, and it
was necessary to call out company of
the state militia to keep order. On the
evening of the 28th a melee took place
between the troops and strikers, both
parties firing upon each other, killing q
miner named Henderson. One hundred
and Fifty women, wives and daughters of
the strikers, armed with clubs, marched
to two of the mines where non-unionists
were at work and ordered them out;
they also drove away sherlffs posse.
The cause of the trouble arose from the
fact that the operators intended to re-
duce wages.
A Salida, (Cal.) dispatch of May Both
says: This evening two drunken miners
raised disturbance and City Marshal
Baxter Stingley started to arrest them.
| One named Evans started for the marshal
with q knife, when the marshal shot and
killed him. The other miner. named
Thomas Niemeyer, then shot Marshal
| Stingley, Deputy Marshal James 81.
| Buthurst and man named Thomas D.
| Yannon, a1tsr which he started for the
mountains with a party of citizens in
pursuit. Before he was captured Me.
meyer shot and killed William H.
Brown, one of the pursuers. The dead
are Brown, Evans and Yannon. Deputy
! Marshal Bathurst is dying and Marshal
Stingley is in critical condition.