The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-09-29
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY,
BY TELEaRAPm TO DATE.

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I. B. Elkin & Co., merchants of Lon
don. have failed. Liabilities, G100, 900.
At Havana twelve deaths from yellow
fever occurred during the week ending
Sept. 22d.
Forest fires are doing considerable
damage in the vicinity of ST. John, New
foundland.
The Thermometer in San Francisco at
noon on Sept. 21st stood 80. At Los An
geles it reached 103.
Willard and portion of his guests ar
rived in ST. Paul Sept. 21st and left the
same evening for Chicago.
An explosion of fire damp Sept Doth
in mine near the town OF Unns, West
phalia, killed fifteen miners.
At Valparaiso the rise and fall of the
tide, caused by the earthquake at Java.
has given the people much alarm.
At the colonial exhibition at The
Hague, Holland, United States exhibi-
tors obtained 81 of the 1858 awards.
A special from Montevideo states that
the ship Erwin, from Liverpool for San
Francisco. was burned at see. The crew
was saved.
Richard Whalen, young man about
| 20 years old, shot himself at the Alham-
bra theater in st. Louis on the night o.
Sept. Goth.
| The Emperor of Germany has ap-
pointed King Alfonso to the command of
the Schleswig- -Holstein Uhlan regimen.
| garrisoned at Strasburg.
At Pittsbnrg. Sept. 23d, an explosion
of fireworks in the old stables of the ex-
position building resulted in the death of
a boy and three race horses.
Postmaster General Gresham has gone
to New York to look into the operations
of the postoffice at that city. His visit
may be extended to Boston, and thence
to Iowa.
The nomination of Edward Newman,
as examiner of teas at San Francisco,
made by the collector of that port, has
been approved by the secretary OF the
treasury.
Statistics completed for the Times
show that the sixteen leading hotels of
Chicago were assessed at S6 500 900, and
the theaters are valued at over $500, 900.
Twelve property owners in the whole.
sale district have buildings assessed at
$14 1000.
The city of Montreal has surrendered
a claim of 800. 900 against the Grand
Trunk road, the latter binding itself to
erect within two years mammoth depot,
modelled after the Grand Central in Phil
adelphia, and deposlting $100, 900 in the
bank as forfeit.
The secret service division of the treas
ury department has received from Bos-
ton one of the FIVE dollar notes of the
Irish republic. previously reported as ir.
regular. It is said by treasury experts
to be @ fair imitation of United States
treasury notes.
An Akron, O., dispatch of Sept. 22d
says: The fast west bound express on
{ the New York, Philadelphia and Ohio
railway this afternoon crashed into the
rear of freight side-tracked at Tai
: madge, the next station east. The pas
senger engineer was killed, and several
0 train men injured, none fatally. The
passenger engine and two freight cars
were burned. Not passenger was
hurt.
Claim agents have been sending out
circulars stating that by an act of con
gress the secretary of the interior was
authorized to increase the compensation
of all assistant marshals engaged in tax
. ing the ninth census. The secretar,
n says additional pay can only be allowed
|. in limited number of cases, where he i
satisfied the pay is insufficient, and warn
assistant marshals against the misleading
circular.
\ An Agram dispatch of Sept. 21st says
Six hundred peasants from Gradesc
and Bellovor assembled at Farkaswincl
yesterday. armed with muskets, axes an
cudgels, shouting, "We won't belong t.
Hungary" A small body Of militar
attempted to disperse the mob, but wer
| forced to withdraw. Reinforcements a
. midnight were received with volley c
stones and shots. The troops returne
the fire. killing ten and wounding man
more. Two soldiers were wounded.
A Buffalo dispatch of the 23d say
:, There is much excitement in East But
falo over the attempted lynching c
Rev. John Pittlass, pastor of the Roma
- Catholic church there, by members {
. his congregation. The church has owe
1000 members, mostly ignogrant Pt
landers. A young man has been ap
pointed as assistant in the pastoral worl
who became popular with the people
ls' Bishop Ryan thought he was interfe
Aa ing with the usefulness of the pastor, an
sent him to Oswego. The people wei
very angry, and last night crowd eI
tered the house of Father Pittlass, viii
8, he was at supper. The priest was ca
res ried out doors into Peckham street, an
suddenly knocked down by two OF b
captors, and thrown into the var,
7 Kujawski, known as the Polish King
on account of his influence with b
countrymen, faced the crowd with b
revolver, and the police appearing, pr
vented any further violence. Threats
V further trouble are seriously made.
A st. Louis dispatch of September 2;
says: Passengers arrived on the delay
Ohio and Mississippi train this evenil
cd report serious accident near Seymou
Illinois, at o'clock this morning,
which two persons were killed and qui
number wounded. It appears th
an trains Nos. and left Cincinnati ls
- evening an hour apart, with orders
ha run slow near Seymour, in consequen
10 of the track being in bad conditio
-. -. No. hitched on Louisville sleeper
'oA North Vernon. When four miles We
of Seymour. while running about thr
rs: miles an hour, as per orders. it was r.
ire into from the rear by No. 5, which "
ere running along at high speed. The pa
in senger coach, which was in the rear
ast the sleeper, was driven nearly half W
hat through and partly on top of the sleep,
me The engineer of No. and q little chi
nd belonging to Mrs. Taylor were kill