The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-04-28
Lord o'Neill is dead /.

Booth, the actor, is playing to large
houses In Vienna.
Charles A. Dana, of the New York Sun,
is visiting in California.
Berlin working men are organizing for
general strike for an increase af wages.
The village of Oakville, in the province
of Ontario. was destroyed by fire April
18th.
The city council of Minneapolis raised
the license in that place from 800 to
$500.
The safe of H. 81. McColley of Willow
Greek, New, was robbed of 5000 on the
18th inst.
Allen Potter, reporter OF the Chicago
Times, committed suicide at Cheyenne
April 18th.
Prince Thomas, duke of Genoa, and
Princess Isabella of Bavaria were mar
ried April 17th.
The colored citizens of Washington
city celebrated the 21st anniversary of
the emancipation proclamation April
17th.
Arbor Day was a great success this
| year in Nebraska. It is safe to say that
over 5000, 900 trees were planted in the
State on that day.
The Pennsylvania senate has passed q
| bill making general election days legal
holiday also bill preventing console
dation of competing pipe lines.
The Connecticut senate, by vote of
Is TO 6, decided the bill forbidding rail-
roads to charge higher rate for freight
for shorter distances than for long.
A St. Petersburg dispatch of April
10Th says: Five hundred dwellings, tel
egraph station. postofice, number of
stores, large quantity of coal and wood, /,
and much mining property wore burned
at the village of Katow Iwanoski.
A San Francisco dispatch of April 10Th
says: A heavy rain storm set in this
morning and continued throughout the
day. Indications this evening are that
/ there will be more during the night.
part of the state, with snow falling in the
| Sierras.
The commissioner of internal revenue
| has decided to redeem stamps and to
return to the owners with the word "re-
deemed" imprinted upon each check, all
| checks and drafts bearing two cent inter-
nal revenue stamps which remain unused
on July l.. The checks and drafts can
then be used in the regular course OF
| business,
G. A. King & Co., Toledo, have re-
ceived over 1900 reports covering every
important wheat growing county in Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Nilsson
ri. On the quarterly report the present
condition is very favorable. One, quar-
ter is fair, one-shird poor, one.sixth very
poor and one-quarter good. The present
condition is much better than that of two
weeks ago.
Pension Commissioner Dudley has is
sued circular directing special pension
examiners to give public notice that they
are not authorized to collect money for
fees or expenses from pensioners or ap-
plicants for pensions. Also, all special
examiners are provided with certificates,
signed by the commissioner of pensions
and the secretary of the interior, and
bearing the seal of the interior depart
ment. Without such certificates all per
sons claiming to be pension examiners
are frauds.
A San Francisco dispatch of April
10 says: Young McGreevy, shot by F
Valencia at picnic last Sunday at SaI
Rafael, was buried to-day at that town
The remains of the unfortunate boy were
inferred by the side of his late grand
father, who for many years was highl,
respected citizen of the county wherein
the boy met his sad fate. A large as
semblage of relatives and friends wer
. present and floral offerings were numer
} Gus. Great sympathy is felt for tn
family.
} The BOG medals have reached Phila
delphia at last, and have been distrib
uted to those entitled to receive them
{ They have been at Senator Don Cam
8 eron's house, at Harrisburg, for nearl
, a year. One or two of the stalvart pha
: anx. who were at Cameron's house whe
, the bronze trophies arrived, were give
. | their medals with an injunction of 81
/ crecy. The others were put away unit
the campaign should be over. Camera
in overhauling his rubbish before goin
!. abroad found these medals and COZ
r cluded that this was good time to di
: tribute them. Boys here are exhibitin
;. them as curiosities.
A Leavenworth dispatch of April 18t
Z says: John M. Abernethy's furnitul
. factory burned yesterday afternoon; los
. $4,000. Forty-ive men were at VOL
. in the mill at the time, and being in IL
" midst of continuous noise it was nece
sary to run from one department to a
other and warn the men individuall
% While doing SO, George Snyder vi
( forced, in the last room, to jump, vii
le several others, from second story wi
is dow. In falling. Snyder struck the sid
3. walk with such force as to cause b
re- body to sink between his hip bones. b
N recovery is doubtful. His companio
= are all dangerously, and it is though
l. fatally hurt. The names are John Bas
is w. Osborn, V. j. Westerman, B. Ande
rs son and George Baughmsn. During t
lg fire hose cart ran down Mamie Frees,
If little girl. and it is believed she will dl
!; - A Richmond, Va, dispatch of Apl
- = 10Th says: Dispatches to-day state th
i, the announcement that a number
- skeletons of dead confederates, who Il
at Seven Pines, have recently be
of plowed I'D by farmers living near the b
ps toric battlefield, has caused quite 81
b in this city. In many cases where t
be skeletons have been exposed. the wait
ey of most of them we're encirclei by leath
lie belts, cartridge boxes and buckles, bes
,e- ing the legend &C. s. A. The FIJI
ed Virginia, of this city, and the Seve
in teenth Virginia, of Alexandria, Il
a scores In the battle of Seven Pines. T
at federal dead were removed long ago III
er buried in the national cemetery, near t
or battle field. All believed that hundre
he of confederates were buried with the
,aa and now rask haaida &hoso xu;s1, ~pI,<