The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-09-22
Yellow fever is raging at Guaymas and

Yellow fever is raging at Guaymas and
Hermosillo. Mexico.
Mechanics Institute fair opened in San
Francisco September 11th.
Hugh ]. Hastings. proprietor of the
New York Commercial Advertiser, died
Sept. IL.
The 25th anniversary of the discovery
of gold in Colorado was celebrated at
Denver, Sept. 18th.
At ST. Joseph, Mo-, recently, the
steam printing house was damaged S5O.-
600 by fire; fully insured.
Admiral Pierre, who returned to Paris
few days ago from the command of the
French feet at Madagascar, died Sept.
11th.
A man by the name of Scott PickereIl
and two horses were burned to death in
a freight car near Jacksonville, Ill, re-
Gently.
The sugar refinery at Hutchinson.
Kansas, is pronounced o success. The
mandatory will turn out 100 barrels
per day.
On account of extreme low water, a
portion of the Amoskeag mills have shut
down. About 1000 operatives are tom
porarily idle.
The treasury department purchased
296, 900 ounces of fine silver for the
mints of Philadelphia, New Orleans and
San Francisco.
A large number of negroes were
poisoned by eating boiled shrimps at a
celebration in Beaufort county, s. c.,
recently. Three have died and seven
more are expected to die.
The postal money order agreement be-
tween the United States and the
Hawaiian islands was signed by Post
master General Gresham and the
Hawaiian minister. It is to go into effect
January next.
tember 11th, temple belonging to re-
hgious sect known as Pilgrims, was
blown up with giant powder and the
building entirely destroyed by fire. The
Pilgrims practice polygamy, which
the vicinity, and to get rid of the obnox-
ious sect they blew up their temple.
The report of the committee to inves-
tigate alleged frauds in the importation
of Hawaiian sugar has been submitted
to Secretary Folger. The report is un-
derstood to state that no evidence of the
importation of Chinese or East Indian
sugar through Hawaii has been obtained,
and the charges OF Belmont are not sus-
tanned. The report is replete with valu-
able statistics Of the sugar business of
the Pacific coast.
The New York Commercial Bulletin
prints letter from Fl. Kains Jackson of
London, an English authority on wheat,
in which the available crop of British
wheat is set down at 5000, 900 quarters,
disclosing a deficiency compared with
last year which will make it necessary to
import IA ,000, 900 quarters for the Unit
| ed Kingdom. The general situation on
the continent as well as in England, he
| says, leads many to expect revived de.
mand and an increase of price in Octo'
| Der and during the winter months.
Sixteen of the mutual fire insurance
companies of the United States, in ses
sion at Chicago recently, adopted res
| olution to decline any risks on imper
| fectly constructed mills and factories
and to allow those furnished with auto
matte sprinklers and reliable water sup
ply reduction of 25 per cent. from
| EhtcSs u0 blbO AH
proved suggestion that chain LEAD
from the safety valve of boiler to tn
exterior of the building, so that, in cas-
of fire, the engines can be flooded wit
steam and the danger of an explosion
averted.
| At Smithville, N. c., Sept. 11th, th
wind reached q maximum velocity @
ninety three miles per hour, for seve
hours. Many houses were unroofed
wharves washed away and fisheries seri
ously damaged. All the pilot boats wer
blown ashore and one was sunk. Man
vessels were in harbor, but only tw
held their anchorage. Ths oldest pilot
| say that in duration and violence til
storm exceeded anything ever exper
enced. The revenue cutter at Collar
though in imminent danger for sewers
. hours, rode out the gale.
Sixty masked men forcibly entered th
} Yell county Jail, at Danvil1e, Ark, r.
Gently, seized John Coker and D
Flood, took them to an iron bride
across the river, and hanged them frol
the center span cross beam. Coker ws
: accused of leading into ambuscade Il
sheriff and party in search of the DAME
outlaws several weeks ago, in which tw
) men, Carter and Cortes, were kille,
/, Flood was accused of harboring the on
laws. Coker begged to be shot, but W,
9 told he must hang. The bodies we
3 discovered and cut down Sunday NOR
> ing.
A st. Johns dispatch of Sept. 12
says: It is my painful duty to report Il
total failure of the expedition. The Pr
teus was crushed in pack in latitude
4 degrees 80 minutes, longitude ~ degre
q 25 minutes, and sunk on the afternoon
f the 23d ofJuly. My party Grew and sh
4 were all saved. I made my way aero
! Smith Sound, and along the caste
n shore to Cape York, thence across M,
4 vile bay to Upernavich. arriving the
Is the oath of August. The Yantic reach
q Upernavich the I'd of September, al
a left the same day, bringing the emit
4 party here to-day. All are well.-Liel
a E. A. Darlington.
If A bloody affair occurred Sept. IL
r the prairie three miles from Cheyenr
W James Knight. freighter, and two me
IS FL. Moore and J. ii. Wenzell, slept
., Knights wagon. About daylight Moo
ss arose and struck Knight with an axe, q
70 knocked him senseless. He then
le tackled Wenzell, who, after the first bic
le awoke and fought, taking the axe fr,
8, Moore-not, however, until he had !
S. ceiyed another blow on the head. Mo-
ID then took revolver and shot at Wen2
in four times. Wenzell has two bul
es holes in the chest, one in the left a
1v ond oua thro11ph the left hand As