The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-08

Nearly 5000 Mormon converts lande
at New York from abroad during the pas
year. -
Ex Governor Stevenson, of West vi,
glnla. died at Parkersburg, Noyembe
Goth. D 70
Windsor theater in New York city wa
., destroyed by fire November 29th. Los
$500, 900.
Sojourner Truth, colored lecturer anf
sibyl. died at Battle Creek. Miehioan
recently. He was 108 years old.
Dobie & Co., ship builders at Glas
gov, Scotland, have failed. Twelve hun
dred workmen are thrown out of employ
ment.
4 John Richardson and John Landseer
miners, were instantly killed near Wyo
ming, Pa. recently, by an accident to q
bucket.
Thomas A. Doyle was elected mayo,
OF Providence, r. l., for the fifteenth
time, after three years intervals, by a
majority of 1858.
Rev. Warren FL. Cudworth, pastor OF
the Church Of Our Savior, Unitarian, OF
East Boston, dropped dead while taking
part at the Thanksgiving services in Ma
verick church.
Miss Ellen Gladstone, the premier s
daughter and vice-president OF the
North Hall, Newham college, is a dark
haired. quiet English girl who looks as
though she might be twenty-five.
A GAINESVILLE, o., special says: Evans
Davis put cap on gun which he sup
posed was not loaded, and pointed it at
| of y hse a,r~l, II TT
| then called the four year old boy to pull
gnn was loaded and the boy was killed.
The father is frantic.
A dispatch from Harbor Greek, Pa,
November 28th, says: About S O'Clock
this afternoon the Lake Shore train 60
ing east struck and killed Peter
Rataskusky, Polander, aged 40, who at.
tempted to steal ride on the west bound
freight train He leaves large family
in Dunkirk, New York.
A Worcester, Mass. dispatch of No
vember 28th says: The rear car of the
Boston, Barre aud Gardner train went
down an embankment, just after leaving
North Worcester station this afternoon.
Between twenty and thirty passengers
were in the car, and oil were more or less
injured, some seriously.
Recently a hunting party of Dubuque,
Iowa, composed of Fred Jankel and two
sons and James and Richard Harry, con-
nected with the Daily Democrat, went
out in boat to an island in the Miss
issppi, several miles south. AS they
were returning storm arose, the boat
was swamped and all were drowned.
A meeting of the Louisville board of
trade to take action on the question of
sending representative to the conven-
tion at Washington, January Is, to con.
slider the matter of national bankrupt
law, after prolonged discussion, resolved
to send memorial to congress upon
the subject, and no delegate to the con.
vention.
Secretary Teller has rendered the fol-
lowing decision in case recently re-
ported to the general land Office from
Washington, in which squatter was ac-
cused of trespassing and cutting timber
unlawfully on public lands: The accused,
although squatter, is fightfully owner
of the land if he intends to make home
on it, and take it, under the settlement
laws, when the land is surveyed, and he
is allowed to do so. Whether he IS, or
is not trespasser, does not depend on
how many trees he cuts, but on the bona
fde character of the settlement. IF he
takes land in good faith he is owner
thereof, to all practical purposes, al
though the title may remain in the gov
ernment.
A Pittsburg dispatch of Nov. Goth
says: Intelligence was received to-
night of bloody riot at the natural gas
wells at Murraysville, Westmoreland
county, twenty miles east of Pittsburg,
between laborers of rival gas fuel COM
panies, resulting in the death of one
man and the serious injury of four
others. A burning well at that point is |
claimed by the Pennsylvania Fuel Co.. |
and also by Milton Weston, Chicago |
capitalist. The Pennsylvania Fuel Co. |
has been in possession. This afternoon |
gang of thirty laborers in the employ |
of Weston, made their appearances armed |
with shotguns and clubs. Their inten-
ton was to take possession of the well |
and the property surrounding. To reach |
the well they would be compelled to re-
move large pile of lumber. Laborers |
OF the Pennsylvania Fuel Co. were dig |
glng trench for pipe, but as soon as |
the object in view was made known, c.. !
V. Haymakel, member of the Pennsyl- |
vanla Fuel Co., ordered the men out of |
the trench. They were unarmed, and in |
order to hold the lumber pile, sat on it |
In body. Weston's forces moved for |
ward and ordered the laborers TO leave.
The latter refused to go, and after a |
threatening demonstration the attack
ing party raised their guns and
fired. The assault was unexpected and
the result frightful. When the smoke
cleared up, Hay maker and three others
were lying on the ground. Haymaker
dead. Three others, whose names have |
not been ascertained, were seriously and
probably fatally injured. A scene of the
greatest confusion ensued. The work
men of both parties engaged in pitched
battle, IN which man named Keifer,
who belonged to the Weston party, was
seriously injured, and many others
slightly. The Weston forces, being
armed, finally put the Pennsylvania
forces to fight, and at last accounts were
In possession. The sheriff has been
called upon. The Weston forces sur
rendered to the sheriff and posse as soon
as they found they were officers, but at
3 o'clock this morning the prisoners
made break for liberty, and fourteen
escaped. Warrants have been issued for
the arrest of the whole Weston party.
Information made against them charges
murder. An inquest is now in progress.
The inquest was concluded this evening.
Testimony elected proved that the at