The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-08-11
There we're ss7 deaths from cholera in

destroyed by fire recently.
There were forty eight deaths from
yellow fever in Havana last week.
General Sir William Fenwick Will
Jams, of the English army, is dead.
The Hanlan- Hosmer-L Lee boat race at
Fulton, n. Y, recently, was won by the
former.
The next national encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic will be held
at Minneapolis.
At Cairo, July 29th, there were $50
deaths from cholera, and 443 at other
places between Synpett and the Mediter-
ranean.
Carey, the Phoenix Psrk informsr, was
shot dead by a man named ODonnell. .on
the steamer Melrose, near Cape Town,
July Goth.
The telegraph operators made an ap-
zeal to the president for an investigation
into their difficulties with the Union
Pacific Company.
Capt Webb, the noted English swim
mer, who attempted to swim the great
whirlpool just below the Niagara falls,
July 28th, was drowned.
Coinage at the Philadelphia mint for
the past month aggregated 3,056. 900
pieces, valued at 81 ,228 800. The amount
includes l ,200, 900 silver dollars.
It is stated at the treasury department
that the reduction of the public debt for
July will be unusually small, if there be
any. An estimate cannot be given.
Among the injured in the earthquake
at Ischia was Miss Van Allen. daughter
of William Z. Van Allen, we'll known
real estate dealer of San Francisco.
The war department is informed that
the body of the late General Ord has
been embalmed and will remain in Cuba
until autumn, when it will be brought
here.
The German government will send
some one of its highest officials connect
ed with railroads to attend the opening
ceremonies upon the completion of the
Northern Pacific.
The French senate has adopted, by q
vote of 139 to 10, article fifteen of the
Judicial reform bill, which reduces the
number of magistrates. The vote inn
plies the adoption of the entire bill.
A Berlin dispatch of August 1st says:
A large building on Kopmicker strasse in
this city, used as a mandatory of vel
vet, burned last night The loss is
heavy. Three fremen were killed by
falling walls.
A Dublin dispatch says that owing to
the quietness of the country the govern.
ment has dispensed with the services of
sClifford Lloyd. resident magistrate, from
the special duty to which he had been
temporarily assigned.
The Pennsylvania democratic state
convention was held at Harrisburg Au-
gust Cd. j. T. Taggart, of Warren
county, was nominated for auditor
general; Joseph Powell, of Bradford
county, state treasurer.
A new telegraph company was incor-
porated at Chicago August Cd, to be
known as the Exchange Telegraph Com
pany. The general route is from Chi
cago to SaL Francisco, with intermedi-
ate branches. Capital stock So, 900, 900,
divided into $1,000 shares.
At San Francisco, August Cd, Patrick
McGrath, an engineer, on being re-
preached for his drinking, remarked:
''I'll stop it tonight for good and for
ALL" and Immediately thereafter went off
and cut his head so completely as nearly
to sever the head from the body.
A mystery involving the fate OF wo-
man and child occurred at the Preside
CAL, recently. A woman. accompanied
by little girl, was observad to disrobe
herself and child, and proceed towards
the bay, only few hundred feet distant.
Nothing was afterwards seen of them.
The clothing of the woman showed the
name of Maria Gotto.
A New York dispatch of August 1st
SAYS: The situation of the telegraphic
strike is about the same. There are ru-
mors that an important movement will
soon occur on the part of the strikers,
but nothing can be learned regarding it.
Business is apparently going smoothly at
the Western Onion. All the operators
were paid off yesterday ard are at work
his morning. Strikers who desire money
were paid off by the brotherhood to day.
The total bushels of grain exported
| from New York in sailing vessels during
| the six months ending July l, was
2,692, 1888, against 1,566,841 the same
| period last year. Of the former amount
| the American flag carried Al, ,922 bush
| els. The amount carried in steam yes
sells the SINE period this year was 81,
922 800, against l4,441 ,673 the same
period last year. The United States
transported nothing by steam from that
port The lions share belonged to
England, which carried in the neighbor.
hood of wo-thirds each year. Belgium
comes next. Last year corn formed less
than one-baf of the exports OF grain
while this year it is fully one-half
Wheat formed last year two-thirds o1
all, but this year little more than two
fifths.
A San Francisco dispatch of Aug. 2d
says: Arrangements ars about cor
pleted for expediting the delivery O.
eastern mails intended for eastern Oregon
and southeastern Washington Territory
| Heretofore those mails have been dis
| patched from Kelton, on the line of the
| Central Pacific railroad, to Boise City by
stage. It is proposed on August 10Th te
send them via the Oregon Short Line
from Granger, Wyoming, to Shoshone
making saving of something over Ion
miles. The mails thus forwarded vii
be principally for Baker and Unior
counties and also for Walla Waila, ant
the arrangement will hold good until tn,
completion of the Northern Pacific ,whei
all Oregon, Washington Territory ant
British Columbia mail will be made NJ
in the east and sent over that road. o.
the above date mail matter from her
will be cent to Ogden, and thence on th.
Utah Northern to Pocatelle, then on tn
Oregon Short Line to Shoshone, from
where they will be taken by stage te
Boise City and finally TO Baker City
making considerable saving in time