The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-06-30
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Ill.,, Hanlan won.
Gen. Sir VIM. Knollis, retired, is dead.
He Was born in 1897.
Seventy persons were drowned in
floods in Siberia recently.
Henry Ward Beecher celebrated his
5seventieth birthday June 25th.
Two men were killed by railroad
accident at East Minneapolis, june 20th..
Mayor Michael Nolan OF Albany, New
York, resigned June 22d. He gives no
reason.
At Havana there were fifty.two deaths
from yellow fever during the week end
ing June 23d.
The report that the difficulty between
China and France had been settled lacks
confirmation.
Two passenger vessels recently col
lided off the English coast in which %
lives were lost.
The closing services at Harvard uni
versity took place June 22d, and was
largely attended.
Lancaster, Pa, still has smallpox in
its midst, five deaths having occurred
in one family recently.
Machug has been arrested at Berlin, ON
a charge of completely in the murder of
Justice Young, shot five years ago.
At recent cabinet meeting in Paris it
was positively stated that the queen of
Madagascar had been dead six months.
It is stated that cash dividend of from
to AZ per cent. will be paid on North
ern Pacific preferred stock next month.
The German government refuses to
allow men belonging to Germany to take
| to China the Chinese iron-clad recently
| launched.
The new steamer Oregon, built for the
| Guion line, to run between New York
and Liverpool, was launched June 23d
at Glasgow.
Fifty members of the Texas legislature
have been indicted for poker-playing.
Tney have about all settled without trial
by paying fines.
| Fifty Texas steers recently brove out
OF the Chicago stock yards and stamped
| ed through the streets. Nobody killed
and only one man hurt.
| The school board of st. Louis issued
an order that after September l, next,
corporal punishment shall be abolished
in the public schools of that CITY.
| Recently two feet of copper eolored
tale containing fine gold was struck in
Miles mine, Leadville, on Prenton bay
hill that assays s45, 900 to the ton.
| A dispatch reports many incendiary
| fires in the Kunguar government, Rus
sia, and that several persons have been
arrested on suspicion of having started
fires.
The Germantown Telegraph, one of
the Oldest and most profitable weeklies
of Pennsylvania, has been sold to Henry
]. Raymond, Jr., the transfer to take
place August 1st
The Mississippi river is again high,
overaowlng its banks, breaking levies,
and doing immense damage to hundreds
of plantations and rendering thousands
of families homeless.
A colony of Swedes for Oregon ar
rived at San Francisco June 2Oth.. They
report that in another year many OF
their countrymen intend settling in
Oregon and Washington.
The vigilantes of Butte, Mont, re-
Gently took man by the name of Harry
Gundv in hands and gave him sixty
four lashes for the offense of brutally
attacking ten-year-old girl.
Business failures for the week ending
June 22d, were 181, as compared with 1856
last week, a decrease of 5. New England
and middle %, western 48, southern 43,
Pacific states and territories 25 Canada
36, New York Z.
At the sculling regatta on Lake Calum-
net, Pullman, ILL.,, June 22d, John
Teemer, of McKeysport, Pa, won in the
three mile free to-all race, making the
distance in 20 minutes and Il seconds,
the fastest time on record.
Two young ladies of --St. Joseph, Mi
chigan, recently took nearly half an
ounce of arsenic for the of purpose beau.
tifying their complexion. Miss Emma
Singer was saved by physicians, but Miss
, Mary Druneau lost her life.
A st. Gall, Switzerland dispatch oi
June Odd says: Serious riots against the
Jews have occurred and number Of
Jewish shops were pillaged and the
police stoned while endeavoring to STOP
the excess. Soldiers have been sum
moned to quell the disturbances.
), At Vienna, La, June 23d, coloret
d man by the name of Duke, who entered
the sleeping apartment of the Misse.
Cooper in that parish, two weeks ago
supposed with criminal intent, was found
!. by body of his pursuers to-day AND
= shot to death.
A Matamoras dispatch of June 23t
says: One hundred and fifty revolution
! lists attacked Chiattna, and carried of
two officials. The cavalry pursued ant
the revolutionists assassinated thei
prisoners. The revolutlonists were over
;, taken by the cavalry and cut to piece
and thirty killed.
The Californin immigration Assoeia
ton has effected arrangements with tn
Southern Pacific railroad for low rates t,
j immigrants from Europe to California
via New Orleans. Through rates from
Amsterdam will be S74.35; Antwerp
S72 25: Cologne, $74; Paris, $6S; Zurich
/. $75.85, and from other European point
: at equally low rates.
A mother and five children hsv
't mysteriously disappeared from thei
!, home in Oakland, Cal June 20. and al
, : efforts to unearth their whereabouts hav
proved unavailing. The husband. Johl
Q Green, went to work as usual Wednes
= day morning. taking an affectionate part
:. ing from his family. Returning in tn
q evening he found the house locked, bu
: finally making an entrance discovers
that it was deserted. No trace of th
~ missing was left, and beyond story G
= the neighbors that his wife was see
= speaking to woman, as if in an angr