The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-02-10

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the foods in Germany.
The governor of Atlanta offers a reward |
Of $1,000 for the capture and return to the |
sheriff of Montg omAry county of Isaac
FL. Vincent, late state treasurer.
The officers charged vita wrecking the |
Jersey City bank plead not guilty on
twenty-six indictments The bondsmen
have surrendered Bookkeeper Beach.
Fletcher Reed, d young man of Putnam,
in q fit of religious excitement, set straw
stack on fire and jumped in the flames,
after he had cut his throat. His remains
were charred bones when found.
The snow storm in Wyoming on the
I'd inst, exceeded in severity anything
in the history of the territory, Great
loss Of cattle can only be prevented by
the ranges being cleared OF snow by
wind.
Stockholders of the Boston Pacific bank
brought two suits against the Pacific
bank in order to test the question
whether the new stock and old and new
assessments on the stock do not consti-
tute indebtedness on the bank.
Libby Rattle, student OF the state
normal school at Edenboro, Pa, for a
year or two past, was arrested on the I'd
inst, at her brother-in-law's in Cleve-
land, for the murder of her illegitimate
babe. Her sister Sarah was arrested as
accessory.
The sexton of the Episcopal church on
the corner of Prince and Thompson Sts.,
New York, found three robbers in the
act of leaping from the windows, and he
soon learned that they had cut eight
pictures from the frames and drank the
communion wine.
A Chicago dispatch of Feb. Sd says:
At noon to-day snow began falling
heavily and continued nearly the entire
interferred with. No trains westward
very serious and some lines are block
AIDED.
When iute is reached in the tariff bill,
Representative Page will move to reduce
the rate from that fixed by the committee
of ways and means, SIS per ton, to $8
per ton, and also to reduce the rates on
iute butts from S6 per ton to So per ton.
On quicksilver, he will move to place
rate of Is cents per pound.
A horrible story comes to the Atlanta
Constitution, from Marietta, of a young
woman giving birth to an illegitimate
child, then killing the babe, and remain
ing in bed with the decaying body for
eight days. A little brother, who cooked
for the sister, and her father, were the
| only occupants of the house.
Forty-seven Hungarians, arrested for
| completely in the railroad war at Bangor,
| Pa, have brought suit against the super
intendent of the Lehigh & Lackawanna
| railroad, who made the complaints, the
| Justice who issued the warrants, and the
constable who served them, charged with
| false imprisonment in each complaint.
| The complainants claims $1,000 damages.
A thousand desperate contra bands are
| operating along the northern border Of
| Mexico. From the American railway
Station in Texas a large quantity of goods
were recently smuggled across the Rio
| Grande. Tue Mexican custom officers
captured the smugglers and seized the
property near Lampasas, but another
{ band of contrabands came along and the
result was the killing of three officers and
recapture of the goods.
: A Cincinnati dispatch of Feb. 4th says:
Two weeks ago the coal shoYellers at
/ Harper's rolling mills, Newport, KY,
struck against a reduction of wages
/ Harper supplied. their places with Gin.
/ cinnatiMnen. Tonight these men, on the
way to their work, under escort of the
police, were attacked and beaten with
| stones. The chief of police and two po-
licemen were hurt, but not seriously.
The mob at last accounts numbers ovel
1000.
A dispatch from Empire City of Feb
I,4th says: The steam tug Fearless has
arrived from the wreck of the Taco
ma. Nine of the crew were lost
and First Assistant Engineer GRAM
died after getting ashore. The ship is
completely broken up. Nothing can be
saved from the wreck. Five bodies were
recovered and will be buried to-day
Engineer Grant was buried yesterday
Nothing can be seen Of the wreck bnt
the top of the cylinder at low water
Seven men were lost off the fore yard
when the mast went overheard.
A Quebec dispatch of Feb. 1st says:
sale was made to day, subject to clea
proof of title, of the large estate of th'
) late @. B. Hall, of the Montmorenc,
mills. This comprises the large mills Oh
J the Montmorency river at the foot of th,
J falls, below here, all the dependencies
including the house of the late Duke o
Kent, father of Queen Victoria. the mill
and timber limits on the Rimouski river
IT'S miles below, on the south shore; tn,
, Giorondeau property, near to Habosha
go miles above here, on the south shore
the extensive timber limits on the rive
st. Maurice, 800 miles northwest, on th
, north shore of the Radner; the iron forge
near Three Rivers, 125 miles above thi
| city: the timber limits on the Gatical
and Desert rivers, $50 miles forth of th
| Ottawa and Jean De Terre river, will
Kakabonga limits All this was bough
!, by syndicate with Lazenreal at th
head, on behalf Of French capitalists, fo
: 50, ,000, 900.
: A Washington dispatch of the ID ms
: saws: The Times severely condemned th
! action of the house committee on eoir
. age yesterday, involving the resolutio
to suspend the coinage of silver. Thi
V makes it certain that no action WI
i, be taken at the present session to put
f. stop to the wasteful and mischieyiou
g accumulation of deprecated silver do
: lars in the hands of the government
f Their action is all the more surprisin
d because it has been shown in the mos
t explicit manner by the secretary of th
q treasury's recent letter, that there
9 ne room for any more silver dollars t
d be stored in the treasury vaults. Th
!. most serious difficulty is found at Sa
# Francisco, where there are some s.
s hundred and eight tons of silver, tw,
" thirds of which are standard" dollar