The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-10-06
LATEST NEWS SUNNI AIRY,
ny TELEeRAPH TO DATE.

A light snow fell at Minneapolis Sept.
2Sth.
The Republicans OF the state of
Nebraska nominated Hon. M. b. Rees
for the supreme court.
Business failures for the week ending
September 29th are 180, as compared
with 1873 the same week last year.
Hon. John Waldo Douglas died sua-
denly at North Lake. He was editor
and publisher of the Pacific in San Fran
cisco.
The strike of coal miners.in the neigh
borhood of Cornellsville, Pa, threatens
to become general throughout that re-
gion.
The Delaware, Lackawanna and West
ern railroad directors have declared the
usual dividend of per cent, payable in
October.
Julien and Jay Eye See, the latter easily
won the race in three straight heats.
Time, 2:19
Colfax Dawson, formerly of st. Louis,
and editor of the Arkansas Agitator,
committed suicide recently. Cause, fnan
cial trouble.
Hart B. Holton was unanimously NOM
mated for governor of Maryland by the
Republican convention of that state,
Sept. 9th.
Crotty, landlord in County Mayo,
Ireland, was shot dead recently at his
residence in Linnery park. He had
been wounded several times.
A Minneapolis dispatch of September
28th says: Rumors are just received in
this city of collision on the Minneapolis
and st. Louis railrad this morning, near
Chasks, in which four persons were
killed and several injured. Full particu-
lars have not yet been received.
An explosion Septeber 29th, at the
California powder works, Steges station,
| the scene of several recent disasters, re-
suited in the death and horrible mang-
| ling of forty Chinese, out of working
force Of forty-two. One white man is re-
ported injured.
I The SanFranciscoMercha Exchange
report that the bark Oregon, from Port
Discovery, W. t., June %. for Esquim-
bo, was wrecked August 20. The crew
was picked up by the British ship
Leicester Castle, bound to this port,
from Newcastle, N. s. W. The captain
was drowned.
It is expected at the navy department
that Lieutenant Harber, who was sent to
Siberia to assist in the Jeanette search !,
and who was afterwards ordered to bring
the bodies of De Long, Amber and Col
Inns, will leave Irkutsk about the 1st of
November next, and will reach the
United States with the bodies some time
in January.
Judge Samuel Hand, referee in the
tax suit brought by the State of New
York against the Western Union Tele-
graph Company has rendered decision
in favor of the state for $178, 1897. This
sum is for taxes for only one year, but
determines the remaining taxes in favor
of the state, making the whole amount
recoverable under the decision from the
company about $685., 900.
The steamer Newbern, which arrived
at San Francisco September 29th from
Guaymas and Mazatlan, brought five
cases of malignant yellow fever, includ-
ing the second officer, who was lying at
the point of death, and who died shortly
after. The vessel was Immediately
placed in quarantine. The steamer has
!
and still another is expected to die at
any moment.
An old mill in Maynard county, Illi-
nois, referred to in all biographies OF
Abraham Lincoln, was burned recently,
with all its contents. It was originally
built in 1929, by VIM. G. Greene, better
known as "Slicky" Greene, who after
ward took Lincoln in partnership, under
the firm name of Greene & Lincoln. II
was at this Mill where the store was kept
at which Lincoln met the very early set
tiers. It is stated the property was not
very valuable. It was insured Tor $4,000
Figures for failures for the third quar-
ter of 1888, show great increase in the
number OF mercantile disasters, as COM
pared with last year. The number oi
failures in the quarter just closed ii
1903. with liabilities of So, ,00O, ,000, while
for the same quarter of 1882 there were
, only 1900, with liabilities OF $18, ,OOO.O0
For the first nine months of 1883 failures
were reported to the number of GAO, as
/ against 1897 in the same period last year
Liabilities for the first nine months oi
the present year are 11S, ,000, 900, a:
against $50 900, 900 for 1882. In Canada
failures for nine months of 1888 are ovel
1000 in number. as against 573 in 1882
!, Liabilities for the first nine months O
the present year were 81 ,00O, 900, a!
against So, 900, 900 in the same time las
year.
During the past summer the commits
:, sioner- general of the land Office, has hat
in the states and territories where ther'
are large quantities OF unsold public
lands, large force of special agents on
gagged in detection and investigation o
fraudulent entries, under the pre-
emption, homestead and timber cultur
acts. The reports of these agents revea
such condition of facts, that in al
probability the secretary of the interior
in his annual report, will recommend
repeal, not only of the pre- emption laws
but of the timber culture act, also
j., Among the considerations which it is be
lieved will be ured in this repeal, are
first. thatspractically, the actual settle
can get titles to his farm as soon unde
, the homestead act as under the pre-
. emption law; and, that there is no nee
of two methods to attain the same oh
,r ject; that while the laws remain, the sci
n tier may take advantage of each and ae
y quire title to 4S0 acres of public land
1t by paying cash for $50 acres, and takin
4. the remainder under the homestead an
is timber culture act. quantity, which
g Is suggested, is greater than settle
IS should be permitted to obtain ON sue
y easy terms. Under the present conditio
in of affairs it is claimed that both prt