The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-04-14
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY.


/ MALb NIdCE, ku0 W61l A0OWH sporting
man, died at New York, April 9th.
George Tucker was killed by his
brother at Lebanon. KY, April 9th.
| VIM. Berg, q noted musician, died of
heart disease at New York, April 7th.
The Marquis of Lorne expresses a de-
sire that his term be extended another
year.
! Herr Most. the socialist, intends visit
ing the Pacific coast before he returns to
Europe.
Jay Gould's steam yacht Atlanta was
successfully launched at Philadelphia
on the 7th:
At Newbern, N. c., on the 9th.
boiler explosion killed the engineer and
fireman and two others injured.
A heavy watersprout at. Nashville,
| Tenn, on the 9th, flooding the streets
and doing considerable damage.
The remains OF the late Judge Nc
Comas and wife, recently killed by In
dians, were buried at Fort Scott, KS,
April 9th.
John A. Wilson, wife and two daugh-
ters, were burned to death in house
three miles from Hartwick, Otsego
county, N. Y, April 9th.
In quarrel between Sergeant Willis,
colored, and Private Boyd at Fort Hall,
ID. T., recently, the former shot the lat
ter with an army rife, killing him in
stantly.
| The funeral of the late Assistant Chief
Engineer Ross, who was fatally injured
by the gas explosion at the Palace hotel.
San Francisco, recently, took place on
Sunday, April 9th.
Schooner Marion arrived at Philadel-
phia April 9th from Hayti. The mate
and steward are down with fever. The
captain died on the voyage. Yellow
fever, or Haytian fever, is said to be the
| disease.
A Geneva dispatch of April 9th SAYS:
The confagration at Vallerbes, in the
canton of Vaud, destroyed 145 houses
with the postoffice. in which important
securities were deposited. Twelve hun.
dred persons were made no meless.
The Nashville college for young ladies.
one OF the largest Methodist educational
institutions in the south, has suspended
recently on account of the prevalence of
scarlet fever. The smallpox is unabated,
and seven new cases are reported.
A shocking murder occurred at West
Union, W. Va, April 9th. Barney Doyle
and daughter, who were known to keep
money about the house, were killed by
robbers, and another daughter badly
beaten. Five men were arrested on sus-
picion, and threats of lynching are
heard.
| A Greenville, Texas, dispatch of April
8th says: About 2 o'clock this morning
the end house of three story brick ho-
tel fell, burying the inmates between it's
walls. Fifteen persons are known to
have been killed. A few others escaped
unhurt. The ruins took fire and many
bodies were burned in the flames.
A severe wind, rain and hail storm pre-
vailed in central and southwestern
Arkansas on the night of the 5th, dong
considerable damage to buildings, fences
and trees. The cyclone at one place de-
veloped such force that the wind lifted
passenger coach off the track and sent
it down the embankment. Several per-
sons were injured. but none seriously.
The American Development company
of San Francisco has incorporated with
capital stock of SIS, 900, 900. The OBJ
iects of the organization in nclude almost
every branch of business, the most i'm
portant being the construction of tele-
graph lines, bridges, and wagon roads,
and carrying general banking business,
besides the Improvement and construc-
tion of railroads.
It is estimated by ersons thoroughly
familiar with the subject that under the
new law reducing letter postage and
regulating the pay of postmasters the
receipts of not more than one office in
every foEr, on general average. will be
IN excess of the postmasters' salaries
under the existing law. It is said that
all postoffices, however small, will con-
tribute about two-ffths of their receipts
to the government.
A Braidwood. Ills, dispatch of April
9th says: he verdict of the coroner 8
jury in the case of the miners drowned
> in the Diamond mine recite the facts and
states that no blame can attach to any
one. as the accident was such as is liable
to happen to any mine under like cir
cumstances. The shaft has been open
i, for volunteers to continue the search
since Mond..y, but as none appeared the
work of taking up the track, rails and
other property in the mine began yester.
day with view to the abandonment oi
the shaft
The London Pail Mall Gazette points
out that the bomb explodes every week
7 in Italy, and that France, Germany,
Russia and Austria are familiar with Its
sound, and that no one can see the direc
tion of popular tendencies across the At
lantic without seeing before long thai
dynamite may be commissioned against
the millionaires of the United States
The English people in general canno
view it in this light. in their unreasona
:. BILE and panic stricken frame of mind
and are convinced that Americans are, ir
great part, responsible for it all.
I A Tombstone dispatch of April 9th
4 says: Senior Prieto, Mexican consul, is il
q receipt of information that several per
L sons, including five Americans, were
+ murdered by Apaches ten miles from
2 Ures, Sonora. yesterday. Two hundred
o Papago Indians. armed and equipped
Ne are ready to move on short notice. Th,
Papagoes are skillfu1 trailers, goot
fighters and hereditary foes of th,
= Apaches. Superintendent Jim Findla,
IN telegraphs that twenty mounted men ar
St now awaiting orders at Harshaw. New
le from Clifton, Globe, Tucson. Wilcox
i Bowie and other points indicate grea
sr activity in the work of organi ing com
le panies of rangers. Indians attacked th
ranch of Don Juan Elias, near the Sal
Pedro custom house. Wednesday an
y run off large amount of stock. In re
b. treating to Canea they encountered q de