The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-01-13
LA TEST NEWS SUMMARY.
BY TeLEaRAPH TO DATE.

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BY TRLEGRAPH TO DATE.
Wallace Ross will rev Hanlan at Win
nipeg, if the inducements of last yeer are
renamed.
The San Pedro, q sister ship to the
Tacoma intended for the Oregon trade,
sailed from Philadelphia on the Sd.
The Keokuk, Iowa, elevator burned on
1 the night of jan. 4fh. Tt cost $11O, 900
new and had extensive repairs; insurance,
! $50, 900.
Two construction trains collided at
Sumner, Cal, on the Sd, killing one
Chinaman and wonnding several others.
Two fiat cars and one caboose were de-
stroyed.
Well known New York capitalists have
subscribed $50 900 900 TO build q railway
from New York to Hartford, to afford
New England q road to connect with the
metropolis.
The export of -four from San Francisco
during the past year amounts to 1, ,000, 900
barrels, valued at $5 ,000. 900. This is
the largest export of -four known in the
history Of the state.
A circular has been issued by the Cen
tral Pacific railroad stating that orders
for emigrant tickets from Hayra to San
| Francisco, with fare for through trip at
$50, will be furnished on application.
A. J. Decker, agent of the agricultural
department, says Kansas is specially
adapted TO raising sorghum, and that
with improvements in manufacture it
promises to be one of the large sugar
growing states.
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Herald says: In well informed circles
story is now circulating to the effect that
Emperor Wilhelm, on the 22d OF March,
which Ia his 86th birthday, will abdicate
in favor of the crown prince.
Suit has been commenced by the ad-
ministrators of the estate of Cephas NJ.
Woodruff against the New Jersey Central
railroad company to recover $100, 900
damages. Woodruff was killed in the
Parker Greek calamity last summer.
The Springfield, Ills. iron works, will
stop making steel rails and convert the
mill into one of the largest in the coun-
try for heavy plates and other commercial
iron and steel. 1t will cost three-quar-
ters of a million to make the change.
Three colored laborels on the Central
railway extension, near Winchester, Va,
put wet dynamite on the stove to dry on
the Sd inst. 1t exploded and two of them
were blown to atoms. The third was
seriously injured and the house COM
pletely demolished.
d. G. Dudley, vice president of the
Calumet Iron and Steel Comp any of Chi
cago, says those millsJwill close January
10Th for month or six weeks on account
of the low price of nails. About 0,O00
men will be thrown out of employment
on account of this action.
Rev. Titus Coan died at Hiio, Sand
wich islands, on December 2. aged 80.
DIR. Coan was veteran, widely known as
q member of the American missionary
board, and had been known for years as
an apostle of the Sandwich islands, hav-
9 ing been there for over so years and
welded great influence with the peo-
pie.
Geo. P. McConkey was found dead of
Hamilton, Nevada, on New Years night.
At first iG was supposed he had taken his
own life, but subsequent investigation
tends to prove that the killing was a cum
ningly planned murder, with circum.
stances manufactured for the occasion to
' make it seem like suicide.
!. While the northern bound passenger
train was nearing Caliente, CAL, on the
4th inst, Smith, the Los Angeles Nor
mon under life sentence for the murder
of his son, attempted to escape by Jump
ing from the train. He fell in such a
way that the train passed over one leg,
severing it from his body.
Little Thunder and Cading Feathers,
Chippewa chiefs, were in Chicago on
Jan. 4th, en- route to Washington for the
purpose of making trade with the gov.
ernment whereby they can obtain res
ervation at Red Lake and certain agricul
tural implements and utensils necessary
/, for civilized Christian life, such as they
are living. Hitherto thsy have had little
encouragement from the government
} They are accompanied by Father Ignatius
to Massena, missionary. Some 1900 o1
them occupy the reservation.
A Knoxville, Ills, dispatch of JAN 4tt
says: st. Mary's Episcopal school fol
e young ladies' at this place, was burned tt
d the ground this morning Most OF the
hundred scholars were asleep when the
flames were discovered and had barely
time to escape when the alarm was given
Z leaving their wardrobes and property
$ Many escaped 10y ladders. Miss Gillette
of Buffalo, Ills, broke leg. Miss Has
ford, of Dubuque, was seriously injured
by falling from ladder. q. A. Height
F.! ing, fremen, also fell and was Injured
No others were injured and no loss O
life, though at one time it seemed ineyi
table. The building was an imposing
;. three-story brick handsomely furnished
The students were mostly from Illinois
Loss ON building about S25 900, fully in
sured; loss to ladies, in property, abou
as much. The building will be rebuil
d soon and in the Meantime temporary ac-
commodations for the school will b.
used.
A San Francisco dispatch of Jan. 4tl
- says: Since the defalcation of NJ. p. Kay
auditing clerk of Alameda county, wa
made public, bogus warrants aggregatin,
900 have been discovered. It appear
that the knowledge of the false entrie
at was the result of the merest accident, bu
Of for which the fraud would perhaps hav
id never come to light. Among those hold
= ing warrants was the Oakland bank @
~ savings, which discounted them whe
Ie' there was no funds in the county treas
to ury. At the emf of each month state
ne ment of the warrants in its possessio
was sent to the treasurers Office. Th
clerk made the mis- AXE of numb bering tw
of the warrants, so that warrant No. 229
= appeared on the banks list as drawin
On S160, while the treasurers list showed
SO to have been presented for So 90. n
n trace of the missing man is yet fonn'
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