The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-06-02
LATEST MEMS SUMMARY

bridge May 10Th.
Dinah John died recently Is onondat
go, N. T., aged 100 years.
The Northern Pacific track = itlln
twenty-eight miles of Helena.
At Havana twenty-two deaths occukred
from yellow fever insone week sacently.
/ War is pr6dictsd batween France
and China for the possession az Ton
quin.
General Thomas has been appointed
governor for Paris, vice General Sabatier.
deceased..
i fire recently In tue town Of Aster-
ronaield, Holstein, Prussia, destroyed
so houses.
The Tabor milling company's stamp
mill at Leadyille was burned recently.
Loss. $50. 900.
Duluth has gold and silver excite
ment, rich ores being found in the CEN
ter of the town.
Travel across the great bridge span
ming East river began May 25th, at the
rate of 5000 per hour.
The Swedish ministry has resigned, in
consequence of defeat in the diet on the
army organization bill.
Eight thousand emigrants. most of
them Mormons, have passed through
Hull in the past few days for America.
An 10000 acre purchase of land in
the Panhandle of Texas by an English
syndicate, is reported. Price, S., ,000,-
600.
Alexander III, Gear of all the Rus
sias, was crowned at Moscow, May 9th.
Great rejoicing over the event among
the people.
A conspiracy against the Turkish gov
ernment has been discovered at Van.
Three hundred persons were arrested for
connection with it.
The boiler of the steamer Pilot explod-
ed in San Francisco bay, May 25th, kill
ing and drowning number of persons
and iniuriag others.
At Philadelphia, Charles and Burd
Milliken, brothers, were drowned while
fishing recently. One went to the assist
ance of the other.
The market buildings and large sec
tion of the business part of the village of
Uxbridge, Ontario, were burned re-.
Gently. Loss. $50, 900.
San Francisco is having a boom in
N ining stocks, Hale and Norcross main
tanning the lead, having touched $40.
One year ago it was quoted at 20 cents.
The emperor of Germany has issued a
decree ordering the 10th and 11th of
November next to be observed as the
40Oth anniversary of the birth of Martin
Luther.
The first accident since the opening OF
l 4l1o ro~, Oaa,IrraI Nov 0Skh a
man with dog in his arms fell from the
west side of the bridge into the water.
He was rescued.
|. A colored man named Willis Shannon
and three boys named Harry Cass, Geo.
Talbot and Harry Snodgrass, were
drowned recently at Martins ferry, W
Va, together with two horses.
At Louisville, the graves of confeder
ate dead were quietly decorated Satur
day afternoon, May Goth. There were nc
, ceremonies, other than q prayer by
Bishop Dudley and the singing o
hymns.
The millers' national association hele
recently in at Milwaukee, give publicity
TO the wheat crop estimate, which prom
ises for the whole wheat belt of the
United States yield of 373, SOC, ,00'
, bushels for 1883.
A Berlin dispatch of May rs says:
law student here has been shot and kille'
in duel. A captain and lieutenant in
the army also fought duel, in which 1
/, shots were exchanged, and the lieutenan
9 mortally wounded.
: Mrs Helen M. Roberts died at Sa
, Francisco May 25th. Deceased was
y 1 Is nd Nf rro
Mrs. Roberts came to California on tn
steamer which brought the news of tn
admission of California to the Union.
Irishmen of Galveston are raising
fund for the benefit of the widows ant
children of the men recently executed
in Dublin for the Phoenix Park murder
4 Seven hundred dollars is already sub
scribed, and the intention is to make
$1,000.
A mob in attempting to break in th
! Jail at Mt. Sterling, KY, recently, wit
the intention of lyn ching some of th
prisoners, were charged upon and drive
back by company of the state militia
II and several of the mob seriousl
d wounded.
i i A certificate of incorporation of th
~ | OOutuW6SbcEA anO ACl0puOA
:. company was filed at New York city re
: Gently. The lines Of the comp any are
o run between Saratoga and Albany, N. 7
across the country southwesterly to Ga
weston and Austin, Texas, and also
pass through Little Rock. Arkansas. Tt
= capital stock is fixed at 81, ,000. 900, d
o vided into 20, 900 shares.
J. A Visalia (Cal) dispatch of M4y oct
e says: About6 o'clock last evening, as .
= M. Harlan, of the Western Union Tel
q graph Company, was returning from
r buggy ride with the wife, o son aged
: wears, and daughter aged 6 years,
% Levi Elliott, Elliott met the party at Il
Le entrance to his premises. and exclairnlr
r s'You - -! I've caught you
81 opened fire with q revolver on Harlal
g Harlan shielded himself with the boo
9 of the little girl. who received bull
's in the breast and died in few minute
or Harlan was wounded in the right han
- ~ the left wrist and the hip. After frin
~ Elliott either shot himself or was shot
~ ~ Harlan through the heart, expiring il
: stantly. It is difficult to determine whit
was the case. but from Harlan's mann
ID and the finding of two pistols near Il
n: scene of the affray, it is believed Harris
be shot Elliott. Harlan, after the shootin
ut went to drug store, where his woun
were dressed. He was then taken by &
sheriff to the Jail, where he is now CO
is fined. The affair has caused quite an e
ho element and threats of lynching Harl
a. aro ,.oda 10 lne ranouk