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

Inc nrsC through train on the RlO
Grande brought 200 Mormon converts
to Salt Lake City.
Ingraham and Green, murderers OF
Cash Millet. were hanged by mob OF 35
masked men April 4th. at Hastings, Neb.
Peter Cooper, the venerable philan-
thropist. died at his home in New York
city on the morning of April 3d., aged
| 80.
Charles .DeLesseps arrived in New
York April 9Th. His visit to this coun-
try is in the interest of the Panama
canal.
The East river bridge, connecting New
York City with Brooklyn, is nearly COM
| pleted for the passage of carriages and
pedestrians.
Tarrytown, N. Y, celebrated the CEN
1 tennial anniversary of Washington Ir-
wing, the pioneer of American literature,
on the 4tl inst
A large numberin nof laborers left San
Francisco on the 9th to be employed on
the O. & G. r. r., commencing opera
tions at Redding, Cal.
Verona Baldwin, on trial in San Fran
cisco on the charge of shooting Lucky
Baldwin some time ago,wa acquitted by
the jury on the 9Th inst.
| In the Rhode Island state election re-
Gently for governor, Bourne. (Republi-
can) was elected by plurality Of 1865
votes over Sprauge Democratic candi-
date).
Two colored children, aged five and
six, were burned to death in cabin at
| Shelbyville, Ind, on the 9th inst. Their
mother had locked them in while she
was away.
A ST. Petersburg dispatch of April 9Th
says: The local chief of police and all
others who contributed to- the comfort
| of the. crews of the Jeanette aud Rod
gers have been decorated by the Czar.
| A Rome dispatch of April 9th says:
The powder depot at Passo Correz, for
tions there, exploded to-day. Forty per-
sons were killed, and many injured,
some fatally.
A Tombstone dispatch of April 9Th
says: A letter from Ct. G.. Kennedy, of
Sonora, reports fight between party
of three Americans and Apaches eighteen
miles from Ures. George Watson ,Chas.
Forman and Ed Green composed the
party. The fight lasted some hours, dur
ing which Watson and one Indian were
killed. The whole party would have
been taken but for the opportune arrival
of Mexican troops.
The tenth annual meeting of the Wy
oming Stock Growers association held
at Cheyenne recently report that last
year 220 900 beef cattle were inspected,
an increase of 52,0 900 over the previous
year Also that about one thousand head
were killed by the Union Pac hc road.
| The report further shows that herds OF
breeding cattle are selling 25 per cent
higher than last year. and that $50, ,000,-
000 of Scotch and English capital was
| invested during the year in Wyoming
and Texas.
Recent advices from Colombo, the
capital city of the island of Ceylon, re-
| port that vicious riots occurred lately
between the Buddhists and Papists. The
Catholics seriously objected to areligious
procession of Buddhists, in which was
carried cruci6x surmounted by 6
monkey. The latter combination, which
the Pap1sts held to be an insult to the
Catholic religion, brought about 6
violent contest in the streets, which was
only stopped by vigorous efforts of the
t1oops, who dispersed the rioters and re-
stored peace without bloodshed.
| On April 9Th the government gauge a
the head of Canal street. New Orleans
shows that tie river is even with the
great floods of 1874, and five inches high
er than last year. The water at severa
points along the city front passes oyel
the leyees into the cutters. Severa
small breaks in the levee were closed
and little or no damage is done. The
rain is the heaviest since 1877. Five ant
sixty three one-hundredths inches fell il
three and half hours The town o
Gouldsboro is flooded with from three II
six feet, and the track of the Algiers ant
Gouldsboro dummy line is washed out
, A Panama dispatch of March 27tl
says: Severe and continuous noting j
taking place along the line of the cana
works, originating in race hatred be
tween the Jdmaicans and the Carthag
ians. Some twenty of the former hav
been massacred and the government
finds itself unable to restore order, arm
being independently purchased. As n
, work is going on, and as there is abou
6000 men drinking. a really serious trou
BILE is anticipated on the isthmus, whic
is being rapidly overrun by the dxegs @
, all nations. DeLesseps leaves the 18th
mus to-day for New York. He insist
that the canal will be in fine shape b
3 1888.
At Birmingham, England, the cit
police made q raid upon suspecte
! localities in Ledsam street and discover
ed a Fenians' nitro glycerine factory i
|. full operation. The apparatus for pre-
pairing and mixing the explosive com
pound was constructed on scientific prir
!. ciples, and with all the cunning an
{. ! craft which clearly showed its invento
to be not only q thorough scholar
!; chemistry and machinery. but also a
= adept for expedients for avoidin
notoriety and preventing discovery
!, Among the noteworthy features of th
place was shrewdly devised method fc
carryiny fumes up the chimney and COZ
b suming the odors. It is learned that th
q premises in Ledsam street were take
: two months ago by man named Whit.
9 head, an Irish American, who had sig
q hung out in front of his place indicatin
d that his business was that of pape
|, hanger. Whitehead himself was take
e into custody when the police made th
d descent on the den. ane is now in clos
g confinement. A considerable quaint!
y OF nitro -glycerine was seized by th
e officers at the same time. Informatio
8 is now in the hands of the detectives thl
(, tends to demonstrate that this place
It the central manufactory of explosiv,
i and the most important CleDot of all il