The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-06-23

S25, 900.
A landslide has occurred in Khezanare,
Bukormow, by which eleven houses were
destroyed.
Three thousand FIVE hundred men are
now employed on the Oregon railroad
extension.
At Washington. on June 14th the jury
in the star route trial gave verdict Of
mot guilty"
The police of Philadelphia and Boston
are raiding the Chinese gambling houses
in their midst.
a boy named Beidin was killed and
eaten by q bear IN aswood at Annoyance.
N. b., recently.
There were II 300 bales of New Zea-
land and Port Phillip wool sold in Lon
don in one day recently.
The Massachusetts Medical Society by
vote of sixty-two to fifty-eight has de-
clined to admit women to membership.
A dispatch from Mexico says the rich
ness of the new gold diggings in Lower
California has been officially confirmed.
The Michigan supreme court decides
that poolselling cannot be punished un-
der the Detroit city ordinance against
lotteries.
The Turks have expelled from the
district of >Mataich many Armenian
families, whom they treated with the
greatest inhumanity.
Mr.. Houston, president of the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company, reports the
earnings of that company for the past
year at per cent on the capital stock.
Advices from the Arctic whaling feet
to April 22d, report the Orca with 800
barrels of sperm oil, Belvidere with 315,
Fleetwing with 800 and the Mabel with
90.
At Kansas City, June 10Th, John Ray
sen, q mechanic, aged "a, shot and killed
Ada Thorne, inmate OF q bagnio on West
Third street, handsome girl aged Is.
Jealousy the cause.
A fire broke out at San Mateo, CAL,
June 10Th. A lack of water prevented
| the fire being got under control until the
loss reached 800, 300: insurance, $40, 800.
Ten buildings burned.
The president appointed Henry Esher-
son as register of the land Office at La
Crosse, Wisconsin, and Elisha W. Davis
as agent of the Uintah Indians in Utah
1
| pires July 1st.
A London dispatch of june 18th says:
At an explosion Of magazine of Sou
tari, caused by lightning, $50 persons
were killed and 53 wounded. Two hun
dred barrels of gunpower and 5000 car
tridges were exploded.
The first star route trial lasted three
months, the second six months, and the
| government was engaged in the case
about two years. The total cost of the
trials is estimated at half million. Ex-
penses of witnesses, 5000, 900.
The attorney generals decided that
the question whether there are already
two or more mem bers of one family in
the public service, as provided in the
civil service act. is not to be con
sidered by the civil service commission.
Monroe, the dime novel publisher, has
sued Bennett, of the New York Herald
for libel. In his complaint he alleges
that his family has been broken up and
his wife's affections alienated by commu
nications in the personal" column OF
that paper.
Private advices from Vera Cruz say
yellow fever is very bad. The authori
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physicians and newspapers there viii
give no account of the number of deaths
occurring. The fever is reported to be
of the intensely malignant type.
All that was mortal of Nicholas
Lyman Dukes, the man whose presence
} caused family discord and disgrace ane
bloodshed and who was shot by yount
Mutt, son of the man whom Dukes muir
dered at Uniontown was hidden from
sight in Churchill cemetery june 18th
At Mansfield. La, June 17th. Rev
| Ben T. Jenkins shot and killed Rev. j
Lane Borden, president of Mansfield
!. college. It is claimed that Border
seduced young lady friend of Jenkins
and the latter gentleman resorted TO til
, pistol to avenge the unfortunate lady
| wrongs.
At Rockford, Coosa county, Ala, Jor
} dan Corbin, negro, entered the hous
; of peaceful citizen, Benjamin Garden
t and shot him while lying on bed. Hi
wife jumped up, and the negro shot he
down. A son started to give the alarm
r and he also was shot. All were instant
~ killed.
/, The German government has resolves
| W puTCuho6 SlA lhAlWny5, AAGAuNlnS Va
upper Silesian and Berlin and Ham
!. burg roads, at an estimated cost OF 1916,
900 900 marks. excluding the Berlin an
. Hamburg roads, for which special n
engagements will be made. Possession &
these roads will enable the governmen
/, to control the whole system of railroad
: in the kingdom.
Members of the Master Mason's Asst
T citation and their foremen are bein
! sworn in as special policemen in antici
patton of trouble with disaffected men
;. bers of the bricklayers' union. It
: understood that these men are not salts
J fed with the result OF the recent strik
= and are increasing the membership
: the union and laying plans for q removs
; of the trouble early in July.
y The eastern iron manufacturers hay
]. called meeting of all manufacturers
l. bars, rods, bands, hoops, ovals, plate
}. sheets and other shapes of extra iron, to /
!. held in the rooms of the American Iro
a and Steel Association, Philadelphia, th
: third Thursday in June, for the pul
Ir pose of arranging if possible. ne
IS shcedule of prices to conform with Il
Q changes made by the new tariff law.
n The construction train and FIR
g locomotive of the Northern Pacific raj
le road arrived at Helena, Montana, Jul
Is 18th, amid the shouts and reioicings
ID the people, many of whom had new
g seen o train or heard the screech OF Il
/? iron horse. The day was warm al
r bright, and the great body OF the cit