The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-03-31
Lord Haldon died on March 25th.

Gen. Charles Cruft died of heart dis
ease at Terre Haute, Ind, on the 23d.
A fire in the Catholic cathedral, Brook
lyn. n. Y, destroyed the drapery and
grand altar.
Sigismond Lacroix, radical, was
elected as Gambetta's successor, ON
March 25th.
The bridge across the st. John river,
st. John, n. B., was carried away by the
ice gorge on the 23d.
Oakland, like San Francisco, has an
empty treasury, and no funds to pay its
salaries for the present month.
AtDuluth, Minnesota. March 25th, a
fire destroyed Ii buildings and contents.
Total loss, SAT 800; insurance, $35 900.
Capt. Carey, who commanded the party
of English soldiers with Prince Napoleon
when he was killed in Zuland, died re-
Gently.
Alaska is to have mail route from
Haines to Juneau, distance of $50
miles. The mail will be carried by canoe
monthly.
Williams sewing machine manufactory
was burned al Montreal on March Goth.
Loss estimated at from $500, 900 to
$500, 900.
A statement prepared by the treasury
| departm ent estimates the receipts for the
| fiscal year ending June 80, 1888, to be
$4O5. COO, 900.
| Patton, the brakeman of the Southern
| Pacific train accident at Tehachapi, and
tried on charge of criminal negligence,
was acquitted.
The East Hampton, Mass, Catholic
church, brick building just finished,
was burned March 25th. Loss, $50, 900;
partly insured.
| Frank G. Hamilton, while locked up
in a building at Eldorado, Kan, for
being drunk, set fire to the same and was
burned to death.
VIM. Banks and Green Cunningham,
colored, were hanged at Lafayette, Ga,
on the 23d, for the murder of FL. H.
Rudd last January.
A frightful accident occurred at the
San Francisco gas works on the morning
| of the 23d, in which florence O'Halloran
was burned to death.
Sam Brannan and others. repre- SEN ing O
New York company, propose erecting
smelling and milling works in the Yaqui
river, near Sonora, Mexico.
Commissioners from several little
states in. Central America have under
consideration the terms of projected
federation of their governments.
The issues of standard silver dollars
from the mints for the week ending
March Oath. was $218 ,495; for the cor
responding period last year, $1S8 500.
/ Mrs Helen Hunt Jackson, of Boston,
has been appointed special agent of the
Indian Bureau, to investigate the condi.
tion of the Mission Indians in California.
A Vienna dispatch of March 25th says:
Several localities at the foot OF Mt. Avart
we're destroyed by snow aYalanches. IT
is ste ted that 100 persons were killed and
: 100 injured.
: A Braidwood, Illinois, dispatch OF
March 25th says: Explorers entered the
Diamond mine tonight for the purpose
of making search, so far as possible,
, for the bodies of the drowned miners.
, A late dispatch says the eruption OF
Mount Etna is increasing in violence. A
: new crater has opened, and the lava
. threatens to overwhelm Nicholas and
) other villages. People are fleeing from
their homes, and troops are assisting to
] save property.
A strong effort is making in the south
toward conversion to Mormonism. A
presiding elder of the Mormon church
has recently arrived in Nashville, Tenn.
and is arranging for the emigration oil
converts to Utah. He says there are
now so Mormon missionaries at work il
: the south.
Iron ore has been offered in the Pitts
burg market during the past few days b.
the Republic Ore company for So 80 pei
: ton, delivered at Cleveland, 81 so PEI
ton less than last year. This, it is be
4 lieved, will break the ranks of the orr
8 producers, who were then united in hold
: ing up the price and fighting the bias
furnace men.
The London Mark Lane Express o
3 March 25th says: In wheat and fou
J, there was only a holiday trade. and price
: were only nominally unchanged. Th
q same may be said of foreign maize. whicl
!. was lower. Barley was in little deman,
y and quiet; foreign, unchanged. Oats
lower; foreign, dull.
/, The statement of the q. s. treasure
i of March oath shows gold, silver and q
q s. notes in the treasury to-day, as fol
It lows: Gold coin and bullion, $182, $40,
|. 755; silver dollars and bullion, $1O6,
e 487 1872; fractional silver coin. $277 ,795,
t 519; total, 1851 ,625, ,3S8 Certificates
outstanding: Gold. SAC. .075 $40; silver
g $50, ,705. $40; currency. SO, ,875, 900.
n Business failures for the last seve
s days, ending March 23d, as reported b.
l. N. c. Dun & Co., of the mercantil
j. agency, number 1916. against 265 las
o week, reduction of 10. New Englan,
i state, 175; middle, SO; western. 81; south
It ern, 80; Pacific states and territories, IL
New York city, 8; Canada, "a. Total
/. 1876.
,t A Winnepeg dispatch of March 24t
If says: Word has reached here of th
Ie wrecking In the latter end of August
a. while going across the Great Slave lax
le from Fort Resolution to Fort Rae, of th
8 British Circum Polar expedition, de
9, tailed to take polar observations las
le year. No lives were lost, but considers
ot BILE hardship was endured. The exped
le ton arrived at Fort Rae, its destination
le September ID. They placed their instru
ments and have taken two observation:
+ A st. Louis dispa ch of March %
of says: Reports of the winter wheat Gro
at from more than 200 counties in thos
=. parts of Illinois. Indiana, Kentucky
% Kansas, Missouri and Texas, where vii
t. ter wheat is grown. show that in Kanss
IN and Missouri the condition is good an
W the acreage fully equal to last yea
le Tennessee and Illinois give fair report
to Kentucky and Indiana. especially th
er latter, show considerable damage; froI