The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-08
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY.
ny rELEeRAPH To DATE.

The Chicago Evening Journal builC
ing was destroyed by fire on Decembe
1st.
:. The new produce exchange g
New Orleans was formerly dedicate
December 1st.
). Decrease in the public debt durin
9 November, 81, ,721, ,676, decrease sine
June 30, $41, ,306, ,146.
eODonne1l, the slayer of Carey, wa
found guilty of murder by the jury an,
the Judge sentenced him to death.
Hon. John J. Carlisle of Kentucy re
ceived the democratic caucns nomina
ton OF the house for speaker of the forty
eighth congress.
The postofice department has adyice
that all mail matter going west over th,
Northern Pacific is now distributed be-
fore reaching Portland.
Exports of specie from the port of New
York since the 1st of January were SIS,
564, ,997. against S44, 184 ,4O1 for the cor
responding period last year.
The excess of exports over imports oi
merchandise during the month of Octo
Der. 1888, was $50, ,O51 ,586; twelve
months ended October 81, $162, ,41O. .944,
Fire at Carbondale, ILL.,, recently
totally destroyed the State Normal uni
versity. No lives were lost. The build
ing was the finest of the kind in the
state.
Bigelow, president of the national col
lege of pharmacy, Washington, d. c.,
and thirty-eight students have left the
institution, in consequence of the admis-
sion of q colored man.
| George J. Goschen, member of parlia-
ment for Ripon, has accepted the speak
ership for the house of commons. and
Speaker Brand retires on a pension from
the government of $4,000.
Secretary Folger has designated Port
land, Oregon, and Port Townsend,
Washington territory, ports to which
merchandise may be shipped in bond in
transit through the United States and
from British possessions.
Secretary Frelinghuysen has received
telegram from the United States minis
ter at Paris, stating that the Official
Journal will publish decree canceling
the prohibition of the Importation of
American pork into France.
A Cairo dispatch of Nov. 9th says the
government has sent note to the con-
suls and powers declaring that no
changes can be legally made in the stat
utes affecting the Suez canal without
fresh concessions from Egypt.
A large portion of the town of Rat
Portage, one hundred miles east of Win
nipeg, was burned recently. Ten busi-
ness houses were destroyed. Buildings
were blown up with gunpowder to check
the flames. The loss is not ascertained.
Notwithstanding the precautions
which the city authorities of San Fran.
cisco are supposed to take, Chinese
lepers manage to find their way there.
DR.. Foye, of the Twenty sixth street hos
pital, reports that two more lepers have
just been admitted, and two others will
be brought in. All of them arrived here
last month.
Fire at Oceola, Fla, Nev. 18th, de-
stroyed two-thirds of the business places
and burned five residences. The fire
occurred at daylight, from the upsetting
of lamp in a store, and driven by the
northwest wind swept around two sides
of the public square, consuming every
thing in its course. Loss, 5000 900. In.
surance, $4,000.
A dispatch from Monroe, Indiana. Nov.
9th, says: Last Saturday Roe Scott.
after two years separation from his wife,
returned to her house near Eaton, IL
miles north of here, aid insisted that
she should live with him again. She re-
fused when he stabbed her to death with
a knife. He then killed the child and
took dose of morphine from which he
died soon after.
Nathan Morris, wealthy Quaker re-
siding near Montgomery, Parke county,
Ind. became crazed by the loss of $50, ,O00
in Chicago options, drove his aged wife
from home and set fire to his residence
and store, totally destroying both. There
was recently purchased stock of goods
in the store valued at $4,000. Morris left
with $125 in his possession, and his
whereabouts are unknown.
Baltimore dispatch of Nov. 30th
says: About noon to-day, Mrs. Rial;
married, living on Biddle street, cut the
throats of her two girl.children, aged
respectively four years and eighteen
months, and cut her own throat. The
children soon died, and the mother.
though yet alive, is not expected to live.
She says she does not want to live. Do
mestic infelicity preyed upon her mind.
Mrs. Riall is about % years old.
A Chicago dispatch of Nov. 28th says:
In the town of Lake this evening Fritz
Ruammel went to house where Emma
Lavouve was employed as domestic,
and after an alteration, shot her in the
head, killing her instantly. He then
turned the revolver to his own temple.
fred and fell dead. Cause, the girl de-
serted him for another man. The man
had wife and four children in Cali
fornia, from whom he was divorced last
year.
In making improvements on Colonel
Hills grave, Plymouth, Mass, recently,
the skeletons of pilgrims who came over
on the May Flower and buried
daring the first winter have been
discovered. A grave which was opened
contained the skeleton of middleaged
man, five feet nine inches in height. In
another grave the skeleton of an elderly
man was discovered. These are the only
graves of the first settlers positively idsn-
tilted. Tablets are to be placed to mark
the location.
Detective Finnegas, of the United
States secret service, now in San Fran
cisco, reports that large quantity of
spurious standard dollars are in circula-
tion. The counterfeit is of white metal.
1t is dipped in silver wash ,and the die and
milling are nearly perfect, but they lack
the ring. In lot of $4,000 taken to
the sub treasury by Wells, Fargo & Co.,
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