The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-12-01
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY.
BY rELEeRAPH no DArR.

BY TELEGRAPM TO DATE.
Lawrence Wilmon Of Illinois has been
appointed judge Of the court claims.
The president has pardoned Sergeant
Mason, who attempted to shoot Guiteau.
John Chissolm, for the murder of his
wife, was hanged in the Essex county
Jail, New York, Nov. 22d.
Two steamers collided on Lake Geneva
recently, between Eyian and Quiry.
Twenty passengers were drowned.
On Nov. 26th New York city cele-
brated the-one hundFedth anniversary OF
the evacuation Of the British troops.
Business failures for the week ending
November 23d throughout the United
States and Canada, were 247 against 235
the previous week.
The library of the late Henry @.
Murphy of Brooklyn, it is announced,
will be sold during the coming winter.
It is valued at 500 900. although it con-
sists of only 5000 volumes.
Ellen Reed, wife of Charles 81. Reed,
counsel for the assassin Guiteau, began
suit for divorce in the Chicago courts on
| the ground of failure to support. Reed
was formerly states attorney at Chicago.
Governor Crosby, of Montana, in his
annual report to the secretary of the in
terror. urges that polygamous Mormons
be not only disfranchised, but debarred
| from entering government lands, there
| by preventing the spread of Mormonism
in the territory.
The masons have stopped work on the
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shaft for the winter at the height of 410
feet. At this elevation it is the loftiest
| structure on the continent, and, with
very few exceptions, in the world. When
completed it will be $50 feet high.
| Patrick William OBrien, the Irish
giant, and Christian D. Dunz, German
| giantess, were married in Pittsburg,
Nov. ooh. The ceremony was performed
In the German. Evangelical church, and
was witnessed by large concourse of
people, including the mayor and council
of Pittsburg, the mayor OF Allegheny,
John Mccullough, Margaret Mather.
Aztec Indians, and snake charmer.
The supreme court at San Francisco
has affirmed the judgment of the lower
courts In the case of Wheeler, the
strangler of Adella J. Tilson, his sister
n-law. He has been sentenced to be
hanged Saturday, Dec. 1st. Wheeler
will be brought before Judge Feral and, !,
for the third time since the murder, the
sentence of death will be passed upon
him.
A special from Hickman, Kentucky.
gives an account of the horrible double
murder of Hillman King and wife, an
old respected couple. Their son Arthur
visited the house and found his mother
dead, in pool of clotted blood. He
gave the alarm, and the neighbors found
the father in the barn, covered with
shucks and partly eaten by rats. A Ger
man peddler is suspected. The house
was robbed of $4,000.
A Salt Lake dispatch of November
21st says: In an interview to-day David
Bockholdt, county clerk of this county,
and a poiygamist, announced that
he will not give up his Office; and that
the election held last August, under the
auspices of the commisson, whereat his
successor among others was chosen was
mere farce, to which he should pay no
attention. A large number of other
polygamist officers are holding over in
the same way, io disregard of the elec.
|
law is unconstitutional, and the action OF
the commission under it invalid. And
since the newly elected Mormons are
committed to the same view, and will
not bring suits to oust to polygamists
the latter seem to have the best of the
situation.
A Fort Benton dispatch of November
23d says: A daring robbery occurred last
night at T. G.. Power & Bros store
about IL p. M. While Mr.. Stark was
clearing mp the work of heavy day {
business, he was asked by two strangers
who called at the rear door, the price oil
ticket to st. Paul. On being informed
the price. one of the men said, "I'll take
first class ticket" pulling out hun
dred dollar bill and giving it to Stark
who opened the drawer to make change
exposing number of bills. Just as he
did so, with his back to the strangers
he was dealt a heavy blow on the ear an6
knocked partly down, followed quickly
by another that sent him to the floor IN
conscious. The robbers took about S7O'
from the drawer. ard made their escap,
before Stark revived. Officers are il
pursuit. Stark is pretty severely il
, jured, and has been confined to hi
room all day.
A Laconia, N. g., dispatch of Noy
25th says: This morning residents wer
startled by the story of terrible trage
:, | dy which occurred at 4 o'clock. s. I
Andrews, neighbor of James Ruddy
aged forty years, and employed ct tn
Laconia car works, was alarmed by
woman screaming. He aroused his sol
}, and hurried to Ruddy's house, whenc
'e the screams proceeded. They found Mrs
Ruddy, aged 36 years. lying on th
ground beneath the front window
through which she had leaped. She wa
bleeding profusely, and said she ha
been cut all. to pieces. She was prop
erly cared for, assistance was obtaine
and the door of Ruddy's house force
in when flames burst forth and an alarr
was sounded. The fire was quickly e1
tinguished and the bodies OF Ruddy an
his only child, one and half years ole
4 were found lying on the kitchen foo
both cut in terrible manner and cover
ed with the contents of q feather be
which had been saturated with kerosen
=. and set on fire. The bodies were so iii
- figured by flames as to be nearly pa
recognition. In the bedroom was foun
'e the trunk of the lifeless body of Mr.
d Ford, which was identified by her hui
y band. One of her limbs had been chol
<, ped off, and the remaining leg was boun
% to the Womgn's BODY with clothes lin