The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-05-19
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY.
BY rELEGRAPH To DATE.

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Mrs. Grant, the mother of the general,
was buried at Jersey City May y.
Large brick hllns and works were de-
stroyed by fire OF Chicago recently.
| It is believed that President Arthur
| will visit the Pacific coast about August.
George w. Warren, the first mayor Of
Charlestown, Mass, died May 13, aged
70.
The Sunday law is being enforced in
Wilke sbarre, Pa, against the liquor sa-
looms.
The number of emigrants that left Il Q
first week in May for America was
3415.
The Fair divorce suit has created con-
siderable surprise and gossip in Wash
ington.
Sir Thomas Bernard, grandson of the
| last British governor of Massachusetts,
is dead.
| yellow fever at Havana within the past
month.
At Ottawa, Canada, the first state ball
| of the season was given at Rideau hall
May 10th.
Snow is reported to have fallen recent
ly in parts of England and Ireland to the
depth of one foot.
The balance in the u. S. treasury May
II was S130, 900, 900, an increase of
So, ,000, 900 in nine days.
The heads of 100 Shinwaris were taken
to Jelalabad, India, recently, aud ex-
posed on the gates.
The sawmills of Geo. F. Crawford at
Cincinnati were counsumed by fire May
II. Loss, 100000.
A destructive cyclone passed over
Kansas City May 18th, killing three peo-
| pie and injaring many.
Sitting Bull is willing to accept terms
of peace and to live quiet and indus.
trious life in the future.
Bank statement: Reserve increase,
So. .399, 700; banks now hold $5 ,00S 1926 in
excess of legal requirements.
d. G. Hutchins, who murdered w. St.
Lion at Shreveport, La, recently, was
hanged by mob on the 18th inst.
L. Mosely, London money broker,
has failed. Liabilities, 1882 900. Mosely
dealt heavily in Grand Trunk securities.
Business failures throughout the
country for the week ending May 18th
were 156, as compared with 152 last
week.
The Inga, Norwegian bark, was lost
at sea May 9th on account of heavy gals.
The Dutch steamer LeerGom rescued her
crew.
Marriott, the diamond thief, unsuc-
cessfully attempted to obtain his release
through means of writ OF habeas
corpus.
The North German Gazette, alludina
to the recent debates in the reichstag,
accuses the progressists of repub'
licanism.
Lieut.. Tittini, an italian officer, com
mitted suicide in New York May 13
Disappointed in love affairs seems to be
the cause.
A bust of the poet Coleridge will b.
placed in Westminster abbey. An
American admirer of Coleridge's works
bears the cost.
Col. Torres had fight with the
Apaches recently, killing eleven and
wounding a number. Five of his owr
soldiers were killed.
Angelo Cornetti, the italian murdere,
i, of Daniel Cash, fellow convict at Sins
Sing, December 81, 1881, was hanged ir
the prison yard this morning.
Two German citizens of Chicago re
Gently fought duel in one of tn,
suburbs with broadswords. One of tn,
: duelists was cut severely about tn
head.
Amasa Stone, the founder of Adelber
college and largely interested in rail
roads, committed suicide by shooting
himself at his home in Cleveland. Ma.
18th.
: glove fight occurred at San Fran
cisco recently between Jack McAulit
and Johnny Williams. the latter colorea
for purse of 800. The prize wa
awarded to Williams.
Charles Walker, an English solicitor
committed suicide in Union depot, Kan.
sas City, May 13. He had just come from
Liverpool and was on his way to Colo
:. RADIO to visit bi biother.
The st. Louis fast tobacco train, loom
prising eleven cars, carrying the first to
, bacco for this city under the new stam
: law, arrived IN San Francisco May 1C
t hours and five minutes.
. William Conners. (white), aged &c
= who shot dead two men and cut tw,
: others during drunken quarrel at Glen
g mary, Tennessee, was lynched May LIT
by negro miners. After he was hange
the body was riddled with bullets.
Efforts are being made by easter
: spectators to lease large tract of Ian
Q containing 5000, 900 acres, from th
! Cherokee nation. They want it TO
/ grazing purposes. and as high as S130
;. 600 has been offered for the privilege.
George Shoermer met with frightfr
death near Kankakee, ILL.,, recently.
!. team attached to riding plow ran away
> throwing him under the implement
= The circular cutter cut off all his rib
!. close to the backbone, and the plow poir
tore his jaw out.
It Recently large Chinese gang worl
o ing on the mainland near Lytton, B. g
4 assaulted the foreman aud three othe
h white men, iDiuring one seriously.
i. night, armed white men proceeded |
= the camp, attacked the Chinese, burne
3. their cabins, injured several badly an
70 killed one.
The steamer Mississippi was entirel
,r destroyed by fire while at her wharf
It Seattle, early Sunday morning, Ms
IL 18th. Chief Engineer Knapp was burne
at to death and carpenter by the name
le Hogan killed by falling timbers. an
m several Others injured About 800 fe