The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-01-27
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AT Paterson, n. j.. forty power-loon
weavers in the silk mill of Hamil & Bootl
have struck because the firm required
the weavers to run two looms each.
Darlington & BarkerYille, of Rich
mond, commission merchants and dealers
in tobacco, failed. Liabilities, $l20, 600
Assets, it is claimed, will pay Is cents on
the dollar.
Louisville Germans have cabled the
president of the reichstag, at Berlin.
Is, 900 marks, first installment, for con-
tributions for the relief of sufferers from
/ floods on the Rhine.
Arguments we're heard in the superior
court of New York as to the settlement
of the orders in the Western Union cases
involving the transfer of $15 900, 600
stock alleged to be illegal.
Ten thousand dollars has been sub
scribed in Cincinnati for the relief of the
flood sufferers in Germany. One or two
balls and benefit performances at theaters
will be given to swell the fund.
Smallpox patients under treatment at
Baltimore on Saturday last, 463, out of a
population of 100000. The disease pre-
walls in wards away from the business
Pos eAOA VI sAO O4tJ' 4A0 OISSaSo 10 LOW
| under control.
Representative George of Oregon is
laboring with the fish commission to
have large number of German carp sent
out of the breeding grounds to stock the
lakes and rivers of the Pacific coast It
is expected the first installment will be
sent out soon.
Smallpox has broken out in the lumber
camps near Rat Portage. Several fatali-
ties are reported and about 10 cases are
known in the valley of ST. Herbert, nine
miles from Winnepeg, and the surround
ing country. The government has sent
out nurses and medical men.
In an interview about the passion play
certainly produce it somewhere, if not in
New York city. am pestered with ap-
plications for its production in twenty
other places; but desire to start with It
in New York. in my own theater."
Buffalo is excited over the arrest of
Thos. Waldron, or Brother Frank" on
charge of the rape of ia girl aged years.
He was director of the Brothers college,
well known Catholic school for girls.
The mother got the story of the affair
from the girl, who was suffering intensely.
The man is So years old.
The Herald's Richmond special saws:
There is considerable disappointment
here on account of utter excluslveness of
the Princess Louise. Not even a dozen
people have had good look at Queen
Victoria's daughter. This, however, is
partly forgiven on account of the fact
that the princess is indispvsed.
A Trenton dispatch of the 18th SAYS:
Rev. John Dewitt Miller, in opening
proceedings In the house to-day, prayed
that no member might be forced to ex-
plain to an inquisitive constituency when
he returned, how, having come to Tren-
ton, he went back richer than the salary
of $500 received for the legislative ses-
sion.
A Richmond dispatch of the 18th says:
The Marquis of Lorne was waited on by
the mayor and citizens to-day Princess
Louise was absent from the reception
owing to the fatigue of travel She drove
through the city in the evening however.
Gov. Cameron could not pay his r. spects
owing to smallpox in his family. The
princess and party leave tomorrow for
Charleston.
The Chicago Times of the 18th SAYS:
The sparring exhibition at San Francisco
between Mace, his New Zealand protege,
and several local bruisers, took place at
the Metropolitan Temple, which, in fact,
is church where services are held every
Sunday, and frequently during the week.
Prize fighters in search of q safe battle
ground would probably find San Fran
cisco desirable grounds.
New York papers say the news from
France is a good deal discussed, and the
apprehension is expressed that SER
ious troubles are ahead. the causes of
which are not political, but financial. It
is remembered that the anticipated ex-
cesses of taxes in France have steadily
declined each month, and that the def
cheney for the financial year has been
estimated at from 0,000, 900 to $50 ,OOO,-
600 francs.
Local workmen refuse to erect scaf-
fold for the execution of Poff and Barrett,
sentenced to be HANGED for the murder
of Thomas Brown. Marwood, the execu-
tioner, has arrived, accompanied by car
penters from Dublin, who will construct
the sc fold. Upon the arrival of Mar
wood at Limerick, en- route TO Tralee,
the police had great difficulty in protect
ing him from the crowd at the railway
depot.
It's rumored in Chicago that Horace
White, formerly editor of the Chicago
Tribune, under whose management it
went upon the Independent tack in poll
tics, Is anxious to take up his home in
Chicago again and that with plenty of
backing he is trying to purchase the
Times newspaper. A million dollars ia
said to be the figure offered, but thus far
it has been refused by Mr. Storey. who
is said to want q million and quarter.
Rev. DR.. Hicks, spiritual adviser of
Chas. Guiteau, executed legal instru-
ment transferring to Surgeon General
Crane, all his right and title to Guiteau's
body. The paper recites the clause of
the will by which Guiteau bequeathed
his body to DR.. Hicks, and bears evi-t.
denee of acknowledgement before ius-
tice of the peace. Surgeon General
Crane is unable. at present, to give any
information of the final disposition of
tue assassin's remains.
A Clinton, ILL.,. dispatch saws: At a
country church the other night, as the
preacher was dispensing his sermon in
shirt sleeves, to an excited audience
who shouted, "Glory r. GLORY r in the
foreground, number of young men were
having solid game of poker in remote
corner OF the structure, while, in another
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