The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-01-20

M Evarts president.
The house elections committee declared
no election in the second Mississippi dis
trict.
The census shows Cleyeland's popula-
tion to be 1913, ,000-a gain in one year of
5000.
An association for the preservation of
Niagara Falls has been formed in New
York.
The finest block in Des Moines, Iowa,
was burned on the night of the 18th; loss
$500. 900.
duced the rate on fence wire from one
cent to three-fourths of AGENT per pound.
President Boice, of the wrecked City
bank of Jersey City, was locked in cell
on the I2th, being unable to secure bail.
At meeting of pig iron representatives
held in Pittsburg, the organization of the
Western Pig Iron association was COM
pleted.
Dispatches from the southern part of
Illinois say an earthquake shock WRsfelt
over the state on the 18th. It extended
into Kentucky.
Judge Graham in the superior court of
New York, adjourned hearing the case of
the Passion play to the seventeenth by
consent of the counsel.
The grand jury is investigating the star
| route jury bribery cases. Frank H. Hall,
charged with bribing the colored juror
Brown, is under examination.
E. b. Washburne, ex-minister to
France, was painfully though not seri-
| ously injured by being thrown from a
horse near San Antonio recently.
The tobacco manufacturers have ap-
| pointed committee to remain in Wash
| ington to make such representations per
| sonally to the committee and congress as
| the business requires.
| The maritime exchange of New York
| protests against the passage of the pend
ing bill in congress to transfer the ad-
ministration of the revenue cutter service
to the navy department.
The court of claims decides that re-
| tired officers of the army were not ex-
empt from the provisions of that section
of the revised statutes prohi biting an
officer of the government from prosecut-
ing claims against the United States.
|. Thos. Goodman, general passenger
agent of the Central Pacific railroad, an
nounces his company prepared to furnish
orders for transportation to San Fran
cisco from Havre, France, steerage by
steamer to New Orleans. and then vie
Southern Pacific to San Francisco, third
class, at S65.
/ The Wabash Cannon Ball train was
ditched at Kansas City on the 18th. II
was derailed by the spreading of the
track near Miami Junction. A sleeper
two coaches and baggage car rolled
down the embankment, and the sleeper
caught fire and burned. No one killed
and injuries are generally slight; one OF
two broken limbs.
A Boston dispatch tell of conference
held at Gen. Buffers Office, in which ar
effort was made to organize scheme te
put Butler in the place of Hoar, in the
United States senate. Butler men claim
n1nety-nine democrats in the joint con.
!. vention, and argue thata great many who
won't vote for Hoar under any circum
stances. will vote for Bntler.
A severe electric storm, accompanied
by high wind, which reached a velocity
of sixty miles per hour, prevailed at Den.
yer on the 18th. An electric light tower
185 feet high, was blown over, wreckine
i small frame house which stood in it it.
course. The inmates escaped uninjured
Several buildings were unroofed, and the
walls of number of buildings in course
, of erection were blown down The dam
age is quite heavy throughout the city
, No loss of life is reported.
d Critical examination of Chicago, in
J duced by the Milwaukee fire, shows thai
most excellent provisions have generally
J been made and are enforced to preven
J the spread of fire, and that from thu
manner of construction and the thorough
precautions adopted, the better class o.
hotels are as nearly as possible fre-proof
It is believed that no such disaster a,
that in Milwaukee could occur in Chi
cago, if the present restrictions are OBJ
served Insurance agents report tina
risks in Chicago hotel property are ex
: cesdingly low.
The Anchor line steamer City of Green
Vile, from New Orleans for st. Louis
with TOO hogsheads of sugar and othel
cargo, came in collision on the 18th nea
bayou Goula, ninely-six miles above tht
! city, with theGrande Ecore packet Laurl
Lee. The City of Greenville sank, leav
ing only portion of her texas and pi1o
house above the water. The Laura Lee
took off the passengers and crew of til,
sunken steamer and brought them tt
this city. It is believed the boat and cargo
will prove total loss. No cause is as
signed for the collision. No lives lost
i A Syracuse dispatch of Jan. 18th says
A little group of operators have victim
! lied tine bucket shops out of SO, 1000 t,
SIS, 900 by anticipating delivery of tele
grams and buying grain by using fraud
ulent prices in dispatches from Chicago
Several telegraph piraeies have lately oc
CURED in the city, and it is probable tn
investigation under progress will bring
) to light many scandalous transactions
among them the theft of the dispatcl
sent to this city by Frederick Gebhard
i to Mrs. Langfry at Chicago, which va
published in st. Louis, and the tenor o
} which was exceedingly sickish.
a Boston dispatch of Jan. 18th says
r As an effect Of the prolonged drouth, il
III .nchester, New Hampshire, 1000 opera
4 tives are idle, and mills are shuttIn,
E down. The product of the Maine sa,
E mills is reduced 20, 900 feet. The river
g / are lower than for half century. Mill
0 on the Penohscott will lose over 800, ,000
i Establishments on the Kennebec, An
i droscoggin and Saco is likewise crippled
/ In southeast Maine. hundreds of person
i | were compelled to resort to snow TO
5 | water. and cattle were driven miles b
/ | ponds and bro ks. The Merrimac rive
i, Ia 4Iowar Than ever The great mills q