The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-08-18

/ that another murder occurred in West
moreland county recently, Sam McCau-
ley, aged 35, shooting and Instantly
killing his father.
The treasury department had made q
ruling that Canadian tugs. cannot tow
American vessels from Canadian waters
into American waters, beyond the first
American port at which they make entry.
Gov. Crittendon of Missouri, disre-
| garded strong petition for remission
of fine in the first conviction under the
new liquor law, declaring that he should
not break down the work of the courts.
A Paris dispatch of Aug 7th says:
Etienne, member of the chamber of
deputies for Oran, fought duel to-day
! with journalist named Mirabesu. The
latter accused the former of corruption.
/ Mirabeau was wounded.
A piece of almost pure copper, weigh
ing sixty nine pounds, has been found
on farm near Berlan Springs, Michi-
| gan, and ore containing 40 per cent.
of silver was picked up four miles dis
tant.
The abduction of little children in
San Francisco is on the increase. An
|
Chinaman to steal baby sixteen months
had been left for few minutes by its
mother.
A Philadelphia dispatch of Au ust
9th says: Five civil suits, brough by
Chauncy Fl. Fuller, general agent in this
city of. the Chicago Meat company.
against the Western Union Telegraph
company, have been decided by Magis-
trate Lest in favor of the company.
A Matamoras, Mexican, dispatch of
August 9th says: News was received
here to-day of o terrible riot that occur
red at Las Palmas yesterday. Trouble
occurred between American and Mexi-
can laborers employed at the terminus
of the San Luis and Tampico railroad, at
that place. Seven men were killed and
three others fatally, and ten seriously
injured.
The beet sugar business in Delaware
is disastrous failure, and the company
with $12O, 900 capital organized to carry
it on has gone the way of all earthly
things. The managers say that the
trouble was in the beets, that they did
not have sugar enough in them, but
some think that the mischief was done
by inexperience and bad management.
Property owners in Pottsville, Pa, are
disguised to find that they must pay OFF
an old blanket mortgage amounting to
SIT 900, which everybody had forgotten
It covers rs acres in the heart of the
town, was given in 1910, and ever since
has been in litigation of one sort and
another, neglected and forgotten by the
land owners.
A Louisville dispatch of Aug 7th says
Returns from the state election come in
very slowly. Those received indicate
!, that light vote has been polled, with
. no falling off in the comparative demo.
cratic majority throughout the state. Sc
far as heard from counties usually
electing democratic legislators have done
so to-day, while republicans have held
their own in counties generally carried
, by them. The majority for Knott fol
!, governor will be about 40, 900.
) W. J. Footner, general superintendent
of the Northern Pacific Express COM
r pany, arrived in San Francisco August
} 9th. Mr.. Footner has come to this coas
8 for the purpose of setting the express
company in operation on the line of the
, Northern Pacific railroad west of the
Rocky mountains, and to establish agen
c1es at various points on the coast, with
Portland. When all the details arr
completed, it will form one of the larg
: est express companies on the continent
I trolled by any express company at pres
!. ent existing.
: A Chicago dispatch, August 8tn, says
G. Bristol. superintendent of construc
!, ton for the Western Union company, re
: ports increased activity in tying NJ
wires. All the Mutual Union wires wer,
> > tied up with small copper cord at Engle
wood last night, and only released thi
!, afternoon. There were also sixteen o
q Western Union tied on the Fort Wayn
tonight. It is found that ten wires OF
!, the Fort Wayne, four on the Chicago
= Burlington and Quincy, and all of tn
Wabash wires. eighty miles this side O
|. Council Bluffs, were tied together, ant
it will probably require the entire nigh
to release them.
. At a recent meeting of the San Fran
= ;. CISCO board of health to take steps t.
= prevent infection of the port by cholera
. all Asiatic and African ports were de
. clared infected. DIR. Pantry moved tina
) the rules of the board of exemption O
2 vessels from examination by quarantin
officers be amended so as to exclud
= none but vessels from California port
from examination. He said that as tn
: y Northern Pacific railway was about com
. pleted, which would remove Orego
, from its isolated position and connect
directly with eastern cities and ports
1T thus rendering it subject to cholera an
,r other contagious diseases that might
l. brought into it from the east, therefor
a all vessels from there should be exam
1t ined.
q The New York Public of August st
% says: Exchanges last week do not sho'
% any improvement in the condition c
u business. The decrease of SO per CEN
in payments outside of New York, com
. pared with those of the correspondent
week of last year, though not very large
% is enough TO indicate the tendency {
affairs, especially as the decrease appear
:, large at Boston, st. Louis and Bait
l. more, while there is a small decrease 9
l. Chicago and New Orleans sufficient {
3: cancel the gain at Philadelphia and Cir
Is cinnati. There is some appearance {
l. improvement at San Francisco which "
is are glad to be able to attribute to indus
i trial rather than speculative causes, an
ID there is gain at Pittsburg whic
y clearly rejects speculation in oil rathe
m than any improvement in manufactul
is or legitimate trade; but the gener,
tendency Of the exchanges is unfavol