The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-11-10
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drowned on the lake Oct. 31st.
There was killing frost, with ice,
throughout Western Tennessee Nov. 1st.
The Earlof Cork and his son, Viscount
Dongannon, are in this country and in
tend visiting the Pacific coast.
It is estimated by the commissioner of
pensions that $40, ,000, 900 will be re-
quired for the payment of pensions the
next fscal year.
The lord mayor of Dublin was attack
ed on the streets Nov. 1st by mob of
Orangemen. In the riot one man was
seriously injured aid others slightly.
John s. Gray, sx-secretary of the har.
Dor commissioners In San Francisco, was
convicted on charge of embezzlement OF
$1,000. The jury was out seven minutes.
General Sherman resigned his posi-
tion as commander of the army Nov. 1st,
and retires to private life. Lieutenant
General Sheridan succeeds Sherman in
command.
The amount disbursed by army PEN
sion agents the last fiscal year was $59,
GOT, sol. The total amount of "arrears
of pensions" disbursed by agents during
the year, was $79, ,811.
At Savannah, Ga. Nov. LIST, the Canton
warehouse and large number of build
ings were wiped out by the fire. Twelve
lives we're lost. The property destroyed
was valued at 81 600, 900.
Pixies peak has been surveyed for the
narrow gauge railway from Manitou to
the summit, thirty miles, and work is to
be commenced at once. The maximum
grade is to be 300 feet to the mile.
President Willard having offered to
take the first car gratuito usly over the
Northern Pacific ros I, the fish commits
sioners will send out sc, 600 carp for dis
tribution in the northwest, from Wiscon-
sin to Oregon.
Governor Cleveland, Of New York has
issued proclamation, calling upon all
district attorneys within the state, and
all sheriffs and peace officers, and others
having in charge execution of the laws,
to exercise their utmost diligence in the
discovery and punishment of violations
of the bribery acts.
Lieutenant Graydon. United States
navy, who was sent out by the govern
nent to chart San Francisco harbor, with
. view Of fortifying it against attack says
that it can be rendered impregnabls at o
cost of $500, 900. His proposition is to
use torpedoes and dynamite boats, pro-
PEELED by the principle used on cable
street car roads.
A New York dispatch of Nov. lst
says: A building at First avenue and
Nineteenth street, which the workmen
are tearing down, fell to-day while q
number Of children were gathering
kindling wood. John Laws, aged IL,
and Eliza J. Barnes, aged 8, were killed,
and Louis Lacomb, aged years, was
fatally injured. A carpenter named
mike" was severely hurt.
At Ketfer & Wiefe's tannery in Upper
Allegheny city, Pa, recently, two men
sacrificed their lives in an unsuccessful
attempt to save their fellow workmen
The firm had been digging a we'll, to be
used as vat. and Christian
Dickenson, an employe, went down tc
measure the depth, when he was over.
come by foul air. Ferdinand Schroeder
and Charles Schultz were working near
by and heard his cries, and descending
in turn were both suffocated.
At Denver, recently, an unusually i'm
portant case was decided by Judge Nc
Crary, of the United States circuit court
The United States brought suit to can
eel sixty-one patents to lands held by the
Colorado Coal and Iron company and
others in Los Animas county. The
patents were obtained through the pre-
emption law between the years 1870 anG
1874, and were issued from the public
land office. It was afterward found thai
the patents were irregularly obtained
| and that the patentees were fictitious
persons. Testimony was introduced tt
show that the register and receiver O.
| the land Office were parties to the fraud
| Defense claimed that the deeds were
| good, granting they were fraudulent,
obtained. The Judge held adversely
and rendered decision in favor of com
| plainants, which cancels the title to 256'
acres of valuable lands.
A Glasgow dispatch Of Nov. 3D. says
The upholstery warehouse Of Wiley
Lochhead, and buildings adjoining, wer
destroyed by fire tonight. The loss b.
fire is $4,000, 600. Several lives wer
lost. The warehouses were burned With
to a she'll before the flames found vent
and then the enormous structure sudden
ly became an immense lake of fire. Th
flames for while reached out and com
pletely covered the large building occu
pied by the Herald, and set fire to q
the large warehouses on the other side c
that structure, both those fronting o
Buchanan street and those fronting o
Mitchell street, which run parallel. On
dead body has already been recovere
from the ruins, and thirteen person
seriously injured and burned have bee
taken from the bnrned buildings to hos
| pitfalls. The loss Of life may be large, 8
many people unaccounted for are know
to have slept in the destroyed buildings
| Danville dispatch of Nov. Sd say
In conflict between crowd OF viii
and colored people this evening, W. Ho
land was shot in the head, and, it is SUI
posed, mortally wounded. Thomas Sew
ard was shot through the body, and fl
negroes were killed. It is supposed th'
many were wounded. The beginning I
the conflict Was the beating by one OF tt
citizens of negro, who abused anotht
negro. He would not apologize for b
apparent rudeness, and spoke roughl
about the citizens. All stores wel
! closed immediately and the alarm be
sounded, and the people came out viii
, arms. The town sergeant came out soc
, after with one of the military compani
, and commanded the people, in the nan
: of the commonwealth, to go home, AZ
the streets were soon cleared. The CT
! is now under supervision of one of Il
. military companies and mounted polio
: and the town sergeant. in response to
3 message of the governor Offering assii