The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-04-28
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The parliament house at Quebec was
consumed by fire on April Goth.
One hundred and ten excursionists
left Philadelphia April 10th for Oregon.
The steamer Two Brothers capsized off
Bodega heads, near Bodega bay, and her
crew were all lost.
About 5000 Immigrants left Liverpool
for Canada, April Goth, most of whom
are bound for Manitoba.
| About 500 immigrants arrived in San
Francisco on the 2lst, most of whom are
for Oregon and Washington.
| Pittsburg cigar makers met recently
and decided to demand an advance of
fifty cents per thousand on May 1st.
| At Sacramento, April Goth, the Ar
mory wall fell to the ground, killing five
persons and wounding twenty more.
President Arthur was seriously i'll for
few hours at Savannah on the morning
of April 21st. He returned home on the
22d.
Kansas had another one of its refresh
ing cyclones on April 21st, destroying
much property and injuring number
of people.
man and Penny--located on Prince of
Wales island, Alaska, are reported
drowned.
The schooner Eveline Fales. lumber
laden, was wrecked in storm on Lake
Michigan April 22d. Five of her crew
were drowned.
A Madrid dispatch of April 22d says:
An explosion occurred at the dynamite
factory at Leon to day. The bodies of
seven victims were recovered.
At Delhi, India, an extensive confia-
grafton occurred April 10Th, by which
1000 houses were destroyed. A great
number of families are destitute and
homeless.
One Of the severest snow storms of the
season passed over parts of Wyoming
and Nebraska on April 22d. Trains are
blockaded on the Union Pacific road in
consequence.
O'Bree's circus, exhibiting at Dover,
Del, recently, was attacked by mob.
The mob opened fire on the showmen
while. leaving town, wounding several
of them, some seriously.
Business failures for the last six days,
ending April Goth. are 233 against 1876
for the last week. New England states
had %; middle states, 81; western, 81;
, ries, 20; Canada, 40; New York city, 10.
Katie Kane, the only female lawyer OF
Milwaukee, Wis, recently threw water
in the faca-of Judge, Mallory while in
court, asserting that the judge insulted
her. She was fined $50, but refuses to
pay, preferring to go to jail.
Hon. H. M. Woods, editor of the
Tombstone Daily Epitaph, was stricken
suddenly by blindness recently, caused
the physicians say, by too close applica
ton to the duties of his profession. II
is thought the attack is temporary.
\ The signal service station on the West
, indies will be discontinued on account
of Congress failing to make the neces
sary appropriation. Gen. Hazen state:
that number OF other stations will be
suspended for the same reason.
Oskaloosa, Iowa, appears to be an un
healthy place for judges. Congressman
Cults, Judge Sheeyers, ninth state su
preme court, Judge Johnson, of the dis
trict court, and Judge Lewis, of the cir
: cult court, are all seriously i'll there.
A Fort Worth, Texas, dispatch of Apri
10Th says: Between 200 and 300 COW
boys on ranches in Panhandle are on
I strike for an increase of from $50 to So
! per month, with board. They are vel
armed, and threaten to kill men, fir
ranches and work general trouble.
The managers of the Garfield memoir
al hospital have purchased piece o
r. property, situated in the suburbs o
Washington, at a cost of $37 900, tn
money to be realized from the sale of tn
Soldiers and Sailors orphan asylum
z property, which was donated for th
erection of hospital upon the land jus
purchased.
Booth Edwards, colored, of Mumford
!. KY, sentenced to be hanged May Is, fc
:. the murder of Archibald Long, last De
Gem Der, attempted to break Jail recently
Calling the jailer to bring him tn
of water for bath, he rushed out o
that gentleman with pistol and woul
s, have escaped had not the jailer's vii
res locked the onter doors. Finding escar
= impossible, Edwards returned and sht
y himself through the heart, killing hin
self instantly.
San Francisco stands second only
New York In quantity or value of e.
ports of domestic breadstuffs for tt
" month of March, and for the nine montl
I of1the Official year ended March 81, 188
From the port of San Francisco the
were exported, the last month of the We
40. 1858 bushels of barley. valued at $50
'eo 972, and l. .S49 1863 bushels of wheat. va
ned at So, 1T ,455. The value of expor
of wheat from New York for March W
an. 50, 49,, ,276. For nine months endil
. March 2lst. the value of exports
breadstuffs from San Francisco W
50, ,763. 100 more than the value of sin
hat lar exports from any other port in t
for United States, except New York, viii
aid ID leads with value of s68, 1913 ,991.
4 1eis \ The Tucson Star Hermosillo special
hor- April Doth says: The government troo
ate ate. which followed the Apaches from sout
j to east of Ures, had running fights with t
anne Indians from Ures to Candies. Th
y. claim they have killed nearly the VIII,
band. After losing the trail OF the
- mainder some of the soldiers visit
7th Candies, where soldier, who was
set the campaign last year. recognized
the white man who was with the Indians
ast, that time, acting as chief. This sold
Try. was wounded and left on the field
of dead, but was conscious. From |
hat description of an Apache chief it '
use thought to be- L. N. Streeter, forme
lere United States Indian agent, a m
1--WE desperate character, who for II ye,
lbt. has been leader of the Apaches. I