The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-07-07
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The semi.centennial celebration {
ODerlin college, at Oberlin, Ohio, wa
celebrated July 1st.
A survey is about to be taken of tb
: remarkable country lying between LAX
st. John and Hudson bay.
The German government denies th
renewed assertion that it intends to es
tablish colony in Mexico.
At Keithburg, Ill.,, June 9th, Hiram
Blair shot his wife and then took hi
own life. The wife may recover.
At South Arlington. Mass. Reed
blossoms. shoe factory burned July 1st
Loss, Sl75,O 900; partially insured.
Nearly the entire business portion O
the town OF Cottonwood Falls, Kansas
was burned June 10Th. Loss S75, 900.
The corner stone of the first Jewisl
temple ever erected in Memphis was laic
June 3Oth, with the usual ceremonies.
Morris Greenwall of Melbourne. Aus
tralia. has concluded arrangements will
Mrs. Langtry for q sixteen weeks en-.
gagement.
At Darien, La, June Goth. Tony
James. colored, who shot Price Ander.
son In drunken brawl the 7th of Au-
gust, was hanged.
! AT ST james, Minnesota, the absence
OF County Treasurer M. E. Dunn creates
a ripple OF excitement. His accounts
will be examined.
Quartermaster-General Ingalls, re-
quests to be placed ON the retired list of
the army, he having been in service 40
| years from July 1st.
The London Standards correspondent
at Rome says the pope is indisposed. and
is much disturbed by the state of affairs
in Ireland and France.
The fine art exhibition opened at Mu-
Mich, Sunday July 1st. The American
exhibit ls good, in landscape especially.
there being many fine works in black
| and white.
The London Post says that the latest
news received at the foreign Office in re-
gard to the Tonquin difficulty is that
China is resolved to prepare for the
eventuality of war, while carrying on ne
gotiations with France to gain time.
LIE Temps publishes qualified denial
OF the statement that negotiations be-
tween France and China have been
0GQOs
tlations SO far have been difficult and un.
favorable.
Eighteen thousand immigrants arrived
at Montreal during the month of June.
An appropriation of $4,000 has been
made by the dominion government in
partial aid of an emigrant depot similar
to Castle Garden. N. Y.
The cost of operating the star-route
service in the Pacific section, comprising
two fifths of the United States. during
the fiscal year about to end, was 10 and
lilo cents, against Is and 1-10 cents per
mile during the preceding fiscal year
La Citaro, an important town in the
state of Michoacan, Mexico on the road
from Acapulco to Morilla, was DESTROYED
by fire recently. Every store was
burned, and nearly all the dwellings. A
large number of inhabitants are home
less.
A Marysville. Colorado, dispatch of
July l. says: This morning that Dick
Baker came to town and amused him
self shooting into several buildings. The
constable being absent, Mayor John Mar
lin undertook TO stop the disturbance.
when Baker commenced firing at him.
causing his death.
A statement prepared at the Office of
the commissioner of internal revenue at
Washington shows that the aggregate re-
ceipts during May, 1888. were $346, ,818
greater than the same month in 1882. |
There was al increase of 1921 .729 from
spirits, an increase of 1920, ,527 from to-
bacco, an increase of $167 1863 from beer. |
decrease of $84, ,049 from banks and
bankers, and decrease of $188, 752 from |
miscellaneous.
A Louisiana, Mo-, dispatch of July | |
says: Bill Mcdowell, the negro arrested |
recently on a charge of outrage upon |
Miss Kate Murray, was taken from the |
jail at Bowling Green early this morn
ing by party of masked men from the |
vicinity, who went to Bowling Green.
broke into the Jail and secured the pris-
oner. After extorting full confession
they hung him. He also confessed to
having fed from Missouri on account of
similar crime there.
A Bradford, Pa, dispatch of July 1st
says: An accident happened on the
Rochester and Pittsburg railroad at Ras-
seias, twenty five miles southeast of this
city. The first section of q coal train.
to which was attached passenger car
containing fifteen persons, broke in
two on heavy grade, seven cars rushing
back down the grade and into the Sec
ond section, smashing the cars to pieces,
killing six and wounding others.
The reduction of the national debt
during the fiscal year just ending will be
in round numbers $125, ,O0O, 900. In
only one year in the history of the pub
lilo debt has the reduction been as great.
Last year it was SITE, 200, 900, the year
before S84, ,000, 900, and the preceding
year $73. 900 900. What it will be for
the coming year nobody can foretell
with any degree of accuracy, as the
changes in the tariff aud internal reven-
ne laws make an estimate OF the receipts
OF the coming year impossible.
A New York dispatch of July 1st says:
Agnes L. Wynne OF Brooklyn was fatally
shot today by her husband James q.
Wynne. Mrs. Wynne was 19 years old,
and her husband was one year younger.
They had been married eighteen months
and had one child three months old. He
had been drinking heartily to-day, and
q quarrel took place. He threatened to
shoot her, and she answered: 81 dare you
to do It," At the time Mrs. Wynne was
lying on the bed with the baby beside
her. The boy husband drew a pistol
and fired, the bullet entering his vifa's