The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-09-01
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! Two distinct shocks of earthquake oc
Cured at Cloverdale, CAL, about 2:3
o'clock Saturday morning. The yibra
tlons were from north to south.
The third annual meeting of the Fed
Grafton OF the Organized Trade and La
Dor Union of the United States ane
Canada, met on Tuesday in New York.
The trial of Frank James was begur
in the criminal court at Gallatin, No.
on Tuesday. The real work will begir
when the jury is impaneled. which viii
commence Wednesday %.
Hon. William Window. ex.secratars
OF the treasury OF the United States, was
given a banquet in London Tuesday
night. Several members of parliament
besides prominent Americans we're
| present.
A Chicago Times special from Wash
| lngton says: Jennie Flood of California
is engaged to be married to Baron Beau
mont, an Englishman whose lineage is
very ancient and whose resources are
limited.
A fire broke out in the Eclipse Iubri-
eating oil works at Franklin, Pa. Tues.
day morning last, and before it could be
extinguised burned 100 barrels of ben
zine and destroyed the larger portion of
the works.
The Chsrleston, s. c., News and Cou
rier reports great injury to cotton by the
drought, and greater injury is threatened
the upland crop. It is estimated that
there will be three. fourths of q crop,
and less.
Tuesday night at II O'Clock cyclone
struck the north part of the city of
Rochester, Mimi, making q clean sweep
OF elevators, residences, railroad engine
house and other property. Twenty-four
persons were killed and many seriously
wounded.
A London dispatch of Aug. 20 says:
The Times Alexandria correspondent
says: British troops should not be with
drawn from Egypt. No European family
would remain in the country week af-
ter their departure. Egypt is incapable
OF government.
A st. Paul. Mimi, special says: John
Muir, superintendent of traffic of the
Northern Pacific, to-day closed con-
tract for the shipment of one train load
of thirty cars of wheel from Walla
Walla to Minneapolis. The outlook is
favorable for the shipment of much
more.
A Washington dispatch of Aug. 21st
says: The secretary of the interior was
to-day informed that section of rs
miles of the Northern Pacific road near
Mullen tunnel, had been completed. Tho
company has requested the appointment
nf M a0in ~
on this section of the road.
A Missoula, Mon, dispatch of August
% says: Passenger trains commencing
to-day run to Gold Greek sixty-five
east Of here, and there meet the train
from Helena, thus going through with
one change of cars and no staging. No
passenger trains will be run through
until the formal opening on the 9th of
September.
A San Francisco dispatch of August
% says: The banquet given by the grand
commandery of California to Grand
Master Dean and officers OF the grand
encampment, at the Palace hotel this
evening was very brilliant affair in all
things except the banquet itself, which
In every respect was miserable failure,
This latter fact is in no measure due to
the California commandery, but to the
management of the hotel.
The telegraphers strike ended on Mon
day. The executive committee of the
brotherhood issued an order to all local
assemblies declaring the strike to be
failure and announcing that the strikers
could go to work as soon as they could
be reinstated. The " estern Union Tel
egraph company now requires its en-
ployes t6 subscribe to an oath that they
will notbscome members of any organ
ization opposed to the interests of the
company.
An Ashland Wis, dispatch of August
% says that forest fires are raging about
the city all day and the place had a mar
row escape from destruction. Mills
were shut down and men turned out in
gangs to fight the flames. The Omaha
depot caught fire several times, but was
saved. One hundred men were sent in
on the Omaha gravel train and were dis
tributed along the border of the town
with citizens. At 9P. M. shower came
up and the fire was extinguished.
New York dispatch of August 23d
says: At a session of the Federation of
Organized Trades and Labor Unions this
morning, resolution was adopted re-
fusing the legislative committee of the
federation authority to support the cigar
makers in their fight to secure the en-
forcement of the lev passed by the last
New York legislature prohibiting the
manufacture of cigars in tenement
houses. 1t is said that the manufac-
turers intend to contest the constitution.
alitv of the law.
A Owatonna, MINI, dispatch of Aug.
% says: Meagre telegraphic advices were
received here early this morning of q
terrible accident which occurred be-
tween Rochester and Zumbrota, Mime
sofa, on the Rochester and northern di-
vision of the Chicago and Northwestern
railroad, by which about 100 people
were killed and wounded. A train was
caught In severe wind and hail storm
that prevailed in that vicinity between
4 and 6 o'clock in the evening, and while
runniIg at high speed was lifted from
the rails
The grand procession of the Knights
Templars IN San Francisco on Tuesday
morning, was an unqualified success.
The line OF routes along Market street
was crowded from an early hour, and it
was with the greatest difficulty that the
mounted policemen were enabled to clear
the way for the procession. The several
divisions under orders of their command