The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-08-18
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY.
BY rELEeRAPH TO DATE

General Naunoski, Russian minister of
war, is seriously i'll.
Maurice Adolphe Tenant de Belle
fonds. of Tenant bay, is dead.
Bank billsto the amount of $500, 900
were burned in the Spanish bank the
31st ult.
| Recently nine persons were drowned
in Lincolnshire, England, by the upset
| ting of boat.
The photographers of the United
States assembled in convention at Chi
cago Aug. 9Th. A large number of dele
| gates were in attendance.
The American rifle team arrived from
Europe August 9Th. They are enthusi-
astic over the treatment received from
rifemen on the other side.
Robert Franklin, of Washington Ter.
ritory, was robbed on an Erie railroad
train near New York city recently, Of
$2700 in $40 gold pieces.
| A dispatch from Dover says that two
| Norwegian barks collided off there Aug.
9th. One was so badly injured that she
sunk, carrying down thirteen of the
crew.
The British agent at Pactermari.zburg
believes that Cetewayo is still alive, and
that the report of his death was put in
circulation for the purpose of continuing
agitation in Zululand.
A Salt Lake dispatch of August 9Th
says: This morning miner named
Samuel Prithers fell down the shaft of
the Emma mine at Alta and was instantly
killed. He fell distance of 130 feet.
w. w. Monair, nominated for COVER
nor by the late Minnesota democratic
convention, declines to accept the nomi-
nation, and his successor will be chosen
by the state central committee.
At Lawrence, Mass, recently, the
building of the Wright Manufacturing
company burned. Loss, $50, 600; in
surance, S66, 900. One hundred and
sixty-fve operators are out of employ
ment.
The Alaskan AN iron side-wheel steam.
boat built for the Oregon Steamship
Company, for Puget Sound, was
launched at Roach shipyard, Chester,
Pa, August 7th. The vessel is 260 feet
long, 80 feet beam and IA feet hold.
Plans are being prepared at the treas
ury department for silver vaults to ac-
commodate the excessive accumulation
} of silver dollars. It is proposed to locate
one at the New Orleans mint and an
other in the basement of the treasury
department.
A Baltimore dispatch OF Aug. 18th
Havapa, when off Point Lookout early
yesterday morning, was in collision with
the schooner Sarah Lavinia. The
schooner Immediately sunk, carrying
down the wife and two children of Capt
Anderson, and Joseph Lowell. cook.
Representative press clubs of New
York, Rochester, Providence and Cleve
I land met at the rooms of the Chicago
Press club August 9th, and took steps
toward the formation of q nationa
: league of journalism, whose object is the
general afiIiation among the press or
o CARNATIONS of the country. Another
meeting will be held at the call of the
executive committee. The hicago Press
club declined representation.
Three and a half per cent bonds to the
amount of $100, 900 have been presented
at the treasury department. for redemp
tion under the 121st call. This call vii
not mature until November 1st, but pr o
vision is made for the redemption of am
D bonds embraced in the call prior to thei
, maturity, on presentation. The call il
for over $32, ,00O, 900. Holders are no
generally taking advantage of the privi
lege the circular offered, to redeem be-
y fore maturity.
The latest dispatches from Rich Hill
Mo-, report ths oil excitement as in
tense. Land is being sold at fabulou
| hnr a. Of tNoin
! leased and options are taken for thou
sands more. Many large and smal
tracts have been purchased at from $5
to 500 per acre. Gas wells are be
ing found, and also more oil wells. Oh
rock abounds over considerable territory
Numbers of wells are under contract
:. Machinery is being shipped from Chi
cago and Pennsylvania.
The Northern Pacific railroad will b
q connected about sixty miles west @
Helena, Montana ,on the 25th instant bu
the formal opening will not take plac
before Septembe 9th. On and sitter th
25th instant the company will be read
= to receive freight to and from all point
= on the Pacific northwest. Rates betwee
st. Paul, Duluth and Portland will b
the same as between Council Bluffs an
San Francisco. Through traffic rates
Portland and other Pacific points al
), now being prepared and will be read
for distribution in short time.
A Detroit, Mich, dispatch of Angus
7 9th, says: At Grand Rapids conductc
on the Grand Rapids and Indiana raj
road, having received q visit by burglar
at his house on Monday night, last nigf
was prepared for second visit, an
Y awaited them in the kitchen. His vii
was awakened by street noise, and aros
and passed through the house. He
husband, mistaking her for burglar
\ fred, the ball taking effect in the fors
head and coming out near the right eal
She is alive, but unconscious, and ther
are slight hopes of her recovery.
n. A special from Reistertown, Md
- August 7th, gives the following par tic,
lars of tragedy at Bloomfield, Worth
z ington valley, two miles from that plac,
m One of the most frightful tragedies WI
e. enacted that ever shocked the con
40 munity. The invalid wife of Lou
is Lawrence Conrad, well-known Bait
ar more lawyer, in fit of insanity cause
rt- by disease, shot her husband sleeping b
s, her side through the head. killing hi
40 instantly. The affair in all its details
ed sad and shocking. Mrs. Conrad is
cousin of Samuel Hosen, who recent
IS: killed Charles Ruegley while in Howal
he county. She is also cousin of JoE
If Jolly and John and Richard John
or brothers, who committed suicide. A
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