The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-03-17
McGlover and Malone were hanged in
New York city rr, thn 9th

y as otic MORSE, We'll AuOW0 CIVIL
engineer, died at New York recently.
Prince Gortschakoff, ex-chancellor of
Russia, died at Baden Baden on the 10th.
A London dispatch of the 9th says that
Yost. wealthy New Yorker, committed
suicide.
It is believed the Marquis of Lorns
will be succeeded by Hon. W. E.
Forster.
The postoffice atShoshone, Idaho, was
robbed on the 10th inst. of money and
registered letters.
James and Michael Cody were killed
on the 9th inst, at Brooklyn, by falling
through coal chute.
The 93d anniversary of the Forsyth
street NJ. E. church, New York, was eel
ebrated on the 18th inst.
The worst wind storm of the season
visited parts of Dakota on the 9th, and
all business was suspended.
Ex-Gov. Sprague, of Rhode Island,
was married to Mrs. Dora Inez Calvert. at
Staunton, Va, on the 9th.
The steamer Navarro, on her way from
Copenhagen to Leith, was foundered on
the Sth, and several lives lost.
Senator David Davis, ex-president of
the senate, was married to Addie Burr, at
Fayetteville, N. c., on the 18th.
Heaviest snow fall of the season at
Montreal, Quebec, and other parts of
Canada, cn the 10th and 11th inst
Great suffering and sickness prevails
at nearly all the places along the Ohio
river, and an earnest appeal is made for
aid
General Sherman comes to the Pacific
coast early in the spring, intending to
visit the coast of southern California and
| Mexico.
In the examination of the ill.fated Ta-
| coma, Capt. Korts was convicted of gross
| negligence and his license ordered sus.
pended.
A fire at Buena Vista, CAL, on the 9th
destroyed block of eight buildings,
! including Hitler & Halleck's bank.
Loss, $35, 900.
Clearing house figures at San Francisco
show a falling off of So coo, 900 from
Jan. 1st to date as for the corresponding
time of last year.
A drunken father in Hall county, Ga,
named Herring, poured shovel of ho:
Goals on his infant child and burned it tn
death recently.
The round. house of the A., T. & Santa
Fe road at Dodge City. Kan, was de.
stroyed by fire on the 18th. Two loco.
1 motives are ruined.
| A Deadwood dispatch of the 11th inst
says that In lodging house at Browns
vile eleven men were burned to death
and four seriously iniured.
A scow containing 80 laborers was
struck by a schooner along the jersey
City shore on the 9th, and seven of the
party are reported drowned.
| A. E. Kent, of San Francisco, of the
class of '53 of Yale college, gave $50, ,00(
to that institution recently, for the erec
ton of chemical laboratory.
| Jenny Elliott. the prize fighter, wht
was killed in a quarrel recently at Chi
cago, was buried in New York city on the
11th, 1000 people attending the funeral
A bill passed the senate of the Arkan
sas legislature, changing Dorsey county
to De Sofa county. It was named for ex
Senator Dorsey during the reconstruction
era.
A large party gathered to witness tn,
trial at London of the electrical traiI
car. It ran distance of four miles sue
cessfully, and fulfilled the requirement.
of the board of trade.
A German servant girl, in Philadelphia
alleged to be crazy, iu the employ o
Samuel May, attempted to murder Mrs
May and her child on the 10th, inhictin,
serious injuries on both.
tant cashier of the Merchants and Plan
ters' bank, Montgomery, Ala, fatal,
shot himself recently. j A deficiency o
SIC, 900 is found in his accounts.
A Tuscarora New dispatch of th
18th inst. says: The stage which arrive,
here last night was stopped short dis
tance from town, the robbers takin,
Wells, Fargo & Co.'s box and emptie'
J the pockets of the driver.
Dispatches from the east of the lot
and 18th reports heavy wind and raj
: storm and high tide along the coasts @
!; New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Maine, an
as far southwest as New York city, bu
little damage is reported.
A German by the name of G. Z. Ers
graber, of San Francisco, committed sui
eide recently while on an east-going train
3 and was taken from the cars at Ogde
in dying condition. His remains wer
sent back to San Francisco.
A Gloucester, Mass, dispatch of Marc
9th says: The less to those depender
, on fisheries, by the storm scare, is S125
600. It is great loss to business intel
;, ests as we'll as to fishermen themselves
Over BOG, 900 pound of fish might hay
been taken.
The Pacific mail company has refuse
! to accept as passengers for China II CHI
:. . nose lepers confined in the pest bouse 8
> San Francisco, unless the supervisor
: guarantee the fares for their return j
the event of the authorities ut Hong Kon
= refusing to transfer them to the Lazai ett
:. at Canton.
!. Business failures the last seven day
4 ending March 9th, mum Der 521, as againl
: 272 list week. These are distributed 6
e follows: New England states, 217; mil
a die states, 40; western, 80; southern, s.
g Pacific coast and territories, II: Canad
/ and provinces, 27; New York city an
|. Brooklyn, 10.
e Experiments will soon be made with
Z view of introducing electricity as nj
n tive power on the eleyated railroad
= New York city. These experiments wi
|. be conducted by Stephen B. Field, Il
j. electrician. Mr.. Field has been at VOL
g experimenting with the electric moti'
IS for long time. and claims the priorit
b of his idea to both Siamens, the origin