The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-03-17
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY.
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tion at Detroit on the 9th.
Alameda county, Cal, has depleted
treasury.
A fire in San Jose on the 9Th destroyed
property to the amount of $50, 900.
Indian inspector Pollock has rendered
his resignation, to take effect on the 31st
inst.
The wool market at San Francisco is
active, and Oregon wool is eagerly sought
after.
Amorg the important bills that failed
to pass congress is that of the river and
-harbor bill.
The German Lutheran church Npas
burned at Logansport, Ind, on the 9Th.
Loss S32, 900.
A dispatch of the 9th from Helena,
| Ark, states that the river is falling, and
the worst danger over.
Twenty miles of the Denver & Rio
Grande road to build yet to complete the
| line between Denver and Salt Lake.
/ The strike of the Centraiia iron mill. at
Centrafia, ILL.,, in progress since the be-
/ ginning of the year, was settled on the
9th.
At Brooklyn, NY, on the 8th inst,
Ida Fl. Hosmer, three feet tall, was mar
ried to Robt. Hussa, three feet six inches
high.
A premature explosion at the Eyandale
coal mine, near Canton, Ohio, recently,
fatally injured Justin Farrell and Louis
Langley.
A party of miners got into a general
affray al Podly, Tenn. on the 9Th, which
resulted in fatally stabbing three men,
Posey, Wells and Davis.
| The state Democratic executive com.
mittee of Georgia called convention to
convene at Atlanta on April 10th, to nom
mate candidate for governor.
| John Kinney, the so-called king of the
| New Mexico rustlers, and noted out
law, was captured on the 7th by Capt.
Jas. F. Black and his company.
The funeral ceremonies of ex-senator
Alexander II. Stephens, who died on the
3D. inst, were performed on the Sth, a
large attendance being present.
At Belmont, New. on the 9Th. W. E.
Mayo, colored, was seriously stabbed in
the right arm and abdomen by N. Weis-
miller. The latter was arrested.
| Lady Florence Dixie, in letter to the
London Times, charges Biggar and Par.
nell, as trustees of the land league fund
with not accounting for Els, 900.
i AtNashville, Tenn, on the 9Th, large
fire destroyed property to the value o
$500, GOO; insurance, $l26 900. The
bodies OF three men we've taken from tht
ruins.
A Madrid dispatch of March 9th says
The mayor of Xerzes has received lettel
containing threat to poison the drink
ing water if the prosecution of the stBiacl
Hand" society is continued.
Jos. B. Loomis was hanged on th,
morning of the 9Th at Springfield, Mass.
for the murder of David Sett. Th,
doomed man confessed the crime, ant
stated that rum was the cause.
Gov Crittenden, of Missouri, recentl,
pardoned Clarence Hite, noted mem
Der of the James gang. who pleaded
guilty to train robbery. February, 1882
and was sentenced for 25 years.
Geo. Carson, alias Haywood, was ar
rested in New York city on the 9th
charged with the robbery of so ,O0
worth of bonds from the Office of tn
Guarantee Safe Deposit company of Phil
adelphia.
Mrs. Cries, while out driving near Sal
Buena Ventura, CAL, on the 9Th, wa
thrown out of the carriage, and hors
stepped on her forehead, causing deatl
in few minutes. Mrs. Cries was al
early settler.
The Democratic state convention hel,
at Lansing, Mich, on the 9th, nominate,
John W. Champlen, of Grand Rapids
for Judge of the supreme court, and Al
thur L. Clark, of San lilac county, TO
regent of the university.
The body of Mr.. Sergeant was ere
mated at Washington, Pa, on the Sth
! Mr.. Sergeant made the laroe bell place
in the tower Of Independence hall 8
Philadelphia in the summer of '76, whic
was first rung upon the ushering in c
the Centennial Fourth.
j, The statement of the United State
! treasurer shows gold, silver and Unite
States notes in the treasury as follows
Gold coin and bullion, $178. .761 .T84; sill
yer dollars ard bullion. $104 ,92O .93s
fractional Silver coin, S27 ,59S, ,721: Unite
: States notes, S48, ,266 ,446; total, 1858
SIT ,920. Certificates outstanding: Cole
$43, 122. 800; silver, $68, ,624 800; cur
7 rency, $40. .805, 900.
A statement containing the receipt
and expenditures of the postoffice depar
ment for the third quarter of the caller
dar year, which ended September 30tl
1882. shows: Receipts, SIT. .545, ,932; e.
: penditures, $40, 188, ,96S; surplus, 1856
963. During the same quarter OF 18a
receipts we're So, 400, ,706; expenditure
!, So, ,6S6 $40; excess of expenditures oys
= receipts, 1896, ,104.
Following is partial list of the bill
passed this session at Washington: Z
., rectify and establish title to the Unite
: States site for military post at Ell Pas
to amend an act repeating discriminate
of duties on goods; to reimburse Il
II states of Oregon and California fl
y y moneys paid in the suppression of Il
ID Modoc war; extending the time for filir
:. claim for horses lost by officers and el
r listed men; to amend sections 1926 or
9. 1927 of the revised statutes so as to e,
e. tend the jurisdiction of justices of Il
ie peace in Washington. Idaho and Montal
territories; TO suppress gaming in Il
District of Columbia; to encourage hol
= ing the worlds industrial and cotton ce
1t tennial exposition in 1884; to admit fr
" of duty monument to George Washin
d ton providing for binding compendiu
lie OF the tenth census; regular appropri
Is tion bills, civil service bills, tariff bi
t The total number of bills and joint res
Id lutions introduced In both houses duril
Re the session of the forty-seventh congre
xe Il /.