The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-03-03
The ship channel charter has passed
the Florida assembly.

cred in constellation Pegasus.
In the Danube conference Russia ac-
cepts Granville's compromise.
Senator Dolph, OF Oregon, arrived at
Washington on Feb. 25th.
Thos. Fitzpatrick, arrested as Phoenix
Park, Dublin. assassin. was discharged.
Ship carpenters and house painters at
Philadelphia demand an increase of
wages.
The New England Divorce Reform
League is arranging public meeting to
be held at New Haven.
Carey, the informer, says that he wrote
a'letter of sympathy to Miss Burke, after
the murder OF her brother.
The 1abors of the conference commit
Tee, to regulate the municipal finances of
San Francisco. are about completed.
Hamburg merchants fear retaliation
on the part of the United States owing to
prevention of importation of American
pork.
It is reported that Senator Miller will
recommend the appointment of ex-Sena
tor Thorpe as pension agent for San
Francisco.
The Western Union Telegraph COM
pany promises TO give Brooks under
ground electrical conduct system an efec-
tive trial.
Emigration from North Carolina to
Arkansas has grown to such proportions
that the legislature has been urged to
apply remedial measures.
Gov. Butler, in appointing the annual
fast day for Massachusetts, exhorts min
listers of the gospel not to discourse upon
political topics but to preach the divine
word.
The Ohio at Louisville is rapidly fall
ing; at Peoria it is within four and one
half feet of the high water point of 1849.
and at Cairo it is slowly falling and no
danger expected there.
It is learned on good authority at
Washington that Senator Davis, pro tenn
of the senate, will resign on March Sd.
In time to allow his successor to be
elected without an extra session.
The Augustine Society, Roman Cath
olic banking institution, at Lawrence,
Mass, failed, and it's depositors, mostly
of whom are females employed in the
factories, lose their hard earned savings.
u A boiler in Banhegen's brewery, st.
Paul. exploded Feb. 22d, wounding
eleven persons, but hone fatally. Among
them were five women, who were after
malt. The loss is between $15. 900 and
| $40, 0,000.
| Mrs. Carey, an informer of the Cav
endish- Burke affair, is being boycotted;
| not one OF her tenants paying the rent
due her, and notices posted on the doors
of tenants warning them not to pay rent
to the cursed informer."
Manuel Lenhart, of Newago, Mich,
charged with the murder of old man
Baldman, few weeks since, was found
dead in jail Feb. 22d. There was dance
near by the night before, and it is sup
posed that Lenhart mistook the noise
for preparations for lynching him. and
died of fright.
The following was taken from bottle
picked up the 22d ult. on the beach near
Cole Spring, Cape May: February 6,
1888, Steamer Eleanor, latitude 81 deg.
36 min, longitude 70 deg. II min, is
leaking. Cannot keep the vessel afoat
till morning. Unless assistance comes
we are lost. God have mercy on u.s.
(Signed) Bellaire."
A New York dispatch of Feb. 25th says
The steamer Republic from Liverpool
on Feb. 10Th met the steamer Glamorgan
acomplete wreck. She encountered severe
gales, and when the Republic came te
her relief was about sinking A small
boat from the Republic rescued the re
naming passengers and crew, eleven oi
, the ill-fated vessel being drowned.
: The New York Evening Post says
3 There is another alarm concerning the
/ prospects of silver coinage. At the rate
D of going on it will have reached $120, 900,
600 by the close of the year. No proba
. bility exists of congress reaching vott
on any pending bill or resolution on the
: subject Among all the clouds hanging
f over national prosperity, nothing is 81
/ | alarming to our business men as thu
anomalous silver coinage question. I
> is of more immediate Importance thar
/ the tariff question, yet it has not received
one hours discussion in either branch o
8 congress during the present session.
s A dispatch from East Tawas, Mich.
| Feb. 23d says: A rumor from logging
J. camp says two men got into disput
b over trial as to whose team could hau
g the heaviest load. After the trial, th
one whose team was yictoriousB Wake.
: into the cabin and sat down. THE de
|; feated one came behind, and with on
q blow OF an ak severed the head from th
body. The head rolled to lhet floor, th
. eyes winked several times and the mout
!. opened. Members of the camp took th
r murderer. placed a log and chain aroun,
: his neck, and hung him. They placed
I guard around the body to await the al
: rival of the sheriff. Men came from
! neigbboring camp to take the corps
r. down, when general fight ensued, i
!. which seven men were killed.
10 A Jefferson City, No., dispatch of Eel
1t Oath says: The convicts in the peniter
g tiary had just returned to the shops froi
of dinner to-dar, when preconcerted mr
tiny broke ont in the harness shop {
ID Jacob Strauss & Go. They bound th
r, foreman of the collar and harness shoI
a. and stripped him of his clothing. job
lie 3. johnson, the riDgleader, and highwa
ye roboer under sentence of twelve year
i'd ran into the department where hors
N collars are stuffed, and set lot of clea
~ straw on FIRE. In moment the building
~ with its three ahops, and their conten
ae of harness, collars and whips, were c
y, fire. Pan1emonium now prevailed
IN When the guards ran in with hose the
n were met by convicts. who cut the hos
IL j ohnson made an effort to escape ov,
as the walls, but was captured and put in
as dungeon. His companions were al.
Il, confined in dark cells. The fire was g
SO under control. Losses: Strauss Sc Go
id 800 900; Gresick boot and shoe cor
be pany. 800, 900; III Mysenburg shoe compan