The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-07-28
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY,
BIZ TELEeRAPH TO DATE.

BIZ TELEGRAPH TO DATE
The strike of iron workers in Mort
Staffordshire has ended.
| The Belgian government will acce,
the compromise of the proposed tobacc
duty.
The Bolivian government declares
will not make peace without union wit
Peru.
Frank Hedfort, the French sculptol
has committed suicide In New Yor
recently.
At New York, July 21st, large tene
ment house was destroyed by fire. Loss
$4,000
Senator Thos. Fl. Cooper has been Sc
lected chairman of the republican state
committee of Pennsylvania.
Sprague's mansion and estates in Prov
idence were sold at auction recently
The prices obtained were low.
The president has appointed Charles
F. Gardner of California receiver o.
public moneys at Sacramento.
An explosion seriously damaged the
Yonkers, IN. " gaslight works, and in.
jured several persons July 18th.
A recent dispatch from Cairo, Egypt,
states that the actual number of deaths
from cholera for one day was 600.
The match between the American
and British rife teams at Wimbledon.
July 18th, 10Th and Goth, was won by
the latter. The score stood, Americans,
1906; British, 1851.
A special says that an insane man
created sensation in st. Bernard
church, at Syracuse, July 10th. by
snatching book from the priest and
forbidding him saying mass.
A strict enforcement of quarantine
regulations has been ordered at San
Francisco on all vessels having cleared
or touched at ports infected with cholera.
smallpox and yellow fever.
The Philadelphia produce exchange
has agreed to cooperate with the COM
mercial exchange in urging upon con-
gress the redemption, retirement or
legalization of the trade dollar.
The Spanish government has intro
duced bill in the cortez, for credit for
a million pesos, to defray the cost of
the adoption of all possible measures
against the introduction of cholera into
Spain.
A Marseilles dispatch states that the
Prince of Monaco is negotiating with
France for the sale of that principality
for 10000, 900 francs, subject to the
recognition of a gambling concession for
twenty-seven years.
In the shooting for the Slogan prize at
England, July 10th, five
contestants. including Hinman of the
American team, and Young and Gibbons
Of the English team, made equal scores
-48 out of possible so.
The Brotherhood telegraph operators
are still holding out on the strike, and
many of their places are being filed by
non union men. The first dispatches re-
ceived here since the beginning OF the
strike, J July 10th, was on the 22d.
About a mile from Shamokin, Pa,
July 18th, freight train on the Reading
railroad was badly wrecked, twelve cars
being thrown from the track by striking
. COW. VIM. Thomas was killed and
James Huffman, brakeman, seriously
injured.
The town of Bedford, England, is in
great excitement over a lawn tennis trag-
edy. A party, July 18th, were playing
lawn tennis, near Ship Inn, at St.
Centertown. Among the
players were Mr.. Devere, an army Off
GER, and Miss Mckay, an exceedingly
pretty young lady, 20 years of age. Sud
lenly, without apparent provooation De.
we're pulled out revolver and shot Miss
az To ii L.
brains.
Advance dispatches of the report of
he directors of the Oregon and Trans
continental declare the holdings of the
of the Northern Pacific and
Oregon Railway and Navigation COM
oany stocks June 80, to be as follows:
Northern Pacific, common, 162,792
Ihares; Northern Pacific preferred, 1856.
100 shares; Oregon Railway and Navi-
yation stock, including new stock, 128,-
700 shares. 1t sums up the available
ncome and profits for 18S3-94 as fol-
ows: Balance of profits brought forward
rom last year, So, $3.50, 1876. .O3; dividends
IN o. r. & N. stock. 81, ,190, ,262.O5;
estimated dividends on Northern Pacific
preferred stocks, $1,210, ,410; total,
81, ,287 ,577.53.
A Reading, Pa, dispatch of July 18th
'ays: Eight boilers for anthracite fur
naces, owned by the Philadelphia and
Reading Railway Company and oper-
tied by VIM. Kaufman, exploded early
his morning. reducing the furnace to a
mass of ruins. The engine and boiler
,ouse was entirely demolished. Frank
Waltman, aged 81, of Topton, was in
'tantly killed. Sol. Waltman, his father,
vas injured internally and will die.
Norris Good was severely scalded by
steam. Engineer Marstillars
.lso was badly injured. and a number of
'ther employees were slightly hurt. The
orce of the explosion shook the earth
nd aroused people for miles around.
rbe damage to the furnace will amount
o many thousands.
The telegraph operators employed by
he Western Union telegraph company
presented bill Of grievances to the
,facers several days ago, asking for an
Increase of pay of 25 per cent. on all
alaries, and eight hours to constitute a
lays work instead of nine, and seven
lours nights work instead of eight, as
besides asking extra pay for
III Sunday work and overtime. The
,fficers of the company refused to ac-
,ede to the demand, so at ~ O'Clock
July 10Th, the signal was given OF the
central office in New York and general
trike was inaugurated all over the coun-
ry among the operators. Many of the