The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-07-21
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY,
BY rELEaRAPH TO DATE.

BY TELEGRAPH TO DATE
! The mortality of New York city for
the week ending July 14th is lilo.
It is reported that Marquis Ripon has
resigned the vice generalship OF India.
/ The Chicago police raided the Chinese
/ opium dens, arresting thirteen persons.
/ Fighting continues in Zululand. It
is reported that Cetewayo has been de-
! feated.
Four men were killed by derrick
giving way in a stone quarry at Eureka,
ILL.,, July 18th.
The semi-centennial anniversary of
the incorporation of Chicago as village
viii occur August 10th.
At Berlin student of Werzberg uni
versity was shot dead recently in duel.
His antagonist, q aGerman-American fed.
| It is said Japan has declined the pro-
| posal OF the French ambassador at
Shanghai to form an alliance against the
| Chinese.
At Waterford, Pa, July 18th, May
Hultz, seven years old, fell from a
scafolding so feet high, and was in
stantly killed.
Geo. Hakes, farm laborer, recently
of Oregon, was fatally shot by colored
man named Clifford Logan at Farming
ton, CAL, July 10Th.
A dispatch from Breckenierd, Switzer-
land, says nearly all the cultivated land
in that district has been ruined by
storms and land slides.
At Cockatoo, Mimi, July 18th, three
fourths of the town was destroyed by
fire. Three railroad men were burned
TO death, and one man had his leg
broken.
A Barnsley. England, dispatch of July
15.h says: During rain storm to-day,
five children, who had taken refuge in Q
culvert, were drowned by the sudden
rush of water.
The treasury department July 9th and
10th issued warrants for the payment of
$14 SOC, 900 on account of army and
navy pensions fer the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1884.
| A Moritzbarg, Natal, dispatch OF July
10Th says: Fifty corpses of Zulu men,
women and children were seen June 9Th
at White river, on the border of Zulu
land, massscred in their hiding place by
Cetewayo's followers.
| At Almadsn mills. CAL. July 13th.,
VIM. Brown and Francisco Avilla were
killed by the breaking OF chain by
which the car in which they were riding
was ascending from the smelling works
at the hacienda to the shaft on the hill.
A Paris dispatch of July 10 says: Ach-
ird has introduced bill in the chamber
of deputies authorizing the taking of
soundines for piers for railway bridge
from Cape Gresnez on the French coas
across the strait of Dover to Folkestone
in England.
A heavy rain storm at Harrisburg, Va,
July 18th, did great deal of damage,
washing out the streets, carrying away
sidewalks, small bridges and a few
/ houses. The surrounding country like
wise suffered from the rain and food, do
ing much damage to crops.
John 8. Gray, ex-secretary of the har.
Dor commission, San Francisco, against
whom forty-four charges of felony are
pending, was released from the county
Jail, having filed bonds for $22 900. He
will be given a speedy trial after the
Hamblin case has been disposed of.
A Pesth dispatch of July 18th says
A large fire occurred at a village neal
here to-day, and a number of persons
lost their lives. Eight corpses were
extricated from the ruins. Twenty per
sons, including the prefect of police. ar,
missing. Many are made homeless b.
the fire.
The June report of the Kansas stat,
, board of agriculture places the whea
crop at 27 .956, $50 bushels, being 7,778,
: 900 less than what was raised in '82. Th
crop is about all harvested. The corr
area is 4, ,557 ,042 acres. being an increase
of four per cent. over 1882. The pros
poets for u good yield of corn this season
are as favorable as last year.
A heavy hail and rain storm passe,
over parts of southern Iowa, northern
Missouri and western Illinois, July 18th
doing untold damages to crops an,
fruit, and demolishing hundreds O
houses and other buildings. In LIE
county, Iowa, the storm blew q passen
ger train from the track, two passenger
being fatally injured and six other
> slightly.
At Bloomington, Ind, July 18th, th
new department of the Indiana universi
ty was discovered on fire. The labora
tory was soon in flames, and shortl
!. afterward the library and museum. Th
latter contained the famous Owen CO.
lection and DIR. Jordan's collection c
fishes. The library had 900 volumes
The building was entirely destroyed
}, The FIRE caught by Lightning. Loss
. $500, 900; insurance, $50, 900.
At Middleboro, Mass, July 15tf
!! Charles Hey Wa-d Stratton, better know
as General Tom Thumb" died at hi
residence of apoplexy. He had bee
slightly indisrosed few days, but moth
ing serious was anticipated. Decease
\ was born at Bridgeport, Conn.,, Januar
4, 1888. At the age of IA he entered th
service of P. T. Barnum, and ever sine
then he has been before the public. q
4 leaves widow, formerly Miss Lavini
Warren, also a dwarf, who has been o
the stage with him since their marriae
in 1868.
n. Andrew White, a wealthy farmer Ii,
. ing near Dwight, Illinois, WAS recentl
placed in an insane asylum owing to tn
!, impairment of his mental faculties
- caused by close attention to the detail
= of his business. He there becam
= strongly possessed Of the hallucinatio
:, that his wife and children desired to 70
n him of his property. He escaped fro
a a his retreat and proceeded to his hom
:. Arriving there in the middle Of Il
: night he watched till morning, when |
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