The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-03-24
The treasury department. of Mexico
values its landed property at So, 900, ,000,- :
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its legislature restoring capital punish
ment.
Joe Jones, of Oglethrope, Ca, shot
his wife on the 17th, killing her in
stantly.
The Continental Guards of New Or
leans contemplate visiting Massachusetts,
in the summer.
In the house of the Illinois legislature
a bill was passed recently to punish wife.
beaters by whipping.
The woolen mills at Mexico, Mo-, was
destroyed by fire on the 18th. Loss,
$50, 600; insurance, $50 900.
The shoe finding manufactory, owned
by Chas. E. Merrill, Portland, Me-, was
DESTROYED BIZ fire on the 10th. Loss,
$40. 900.
A fire at Detroit, Mich, on the morn
ing of the 18th, destroyed the round
house of the Wabash road. Loss nearly
! $60, 600.
Latest news at Washington from China
states that every action possible is taken
| by that government to drive Americans
from the country.
Elk Gov. Kirkwood, secretary under
President Garfield, was thrown from his
carriage on Sunday la st at Iowa CITY, Ia,
and received severe injuries.
| The bill to sell the state debt of Ten
nessee at so cents on the dollar passed
both houses of the legislature and is
| awaiting the signature of the governor.
| Obey E. Owen, defaulting teller of the
Third National bank, ST. Louis, managed
! to steal from that institution over $780,,
L 80 IL so f~h&
years.
The steamboat Grand Isle was burned
at Wilson's landing on Black river re-.
Gently. The cargo consisted of 300 bales
| of cotton and 1000 sacks of seed, all of
which was lost.
The New York Public of March 14th
says business throughout the country for
the past week shows an increase of 40
per cent. over that of the corresponding
week one year ago.
Ex-Representative r. P. Flower, of
New York, has returned to the treasury
$458 so, the amount overpaid him on
account of salary and mileage as member
of the 47th congress.
The ship Dunstaffnage, from Calcutta,
via Dundee, for Liverpool, has been
wrecked on the coast of Aberdeenshire.
Fifteen men besides number of women
and children were drowned.
The Mexican government has declared
a forfeiture of the grant of sc, 900 acres
of land in lower California made to David
Ferguson three years ago for colonization,
owing to non -fulfillment OF contract.
The remains of John Howard Payne,
the author of ''Home, Sweet Home" is
expected in New York city about the 2Sd
inst, from thence to Washington city,
and be buried June Sth, the 91st ami.
versary OF the poets birth.
Business failures the past seven days
ending March 10th, 225, as against 252
last week. New England states had %
middle states 81, westernstates 10, south.
ern states 46, Pacific States 8, New York
city II, Canada 81; total, 225.
A freight train accident on the Chicago
& Northwestern road on the 18th, neal
Woodbiue, Ia, resulted in throwing the
!. engine and ten cars loaded with cattle off
the track. and killing Engineer Geo. L
Saith and Brakeman Len Fl. Lertig.
A Berlin dispatch of March 18th says
The salvage steamer has returned from
the scene of the wreck of the Cimbria
L
the victims are iammed against the gear
of life boat on deck. Entrance into the
cabin is closed by compact mass Of
bodies.
Senator Dolph expressed himself il
the New York Mail and Express thai
. Oregon would be affected only by two
! reductions in the new tariff bill-iror
and wool The reduction on iron woulG
be to the interest of railroad building il
this state, while that on wool will slightly
reduce the price on that staple.
Hon. Jeremiah Sherwood, who arrived
! in California in 1947 as lieutenant o
Company E, Stevenson regiment, after
i ward clerk for Samuel Brannon ut hi
store at Suffers fort, when the first ex
, change of gold dust for merchandise wer
made, died at his residence in New Yorl
! on the 10Th, of pnuemonia, aged 90.
The President has suspended Judg
Wilson s. Hoover. associate Justice of th
, supreme court of Arizona, pending al
! investigation by the department of JUS
! tiee on charges of corrupt practices il
: accepting bribes. Judge Hoover is vel
! ton with the Dickson star route briber
. case.
!. At Forest City, CAL, March 10th, q fir
i started below Scullen's hotel and sprea
n so rapidly that in a very short time a.
! the business houses in town were ablaze
!. A strong easterly breeze was blowing. Z
, Miller, hotel keeper, was burned to deaf
a in Huntzen's store. Losses run int
hundreds of thousands, heavily covere
by insurance.
;. Rev. J. B. Hamilton, Methodist mil
~ lister of Westerly, Rhode Island, who ws
% temporarily stopping at the Collee
: Palace hotel, New York, is missing. q
n was on occurring tour, and was last see
# in New York on the evening of the 1871
;. It is believed he has been foully dea
: with. He is 26 years old, of mediul
IN height. dark eyes, and has wife an
as three children.
q. A commercial circular shows that Il
le number of hogs packed at Chicago f,
4. the year ending March /, 1883. W,
e. 4, 223, 900, decrease of 878. 600 compare
o. with the preceding year. The falling {
N is attributed to the decreased supply
e. hogs in the country, higher prices al
n restrictions on explorations, maki1
of packers cautious. Cattle slaughtere
ia the past year. 1,774. .578.
Id At the annual meeting of the stoc
IN holders of the ST. Louis l. San Francis
JO Railroad company on the 18th directo
be were elected as follows: G.. p. Huntin
lie ton, Leland Stanford. Jay Gould. Russ
50 Sage. Jesse SelIgman, Edward +. WiT
s, low, Jas. D. Fish. VIM. r. Buckle