The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-10-13
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY.
BY rELEeRAPn TO DATE.

The Philadelphia Press has reduced
its price from three to two cents.
Bancroft, the historian, celebrated
his SD birthday at Newport, r. l., Oct.
Sd.
| At Pittsburg, Got. 4th, James McStein
was hanged in the yard of the county
Jail.
| Galveston, Texas, on the 9th inst, was
visited with the largest fire that ever oc.
Cured in that place. The loss Is esti-
| mated at million dollars.
| The director Of the mint authorizes the
| purchase of 40, 600 ounces of fine silver
for nse by the Philadelphia, New Or
leans and San Francisco mints.
Rear Admiral Pierce Crosby. COM
manding the naval forces at Asiatic sta
tions, telegraphs to the navy department.
asking to be relieved and placed on the
retired list.
Exports of specie from New York for
the week ending Oct. 9th, were $339, 900,
making total since January 1st of $17,-
010, ,275, against $43, ,215, GAG for the same
time last year.
Business failures for the week ending
| Oct. 9th throughout the United States
] and Canada were 1888, as against 1SO last
week. In New York city failures were
insignificant in numbers and amounts.
Hon. Charles Kreighton Haswell, for
quarter of century connected with
the editorial staff of the Boston Travel
Ter and writer of review of the week,
which became q feature of that paper,
died October 9th, aged SO.
A Minneapolis dispatch of October
9th says: The special train bearing $50
members of the Oregon Pioneer associa.
tion is expected to reach this city to-
morrow night on the Northern Pacific.
The excursionists will go to Chicago
Monday and thence east, returning via
Chicago and Minneapolis within ninety
days.
The national bank has brought suit
against the postmaster general for $780,,
600 for directing that money orders a l.
dressed to the bank, but intended for the
lottery company, shall not be delivered.
The plaintiff considers that the order
fraudulent practices and illegal action,
and that it has seriously damaged its
business.
| At Northboro, Mass, recently, man
named Taylor, from Brockton, but on q
visit with his wife to the home of Rich
ard Eyleward, shot his wife and then
blew out his brains. The woman was
induced to go into a field, and while
there the shots were fred. The woman
is expected to recover, the ball having
entered the throat, coming out through
the roof of the mouth. The man died
instantly.
At New York, October 9Th, the North
ern Pacific directors reelected the old
board of officers, and authorized the is
sue of $40, ,0O0 second mortgage
bonds, subject to the approval of the
preferred stockholders. It will require
the consent of three-fourths of these
shareholders, and it is thought no seri-
Gus objection Will be made to the issue.
The proceeds will wipe out the floating
debt and will also be applied to the COM
ple:ion and equipment of the line.
/ An Austin, Tex, dispatch of October
7th says: A German alderman, Henry
Pfauncke1f, and French brick mason
named Jette, near neighbors, raked up
: an old grudee this afternoon in saloon
and in an encounter outside, the alder
man drew self-cocking revolver and
fred shot through Jeite's bowels, the
ball passing into the leg of q carpenter
named Kelly. The alderman succeeded
in putting another bullet into the body o1
Jette, but the latter in falling, seized the
weapon and shot the alderman himself
in the bowels. Both will die.
A recent dispatch from Calesville,
Texas, says that near there, some time
ago, son-in-law of Mrs. Shaw lost hil
wife, and turned over his little two-year
old child to its grandmother, to care for
L ES
regaining possession of the child. Mrs
child, it was then taken by force. Ag
grieved by the loss she committed suicide
by lashing herself in q most inQeniou.
manner to stone fence. having first sat
ura.ed her head and clothes with kero-
sene. She then struck match and ap
piled it. When found, she was dead
The body was horribly burned.
A Memphis dispatch of Oct. 7th says
This afternoon at o'clock. the larg
building on Main street, occupied b,
B. Lowenstein & Bros, retail dry goods
was discovered to be on ire. The en-
tire building and contents were total,
destroyed. Lowenstein & Bros. loss OF
5, stock and fixtures is S156, 900; insrret
d for $1O6, 900. Loss on building, $40, 900
insured for $24 900. Fl. Moystov, pho
tographer, occupied portion o. the
third floor. His loss is $4,000. The
J, building to the south, occupied by s.
ss Halle, retail clothing, was damaged $27
600; insured. Other losses are abou
= S4500.
Director OF the mint Burchard ha
/! prepared q stateme mt showing the amour
OF silver coinage into silver dollars un
der the act of 1878, with the disposition
made of the same, and showing also tn
:, profits on the coinage OF silver dollar
1 from the beginning of the fiscal year i
which he became director of the mint
1878, up to the Both of June, 1883. Fror
this statement it appears that silver o
d hand July /, 1878, and purchased sine
then amounts to 123, ,447 ,480 ounces, {
which lis. .206 ,224 ounces have been use
III the coinage of silver dollars ard som
n subsidiary silver coin; 304, 375 ounce
- have been wasted by the operatiy
s. officers of the mint and sold in SWEEP
,e ings, leaving a balance on hand July
" 1888. of 3 ,936, ,S81 ounces. This remain
le der has been weighed and verified by I'll
re- officers OF the treasury department. Th
a. profits on the coinage of silver, includin
ss payments by Adams Express company
1e amount to SIT $40, ,113, of which SUI
l. $15, ,581. .713 have been deposited in IL
an treasury of the United States, and S35s
I'd 399 have been paid for shipping silv,
ne dollars. S51 ,025 for loss on sweeping
n sold. $71 .429 for wastacea and S42 +.