The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-06-02
General Lord Rokeby of England il

Bnsiness failures for the past seven
dags ending May 25th were 158, as CON-
pared with 1877 last week.
Smallpox of the virulent type has
broken out in the Lancaster county, Pa,
/ prison, and the institution has been
! placed under quarantine.
The schooner Wells Burt, plying be-
tween Chicago and Buffalo, is supposed
to have wrecked on Lake Michigan, and
her crew of eleven men lost.
"A Paris dispatcd OF May 25th says: An
extensive FIRE occurred at Varain depot.
| in the upper Alps. Fifty houses were
destroyed. arad ssyesal persons perished
| in the flames.
1t is announced that Warsaw is to be
made one Of the most strongly fortified
places in Europe by the construction of
fourteen new forts, on which work is to
begin at once.
A miser named Henry Thomen, na-
| tive of Switzerland, died at San Francis
co recently. In an old trunk in his room
were found bonds, notes and mortgages
| amounting to SIT ,0e0, and over $4,000 in
coin.
| Information has been received that all
the people of the American ship Oracle.
| wrecked a short time ago in the south
Pacific ocean, have been rescued from a
desert island and taken to Valparaiso by
a German bark.
! The Brooklyn bridge, spanning East
river, was opened May Oath. Both cities
regarded it as holiday, and thousands
were present to witness the opening cer-
| emonies. President Arthur and other
high officials were there.
Mrs. r. J. McMillerie, of Leedville,
Ashtabula county, Ohio, while in fit of
| temporary insanity drowned her two chill
| dren and then poisoned herself. There is
| no hope of her recovery. The children
were aged Q and 6 years.
David Todd, son of Justice Todd, of
| the supreme court, and Joseph Livesey,
| of Mascot, fought duel near New Or
leans recently. After an exchange of
harmless shots at fifteen PAGES, both
| parties declared themselves satisfied.
Ex-Judge G. FL. Krum, one of the
best lawyers of st. Louis, prominent
republican, and appointed U. S. district
attorney by Grant, and subsequently
| counsel for defendants in the celebrated
whiskey cases, has been absent since Goth
of April.
It is reported that, during fierce wind
and rain storm recently at Belou, Wis.
number of live fish, one of them weigh
ing pound, dropped i'll the business
streets, and hailstones, the largest four
| inches in circumference. fell. Many win
dows were broken.
/ The Lutheran ministerium in4its recent
session at Norristown, Pa, has resolved
| to instruct all conferences, pastoral assoc
/ Citations and congregations in the minis
/ try to make preparations for approprl-
| ately observing the 10th anniversary of
| the birth of Martin Luther.
A Los Angeles dispatch of May Oath
says: About one o'clock this morning
the supreme court rooms, on the corner
of Commercial and Main streets, took
fire, and few minutes later the entire
| building was all ablaze. The court rec
ords were burned. The loss to the
building and stores is about $40, 900.
A. N. Towne, general manager of the
Central Pacific, met with painful acci
dent recently at San Francisco. In ar
alteration between kindling-wood
peddler and teamster as to the right oi
| way, the peddler hurled a stick of red
wood at his opponent, but missed him
The stick went crashing through the
window of passing street car, in which
was Mr.. Towne, striking him on the hea6
and knocking him senseless.
The attorney general has given hi
opinion to the secretary of the United
States treasury that under the provis-
ions of the act approved March B, 1883
no tax can be collected on the capita
. and deposits of national banks since tn
first day of last January, and no tax OF
the capital and deposits of State bank
since the first day of last December. Th
attorney general says that he is of tn
opinion that duties are not assessabl
and collectable ON the deposits and capi
tai stock of national banking associa
tions. for the period between the date c
the act of March 3. 1883, and January
. 1883, nor on the deposits and capital {
other banks and bankers for the perio
between the date of the same act an
> December l, 1892.
A Richmond, Inds, dispatch of Ma
oath says: Morgon Hewitt and Natha
D. Thomas, Mormon elders, are in th
| city, or, rather, West Richmond, and
is generally understood they come diret
from Utah as special ENJOYS to prepa1
} the way for holding series of meeting
3 here. This is an exceptionally religion
community in which about every demon
D nation has q representative and n
!, ligious tolerance is correspondingly ella
: tic and enduring, but. per contra, thel
0 is perhaps not q community in the Unite
Q States where stronger prejudice exls
: against the Mormon faith, and the
j actions are awaited with unconceale
, anxiety. This situation they are perhal
aware of, as they came Saturday nigl
: and have not as yet showed up. 1t ma
be that they will be rather backwar
= about coming forward until reinforce
9 ments appear.
Q A Techachapi dispatch ofMay "a. say
q Emigrant train No. %, bound nortl
/" consisting of thirty-two box cars, Fl,
i. emigrant cars and a caboose, in chart
y of Conductor Moore with two breakme
It was wrecked while going down the hi
J. one mile north of this place. The acc
|. dent was caused by breakbeam dro
I, ping on the track. When the breal
y beam dropped the train broke into thr
: sections, consisting of five emigrant ca
b and the caboose and five box cars, fol
II of which left the track and were bad
% wrecked. The middle section consisted
n FIVE box cars, the front.of twenty-five bs
{, cars and engine. In this section we
is both the breakmen. Alexander Cochra
10 one of the breaKmen, was in the res
l. and seeing the five box cars followil
& them, signaled the engineer to run o
n of danger. He then jumped on the Fl
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