The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-08
roaErGN rErEaRApH1c NEWS.
Sir Bartle Frere is dangerously i'll.

Trouble is in preparation for England in
India.
General Schramm and Dewimpffen died
in Paris last week.
The Irish dynamiters have made Paris
their headquarters.
In London last week, 1,219 bales of sgd
ney wool were sold.
The American treaty has been signed in
Madrid and took effect March 1st.
The Toronto city council passed law
recently abolishing grocers' liquor licenses.
The Baden Chamber has voted sc, 900
marks for the preservation of Heidelberg
Castle.
The French government has decided to
expel from France all suspected dyna-
miters.
Australian wines are to form an import
ant feature at the Health Exhibition in
London.
The steamer Thetis, purchased for the
Greeley relief expedition, has set sail for
America.
A strong movement is on foot in the
province of Galieia to favor emigration to
America.
Penny fares for first-class street car ac-
commodations are being agitated in Man
chester, England.
The steamer Great Eastern has been
purchased by the English Government for
coal hulk at Gibraltar.
The waterspout at Arequipa, Peru,
caused the drowning of several persons
and great damage to property.
Thomas Brooks memorial bust of Long
fellow has been unveiled at Westminster
Abbey. 1t is of pure white marble.
A deficiency of 1000, 600 roubles in the
last fourteen years, has been discovered
in the administration of Turkistan.
The bill granting nearly $50, ,000, 600 to
the Canadian Pacific Railroad, passed the
House of Commons at Ottawa, Can.
A case of gold dishes made in India has
been given to DR.. Evans, the American
dentist in Paris, by the Prince OF Wales.
According to mail accounts of Baker
Pasha's defeat, fifteen Austrian, four Ger
man and four Swiss officers were killed.
At the beginning of last month the
Rothschilds loaned the Egyptian govern.
ment 2l, 600, 600 without special security.
Three thousand unemployed working
men paraded in ST. Etienne, France, de-
manding settlement of the labor crisis.
Hollingshead declined to engage Sara
Berahardt for the Gaiety Theater until
she pays 94S0 due on the Southport fiasco
The Emperor of Germany gave a state
banquet at Berlin in honor of the special
Russian Embassy and Grand Duke Mi
ehael.
A dynamite explosion occurred in the
cloak room of the Victoria railway station,
London. Seven men were seriously in
jured.
The wheat and bean crops in Upper
Egypt are in splendid condition, and the
sugar crop is probably the largest on
record.
T. 7. Bradley, collector of customs at
Port Emerson, Manitoba, was arrested,
charged with embezzlingz z$4 600 and burn
ing the manifests.
The chief inspector of explosives at Lon
don asserts that there is no doubt that the
explosion at Victoria station was caused
by nitro-glycerine.
A bridge on the Grand Trunk railway at
Montreal gave away, precipitating eleven
cars loaded with general merchandise into
the bed of the river.
The Earl of Euston, who married a wo-
man of the town, wants divorce from
this wife on the grounds that former
husband has turned up.
A spy sent to friendly tribes brings the
information that the rebels had attacked
the tribe and captured seventy-three men
and fifty grain-loaded camels.
One thousand British troops advanced
L
Notifications at Trinkitat recently. The
enemy retired waving spears.
A severe hurricane at Bowen, Australia,
caused immense destruction. Every build
ing in town was damaged and many blown
down. Hundreds are homeless.
Tenders are invited for furnishing stores
and provisions for twelve months, begin
ming in April, for the British army of oc-
eupation of 10000 men in Egypt.
Seven thousand Arabs have reinforced
the army of Osman Digma, who has taken
command In person. He has altogether
$4,000, against 5000 British troops.
The city of Khartoum is tranquil. The
market is full of Arabs daily, who freely
bring in produce, prices of which have
fallen off one-half since Gordon's arrival.
A false alarm of fire in the Theater Roy
al, Monteal, at a matinee recently, caused
panic. Women tainted and men were
trampled on. Several were badly bruised.
The guard at the Chatham convict prison
was doubled recently in consequence of an
expectation that an attempt would be
made by Fenians to liberate Invincibles.
William H. Haigh, of Port Hope, Onta-
rio, passenger on the Circassian from
England, was robbed on the passage of
$500 worth of jewelry and other valu-
ables.
A Greenock, Scotland, justice of the
peace sent man named James Dakin the
other day to Jail for thirty days, for kiss.
ing another mans wife in a railway car.
riage.
Yellow Calf, the rebellious Indian chief,
gave himself up to the authorities at
Broadview, n. w. t., together with four
of his braves, recently, to be tried by the
courts.
Foote, editor of the Free Thinker, CON-
pleted his years imprisonment for bias
phemy recently. Bradlaugh, with 1900
sympathizers, met him at the gates of the
prison.
Figaro explains that the banquet ten
dered Messonier was not a demonstration
against Mrs. Mackay, but recognition of
the f1ftieth anniversary of Messonier's ar
tistic life.
General Millet, commander of the land
forces at Tonquin, has left three battalions
at Sontay and three at Halphon. He is pre-.
pairing TO operate against Bacninh with
9,O0 -aen.
Thirty-one head of cattle and sheep, be-
longing to the cargo of the steamer Onta-
rio, were condemned at Liverpool recently
as diseased. The infected animals are
from Canada.
There is no truth in the statement made
by several American papers that an insult
was offered to the American flag on Wash.
ington's birthday by the proprietors of the
Toronto Mail.
German newspapers, referring to the dy-
Mantle outrages in London, say that Eng.
Land is now reaping the fruits of her hos.
pitality to anarchists and cutthroats from
all parts of the world.
The brace game which the sharpers of
the Petit Cercle in the Rue Royale, Paris,
played on the lambs of the flock netted
perhaps $5OOO00. OF this $780, 600 in Sc
eurities have been recovered.
The captain of the Egyptian steamer
Damenhauer refused to obey orders to
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