The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-08-30
DOMESTIC TELEGRAPH1c NEWS.

Inc COnneCC1Cut Ieac6 Society IS In SeS- |
sion at Mystic.
Alphonso Gifard committed suicide in
San Francisco last week.
A disease supposed to be the bloody flux
is raging in Cantrell, Iowa.
]. Fl. Deane, a New York lawyer, has
failed; liabilities, So, 218, 229.
There were four fatal cases of sunstroke
at Brooklyn, N. Y, recently.
Baltimore has negro girl. II years old,
who is gradually turning white.
Richard Flicksig, ravisher. was lynched
near Galveston, Texas, recently.
California is in arms against ex-Gov-
error Gibbs New York wine speech.
The stories that Governor Foster of Ohio
is financially embarrassed are untrue.
Seven boys were drowned at Albion, n.
Y, last week by the capsizing OF boat.
The 200th anniversary of the settlement
of Worcester, Mass, will be celebrated
October 10th.
Richard Harris, well known San Fran
cisco capitalist, died suddenly of heart
disease last week.
Mortimer Ward, once captain of the fa
nous steamer Brother Jonathan, died in
New York recently.
The San Francisco Post criticises Port
land, Or, for sending her Chinese lepers
to the county hospital.
A New York policemen refused to wres-
tie with Sorakichi, because, he said, the
Jap is covered with a loathsome disease.
It is reported that w. D. Eshelman &
Co., general commission merchants of
Philadelphia, are temporarily embar
rassed.
Max Gremin, of Omaha, disappeared on
his wedding morning, leaving letter for
his affianced saying he left her because he
had lost all his money.
A dispatch has been received in New
7 York saying that the steamer Bracadoile,
from Calcutta for New York, is reported
to have cholera on board.
A fire broke out at Shanokin, Pa, last
week, in the Bruckridge mine slope, 1900
feet from the surface. Seven men and
eleven mules were burned to death.
All property of the Sprague Manufacture
ing Company at Augusta, Nc, was sold at
auction last week. What fifteen years ago
cost fully So, 900, 600 realized about $500, 600.
The farmers of Sibley, H., are excited
over the appearance of hog cholera among
their herds of swine. Among the heavy
losers are M. L. Sullivan and c. Waiter
son.
The Rictka and Patterson mills, the
former situated at Manaounk and the lat
ter at Chester, Pa, suspended last week.
One thousand men are thrown out of en-
ployment.
There is some discussion in department
circles at Washington as to the practabil-
ity of fitting out and equipping the Bear
and Thetis for the revenue marine service,
to cruise along the Alaskan coast.
Colonel Otis, commander of the United
States army school of application for in
fantry and cavalry at Fort Leavenworth,
Kan, has issued order No. 1913, outlining
the course of study in the United States.
The sixteenth annual reunion of the So
ciety of the Army of the Cumberland, of
which Lieutenant General Sheridan is
president, will be held at Rochester, n.
Y, September 17th and 18th (Chickamauga
week).
The report of Commander Sehlev, of the
Greedy relief expedition, will be submitted
to Secretary Chandler within a few days.
1t will be one of the most elaborate reports
ever sent to the department by naval
officer.
Captain 4. p. Ewers, of the Fifth Infan-
try, has received telegram from the Com
missioner of Indian Affairs, placing So, 600
at his immediate disposal for the relief of
| the starving Cheyennes near Fort Keogh,
Montana.
Paul Poppulorum, an extensive tanner
of Chicago, assigned last week. Liabilities
are placed at 500, coo. Contingent liabili-
ties will probably add 800 600 more to that
sum. The assets are $172, 1866. The firm
is of long standing.
Four leading Mormon elders last week
presented a sworn petition to Governor
Bate of Tennessee, asking that a reward
| be offered for the apprehension of those
engaged in the Lewis county massacre
of Sunday, August 10th.
A new life saving station has been es-
tablished at Atlantic City, n. j. The
| building is to be adjacent to the light
| house. The structure is to be 33x50 feet
| in size, and 81 feet high, and is to cost
when finished and furnished about Sc, 900.
Governor Murray of Utah is in receipt
of kilograms announcing that the Utes
| have killed two white men, a large NUM-
| Der of cattle, burned ranches and provi-
sions, and now hold possession of the San
Juan valley, having driven out all the
| whites.
Warner & Merritt, fruit importers OF
| Philadelphia, have assigned to w. I'll.
| Knowles, of Knowles & Anderson, a
large canning firm of Camden, n. J. Liza
bilities, $500, 100. The firm has large guam
| titles of paper out, and has been borrow
ing at high rates.
| Daniel D. Whedon, Jr., son of Rev. DIR.
| Whedon, editor of the New York Method.
| a La l.
| Elizabeth, n. j., Saturday, August 10th,
since which time his relatives have been
searching for him in vain. His father is
at the point of death at Sag Harbor.
John A. Logan, Jr., son of the Republi.
can candidate for Vice President, who is
| in the fourth class of cadets at West
Point, has been placed under arrest there
to await trial by court martial on the
charge of using profane language while on
| duty, and for conduct unbecoming cadet
and prejudicial to military discipline.
| For the first time in two years tele.
graphic business between San Francisco
| and the north is now transmitted without
delay. All through eastern busines now
| goes via the Northern Pacific wire and
| this takes great strain from the Portland
and San Francisco wires, which for many
months have been badly overburdened.
In view of the developments respecting
| the presence of pluero-pneumonia among
Jersey cattle in Illinois, Governor Hamil.
ton has called the state veterinarian board
to meet at Springfield, ILL.,. to consult up
on.steps to be taken. The herd where the
| trouble first occurred came from Ohio,
and one from the neighborhood of Wash
ington, d. c.
Conductor Bob Broyles, of the Western
and Atlantic Railroad, at Rogers, Ca, q