The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-08-02
FOREIGN rELEGRApH1c NEWS.

Portugal has extended her quarantine to
all European shipping.
Foo Chow has been captured by French
squadron under Admiral Courbet.
An unknown vessel was seen bottom up
in the bay of St. Johns. No particulars.
Hanlan and Beach are matched to row
at Parraments, Australia, for $1,000 a
side.
DIR. Calser Henry Sawkins, surgeon of
the Queen of England, dided in London
last week.
The total number of deaths from cholera
at Marseilles since the epidemic appeared
there is SD
At Berne, Switzerland, recently, mob
attacked the Salvation Army and wounded
many persons.
The Austrian and Hungarian societies
have formed federation, for the purpose
of securing unity of action.
Johnstone and Little, implicated in the
Cornwall scandal, were arrested at Magh-
erafelt, and brought to Dublin.
The bark Vicksburg, from Quebec for
Leith, has been wrecked near Portland
Skerries. Nine lives were lost.
Lord Rodsdale intends to settle the ex-
listing difficulties by adjourning instead of
proroguing the British parliament.
The Spanish government has strength
ened the sanitary Gordon in the Pyrenees
to prevent the introduction of cholera.
During the examination of Anarchists
at Marseilles recently, the leader man
named Buison, was seized with cholera.
Lord Randolph Churchill is considering
the question of taking an American tour
during the recess of the British parlia-
ment.
A large number Of rebels surrounded
khartoum recently, but were dispersed
by General Gordon after losing their
leader.
The steamer Bourne, from Newcastle,
n. S. W., to Manila, has been abandoned
IN sinking condition off the PHILIPPINE
Islands.
There was an anti-Jewish riot at Droho-
bioz, Austria, recently, during which a
large number of persons were killed and
wounded.
The application of Nine. Patti VS.. the
Marquis De Caux, for divorce, will be the
first case tried under the new French di-
vorce law.
A large number of deaths from typhoid
fever have taken place in London, caused
by drinking the impure water on the
Thames river.
dispatch received in London by Reu-
ter,s Telegram Company says the situation
In Shanghai has improved, and there will
be no fighting.
1t is reported from Algiers that French
comedy troupe, travelling through Algiers,
were massacreed by Arabs, near the Mo
rocco frontier.
A very perceptible shock of earthquake
was felt last week on the island of Ischia,
IN the Mediterranean sea. The inhabit-
ants are greatly agitated.
John Bright is preparing measure for
the English House of Lords, based upon
the principles of life peerage, with a num-
Der of hereditary peerages.
Advices from Assouan state that a large
number of desertions have occurred in the
Egyptian army, and that rebels are mass
ing htteen miles from that place.
Queen Victoria sends her gratulations
to the President and the people of the
United States on the success attained in
the Arctic seas by the Greedy party.
The body of Volkman, a we'll known
hnancier, was found in the Seine opposite
Paris with bullet through his head. 1t
is supposed to be case of suicide.
The French government has decorated
Dr. Koch with the cross of the Legion of
Henor, in recognition of his researches as
to the source and spread of cholera.
The Mudir of Dongola telegraphs that
he defeated 5000 followers of Ell Mahdi,
near Dsbbeh, and captured 400 Remington
rphal lnGCnG
The Anarchist, Hammer in prison at
Vienna, has confessed to the murders of
Banker Leinhart, and Sentinel Adels at
Strasburg, and of Banker Eisert at Stutt-
gart.
The steamer Faraday, engaged in laying
the Bennett -Mackay cable, has reached
the buoy in midocean, which makes the
end of that portion of the line laid from
America.
John c. Emo has rented a splendidly
furnished residence on st. Johns street,
Quebec, Canada, and his wife and three
daughters joined him from New York
last week.
A London dispatch says: Losses from
the great fire of last week at Crane wharf,
Mapping, reached $250,000. Large guam
titles of oil, stored at the wharf, were not
much damaged.
A London dispatch says The Commons
will bring up the question of redistribu-
tion OF parliamentary seats at the autumn
session, while the House of Lords will dis
cuss the franchise question.
AT Weiziar, near Coblentz, formerly one
of three cities of the German empire an
instance has come to light, the Duke of
Brunswick is defendant there in a land
suit which was begun in 1904.
1t is understood that the Egyptian con-
ference is unable to agree in regard to
England's financial proposals. England
and France are wide apart. Granville is
empowered to summon a conference to
another meeting at any time.
A society composed of German noble
men has been organized in Berlin for the
purpose of sending INDECENT members of
noble German families to Chill, where
they will have all the advantages of fer
tile soil and favorable climate.
A spy from FL Mahdi, captured at
Suakem, was hanged last week. Native S
say that General Gordon's gunboat, be-
tween Khartoum and Berber, spread great
terror among the rebels. Osman Digma
IS doing his utmost to counteract their
alarm.
The number of cases of yellow fever at
Panama is increasing daily. Two staff
officers have died from the disease. There
are 176 cases of dysentery in the city. The
hospitals there and in Colon are crowded
There were seven deaths in the Canal hos
pltal last week.
The annual conference of the National
conservative Union was held at Sheffield,
England, last week. One thousand dele
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