The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-01-19
CURRENT EVENTS.

Tacoma.
Tacoma has balance in the treasury of
81, ,59O.62.
All the saloons of Lawrence, Kas.. have
closed permanently.
The Cincinnati Post gave Christmas
dinner to 500 newsboys.
In Salem it is reported there are twelve
new cases of yellow fever.
Pierce county, w. T., came out at the
end of 1888, 700 in debt.
Mrs Mary Kerwin, of Newington, Conn,
is dead at the great age los years.
Nearly 5000, 600 bushels of coal left Pitts
burg on Christmas for down river cities.
Mrs. Klesser, of Mauch Chunk, Pa,
eloped with her daughters lover recently.
Peter K. Morgan, of Richmond, Va,
aged 90, veteran of the war of 1872, is
dead.
A conference in the interest of uniform
bankrupt act was held in Washington re-
Gently.
The total number of Master Masons in
Washington Territory is 1890; total
lodges, 40.
Twenty thousand men were engaged on
Christmas day in cleaning the streets of
New York.
One million cattle will be placed on cat
tie ranches ON the Cherokee strip by the
1st of April.
The State of Wisconsin reports 13, 406
| marriages, 1884 births and 1884 deaths
during the year.
Houghkirk, the Albany, n. Y, barn
burner, has been sentenced to five years
in the State prison.
The jury in the Emma Bond rape case at
Hillsboro. ILL.,, January I'd, returned a
verdict of not guilty.
John Furlong, one of the old pioneers of
| Milwaukee, settling there in 1896, died on
the 26th of December.
Pierre Lorillard presented to his 1900
employees weeks wages as Christmas
gift, aggregating 81, 900.
ID. p. jenkins, formerly of Seattle, now
of Spokane Falls, is candidate for Gov
ernor OF Washington Territory.
Osman Boiety, of Chamberlain, S. c.,
continues to drive street car, although his
| wife has just inherited $500, 900.
An attempt has been made to blow up
the Kentucky State capitol at Frankfort,
| the building being badly damaged.
Washington Palmer of Leadville, las
seed a lioness, captured her cub and took
them both to the city for exhibition.
Isaac |. Sprague, the living skeleton,
who weighs forty pounds, has willed his
body to the Harvard Medical College.
| 1t is expected 1900 employees of the Nc
| keesport, Pa, wire works will accept re-
duction of wages from II to 20 per cent.
Work on the great bridge at Ainsworth,
w. T., is being pushed as rapidly as posi-
BILE. 1t will not be completed before April.
Since 1862 Esquire Moves. of West
/ Alexander, Pa, has united in marriage
2,3O4 couples. He is living with his third
wife.
Mahony, editor of the Boston Saturday
| Evening Express, was severely whipped by
one McAvoy, who had been abused in the
paper.
Burglars entered the house of Governor
Adams at Carson, New, on New Years
night and took a diamond ring valued al
81 200.
i Thirty years ago lager beer was practic
ally unknown in this country; now there
are 800 breweries with an investment OF
$15O, 100000.
Rev. Huntley, the new chaplain of the
Senate, prayed especially for General
Sheridan at the opening of the session Of
the 9th ult.
The case of Rev. w. Mitchell, of Boston
arrested for stealing a book from store
has been dismissed. He is now in a pri
vate asylum.
A Toronto man died of small pox twenty
six years ago, and a week or two since his
grandchild slept upon the same bed and
took the disease.
George HI. Horner, of Boston, who began
life in humble way, sent six nieces and
nephews each check for 5000 as a
| Christmas present, as is his custom.
There are about 66,0O0 locomotive en-
| gines in the world, and 10000 passenger,
and 500, 900 freight cars. There are 200,00t
miles of track and the capital invested is
~, ,0O0, ,OO0,00O.
| A petition requesting Congress to pre-
vent the importation OF foreign laborers,
| under contracts made abroad, is receiving
many signatures of workingmen at Read
| ing, Pa.
A towboat caught fire on New Year s
night, near Pittsburg, while going up the
river. The crew became panic stricken
and jumped in the river. Four were
drowned.
A mass meeting at fremont temple, Bos-
ton, on the 9th ult., considered the con-
stitutional prohibition of the manufacture
and sale of liquor. About 200 persons
were present.
Dizer & Co., boot and shoe manufacture
ers, East Weymouth, Mass, have decided
to stop business rather than accede to the
demands of the striking lasters. Nearly
400 are employed.
About 200 Italians, men, women and
children, were recently landed in New Or
leans from Vera Cruz, in the last stages of
destitution, without money and most of
them poorly clad.
Charles C. Johnson, who committed sui
eide at Richmond, Ind, lost an arm, after
which his twin babies died. Next his wife
died, then another child, which was born
when the mother died.
Colonel Elijah Strasbury, who just died
in Baltimore at the age OF SS, served in the
war of 1872, had been Mayor of his city,
member of the Maryland Legislature, and
held sundry minor local offices.
William Astor has purchased from the
Morris Land Company, all its property ly-
ing between One-hundred-and-fif fifty third
street and the Harlem river, New York,
with water privilege, for $276,OO0.
Sarah Winnemucca, the Piute princess,
has drawn up petition to Congress for
the restoration of the tribe of the Malheur
reservation, and for other relief, in order
that the sufferings of the Piutes may be
mitigated.
The whale is small affair beside the oil
well, but still he is fished for. The seasons
catch in the North Pacific yields IL 200 bar
rels of oil, 162, pa pounds of bone, and 310,-
600 pounds of walrus ivory, the whole
worth $3.50, 600
Three of the Southern Pacific Railroad
train robbers and murderers are in custody
at Silver City, A. T. The first one, ne
gro caught at Las Vegas, N. NJ, confessed,
and the two others were taken at Engle,
| n. NJ. on the 30th ult.
Smith, the man who was blown up by
the recent explosion at the gravel pit near
Sumner, w. T., has almost recovered from
his injuries He is well enouh to be around,
and will probably be discharged from the
hospital in a day or two.
Perry H. Smith, of Chicago, is opposing
| the movement to have trust funds removed
| from his hands. He denies the negligence