The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-01-26
CURRENT EVENTS.

to President Arthur and his Cabinet.
Mapleson, with Patti and full com.
pany, will soon visit the Pacific Coast.
Two thousand miners at Deadwood are
negotiating for transportation to the Coeur
d Alene mines.
| Horace White will soon resign the treas
iiryship of the Oregon Railway and Sav1-
cation Company.
| John G.. SAKE is very Ill at his Brooklyn
| home, and it is now thought that he cannot
/ possiblyslive through the winter.
/ At the Inauguration of Governor Robin
son, his father, mother wife, son and
daughter were interested spectators.
At the opening of the Conservative AS
sociation of Dorchester, Salisbury depre-
Gated the extension of suffrage to Ireland.
| Mrs. Bright Clark, daughter of John
Bright has taken to the stump in favor of
woman suffrage. Her lectures are said to
| be bright.
While ten men and boy, were in cage
! at Gamane colliery, in Wales, the rope
broke and all were hurled to the bottom.
| All were killed.
| Carlotta, the widow of Maximilan, is AZ
years of age. She has been i'll for some
! time, but the doctors now entertain hopes
of her recovery.
| Joseph B. Crockett, ex-Justice of the
Supreme Court, died at his home at Fruit
vale few days ago. He was 76years old,
and native of Kentucky.
1t is stated that Robert Harris has been
selected for president of the Northern Pa
/ cific road, and that the enterprise is to
soon be fitted out with a receiver.
A fire at Canstata, Madison county, New
/ York, a few days ago, destroyed a large
part of the business portion of the town.
The losses aggregate upwards of $4,000.
/ John Hazeltine De Force, brother of
Laura De Force Gordon and Gertie De
Force Cluff, died in Lodi, Cal, recently,
after protracted illness, aged so years.
Two skye terriers saved the city of New
York 100000 the other day. They made
| such noise when the municipal building
caught fire that help came in time to put
| it out.
Mrs. George Bancroft, the wife of the
historian, although so years old, still pre-
serves much of her beauty and all of her
intellect and her manners of patrican ele-
| gance.
The only copy of the London Times ever
l'lssued on Sunday was an ''extra" sent out
! in lS47, containing an announcement that
| saved the Bank of England from serious
run"
! A jury at Detroit, Mich, recently rem
dered a verdict in favor of the proprietor
of Coups circus, for damages sustained in
an accident on the Wabash Railroad last
summer.
The statement of the operations of the
/ Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad
shows gross earnings for the year (esti-
mated) of $15, ,867 $3.50; expenses and taxes,
$9,650,Sl0.
! An aged prisoner at Werden, Westpha-
liza, was, at his urgent request, granted
permission to be taken to the railway sta
tion to see locomotive and train for the
first time.
Each employe of the Long Island Rail-
road received as a present from the presi-
dent of the company a turkey, a day or two
before Christmas. It took l ,652 turkeys to
go around.
A young child was taken to church in
i Quebec, Canada, the other day, and bap-
tized, and when the parents and friends
returned home the child was found dead
| in its wraps.
1t is said that nearly half of the patents
applied for in recent years have been for
car-couplers, and still the bulk of car
coupling to-day is done with the primitive
link and pin.
Elegant furniture is now being made ex-
clusively of yellow pine at several factories
in Paris, France. 1t is stated that most
BEAUTIFUL and striking effects are produced
/ by this wood.
During the harvest season just closed,
1900 bushels of grain were threshed in the
Long Creek precint, Grant county, Oregon.
This is good showing in proportion to the
acreage Sown.
A petition asking the President to ap-
point James n. Glover, of Spokane Falls,
/ Governor of Washington Territory, is be-
ing enthusiastically circulated and signed
in that section.
The four buildings for the Worlds In
| w in No
! leans are to have 100000 square feet of
| exhibition space, and are to cost in the ag-
gregate only $255,000.
1t is estimated that over 100000 persons
met with accidental deaths during the
year 1883. The fearful convulsions of ma
ture in the Malay archipelago and Syria
destroyed over $4,000 lives.
A few days ago the lessees of the Missis-
sippi penitentiary paid the State $33. 944 3d.
| This is the first money received from that
source; heretofore the State has been in
debt for repairs to machinery.
In Worth county, Georgia, the drought
is so severe that twenty y-fve or fifty-foot
wells have been made one hundred feet
deep and more, and still it is impossible to
find an abundant supply of water.
| Burglars recently entered the jewelry
shop of Goldsmith & Co., No. 40 Maiden
Lane, New York, and opening two safes,
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and jewelry to the amount of $4,000.
Great alarm has been caused in Monte
video by immense tidal waves. One
caused the death of woman bather. The
waves are attributed to volcanic disturb
ances. Each wave was preceded by large
dark cloud.
The earliest colonial coinage was in
Massachusetts,, in pursuance of an order
of the general court, passed May 27, 1852,
which established "a mint house" at Bos-
ton, The coins ordered were of the values
of I'D, Cd and Sd.
All the last spring graduates of the
Yorkshire School of Cookery have found
places on salaries ranging from $3.50 to
/ $500, and the English papers begin to
think that new industry for women has
been discovered
d. p. Hill, merchant at High Bridge,
| n. j., was called to his store at 3 o'clock in
the morning, recently, and shot by three
masked men. Two balls lodged in his
head. He is not expected to live No
property was disturbed.
The Bartholdi Pedestal Committee an.
nounce that the Travellers Insurance Com
pany of Hartford has subscribed 81, 700 to
j the fund. A special engraving of the
statue when completed will be prepared
for the American press.
The men who stopped the train at PEN
dleton, and afterward tramped from there
to Umatilla, do not appear to have been all
orderly men, as some of them went
through Chinamans house at Umatilla,
robbing him of $50 worth of rice and other
provisions.
The Northern Pacific Company have es-
tablished an agency at Stevens mill, three
miles west of Thompson, and 532 miles
east of Portland. The agency at Starbuck.
on the Oregon Railway and Navigation
/ Oompany's line, twelve miles this side of
Riparia, has been discontinued
Further criminal prosecution in the big