The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-02-02
EASTERN TErEGRApHIc NEWS.


Boston's new sewerage system works
successfully.
Clement, of Emma Bond notoriety, is
| in Milwaukee.
There are 4O4 Indian scholars now In the
Carlisle school.
William Morton, the Artic explorer, has
| died in Alaska.
| The mortality in Salt Lake City for the
| year 1888 was $50.
! Taallulah, Ca, has two women deputy
revenue collectors.
! New York received s110.567 from $3.50
| liquor licenses in 1888.
| The Hecla mine in Montana produces
seventy tons Of frst-class ore daily.
II. K. Thurber retires from New York's
largest grocery house with 81, 100000.
/ Anthony Comstock threatens to suppress
the New York edition of Sarah Barnum.
Cincinnati sold SO, 522, 600 worth of to-
bacco in 1883. The White Burley was the
| favorite.
New York police are clearing out the
policy shops. Forty dealers were arrested
recently.
In single year the enormous sum of
| $27, ,000, 900 was paid out by Americans for
matches.
Jim Flood is worth 800, 900 600, Mackey
has $60, GOO 600 and Senator Fair possesses
$40 0O0, 600.
| Alden Speare, of Boston, has given $40,-
600 to found a professorship in the Boston
i University.
Judge Bradwell, of the Legal News, was
recently elected president of the Chicago
Press Club.
There were torty-five homicides in New
/ York city last year, the first and last being
by policemen.
Nevada City, Mo-, is soon to have fine
seminary on a lot donated by the citizens
of that place.
Three young Irish Catholic girls were
taken into the New York Jewish syna-
gogue recently.
The only son of Governor Robinson, of
/ Massachusetts, will graduate at Amherst
College this year.
| The sum of $50, 600 ON mining sale at
Salt Lake City, recently, was paid with
800 $50 gold pieces.
Mrs. Beal, of Kingston, Mass, gave
900 New Years day to the Unitarian
church of that place.
i The managers of the Henry College lot
terry, Louisville, have been arrested by the
postoffice authorities.
i A company has been formed to build a
road from Bloomington to Peoria, H., and
thence to the Mississippi.
) David Sankey, father of the evangelist,
, who died at his home, New Castle, Pa, re-
, Gently, was once an editor.
In 1883, 6,726 vessels were piloted in and
, out of New York harbor. Six of 133 Ii
censed pilots lost their lives.
Seventy-six Sing Sing convicts have vol.
unfairly entered the night school, which is
taught by one of their number.
L soLs
Kan, show quite heavy loss of cattle and
hogs from the late snow storms.
An examination of the affairs of d. M
G E. G. Halbert, of Binghampton, N. Y.
shows total liabilities of $500, eco.
The Association of New Y York Exchanges
is new organization to further Legislation
: desired by the various exchanges.
, Governor Robinson, of Massachusetts
! still fills his place as superintendent of the
Chicopee Unitarian Sunday school.
i A De Kalb county, Tennessee, man cut
tree until it was ready to fall, and ther
threw himself under it to commit suicide
The House at Trenton, N. j., has passed
bill providing for the burying of honora
+ bly, discharged soldiers who die IN poverty
al Miss Martha Jellison, who died recently
at Ellsworth, Maine, aged 93 years, hac
e taught school in that city for sixty years
Robert A. Murry, a Boston broker, il
: missing. Wine and women had used VI
s his large fortune and $4,000 more, it il
: said.
: At Syracuse, N. Y, recently, William HI
Craft undertook and succeeded in the tasl
: of walking 302 miles in 100 hours, withou
o sleep.
n During the last year the ub-Treasur,
e officials in New York city handled 1910,
491, ,113 in money without the loss of
i penny.
= The mining town known as Blende City
e near Joplin, Mo-, has secured postoffice
/ and has had its name changed to that o
! Lehigh.
The Ohio hotel keepers will meet at Gin
s cinnat to form an association to secur
legislation necessary to protect their in
Il terests.
{ A man whose eye was put out by cinde
\ falling from the Manhattan elevated rail
way has sued the company for $4,000
s damages.
Chicken stealing has become regula
= industry at Helena, Ark, and thus far al
C efforts to locate the thieves have been un
successful.
: The Maine game commissioners are en
$ !. forcing law forbidding railroads fror
= exporting more than three deer from th
= State in a season.
,e Only $4,000 have been raised in fou
months toward a monument to Pete
Cooper, who did such incalculable publ
1t service with his wealth.
le Belle English, of Cincinnati, after goin
= to the Supreme Court, has secured a vel
- dict of 81, 500 against her father for ds
'e claring her illegitimate.
The fly wheel and sheet mill of the Reat
re ing penny Iron Works were burned r,
g Gently. 1t causes $50 hands to be throw
II out of work for about six weeks.
e The Pittsburg glass-workers' strike hs
= : lasted five months, and now it is said q
. international union has been formed to il
j. clude the leading glass districts of Europ
n A bill has been in the Albany, N. 7
1T Legislature to authorize magistrates |
g fine spectators $25 for each offense II
IS selling theater tickets above the box offit
e. price.
a. It is understood that the office of assis
r tant surgeon general of the army will /
,e abolished. The Secretary of War sal
E. such move would meet his entire appr,
D. baton.
ID A court martial has been ordered to met
at San Antonio, Tex, in February, for tt
Of trial of Captain A. S. Keyes, Tenth Ca
d airy, on charges of duplication of his pa
er account.
u 1t is said that the Oregon and Transcol
4. tinental company, created by Henry VI
lard, will soon be dissolved, and it's asse
:. distributed pro rata among the shar
IL holders.
- tits estimated that between 5000, 900 an
IL 5000 600 of trade dollars are yet in circul
u tion. The remainder of the $4,000, o.
30 originally coined, it is thought, have bee
~ exported or remelted.
An entire block facing Railroad stree
=; in Buena Vista, Col, including the Cor
- mercial hotel, was burned recently. Lo