The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-08-09
FOREIGN rELEGRApH1c NEWS.

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has arrived at Plymouth, England.
The renewal of cholera is feared at Tou-
lon owing to the return of fugitives.
The Hastings sawmill property on Bur-
rard inlet, B. c., owned in San Francisco,
was sold last week for 1915, 200.
Six thousand persons, says Rome dis
patch, are detained in various lazerettos
on the frontier and along the coast.
A son of the British vice-consul at Ro-
dosto, Turkey, was captured last week by
brigands who demand 81. 900 ransom.
Rebels attacked Suakem in the night
last week in great force. They lost four
men killed, and had several wounded.
A Chinaman named On Hing was fined
$500 and costs at Victoria, B. c., recently,
for assisting her majesty's sailors to de-
sert.
A good many sunstrokes are occurring
among the troops in Suakem.t The ther-
mometer registers as high as 120 in the
shade.
1t was reported last week that France
and China had made treaty of peace.
china is to pay France an indemnity of ST.
280,
The Supreme Court of Vienna has con-
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macher, the Anarchist, recently convicted
of murder.
Port Puelya, Spain, is declared infected
with cholera. Ports between Cadiz and
Ayamonte, both inclusive, are also sus.
pected of being infected.
| The French government has received
advices from Tamstay, Madagascar. stat
ing that the reported combat, June 29th,
| was not defeat of the French
A panic exists at Uelage, near Bigieres,
| by the mayor and members of the council,
drove Off and stoned refugees from Mar.
seilles.
the new divorce law was gazetted in
Paris last week. Three thousand suits
Tor divorce have already been begun.
Many noble and prominent families are
| involved.
Advlces received in London state that
the British ship Aros Bay, from Dundee,
April 4th, for San Francisco has been to.
tally wrecked off Valparaiso. The crew
were saved.
The libel suit by Bolton, the prosecutor
Tor the crown. against William O'Brien.
| editor OF the Dublin United. Ireland. has
been concluded by a verdict for the plaint-
iff giving him $4,000.
1t is reported in London that 500 passen-
gers were murdered in Agig, Egypt. A
letter from General Gordon, dated on the
1lth ult., emphasizes the necessity of his
remaining to protect Kassola.
The chief of police of Victoria, B. c.,
returned from Skena river last week,
Bringing the murder of Yeomans. The
prisoner was surrendered by his tribe
after slight show of resistance.
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Two more persons have been arrested in
DuDiln In connection with the unsavory
Cornwall scandal. Many other persons
have become frightened at the prospect of
arrest, and are leaving the country.
Captain Aitcheson, of her majesty's flag
ship Swiftshire, while out riding in Vic.
torla last week, broke the girt of his sad
die and fell to the ground, causing mental
aoerraton. lie is pronounced incurable.
Two weeks quarantine will be imposed
by the Spanish government against all
vessels arriving into that country from
newfoundland, in consequence of the
large trade of that country with France.
A Marseilles dispatch says that the lower
classes dislike and oppose physicians, be-
cause they have got the notion that the
physicians have been instructed to help
cholera along in order to get rid of the
SUI ApAuS populallOn.
A Victoria, B. c., dispatch says: A man
named Casey, lately from California, was
4 murdered last week at Cache creek with
sheve! in the hands of another man
named Abiesher. The murderer fled. but
is hotly pursued by constables.
1t is reported in Berlin that the Grand
Duke Louis of Hesse will abdicate in fa-
yor OF his son Ernest, under advice of the
Emperor of Germany. His morganatic
marriage with Nine. Kalemine, and his
subsequent divorce, have compromised
his position.
The Spanish government has made the
following reduction in Cuban export du.
| ties, which commenced August Ist: The
sur-tax OF per cent is abolished, and the
present rate of 60 per cent reduced. and
made payable one-half in bank bills, at
one-half their nominal value.
An Arab trader has arrived at Assouan
from Amarar, which place he left on the
2Oth ult. He says it was reported that
Osman Disma was killed on the 18th ult.
nephew Osman Digma had stabbed be-
cause he refused to join the rebels.
Irish members of the English parliament
have decided to send Sexton and w. Red
mond on special mission to America, for
national cause. and to raise funds to en-
able the Nationalists to run ninety candi-
dates at the next general election.
Great precautions have been taken at
| Warwick, England, to preserve order dur.
ing, the trial of DAILY, Egan and O'Don.
nell, the suspected dynamiters. A strong
barrier has been erected to protect the ap.
proaches of the court. Constables armed
with reyolvers will be placed on guard at
all public buildings.
A number of women and girls have been
arrested at ST. Petersburg for conspiracy
against the Russian government. They
are connected with the Marie institution
school for girls of good families. The con.
spirators met in rooms of the institute,
and had accomplices among teachers and
elder pupils of the school.
A City of Mexico telegram SAYS that the
American prisoners have been released.
1t is presumed Secretary Frelinghuysen
requested their release. The released men
arate cells. When informed of the sen.
tence for defaming the government they
asserted complete innocence.
The inhabitants of Dongola, through
the Mudir, have sent dispatch to the
general commanding at Assouan, declar-
ing their loyalty, and expressing regret
for their wavering in the past. The tele.
gram is regarded as additional proof that
Mahdis influence is wavering.
Leon n. Hartmann, the notorious Nj.
hilist, implicated in the assassination OF
Car Alexander II of Russia, committed
suicide in Paris last week by taking a
dose of poison. shall never die the
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