The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-09-06
DOMESTIC rErEaRApH1c NEWS.

phoid fever.
Butte, Montana, is to have new $85, 600
opera house.
Leland Stanford and Charles Crocker are
in New York.
Secretary Folger is rusticating in north
ern New York.
The business portion of Mojave, A. T.,
burned recently.
The Rose Standish was sunk in Boston
harbor last week.
Three cases of leprosy have been discov-
cred in Minnesota.
Frosts occurred in New York and New
England last week.
Prairie fires are raging in the vicinity of
Glendive, Montana.
Last week Butte, NJ. T., shipped bullion
to the value of $02, ,096.
A negro named Clark was hung recently
at Macon, Ga, for rape.
Joe Bogard, colored, aged Is, was hanged
at Lonoke, Ark, last week.
Lulu Hurst, the Georgia electric girl
has made $40. 1000 this season.
San Francisco complains of slow over
land mails with Portland, Or.
Hatch & Foote, New York brokers, have
assigned; liabilities, "a, 49,, ,3l5.
Pennsylvania oil producers have COM
bined to reduce the production.
New York Cinnamon are excited over
the bombardment Of Foo Chow.
Illinois has quarantined cattle districts
infected with pleuro-pneumonia.
The Bartholdi statue committee requires
$125, coo to complete the pedestal.
A man in DAYTON, Ohio, who was too
proud to beg, has died of starvation.
Baurister shot factory at Newark, N. J.,
was burned last week. Loss, $l00,U6.
The Mccoy. McC Caffrey boxing match at
Boston last week was declared draw.
The West bound passenger business out
Of New York is becoming demoralized.
Lieutenant Greely has been congratu-
| lated by the French Geographic Society.
II. Walter, Tehama, CAL, merchant,
| committed suicide last week by drowning.
The Swain courtmartial at Washington
has been postponed until November 18th.
Mrs. Rosa.Arata committed suicide by
drowning in San Francisco bay last week.
Captain R. r. Thompson will rebuild
| his residence recently burned at Alameda,
Cal.
Jones Wolf has been elected governor
of the Chickasaw nation in Indian Terri
tory.
| The report that the Merchants and
Bankers Telegraph is embarrassed is not
true.
Twenty-Five horse thieves have been
either shot or hanged in Montana this
year.
The Harmon Lubbock foot race at San
| FrBncisco, Cal, last week, was won by the
| latter.
The drouth is proving very disastrous
| to crops in Indiana, Ohio and adjoining
states.
West Point Cadet Logan has been ac-
| quilted by the courtmartial and returned
to duty.
| The California and Consolidated Vir-
ginia mining companies Of San Francisco
have consolidated.
Director Powell, of the geological sur
| vey. will soon establish permanent sta
| tion at Parsons, Kas.
| The Congressional Investigating Com
| mittee visited the soldiers home at Au-
gusta, Me-, last week.
Cincinnati highwines distillers are con-
| sidering the proposition to close down for
| time to relieve the market.
Professor Senger, the San Francisco
teacher who was suspended for discussing
| religion, has been reinstated.
The Second National Bank of xenia, O.,
| IL S&o farry Aox,o Tho
cashier has taken trip West.
A Jeanerette, La, special says a negro
was hanged there last week by citizens for
grossly assaulting married lady.
At Chicago last week, Pat Cardiff and
| William Bradbuan fought with hard
gloves. Cardiff won in four rounds.
The report that President Cakes,
of the Northern Pacific, was to join the
Union Pacific is denied in New York.
A colored man from Madison, Ind, who
married white girl, has been sentenced
to the penitentiary for miscegenation.
The strike of the union bricklayers of
| New York has ended. The strikers were
victorious and the nine hour system now
prevails.
In Chicago last week, Colonel Frank
Thompson was cowhided by Justice
Woedman, for libelous statements made
by the latter.
A Greenfield, Mass, dispatch says:
Three young English students at the
Moody school were drowned while bath
ing last week.
The manufacturing companies of Low
ell, Mass, have agreed to shut down for
one week by reason of an accumulation of
goods and low prices.
The United States Treasurer has re-
turned to the Governor of Louisiana 81 600
free school books captured in 1865 by Gen
eral Sheridan at Baton Rouge.
An extensive fire in Scranton, Pa, last
week, burned the large planning mill of Jo-
seph Ansley. The fire lasted five hours.
Loss, $75, 5,OOO; insurance small.
Agent Dyer has informed the Indian bu-
reau that the Cheyennes and Arapahoes
abuse boys who have returned from the
school at Carlisle, Pa, not wishing their
people to be educated.
/ Henry C. Lewis. of Coldwater, Mich,
who died recently, had the finest private
art gallery in the world, containing 1000
subjects, including 400 originals, the
whole worth over $4,000
Sixteen thousand logs, in two RATS, have
been towed from Lake Superior to Cleve-
land, without accident or loss. This is a
, new departure, and bids fair to reduce the
cost of Western lumber in the East.
Samuel Roberts, late paymaster of
Charles Parrish & Co., coal operators of
, Wilkesbarre, Pa, and for twenty years
confidential clerk of Charles Parrish, is
. charged with the embezzlement of from
Between $50, 600 and $4,000.
, The remains of the famous war CORES
pondent. James McGahan, arrived at CO.