The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-04-05
DOMESTIC rEIEGRApH1c NEWS.
Platte river ice is going out.

Inc WHISKY Dill was OeIeatcu III Tie
Senate.
The Hoyt will contest is still going on in
New York
A terrible wind storm swept over Dem
yer, Col, recently.
Kelley, of Philadelphia, will test his
motor in few days.
The Democratic Protectionists refused
to be bound in the caucus.
Trains are now running between Kansas
City and the City of Mexico.
Mrs. Sherwood E. Stratton, mother of
the late Tom Thumb, is dead.
The yield of sorghum in this country in
1882 was valued at s., ,489, ,82604.
Cox, of New York, got in free trade
speech during the whisky debate.
In the past five years one Boston dog
catcher has captured 4,052 animals.
Failures last week in New York were
PIG, against 272 the preceding week.
A bell telephone is in perfect operation
between Boston and New York city.
The fire in the Rafferty, coal mine at
Sharon, Pa, has been extinguished.
The American Devon Cattle Association
was organized at Pittsburg recently.
The Chinook salmon received quite
tribute in New York q day or two ago.
McKusick, Superintendent of the Rail
way Mail Service, has been exonerated.
Horatio Seymour recognizes the de-
mands of the West as worthy of attention.
Louisiana State authorities are daily in
| receipt of appeals from the flood sufferers.
An appropriation for new steel cruisers
has been recommended by the President.
California grapes sell in Paris for 90 per
cent more than grapes of French produc-
ton.
The Bennett Maekay cable is expected
to reach Cape Ann about the middle of
April.
The black mare Cathedral sold for 81, 500
to John Cline & Sons, Rensselaer,, Mis-
souri,.
Memorial Hall in the Illinois State capi
tol, at Springfield, was dedicated last
week.
During the eight months of the present
fiscal year the internal receipts were S7o,-
000,320.
1t will be four to six weeks before navi-
CATION across the Egreat lakes will be re-
Sumed.
Henry Schursh, the defaulting treasurer
of Troy, n. Y, was arrested at New York
recently.
| Three thousand miners at Elizabeth,
| Pa, have accepted a reduction of a quarter
| of cent
| The steamer Celtic which left New York
for Europe last week took out $3.50 900 in
| gold bars.
The village of Scipio, near the Ohio and
Indiana line, was washed out by the re-
cent tornado.
A gang of fifteen boys have been arrest
ed at South Boston, charged with several
small larcenies.
Carl Schurz has requested his friends to
abandon the project of raising him the
sum:.of 100000.
William L. Bum, of Philadelphia, has
been confirmed Governor of Idaho by the
| United States Senate.
Christian Keilie was run over last week
by the Denver Pacific train, in Cheyenne,
and terribly mutilated.
Dried lizards imported into the United
States by the Chinese, must pay duty of
40 per cent ad roloren.
All portly street car conductors in Phil
must go, to give place to small men weigh
ing less than 13O pounds.
The Woman Suffrage bill, before the
Connecticut Legislature, was defeated by
an overwhelming majority.
The committee on banking and currency
are considering the proprietary of amend
| ing the national bank laws.
Hamilton Walker, William Watson and
| David Fair were drowned last week in the
Clarion river, Pennsylvania.
| All the New York journals are high in
| their praisings of President Arthurs ac-
| tion in transferring Sargent.
| Regular business interrupted by the
overflow has been resumed on the Mem
phis and Little Rock Railroad.
| Senator Mcmillan presented the petition
of Minnesota women praying for female
suffrage sixteenth amendment.
It is reported from Birmingham, Conn,
| that important revelations may be ex-
pected in the Rose Amber case.
vs. Thompson, the jury rendered verdict
in favor of Kilbourn for $37, 500.
Pierre Cote, of Vincennes, Ind, died
| y,
the same township since his birth.
A brutal prize fight was recently wit
messed by about $50 people in the court of
the Racquet Club in New York city.
Recently during row in the Union
Club, New York, James Livingston called
Freddy Gebhart coward and liar.
Peter Schmitz, held at Chicago on the
| charge of having choked his wife to death
committed suicide by hanging last week.
The Pittsburg Chamber of Commerce
protests against the passage of any of the
| hostile patent bills now before Congress.
| NJ. Dinner, a prospector from Dayton
| o., was captured by band of Indians in
Turtle mountains Dakota) two weeks ago.
The Newark, N. j., Methodist Confer
| ence are Investigating charges of immor-
ality against Rev. George R. Breister, their
pastor.
Last week, near Wellsville, n. Y, an in
sane woman shot her son and daughter
aged 8 and II respectively, and then killed
| herself.
| Buffalo Bills suit to recover sixty-one
acres of land in Cleveland, valued at sew
eral millions dollars, has been thrown out
| of court.
Vanderbilt thinks that politics do not
amount to anything, but is angered at
having to pay duty on steel rails and
pictures.
The Treasury Department has purchased
"a, COO ounces of silver for delivery at the
New Orleans, Philadelphia and San Fran
cisco mints.
Theodore Herrick, alias Little AL, was
arrested at Boston recently, charged with
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Pacific Express Company's car
The appointments of Medical Director
Francis NJ Gunnel, Surgeon General of
the army, and Robert F. Clayton, of Geor-
gia, Consul at Para, have been confirmed.