The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-08-23
FOREIGN TELEGRAPHIc NEWS.

Dumont, the Paris arch@ologist, is dead.
Victoria. B. c., wants to-raise 100000.
Marshal Seranno is dying at Biarriez,
France.
Sickness among French troops in China
isincreasing.
Manitoba will have an enormous wheat
crop this year.
Salvation Army meetings are prohibited
in Switzerland.
Michael Davitt denies that he is sat |
war with Parnell.
1t is reported that cholera has broken |
out in Toulouse, France.
Advices from India report the crop pros
poets lower. owing to drought.
The late King of AMMAN has been poi
soned bv anti French mandarins.
An anti-Jewish outbreak is reported
from the province of Roune, Russia.
The bill for the revision of the French
constitution has passed the Congress.
Fifteen hundred sharpshooters en-
barked at Algiers last week for Tonquin.
Ten persons were killed by a powder
mill explosion at st. Petersburg recently.
The French Senate has voted sc, 0,0O0, 900
francs to carry on operations in Madagas-
car.
The French transport and one ironclad
have departed from Foo Chow for Hong
Kong.
British gunboats have been ordered to
Hellgoland for the protection of English
fisheries.
Ten persons connected with the Social
lists were expelled from Pesth, Hungary,
last week.
1t is rumored that the French garrison
has been massacreed while en- route for
Lang Son.
Tonquinese pirates infest the West river
and are rayaging the country north of
Harp Pong.
Indian Jim, committed for murder,
hanged himself in the Victoria, B. c.,
Jail last week.
Herr Won Maiteffel, governor of Alsace-
Lorraine, has been summoned to Berlin to
confer with the Emperor.
Ernest Lowenberg, a famous pianist and
pupil of Rubenstein, died in Vienna re-
Gently, In the z5th year of his age.
A dispatch from Brighton says that the
Duke of Wellington dropped dead there
as he entered the train for London.
A Paris dispatch says: Two regiments
of marines and three more ironclads are
being placed in readiness for China.
Sir Evelyn Wood, commander of the
Egyptian forces, started up the Nile last
week to inspect the forts and camps.
That portion of the Canadian Pacific
railroad between Emory and Boston Bar
in British Columbia, will cost $780, a
mile.
The number of cases admitted into the
Marseilles hospitals since the outbreak Of
cholera there is 837, of which 243 have
died.
The German admiralty has authorized
German fishermen in the North sea to ust
firearms should English fishers moles
them.
The commission appointed to take evi
dence in concerning the Chinese in British
Columbia began it's labors in Victoria las
week.
A Chinese miner was drowned nea
Kamloops, B. c., recently, by cloul
burst which sent a torrent of water dow1
the gulch in which he was working.
Black Flags from Laoki, and it is ru
mored that Chinese troops also, are march
ing southwark on Tuyenkwan, an isolated
post sixty miles north of Hung Hou.
Owing to ill health, induced by over
work, George o. Trevelyn, chief secretar,
of Ireland is not likely to be in the Hous,
of Commons the rest of. the present ses
siOn.
Two batallions of British troops at Sim
Ia under relief orders for England are tt
go to Egypt. The Indian government op
poses the depletion of the British forces
in India.
c.IDk "a ~. II, A.
siouI have been sentenced to death anC
two were shot at Abassiyet last week
The sentence of the others has been com
muted to servitude for life.
The King of Sweden, who is now il
England, is popular guest with botl
lords and commoners, and his easy car
riage and universal courtesy are subjects
of general and favorable remark.
The Duke of Nassau has issued forma
protest against the King Of the Neither
lands declaration that the passage of tht
Dutch regency settles the question of sue
cession to the duchy of Luxemberg.
In the House of Commons last week Mr.
Parnell spoke in opposition to the gran
to the Queens college in Ireland. Mr.
O'Connor, Home Rule member from Gal
way, spoke in favor of it. The grant wal
carried.
The Londen Drurv Lane Theater, il
which Haverly's minstrels have been per
forming, has been summarily closed. /
is rumored that the step was taken on &C
count of non-payment of rent. The com
pany has experienced bad season.
At the medical congress, which met il
Copenhagen, Denmark, last week, Dr.
John S. Billings, assistant surgeon gen
eral u. S. A., in behalf of the American
Medical Association, invited the congres
to hold it's next meeting in Washington
in 1887.
Those who suffered losses at the time @
the bombardment of Alexandria by tn
British are becoming impatient in thei
demands for indemnity. If not settle
soon, they threaten to make great pub
lie demonstration to bring pressure uI
on the authorities.
The Advanced Liberals held meetin
in London recently. They resolved t
establish league, which should labor fo
the reform of the House of Lords. The
wish to deprive the peers of their powe
of legislative veto and to abolish the ht
reditary peerage altogether.
England and Holland offer to raise tn
blockade of Tonorn and give the Raja
100000 rupees if he will release the ere,
of the British steamer Nisero, which wa
wrecked on his coast last autumn. If th
Rajah refuses this offer England and Ho
land will combine to punish him.
The thunder storms which swept owe
the north of England and Scotland ri
Gently were almost unexampled in sever
ity MANY buildinQs in Edinburgh. Lett