The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-10-04
DOMESTIC rELEeRApH1c NEWS.

eT0Q III new L OTk.
James Gordon Bennett has returned
East from San Francisco.
So far this year there have been about
70, 800 deaths in New York city.
The Philadelphia Erening Netcs was sold
at Auction last week for $25,0O0.
The Middlesex Bleachery, at Boston,
Mass, burned last week; loss, $150,0
Captain w. P. Clark, of the Second Cav
airy, U. S. A., died at Washington last
week.
Preparations for the raising of the Tai
lapoosa are being made at Vineyard Haven,
Mass.
The Teneyck- -Ryley boat race at Peeks-
kill, n. Y, recently, was won by the
former.
The wages of employees of the Brooks
iron company of Birdsboro, Pa, have been
reduced.
Incoming vessels report that the Allan
tic has not been mill-pondish in its placid
ty of late.
A recent attempt to rob the First Ma
tional Bank, of Las Vegas, N. NJ, proved
unsuccessful.
Francisco journalist, died at Virginia
City, New, last week.
J. w. Harbourne, stationery dealer of
San francisco, is missing. He is a de-
faulter for large sum.
Michael Murray was hanged in the Jail
yard at Bensburg, Pa, last week, in the
presence of 125 persons.
Howard Sullivan, in Jail at Philadelphia,
confesses to the murder of Ella Watson.
Robbery was his motive.
Samuel Wannamaker, dying at Jackson,
Ohio, has confessed to forgeries of $50, 900,
| committed ten years ago.
The seaside season is now over, and
hotels at Coney Island, Manhattan Beach
| and Long Branch are closed.
A fire recently destroyed $50 acres of
valuable woodland in Musson township,
| two miles from Chandon, Ohio.
A terrific storm of wind, rain and hail
struck Greenville, ILL.,, and vicinity, last
week, doing an immense amount of dam
age.
John King and Patsy Cardiff fought
with soft gloves at ST. Louis, Mo-, last
| week. The referee decided in favor of the
latter.
The yield Of Concord grapes in the Hud-
son valley WILDE so enormous that many
growers will not know what to do with
them
Two freight trains on the Hannibal and
ST. 10 road collided neari New Cambria,
Mo-, few days ago. Three men were
killed.
Hattie Woods, a San Francisco girl,
| made a farcial attempt last week to imi
| tate the performance of Lulu Hurst, the
| Georgia wonder.
John P. Young. managing editor of the
| San Francisco Chronicle, and Georgianna
| Symmonds, of ST. Louis, were married re-
Gently at San Francisco.
The gold reserve in the United States
| treasury at Washington amounts to $lz9,-
| OOO,OOO an increase of about $1,000, coo
within the past few weeks.
John w. Keely says his motor will be
completed in about two months. He has
made some successful experiments at
Sandy Hook, N. Y, recently.
More than $4,000 New Workers live at
the Hotels, and there are 100000 strangers
in town every night. Over $50,000 GOO are
invested in the hotel business in the me-
| tropolis.
Professor c. G.. lockwood, of the Col
lege of New Jersey, says the phenomena
of the recent earthquake was probably
due to geological disturbances under New
| York bay.
Recently while Bellaire, Ohio, police
man was firing wildly after fleeing des-
perado, Willie Welsh, aged II, lodged
out of an alley and fatally stopped one of
the bullets.
Maggie Hall met friend in Pough-
keepsie, n. Y, train recently, and getting
into discussion, thumped him with her
| fourteen-months-ol baby, no other missile
being handy.
About 200 locomotive engineers from va
rious portions of the east and northwest,
| have arrived at San Francisco. to attend
the international association of locomo-
tive engineers.
Edwin Henry was shot and instantly
killed last week by Captain johnson at
Hayesyille, Tenn. The trouble grew out
of the former having improper relations
with the latter's wife.
| Last week at Indiana, Pa, Joseph Sar-
yer, aged Is, was hanged for the murder
of his father. He was hung on the scat
fold on which James G. Allison was exc
cuted in February. 1882.
The remains of Henry Clay, grandson of
the statesman, who was shot by Wepler
Ky, and laid to rest by the side of his
fatser and grandfather.
Caroline Scharff, shoplifter known
| throughout the West, was recently cap
tured while operating in a dry goods store
| at Milwaukee, and secured her release by
paying fine of $40 and costs.
John B. Page ex-president, and j. NJ.
! Haven, treasurer of the Rutland Rail
road Company, have been indicted by the
! grand jury of Rutland county, Vermont,
for the embezzlement of 600.
Bob Ford and Dick Liddle, former mem
bers of the James gang in Missouri, have
| been ordered by vigilantes in Las Vegas,
| n. NJ, to leave town on suspicion of their
being connected with the attempted bank
robbery.
Mr.. Demorella, late Italian censul at
| Baltimore, is said to have victimiZed sew
eral persons prominent in diplomatic cir
cles in Washington. The aggregate of the
debts he has left unpaid behind him in
the latter city, it is said, is $4,000
Says Fort Mckinney, Wyoming dis
patch: The mangled and lifeless body of
Gilbert Leigh, member of the British par
| lament, was found at the base of pre-
| cipitous cliff in the Big Horn mountains,
| last week. Leigh was out here with a
small English pleasure party.
Squire Elliott, a popular and leading
citizen of Jones county, Texas, has re-
ceiyed note ordering him to leave the
ing. Elliott is the principal witness in
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