The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-08
DOMESTIC rELEeRApHrc NEWS.
Boston is to have an elevated road.

A cremation society has been formed in
Boston.
The cases against Frank James have
been dropped.
The Queenof Tahiti has sailed from New
York for Europe.
Jaw Gould gave his son George 81, ,000, 900
to begin life with.
General William T. Sherman has been
placed on the retired list.
A negro of Toledo, Ohio, was fined 800
for marrying white girl
A fire in Wolcott, n. Y, destroyed thirty
buildings. Loss, 100000.
Colorado and Montana smelters consume
each 25, 800 cords of wood per year.
The Mississippi still continues to rise
and is flooding the Southern country.
The Plattersville (Wis.b bank closed its
doors last week. Liabilities, $150,0O0.
Diminutive faro tables are for sale in
Broadway, n. Y. for fifty cents each.
The losses by the floods in Los Angeles
county, it is thought, will foot up $4,000.
1t is said that q, ,O0O, 600 acres of land in
America are held by foreign corporations.
Rate cutting has been ordered stopped
On East-bound fast-freight lines from Chi.
cago.
A factional fight occurred among the
Creek Indians in Arkansas. Several were
killed.
The Central Pacific Railroad comprom-
ised the corporations taxes on basis of
$500, 600.
The telegraphic rates have been reduced
to all points on the Pacific coast from San
Francisco.
The stage between Sonora and Milton,
CAL, was stopped twice by robbers, who
got nothing.
1t is understood that Fred Douglass will
settle amicably with his housekeeper,
Louise Sprague.
The steamer Sikiou, from Boston for
Grsgow, collideo with an iceberg, staving
hole in her bow.
Work has been suspended in the collier
les at Mt. Carmel, Penn, on account of
water in the mines.
The Central Pacific Railroad Is being
sued by the State of California for $S9, $40,
amount of taxes due.
Nine hat factories of Reading, Pa, en-
ploying 800 hands, have reduced wages
from to 121 per cent.
Richard Campbell, millionaire paper
manufacturer, committed suicide on board
the steamer Brittanic.
A committee of citizens of San Francis
fit of the flood sufferers.
An appropriation of $4,000 has been
asked to complete the monument to Mary
Lother, of Washington.
Ex-Governor Samuel Price, of Lewis.
burg, w. Va, died of congestion of the
brain at Charleston, S. C.
A years time has been gained by the
lawyer of Bisbee cowboys of Arizona.
They murdered three men.
Mrs. j. H. Fosnaugh, milliner of HUI
ron, Dakota, for stealing $2,700 from the
American Express Company.
A woman named Hall, in New York
York hospital. killed her invalid husband
by stabbing him with a knife.
d. H. Regensberger, lawyer, was
horsewhipped by two women in San Fran
cisco. Cause, abusive language.
Nichols & Dupee, wool merchants, lis
Federal street, Boston, Mass, were burned
out recently. Their loss is heavy.
1t is believed that the bill for the relief
of Fitz John Porter will pass the Senate
by majority of five or six votes.
Two revenue officers killed three men
while at work on mica mine near Nor
gantown, N. c. No cause assigned.
A colony of retired army officers some
scheme of Brigadier General r. Dunn.
A terrible cyclone has swept over the
Southeastern States, causing appalling
loss of life and destruction of property.
Mr. George C. Min, the preacher who
recently turned actor made his appearance
at one Of the Brooklyn theaters last week.
Sadie Hall has sued the Collegian, the
Wooster University paper, for $l0O, 600
dom S1iOhfInHp fn
Rev. Silas Smith, colored preacher of
Moberly, Mo-, was sentenced to five years
Imprisonment for burning an opposition
church.
The papers of New York represent that
the elevated railroads of that city are de-
linquent on taxes to the amount of $2,-
541 1921.
General Rosser, of Minneapolis, leaves
for Nicaragua as chief engineer of the
canal to be operated In opposition to De
Lesseps.
Three thousand persons signed the tenn
perance pledge during the meetings in
Boston, held for two weeks, by Francis
Murphy.
A petition was recently presented to the
Massachusetts Senate asking for law to
establish five-cent fares on all Boston
horse cars.
Allen Smith, a wealthy farmer OF Wells
vile, N. Y, is in the county Jail for thirty
days because he refused to pay a judg-
ment Of $3.50.
An aged couple, Mr.. and Mrs j. L. Will
son, of Winnetka, Wis, were killed by
of all valuables.
Froze up in Montana, showed up in Da-
kota and washed out in Ohio, gives one an
idea of the variety of the earth in the
Northern States.
The Philadelphia Coal Dealers Associa-
ton is fighting the proposed cable rail-
roads, because the cable makes the streets
unsafe for horses.
Harry Tuttle, wounded in the Stoneville
fight, was taken from the hospital at
Spearf1sh, Dakota, by masked men re-
Gently and hanged.
A mutual benevolent union was organ.
lied at st. Louis recently for the coloniza-
ton of Jewish refugees from Russia on
lands in the West. to be acquired.
A mob at Hot Springs, Ark, have or
dered all the witnesses against Doran,
Pruitt, Landing and Allison, the four as
sassins, to leave town at the point Of the
baYonet.
Alfred Slender, an 8-year-old Chicago
bov, died in great agony recently from hy-
drophobia. He was bitten on the nose by
dog in January last, while returning
from school.
A dramatic performance, in aid of the
pedestal fund for the Bartholdi statue, was
given recently at the Madison Square
Theater, under the direction of commit.
tee of ladies.
The remains of Assistant Surgeon Am
bier of the ill-fated Jeanette were buried
at Markham, Va. A large number of ma
val officers were present and the floral Of
ferings profuse. NJ
The gliding of the recent issue of the
5-cent nickel by manufacturers of cheap
jewelry. by which the coin is made to look
like $5 gold piece, has been stopped by
the government.