The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-06-14
FOREIGN TELEGRAPH1c NEWS.

Great Britain has B,5oO,0O0 women
earning wages.
The conductors of horse cars in Valpa-
raiso are women.
The new treaty between France and
AMMAN has been signed.
The city of Cazdro, Peru, was taken on
the 10th of May by Caceres.
There were twenty deaths at Havana
last week from yellow fever.
England is not in favor of Blaine for
President of the United States.
Lillian Russell's Comic Opera Company
is bankrupt at Lusanne, England.
A cablegram announces that Vanderbilt
will leave London for home in few days.
1t is said that japanese women have
never seen and do not know the use OF
pins.
A London cable says: Lowell informs
the associated press of his intention OF re-
signing.
Bismarck was publicly insulted on the
streets of Berlin last week by German
workingmen.
France will exact liberal trading privil-
eges from China instead of the indemnity
at first proposed.
There has been marked increase in
the number of agrarian crimes in Ireland
the past few days.
Owing to the disturbed state of affairs
in Zululand, large reinforcements Will be
sent from England.
The Abolitionists of Spain have petit
toned the Minister of the Colonies to stop
the flogging of negroes in Cuba.
Thirty thousand women spend their
lives in driving and steering the canal
boats in southern and midland England.
It is stated that Belgium and Holland
have agreed to exclude German princes
from the succession to the Dutch throne.
A university will be opened in Iceland
next year. Heretofore Icelandic students
have obtained their college instruction in
Copenhagen.
In Paris ssMarie" Ferrat has just been
asked in marriage by Jules Cortois, in
whose breast she lodged a couple of bull
let's two weeks ago.
The Emperor of Germany has signed the
ordinance decreeing the Crown Prince
president and Bismarck vice president OF
the new staatsrath.
At Notre Dame Bay, Newfoundland, as
a number of men were driving logs to New
Bay saw mills, the dam burst, sweeping
all before it. Two bodies have been recov-
cred.
A fishing schooner commanded by Neil
Shawner. with q crew of thirteen hands,
was wrecked in Trinity Bay, off New
foundland, last week, and all hands per-
ished.
The English rivers continue to yield un-
usually heavy salmon. Last week several
fish of from forty to fifty pounds were
taken from the, Severn, not far from Wor-
cester.
Sir Julius Benedict, the eminent COM
poser of London, has virtually decided to
visit the United States next fall and lee
ture upon his half century of musical ex-
perience.
brought suit in the sum of f30, 600 against
William O'Brien, NJ P, editor Of the
United Ireland, for libel and defamation
of character.
The train from Salisbury to London was
precipitated down an embankment last
week, at point between Creamore and
Rownton. Five persons were killed and
thirty injured.
II
vile is preparing note to Washington,
In relation to the collection of conspiracy
funds within the jurisdiction of the
United States.
The Supreme Court of Germany has de-
cided that the Emperor is not de fdct0 SOW
ereign of Alsace- Lorraine, but rules that
proaince only as President of the German
Confederation.
It is stated that Hammond, of London,
owner of the Derby winner, st. Gatien,
has won on the turf during the past few
years ESQ, 600, exclusive of 100000 which
landed on the Derby.
Bernhard Laffors, German American
horse dentist who recently horsewhipped
'.Plunger" Walton because the latter
slapped his face for the treatment of the
horse Girofis, is insane.
A woman arrested at Varanda, Hun.
gary, recently, confessed that she poisoned
four husbands and number of women
the past two years. A number of accom-
plices have been arrested.
The question OF teaching history in the
common schools of Italy has beeen deemed
80 important by the Minister of Educa-
ton, that he has urged it's consideration
by the teachers conference.
The excess of women is still so great
that Lord Shaftesbury has just declared
that the greatest benefit that could be con.
ferred on England would be the emigra
tion of from 1900 to 5000 women.
The Emperor of Germany gave a state
banquet Wednesday evening to the Car
ina of Russia. There was an operatic per.
fOrmance later in the evening and the i'm
perial family and the Czarina attended.
Two Indian boys are reported to have
been murdered on the east coast of Brit
ish Columbia by two white men, who
lured them on board small sloop and
made them drunk, then quarreled and
threw them overheard.
Herr Anpers, rich land owner of Goer-
1itz, Germany, has bequeathed $160, 900 to
educate poor scholars, on the express con.
dition that the beneficiaries shall pledge
themselves to study theology, and to alb.
stain from military careers.
The race for the grand prize of Paris,
100000 francs, last week was won by the
Duke of Castriess' little brown colt Little
Duck. with Mr.. r. c. Where's bay colt
Lambkin second, and M. p. Aumonte's
chestnut colt Fra Diavalo third.
The Belgian government has made at
tendance at the public schools obligatory
upon children between the ages of 6 and
Il years. 1ucTO dTO o,OOU SCuOOIS Ill ocl-
gium, more than half of which are under
the direction of the government.
It is now given out in English govern.
ment circles that the failure of the nego-
tiations with Turkey for aid in the Soudan
difficulty was due not to dissentions in
the cabinet over Lord Granville's propos-
ais, but to the greed of the Sultan.
A banquet was given at the Hotel Kaiser
HoH, Berlin. recently, in honor of Henry
Gillig, representative of the New Orleans
Exposition, by prominent German finan
cial and commercial magnates. Ex-Minis
ter Sargent and many Americans were
present.