The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-06-21
DOMESTIC rELEaRApH1c NEWS.
Boston had a $780, 900 fire recently.

The House has passed the river and har- |
Dor appropriation bill.
In the House last week the Presidential
count bill was taken up.
The President and Secretary of War
have gone to West Point.
Lu Chan Tan, Chinese Mandarin, ar
rived in New York recently.
The Senate has passed the Consular and
Diplomatic appropriation bill.
Financial circles in New York are again
agitated by "bearish" rumors.
General Foster, United States Minister
to Spain, has returned to Madrid.
Eisendeicker, the German Minister to
the United States, has been recalled.
The civil engineers held their annual
convention at Buffalo, n. Y, last week.
Randall introduced bill in the House
recently to prevent political assessments.
General Grant has been elected president
of the Society of the Army OF the Potomac.
In the Senate last week, Frelinghuysen's
| Nicaragua schemesswas debated upon, but
no action was taken.
| The annual convention Of the American
Bankers Association will be held at Sara
| toga on August 18th and 18th.
The directors of tho Louisville and
| Nashville Railroad have accepted the res
ignation of President j. S. Rogers.
At Key West, Fla. recently, Frederick
Gil Marrer was arrested, charged with
having explosives in his possession.
The executive committee of the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company has resolved TO
create an Insurance fund of S5OO,0O0.
Jack Brute, an English pugilist, has ar
rived in New York. He has declared his
intention of fighting Charley Mitchell.
Failures for the past seven days in the
United States number 206, and in Canada
25, or an increase of 13 over the previous
week.
At the pension agency in New York re-
Gently, $32, 900 was paid out to l, 100 pen
sioners. The largest payment was 1898:
the smallest So.
National Bank of Commerce, of Cleve-
land, Ohio, was imprisoned recently for
embezzling 100000.
The remains of Noah H. Swain, ex-Jus-
! tice of the United States Supreme Court,
, were inferred in Oak Hill cemetery, in
Washington, last week.
!, | Inc managers Oh Lie NEW L OIk COIIOL
, Exchange recently elected William v
, King their Secretary, and appointed f. K
Powers, superintendent.
> Advices received In San Francisco state
i that it is the intention of the Government
to continue the branch office of the hydo
graphic service in that city.
A Washington dispatch says: The state
! department has formally notified the Brit
4 ish minister that requisition has beer
made for the surrender of Emo.
Secretary Stevens, of Cincinnati, has
8 issued circulars announcing the indefinite
suspension of the whisky export associa
ton, known as the whisky pool.
: Colonel Morrow, whose name figured
. prominently in the Swain case at Wash
d ington, in connection with duplicate pa.
accounts, is to be courtmartialed.
e rine National bank of New York, ha
4 been indicted by the United States gran(
|. jury for violating the banking laws.
0 pers which lowered their prices few
o. months since, will resume their forme
; rates after the Presidential election.
Calhoun Benham. prominent lawyer 0
II San Francisco, died last week. In the ia
3
e Senator Broderick, Benham acted as Tel
n ry's second.
Charles F. Robbins, of the well know
e firm of Blake, Robbins & Co., wholesal
,s paper dealers, and state prison director
d died at his home in Oakland, Cal, re
g Gently, aged 53.
Samuel Middleton, the nephew and onl
IS heir of John c.. Taylor, who died recent
D. leaving property in bonds to the amoun
ID of $260,0O0, arrived in the city of NeN
y York last week.
A Hartford. Conn.,, dispatch says: Wi
j. liam G. Morgan, defaulting agent of tn
8. New York banking firm of Putnam
d Earle, has been sentenced to three year
le in the state prison.
It is reported in New York that the go,
n ernment experts have discovered defic
g ency of $20,O00,000 in the Union Pacifi
Ill sinking fund, and that the money wa
e. used to sustain the market value of tn
stocks.
s. AT meeting of the trustees of the act
n ors' fund, in New York last week, it wa
n decided to request all actors to give pc
ID cent of their salaries for the third, twer
tieth and thirtieth weeks of their engage
. ment to the fund.
e. The famous steamer Alaska known a
h purchased from the Guion company by th
Cunard line, which recently purchase
: from the same company the equally fl
a nous steamer Oregon.
as T. w. Shepard, superintendent of til
W Jewish cemetery of San Francisco, as
ID saulted on April 25th by three men, an
whose subsequent mysterious disappear
= ance has created much comment, has bee
- discovered in Oakland, Cal.
b. Acting Governor Thomas of Utah, i
n compliance with the unanimous recon
a. mendation of the Territorial Suprem
Court, granted reprieve to Hopt till hi
:, appeal could be heard in the United State
= Supreme Court He was to have bee
" shot last Friday.
,e John and Charles Kennedy, two laborer
J. of Louisville, KY, have received wor
that they have fallen heirs to about 81
!. 0O0, 600 from an uncle who lately died il
" Australia. The uncle formerly lived a
Louisville, but left suddenly, and fo
> thirty years had not been heard from.
e The treaty which has been under con
sideration in the Senate committee on for
n eign relations, providing for an interna
q tional copyright and patent system, ant
!. which has already been ratified by twenty
8 four governments, was reported adversel,
o by the committee to the Senate, and aftei
!. a brief discussion rejected.
The House public land committee ha.
!. agreed to report favorably the bill requir
(. ing the general government to pay tht
Q State of California for school purposes
f per cent of the net proceeds of all public
\ lands sold within her boundaries since the
. states admission. The amount of the
J proposed payment is estimated at 81 600,
600.
George Hughes clerk at the Centra
? Hotel. in Bardstown, KY, was fatally cut
hv William Doom q 1ynrthlaSs nonrro