The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-08-02
DOMESTIC TE1EGRApH1c NEWS.

ally over.
Philadelphia's cable roads are nearly
ready to run.
The Sacramento county, Cal, treasury
has ST. ,SS7,41.
Lancaster, Pa, has a new crenatory in
working order.
Bodie, Cal, was visited by swarm of
butterflies last week.
Hailstones as large as walnuts fell at
Omaha, Neb., recently.
A2-year-old child died from yellow fever
last week at New Orleans.
Andrew j. Allen. of Draper, A. T., was
killed by an enraged bull recently.
Frank E. Hutchings, the San Francisco
stranger, has plead guilty to murder.
A monument to Beethoven was unveiled
in Central Park, New York, last week.
New York's attorney general decides a
parsonage is not exempt from taxation.
John Schafer jumped out of his cell in
the Wilkesbarre, Pa, Jail and killed him
self.
Patrick Egan, shot by one Murphy at
Park City, u. t., last week, has since
died.
Can bank own grain has been decided
IN the affirmative by South Carolina
court.
Burglars found but little booty in Brig
ham Youngs residence, Salt Lake, last
week.
In Howard county, Ind, Mrs. William
Tubley was shot and killed by some un-
known person.
The San Francisco Chronicle places the
wheat yield of California this year at 60,
O0O,0O0 bushels.
The Secretary of the Treasury has i'm
posed duty of 40 per cent ad valorem on
salmon net twine.
Henry Hartman, of San Francisco. was
found dead in his bed at the Palmer house,
in Chicago, last week.
A cattle sale, aggregating between $50,
700 and $4,000, was made in Galatin
county, Montana, last week.
Scofield & Cooper, carriage and cutter
manufacturers of Ovid, Mich, have as.
signed with liabilities at $65,0O0.
At Baltimore, Nd, recently, 2O-year-
old idiot drove ten-penny nail into his
fathers head, killing him instantly
A commission appointed by the Cana
dian government is now in San Francisco
investigating the Chinese question.
The rumor that John Kelly intends re-
signing the leadership of Tammany Hall,
New York, is denied by his friends.
An ore body, sixty feet in length and
twenty-five feet in width on the surface,
has been found in Mono county, Cal.
The Georgia capitol commission has re-
Jected all bids for the erection of the cap
itol building and will advertise for more.
General ]. A. Logan has left Washing
ton for Minneapolis, Mimi, to attend the
reunion of the Grand Army of the Re-
public.
1t is proposed to transfer railroad pas
sengers at Harlem river to the elevated
road and have big depot at the upper
end of New York.
William Dolan. San Francisco hack
man, has been arrested, charged with the
murder of his 2-year-old son by neglecting
proper care of him.
James B. Parke, rich Buffalo coal mer-
chant, has disappeared, and is thought to
be crazy and wandering in the West. His
business is in good shape.
The steamer Empire State, with LOCO
excursionists on board, struck on rock
IN Boston harbor last week. The passen-
gers were all safely landed.
The subcommittee of the House mill
tary committee, appointed to investigate
the management of the various soldiers
homes, met at Dayton, O., August 1st.
In the Eureka Springs CArk. land case
the Secretary of the Interior has made q
decision awarding the title to the town.
as against pre-emption and homestead
claimants.
The coroner of San Francisco reports
that the year ending June 15 1894, was
productive of 20 homicides and IS suicides,
against Il homicides and 50 suicides the
preceding year.
f. Bradshaw, of California, George Ew-
ing, of Pennsylvania, and Harris l.. Bruce,
of Illinois, have been appointed members
of the board of pension appeals, provided
by the last Congress.
Surrogate Rollins has decided that the
will of the late James Tilby, of New York,
giving his second wife $500, ,00U is void,
owing to deception and undue influence
She had another husband.
The completion of the Washington
monument by February % 1885, will
probly be prevented by the inability of
the contractors to supply the necessary
dressed stone for the pyramid cap in time.
Two young girls of Easton, Pa, at
tempted to run away from home last
week. For their rashness their mother
caused them to don male attire and sit on
the front step every night where they
could be seen by passers-by.
The Philadelphia Medical Netcs of last
week says: The progress of cholera dur
ing the past week has been such as to
warrant the belief that it will spread
throughout Europe during the next thirty
days and may reach our shores at any
time.
In West Point, Ca, Sam Gibson (col-
ored) grossly assaulted his own daughter,
and was put in jail. The same night a
party of colored men broke into the jail
to lynch the prisoner. He resisted, cut
ting six of them seyerly. The lynchers
then shot him dead.
Bob Hunt and Dan Parker, both colored,
were hanged at GreenvilIe Miss. last
week. The former killed Burrel Best
tcolored at Refugee, on the 9th of October,
1os2, and the latter killed Richard Barrett
(colored) on Deer Creek, May II, 1884.
Both confessed their guilt.
Twelve cowboys, belonging to Hard
wick's wild show, made drunken raid
on South Clark street, Chicago, recently, 1
in the regular Western cowboy STYLE.
They succeeded in frightening people
from the street, but were finally captured
and locked up before doing any injury.
The ice houses of the Buckeye Brewing
Company and j. NJ. Wasson, of Columbus.
o., on the river below Toledo, were burned
last week. The loss will reach $4,000. A
sand scow tied to the lock was also