The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-11-29
DOMESTIC TELEGRAPH NEWS.


BROOKLYN is taking precautions against
cholera.
There was snow in Baltimore last week,
the first of the season.
The sale of the New York Graphic has
been indefinitely postponed.
The National Tanners Association will
meet in Cincinnati, March next.
Four tramps were killed by train
wreck near Delta, La, last week.
J. w. Bouton, book importer, New
York, has assigned; liabilities, $28,OO0.
The protocol of the treaty of commerce
of America with Cuba and Porto Rico has
been signed.
Bodine's Roofing Company's building,
Mansfield, Ohio, was burned last week.
Loss. $4,000,
Bradley & Pearl, of the flour mills at
Mandon, Ill, have assigned, with liabili-
ties at $4,000.
Isaac johnson (colored), for the murder
of his mistress, was hanged at Canton,
Miss, last week.
Snowden & Semler, carpet and uphol-
stery dealers. Cincinnati, have assigned.
Liabilities, $4,000.
The Telegraphers' Mutual Benefit Asso-
citation held it's fifth annual meeting in
New York recently.
The village of Foisnoil, N. c., near Raj
eigh, was almost destroyed by fire the
other day. The loss is $4,000,
P. T. Barnum, the Snowman, is prepar-
ing to sell his Connecticut property at %
L 1ke
Patrick Ford, sditor of the Irish World.
has sued Patrick Kellihan, editor of Ire
land Liberator, for 100000 for libel.
Lieutenant Greely has arrived in Wash
ington, and will at once set about prepar-
ing his report of his Arctic explorations.
The national fat stock show, at Chicago.
closed last week. It was the finest and
most successful the world has ever seen.
The prize fighters, Sullivan and Green.
field, have been indicted by the grand jury
of New York, for engaging in prize
fight,
In the town Of Edinboro, Pa, the other
night, G. B. Williams shot his wife and
then suicided. Jealousy is assigned as the
cause.
There are efforts being made in Phila
delphia te remove the old liberty bell tC
New Orleans, to remain there during the
exposition.
Richard F. Day, of San Francisco, has
begun suit against James G. Fair, United
States Senator, for $5O,COO alleged to be
due for services rendered.
James W. Bouton, publisher and book.
seller, New York, assigned last week.
Preferences, $28,682. He has been in bus.
mess twenty-seven years.
Three children who were left alone in a
house at Vassar, near East Saginaw
Mich, were burned to death and the
house entirely consumed few days ago
The American Woman's Suffrage Con
vention held it's annual session at Chicago
last week. William Dudley Foulke, O.
Indiana, was elected president for the en-
suing year.
Lang, defaulting secretary of the Chose1
Friends of San Francisco, was too i'll too
appear in court, when his name was called
the other day. 1t is not expected that h
will recover.
r. G. Coffee, a member of the Alabam;
Legislature, suicided recently by shooting
| himself at his home at Vance Station
| Ala. Ill health is assigned as the cause
He was quite wealthy.
| John Gillespie, an iron worker of Pitts
| burg, has issued challenge to John L
Sullivan or Charles Mitchell, to spar will
| gloves, the match to take place at Pitts
burg within three weeks.
A brutal murder was perpetrated at Lit
| tie Rock, Ark, last week. Harvey John
son, colored, cut his wife's throat from ca
to ear, fired the house, and left her to die
He has not been captured.
Georgia, Virginia and Tennessee con
tributed their mite toward swelling tn
ranks of the Mormons by sending 400 con
verts to Utah last week. The emigrant
are of the poor and ignorant class.
The steamer Raiattea will shortly arriv
in San Francisco from Europe, to ply be
tween that city and Tahiti. Other steam
ers will follow, and it is expected tha
three steamers will be put on the route.
A FIRE at Merced, Cal, recently, dc
stroyed about $4,000 worth of property
consisting of business buildings an
stocks contained therein. Insurance
$4,000. The origin of the fire is unknown
A monthly meeting of the spinners wa
held at Fall River, Mass, last week. L
| a circular presented Secretary Haywar
gave figures to show that reduction i
wages has always been followed by de
preston in trade.
The Wisconsin State Board of Healt
completed two days session at Milwau
kee recently, after compiling statistics fo
it's annual report. This shows standar
of health in the state exceptionally high
and no epidemic diseases are prevalent.
George Ecker, salesman in Andrews
| inTUo1ru nGto hliohf0 Son Ero naiC0r
dropped dead last week while STANDING
behind the counter. 1t is believed he die
from heart disease. He was go years Q
age and leaves family of three children
James II. Doty, young gent of Mi
waukee, eloped last week with Miss Nett
Sherman, beautiful young lady of Roches
ter, n. Y, who is said to be worth $75, 90
in her own right, and who will inherit
large fortune upon the death of her uncle
The mule drivers in the local mines eas
of Des Moines, Ia, are on strike for a
increase of wages to 50 day, which is re
miners strike continues. The men hav
been taken off ana the mines will
closed.
John A. Condit, William Qsayle, J. w
Jansen, F. NJ. Garrish and William Pier
son, colored, who compose the first ban,
of American missionaries to the valley @
the Congo, Africa, left New York last wee
for Colinda station, just north of tn
mouth of the Congo.
Says Washington dispatch: The hear
ing in the celebrated Pelletier CLAIM
against Hayti, was begun last week il
the diplomatic room of the State Depart
ment, before Justice Strong. Pelletier'
claim, Including twenty years interes,
amounts to 81, SOC, 600.