The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-11-29
FOREIGN rELEeRApH1C NEWS.

English authorities are breaking up the
Salvation Army.
Fire at Turin, Italy, destroyed twelve
houses last week.
The Land Restoration League met at
London Wednesday.
Victoria wants to make an $500, 900 con-
tract to sewer the city.
New discoveries of coal are constantly
beiHg made at Quatsino.
A large amount of coal is being shipped
from Wellington to San Francisco.
Spain has taken possession of territory
in West Africa, about the river Orc.
Lord Tennyson's poem, Freedom" will
be issued the latter part of December,
The rapid growth of socialism through
out Germany is worrying Emperor Will
liam.
The Chinese have imported many tor
pedoes at Hong Kong to lay in the Min
river.
A man was lost overheard from the
pilot boat Helen, off Clellam Bay, not long
since.
American rascals are finding home
and habitations over the line in British
Columbia.
The expedition to Khartoum is advanc-
ing rapidly, though many boats have
been injured.
By far the greater number of victims
during the late cholera epidemic in Ma
pies were women.
The report that James Russell Lowell,
American Minister to England, will move
to Oxford, IS untrue.
1t is said that the eldest son of the
Prince of Wales will ask for an allow
ance of $4,000 year.
Louis Mary Quicherat, member of the
Paris institute, and well known author,
died last week, aged 50.
Four large steamships are embarking
1909 men each at Algiers, to reinforce the
French army in Tonquin.
Levi P. Morton, United States minister
to France, stopped week IN London
while on his way TO Paris.
Several cases of cholera are reported
from Santiago, but as yet the disease has
only assumed mild form.
Advices from London say the steamer
Lake Manitoba. at Liverpool from Mon
treal, lost los sheep on the voyage.
Owing to some dissatisfaction, numbers
of men who have been engaged on the
Island Railway, are returning to Victoria.
Reports from England say the Queen re-
turned to Windsor Castle from Balmoral
a few days ago and is in excellent health,
There was a serious riot at the mining
village of Coal Island, in the suburbs of
Dungannon, County Tyrone. Ireland, last
week.
The Red Star line steamship Penn
Land, collided with Swedish bark off
Goodwin Sands last week, sinking the
latter.
A dispatch from London states that
Miss Fortescue, the actress, has brought
suit against Lord Garmoyle for breach of
promise.
While the Stafford regiment was pas
sing Ambikol cataract last week, one
whole boat sunk and two others were
damaged.
The Victoria Times estimates that
$3.50, $50 worth of building improvements
have been made in that city since Jan
uary l, 1884.
Miss Fortescue, who recently obtained
verdict of 9l0,C00 damages against
Lord Garmoyle, has temporarily retired
from the stage.
1t is stated that Patti will appeal from
the recent decision of the tribunal al
Paris, granting Marquis De Caux di
vorce from her.
A collision of railway trains occurred
near the depot in Hanover last week
Fifteen persons were killed and a large
number wounded.
There was an accident on the Alexan
dria and Cairo railway recently, by which
several English officers were injured anC
some Arabs killed.
Spanish newspapers are eagerly dis
cussing the question of Spanish rights il
West Africa, especially along the coast o
the Gulf of Guinea.
A London dispatch says the Afghan
frontier commission has reached Herat
The Governor and populace show friend
ly feeling toward the Commission.
1t is reported that the youngest daughte
of the Emperor of Austria, Minnie Valerie
has written a comedy which will be pro
dHced at the Imperial theatre in Vienna
In the rowing match last. week on th'
Thames, from Putney to Mortlake, be
tween Bugbear and Perkins for 9200
Perkins had five seconds start and wOl
the race.
A Hong Kong dispatch says: The re
ports of French histories in Formosa ar,
fabrications, and their success in TonquiI
are overrated. The French invaders ar,
at StandStlll.
Earl Spencer, Lord Lieutenant of Ire
land, is in London, attending q specia
cabinet council to discuss a renewal O
the Crimes Act and other important ques
tions relating to Ireland.
A dispatch from Hal Phong to the Lon
don Times, says heavy fighting is ex
pected in Tonquin. Large bodies of Chi
nese are approaching the French force:
from various directions.
John Casson, the American minister tC
Germany, has announced that Henry NJ
Stanley. the African explorer, has beer
appointed technical delegate to the Congo
Conference for America.
1t is officially announced that the
French have routed force of Chinese il
Song Can valley, and captured theil
works. The French loss was eight killed
and twenty-five wounded.
In the Commons in London recently
Gladstone stated that the government
was submitting its financial plans re
garding Egypt to the powers, and, there
fore, were unable to disclose them.
The Canadian Pacific Railway wants
500 men to work on its road in British
Columbia, to whom it offers from $1.7;
to $3.50 a day wages. They can ge
employment on making application il
Victoria.
The distress among English shipbuild
ing workingmen is increasing. At ship
Yards on the Tyne, Clyde and Merse,
there is scarcely one-fOurth of the possi
~ e.