The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-01
DOMESTIC TELEGRApH1c NEWS.

matism.
The Star Route trials are now to be in
vestigated.
George C. Gorham has retired from
journalism.
It is said that the Northern Pacific land
grant is safe.
Budda Barnums white elephant is said
to be beauty.
The foot and mouth disease has appeared
among cattle in Maine.
Alaska is estimated as being one-sixth
part of the United States.
The oyster pirates of the Chesapeake bay
are giving the police trouble.
Senator Slater asks that Is per cent of
Oregon war tax be refunded.
A post of the Sons of Veterans is to be
established in Salina, Kansas.
j. /. Case, owner of Jay Eye See, wants
to run a race for $10,0 600 side.
Mrs. r. B. Hayes has the finest poultry
yards west of the Alleghanies.
The annual sale of pews in Talmages
Brooklyn Tabercle netted $50, ,482.
Archbishop Feehan had an escort of TO-
600 men ON his arrival in Chicago.
A Chicago street car company is running
open cars for the benefit of smokers.
Real estate transactions in Chicago for
one week footed up to the amount of $780,
| 821.
| John Harris, wife and three children
| were killed by snow-slide at Park City,
| Utah.
The total wool product of the United
| States annually is estimated at Ito, ,0000, 90
| pounds.
Rain fell in Texas for 100 hours continu-
ously causing washouts and slides on all
| the railroads.
The county Jail of Wausau, Wis. was
burned recently. Two murderers perished
in the flames.
Wolves are a source of great annoyance
| to farmers in Lafayette and jackson coun-
ties, Missouri.
The red sunsets that have occasioned so
| much controversy are due to volcanic par
| ticles in the air.
| A general strike of railroad coal miners,
against the reduction of a half cent, is
| imminent in Ohio.
The Montezuma Hotel, at Hot Springs,
| n. M, burned recently, is to be rebuilt as
quickly as possible.
| The Paterson, N. j., striking ribbon
weavers have rejected this terms offered by
the manufacturers.
| The gross earnings of the Union Pacific
| Railroad for the last year were $29 761 100;
expenses, $16,670, 900.
| ST. Louis claims to have manufactured
last year q, 600 pounds of tobacco
which beats the record.
| Since the subsistence of the flood at Pow
haitian, Va, sand and water are thrown up
at intervals in geyser fashion.
The Michigan Central passenger train
| began running over the new cantilever
bridge at Niagara falls last week.
Thomas o. Richards, colliery superin-
tendent, fell down shaft at Pittsville, Pa,
recently, and was instantly killed.
| The Swiss naturalist, Arnold Guyottblar
connected with Princeton College for thirty
years, died recently, aged rs years.
The New York Court of Appeals decides
| unconstitutional the law forbidding the
manufacture of cigars in tenements.
Sixty per cent of the cattle in Indian
Territory have died, on account of the pas
lures being destroyed by prairie fires.
White men engaged in business in In
dian Territory have been declared intrud-
ers, and have received notice to leave.
Advices from Bismark, Dakota, state
| that 900 Indians are actually starving. A
massacre of the post traders is feared.
The Prohibitionists in the Iowa Legisla-
ture have lost another vote through the
| Gripping of Representative Weaver by a
! fall
| The citizens of Brentwood Indiana, have
presented a petition to Congress asking for
further legislation against Chinese immi-
grafton.
The clothing cutters will soon hold a ma
tional convention in New York to arrange
uniform rates of wages throughout the
country.
Thomas w. Keene made his New Y ork
debut at Niblos Garden, recently, in
Richard III" His reception was very
fiattering.
The liabilities of Edgar Peck, of Patch
ogue, La, the banker who failed and tried
to kill himself, are placed at $3.50, 900; as
sets, $4,000.
| A bill has been passed by the Mississippi
Legislature providing for the taxation of
railroad property and State supervision of
| freight rates.
George P. Curry, banker and cotton
manufacturer of Augusta, Ca, has as
| signed; liabilities, $500, 600; assets nomin.
ally the same.
Christine Nilsson sang to 81 800 house
at Cincinnati recently, sixty-seven feet OF
water falling to dampen the enthusiasm OF
the opera-goers.
4 The Secretary of War reports an immedi-
ate appropriation of $1O3, 800 for the Column
Coos bay, Oregon.
j
$135,000 against Cook county, H., for ex.
traslfurnished while he was building the
Chicago court house.
In the flooded districts of Wheeling, W.
Va, thieves have cut holes in the roofs OF
buildings and helped themselves to valu-
ables and portable property.
i One man and child were killed and sew
eral persons severely injured by the falling
walls of Lathburg & Co.'S building, lately
/ nv frQ in Ia1 nIV,I,
The House Committee on Public Lands
have decided to report bill declaring the
entire land grant of ], 100000 acres of the
Oregon Central Railroad forfeited
At Rosita, COL, recently, Frank Williams
and John Gray, who shot and killed Orrin
| Kurtz in saloon row, were taken from
Jail by masked mob and hanged.
A bronze bust of the late DIR. Marion
Sims is to be placed in the rear of the Har-
ward Medical School. 1t is the gift of a
grateful Boston patient of the Doctor.
Eleven hundred saloon keepers in New
York have been notified that their licenses
have been annulled, because of conviction
in court for violation of the Excise law
The Brigham Young Academy at Prove,
Utah. was recently destroyed by fire, caus-
ing loss of $50, 1000. 1t was a Mormon
school with 400 students. No lives were
lost.
At the Nez Perce agency in Indian Ter
| ritory is a Presbyterian Church with full
blooded officers and pastor. A revival re-
Gently held has added 172 to the member
ship.
James A. Grindstead, the well-known
known turfman of Lexington, Ky. made
an assignment. The liabilities are fixed at
$100, 900, and the assets at about half that
/ sum.
The Rocky Mountain Turf Circuit has
been completed, and 5000 has been paid
in. Helena, Butte, Denver, Pueblo, Omaha
and San Frhncisco have joined the organ.
ization.
j The Chinese New Year was celebrated