The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-07-26
DOMESTIC rEIEeRApH1c NEWS.

ing to the Pacific coast.
Sheep and cattle herds in western Texas
are suffering from drouth.
Recent frosts have destroyed nearly all
the crops in New England.
A slight shock of earthquake was felt
in San Francisco last week.
Milwaukee is the last city heard from as
an applicant for crematory.
Vicksburg harbor was never so good, so
say United States inspectors.
The sum of $408, 900 has been paid for a
postoffice site in Brooklyn, n. Y.
A package of opium worth $4,000 was
seized in San Francisco recently.
The thiekly populated tenement houses
of New York are being disinfected.
Ehe wine production of California this
year will be about 100000 gallons.
Eight families of assisted immigrants
arrived in New York a few days ago.
The National Educational Association
convened at Madison, Wis, last week.
The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad
will pay it's employees their back salaries.
The firm of Benneson, Liebmann & Co.,
of Oakland, CAL, has failed, with liabilities
at $4,000.
An enthusiastic welcome was given to
Governor Murray of Utah on his return to
Salt Lake.
A Chinaman was baptised into the
Methodist Church at White Plains, N. Y,
last Sunday.
Four men were killed and eight wounded
by boiler explosion near Bloomington,
ILL.,, recently.
The Sunday open air concerts at the
Central Park in New York are attracting
large crowds.
Anthony Fricke, well known sporting
man of Reading, Pa, is dead. His estate
| is valued at 100000.
| Fifteen thousand bushels of No. 2 corn
| in boats in New York was found recently
and posted as mustY.
Secretary Lincoln says Green county,
| Texas, belongs to Indian Territory. Troops
are driving off settlers.
| The executive committee of the Union
| Pacific has decided to close the New \ ork
office except for transfers.
The Treasury Department issued war
rants last week for the payment of &c.
0OO, 900 in account of pensions.
The first through train on the Denver
and Rio Grande Railroad for six weeks
left Salt Lake City last Tuesday.
The Pacific Coast Blosd Horse Associa-
ton will hold races in San Francisco on
November 8th, 1Ith, 18th and 18th.
Bedford Karl, of New York, attempted
suicide with large navy revolver, because
his wife refused to go for pitcher of beer.
The track of the Denver and Rio Grande
Railway near Grand Junction, Col, re-
Gently torn up by Lovejoy, has been re-
laid.
John Kent, farmer of Shelby county,
| KY, died suddenly, last week from lock
jaw, caused by needle penetrating his
knee joint.
Army worms, rose bugs and caterpillars
are making lively work for the farmers OF
Long Island, N. Y, whose crops have al
ready suffered by them.
The Chinese Consul General at New
York advises his countrymen to obey the
laws and abstain from opium smoking,
gambling and other vices.
The Bell Telephone Company is prepar-
ing to build line of thirty copper wires
between New York and Philadelphia, to
be used as private telephone wires.
The New York Fresh Air Society, organ.
lied for the purpose of sending tenement
house children to the country for two
weeks, has begun its summer work.
w. J. Lucas, jailor of the Owensboro
KY, Jail, was shot and killed last week
while defending negro prisoner named
Richard May from the hands of mob.
The coroner of New York city states
that Charles Mitchell, seaman, died Of
violent cholera morbus, not from an at
tack of Asiatic cholera, as was supposed
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs al
Washington, offers a reward of 5000 t6
the capture of the murderer of the Kash
iway chief of the Sac and Fox Indians in
Kansas.
The Contract, Trade and Labor Unior
of Boston has elected President c. FL
Harrington as delegate to the conven
ton of Federal Trades at Chicago, Octo
Der 18th.
and Knapp & Co.'S shoe hands at Phila
delphia, have ended. The plasterers go
the advances asked, and the shoemaker
compromised.
Schedules in assignment of Pearce
Hall, New York hat manufacturers, who
failed last week, show liabilities to b'
$4,000; nominal assets, $l24, 600; actua
assets, $81 600.
The board appointed to represent th
United States government at the New Or
leans Exposition will also take charge o
the government exhibits at the Louisville
and Cincinnati exhibitions.
The Henry Bill Publishing Company o
Norwich, Conn.,, have applied to the Unitet
States Court for an injunction agains
Robert Clarke & Co., of Cincinnati, to re
strain them from selling Blaine's ''Twent.
Years in Congress"
Thomas Austin, of the Panhandle Rail
road shops at Bloomington, ILL.,, is in re
ceipt of official information from Ital,
that Adolphus Scipio, an Italian lahore
employed on his farm in White county
has been bequeathed a fortune in Ital,
amounting to 70S, 600 francs.
/ A Brooklyn, N. Y, dispatch says whil,
a number of men were excavating for th'
base of the Williamsburg Gas Company
tank the earth gave way and buried sew
eral men. Michael McDonough and Fat
rick Dunbar were killed. Two othe
bodies have not been recovered.
f Secretary of State Frelinghuysen ha
Y instructed, by cable, consular officers a
London, Liverpool, Marseilles, Havre
Bordeaux, Bremen and Hamburg at ono
to appoint competent physicians to in
spect all vessels and passengers departing
for the United States from the ports men
! toned.
: B. d. Buford & Co., corporation OWN,
the Rock Island Plow Works, situated a
Rock Island, ILL.,, made an assignment las