The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-08-09
DOMESTIC TELEaRApH1c NEWS.

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Pearl Eytinge, the actress, was married
to ]. W. Yard, of New York, last week.
The glove fight between Mike Cleary
and Jack Burke at New York last week
was another hippodrome.
A Hawthorne, New, dispatch says: Lun-
ing was totally destroyed, with the excep-
| ton of the depot buildings, by fire last
week.
| New York dispatches report that the
propeller J. M. Osborne sunk in Lake Sa-
| perior last week. Eight persons were
drowned.
The steamship Oceanic which arrived at
| brought 400 Chinese. Most of them are
| for Victoria.
| Receiver John S. C. Harrison, of the In
diana Banking Company of indianapolis.
Ind, has been arrested charged with en-
bezzling $95, 600.
| Lucie and Tenie Jones, two young girls
of good -parentage, aged 10 and IT, living
near Gadsden, Ala, committed suicide by
hanging last week.
Mrs. A. T. Stewart has contracted a
habit of being weighed every Saturday
| afternoon, giving the man who operates
the scales So note.
Crop reports from Ohio, Indiana and
Kentucky are to the effect that wheat is
the best, both in quality and quantity,
that has been raised in years.
Forty buildings were burned at DEVILS
Lake, ID. T., recently, including ten real es-
tate offices, eight saloons and number of
other buildings. Loss, 100000.
BEETLE & Bro, wool merchants of Phila-
delph1a, made an assignment last week to
Samuel Lee. Liabilities are $d20,OO0. The
firm refuses to make statement.
! Five members of the Salvation Army.
at Bridgeport, Conn.,, have been sent to
Jail for four days, for violation of the city
ordinance in parading on Sunday.
A special from Paris, Illinois, says w.
IL. Vansickle, prominent farmer, was in
stantly killed by lightning. last week,
while walking from his barn to his house
Miss Phoebe Couzins, the lecturer, was
sworn in as deputy United States marshal
father, the marshal, as private secretary.
Professor II. II. Kingsley, of the Alex
andria, MiHn., schools, has accepted the
position OF assistant professor of mathe-
matics at the Michigan University, Ann
/ Arbor.
The Commercial Bank of Brazil, Ind,
has suspended. Liabilities are about
$l40,OOO; assets nominally $4,000. 1t is
sald that the entire'county school fund is
| in the bank.
Ex- Governor Moses. of South Carolina.
was recently arrested in Chicago upon
requlsition of Governor Robinson of Mas
saehusetts for obtaining money under
false pretenses.
Winslow, Lanier & Co., of New York,
state that the effect of the Brazil, Ind,
| nj will h<a L.
bank is a small concern and kept light ac-
counts in New York.
A Camden, N. j., dispatch says grapes
IN tnat section are rotting; cause, wet
weather alternating with sunshine. 1t is
tnought that grapes in some vineyards
will be entirely destroyed
A passenger train on the Bedford Mar
row Guage Road last week went through
a bridge at Bloomfield, Ind, the entire
train going into the river, killing one and
severely lnJuring several others.
Thirty one Italians, arrested for being
concerned in the Lizzie Bradley assassina-
tlon at Pittsburg, Pa, were released last
week, the evidence showing that they
were not implicated in the affair.
A private letter received in San Fran.
CISCO from Nogales, Mexico, dated July
10th, states that the facts about yellow
fever there have been suppressed, and
that the plague is daily increasing.
Thomas Fl. Williams, who arrived in
San francisco from Seattle about a month
ago, was found dead in his room. Death
was due to an overdose of chloroform.
winch 1t is supposed was taken with sui
cidal intent.
There was formal opening of the Stan
ford kindergarten rooms at San Francisco
last week. This is the school founded
| with II \ +.
ford, and is under the charge of Mrs.
Sarah b. Cooper.
Recent talk about the lepers in San
Francisco has stirred up the board of
supervisors to consideration of the mat
ter and last week they took the first steps
| toward movement to send diseased Chi
nese back to their own country.
The wrestling match Between Colonel j.
ID. Mclaughlin, of Detroit, and II. M.
Dufur, of Massachusetts, for 5000 side
and the championship belt of the world,
was won last week at Boston by Dufur,
VINO gained two successive falls.
Within the past few weeks it has been
discovered that the smuggling of Chinese
into this country as ''stowawaysn has
been carried on to great extent, and it
certainly looks as if the shipping COM
panles were encouraging this practice.
| AAO oHdISuOluoTS Oh Lle wrecked Ma
rine Bank of New York have appointed
committee to confer with the receiver and
the comptroller of currency, to ascertain
the condition Of the bank, and also report
as to the expediency of proceedings
against the directors.
The surgeon general of the Marine
Hospital service at Washington, having
received information that yellow fever is
spreading rapidly in Sonora, Mexico, has
instructed Inspector Nogales, of Arizona.
to use extra vigilance to prevent its intro
duction into the United States.
John Shea, miner from Leadville. Col.
spent Sunday with his wife near Greeley.
In the morning, while his wife was Sleep
ing, Shea cut her and stabbed her seven
| times in the chest, and then stabbed him.
| self eight times and fell dead. Mrs. Shea
cannot live. The cause was jealousy.
The failure of Halls private banking
house at Elmira, n. Y, was regarded len.
iently at first, but not so now. His refusal
| to make an assignment is severely COM
mented upon. He places his liabilities at
| $4,000. He received deposits up to
within an hour of the time he closed his
| doors.
Congressman Culbertson. of Kentucky.
who represents the Ashland district of
| that state, attempted to commit suicide
| last week at the National Hotel, Washing
1 ton. He fired several shots. one of which
entered the right temple, coming out near
the opposite side of his head. He is still
/ living