The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-06-28
DOMESTIC rElEaRApH1c NEWS.

bill.
Wiggins predicts big storm September
President Arthur has returned to Wash
ington.
Bishop Simpson died In Philadelphia
last week.
A strike of the New York plumbers is
imminent.
Mrs. Langtry has made a big hit in San
Francisco.
Luke Phillips, a wife-murderer was
hanged in Detroit last week.
The Fitz John Porter bill has finally
passed both houses of Congress.
Ellis Andrews, of Portland, committed
suicide recently in Oakland, Cal.
Milwaukee has tobacco chewing con-
test with gold watch as the first prize.
Leadville, COL, had $4,000 fire re-
Gently. Two men perished in the flames.
Louisville, KY, is now driving out the
clairvoyants by taxing them 800 year.
In the Senate recently discussion was
had on the late bank failures in New York
city.
Sidney Dillon has resigned the presi-
dency of the Union Pacific Railroad Com
pany.
An Ogelthorpe, Ca, boy has invented a
cash drawer, for which he has refused
$4,000.
The Muerose fire works factory and the
Burt house at Bradford, Pa, were burned
recently.
The estate of John Russell, the New
York miser printer, valued at $4S, ,OOe, is
in dispute.
The Rio Grande river above Ell Paso,
Texas, than at any time within quarter
of a century.
A piece of land sold in New York the
other day for $500, 900, or thirty-two times
its cost in 1o47.
more and Ohio and Postal Telegraph COM
panies Is q canard.
A Philadelphia doctor announces his in
tention to build cren1atory in that city
as private speculation.
The fast trotter Jay Eye See, the prop
erty of j. /. Case, made q trial mile in 2:12
last week at the Chicago Driving Park.
In three-mile rowing race last week
between the crews of Harvard and Co.
lurnbia colleges, the former won in 22:24.
Elizabeth Wardell, of Baltimore, Nd,
is suing for q divorce. Her sister drugged
her and had her married to Walter War
dell.
d. M. Marshall, of Matamoras, w. Va,
over that place last week, and committed
suicide.
The famous Flat Rock spring, at Sara.
years ago, is said to have again commenced
to bubble.
Antoni Chevari, an italian cook, com.
mitted suicide in San Francisco recently
The cause for the commission of the deed
is unknown.
James Wigmore, the special officer oi
San Francisco charged with killing John
johnson Smith on the 28th of May, was
acquitted last week.
Marie Buckland, an insane inmate OF
the Champaign county, Ohio, infrmary,
refused to eat and died of starvation after
three weeks stubborness.
The strike of the coal miners in the
Monongahela mines in Pittsburg, Pa,
has spead nearly to every pit. Four pools
d1O dUOut 0,OOO 1n1AcI6 hI0 AOW 1O1Cs
The intercollegiate four-oared shell race
for Childs' challenge cup, at Philadelphia
last week, was won by the Pennsylvania
university crew in 9 minutes and 64 sec
onds.
Ex-President Fish, of the New Yorl
Marine Bank, pleaded not guilty las
week to the charge of misappropriation o.
bank funds, and was released on the orig
nal bail.
A San Francisco dispatch says that tn,
directors of the North End Comstocl
mines have decided to put Mexican down
to ), 800 level and stop work for time OF
the others.
John Callahan & Co., wholesale hquo
dealers of Louisville, KY, assigned re
Gently. Liabilities, $l00, 900; assets, $140,
600. Business complications caused th'
assignment.
Five out of six stove foundries in Pitts
burg and Allegheny, Pa, resumed worl
last week with non-union men. Unio1
men have been out for three weeks agains
a Is per cent reduction.
In the recent explosion of boiler of ,
| portable saw mill at Laurel Run, w. Va.
Frank Therse and Morgan Gath wer,
killed, and Mort Bush fatally and thre,
| others dangerously wounded.
The friends and family of Heister ely
mer, at Reading, Pa, authorize the state
ment that he used narcotics for insoma
MIA, and being much debilitated, the dos
produced paralysis of the brain.
| The National Electric Medical Associa
ton, recently at Cincinnati, o., heard al
address by John King, on Medical Legis
| lation," which he declared unconstitu
| ao% HI
liberty.
Richard K. Fox, of New York, offer
| $1,000 for Peterson, the champion oars
| George Lee and Wallace Ross, to row OF
the Oak Point course some time mex
| August.
are charged with criminal carelessness il
allowing one-haf the passengers Of TIL
City of Toxic to land before it was discov
cred that smallpox had been raging be
tween decks.
Reports connecting Commodore CARR
sons name with protested paper last weel
in New York have this foundation: He i
endorser of Pittsburg, Cleveland and To
ledo paper, some of which may have beel
lextended. The Commodore says he ha
had no personal paper protested.
/ In the coming match between Sullivan
and Mitchell, the platform in the Madison
ISquare Garden. New York, will be fort.
feet square and twenty feet will be ropee
LOFT in the center, so that when man il
knocked through the ropes he will no
have to drop several feet to reach the bot
lItom.
/ Daniel Corrigan chief clerk of the bu
Ilreau of medicine and survey in the nav.
4 n orf,,1o 1ovaf and Fdxriv1 n KfrIyxvnnf4
clerk in the same bureau, were arrested
recently, charged with defrauding tn,
government by means of vouchers fol
supplies which had been negotiated b,
outside parties.
| The glove fight announced to take plac,
Hast week at Indianapolis, Ind, between
iCharles Ianpe of Ohio and John Glow