The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-10-11
DOMESTIC rELEGRApHrc NEWS.

Helena, N. T., viii soon be lit by elec-
tricity.
Louisville, KY, had disastrous fire
last week.
The decrease in the public debt during |
September was $l2, ,000, 900.
Vanderbilt is said to have lost $50, ,00O, 600
recently in railroad stocks.
New York banks now hold $40, ,907, 900
in excess of legal requirements.
Sandy Hook, n Y, pilots protest against
the abolition of compulsory pilotage.
There is talk of consolidating the New
York gas companies into one organization.
Members of the New York stock ex-
| change are betting heavily on the election.
The National Breeders Convention will
be held at Chicago, November 18th and
14th.
Mail transmission between Chicago and
| New York has been shortened about six
hours.
A Minneapolis street car was stopped
by roughs recently, and one passenger
| killed.
Crops are a failure in Virginia and sur
rounding states, owing to protracted
drouth.
The steam tender Manzanita, now in
California waters, will shortly be sent to
Oregon.
Two pauper Arabs arrived In New York
last week from Liverpool. They were
sent back.
The international prime meridian coR-
ference held its session in Washington
last week.
Fred. Schwatka Strang cadet from Ore
gon, died last week at the naval academy,
at Annapolis, Md.
Wah Lee Vow, Chinese laundryman,
took out naturalization papers at Cleve-
land, o., last week.
Mr.. kirki, japanese minister to the
United States, arrived at San Francisco
last week from Pekin.
An ex- United States minister to Bolivia
says Chilli is subsidizing the American In
dependent newspapers.
A. r. Allen & Co., importers of plum
bers' material, in San Francisco, have
failed; liabilities, $4,000
w. n. Cardwell. direct descendant of
Patrick Henry, is in jail at Louisville, KY,
| for chronic drunkenness.
Coinage at the various mints during
September was 81, ,631 1853, of which 1885,
600 were standard dollars.
The third annual convention of the
Union Veteran Association was held at
Hartford, Conn.,, last week.
A. NJ Levy, Denver clothing merchant
has assigned. Estimated liabilities, 1885,
600 to $4,000 assets, $4,000.
The new school house at Benton when
completed will be in point of architecture
the finest building in Montana.
The steam whaler Bowhead owned in
San Francisco has been crushed by ice in
the Arctic ocean; loss, S120,000.
the brotherhood of locomotive engineers
was held at San Francisco last week.
Oliver Bros s. Philips, iron manufacture
ers of Pittsburg, Pa, have reduced the
wages of their employees Ia per cent.
The amount of wool shipped from Fort
Benton, M. T., and vicinity, during the
J past season, aggregates 795, ,722 pounds.
At Sunol glen, Cal, recently, Joseph Ar.
genti shot and killed Alvini Buzzie and
: wife. The murderer is in jail at Pleas
anton.
|
the transfer books of the Union Pacific
show 800, 600 shares In the name of Jay
Gould.
Rev. DIR. Morrison, Grand Counselor Of
the Order of Chosen Friends, of San Fran
: cisco, was arrested last week on charge
of forgery.
Fifteen thoroughbred mares, which ex-
Governor Stanford purchased in England,
are on their way to San francisco from
New York.
The elopement fever is spreading in the
East. Two more clandestine marriages
have been reported last week from the
; state of New York.
Some unknown william took a shot at St
John, Prohibition candidate for President
e while he was riding through Sullivan
Ind, the other day.
The San Francisco Chronicle, of a late
date, brands the recent advance In gas
: rates as one of the worst examples Of cor
porate greed against the public.
The interstate rife match at Carson
!, City between picked military teams o1
i Nevada and California was won by the
: Nevada team by score of S72 to $50.
A special train on the Panhandle road
CARRYING Governor Hendricks, collidet
! with hand car near Wheeling W. Va.
J last week, killing a boy and trackman.
: Mr.. McCulloughs managers state tha
the real trouble is a physical breakdown
of the great tragedian. Any other as
! sumption or statement is unjust and un
i true.
: The centennial of the granting of war
rant by the Masonic Grand Lodge of Eng
land constituting lodge of colored Ere
: Masons, was celebrated in Philadelphia
: last week.
| The directors of the Spring Vale
L Water Company, at San Francisco, ar
selling new stock to the shareholders a
SS6 per share, instead of $3.50, as name'
! last April.
t The National Paper Makers Associa
1 ton, at meeting recently held in Spring
: field, Mass, unanimously resolved to ad
vance the price of paper from to cent
per pound.
: Cinnamon now pay $25 in Havana fol
t naturalization papers and passports anC
a enter the United States as Spanish sub
e jects, thereby evading the Chinese re
striction act.
e III. Delille, collector for the French Ma
: tional League, in San Francisco, was founC
e short 800 in his accounts. Cn the discov
t cry of his defalcation he committed suicide
e by taking poison.
William Kluge, cabinet maker, com
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