The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-22
noMEsr1c rELEeRApH1c NEWS.

Iowa stands first in swine raising, Iii
nois second and Ohio third.
A Fenton man is making 100000 snow
shovels for next seasons trade.
The yield of sorghum in this country in
1882 was valued at 81, ,489, ,826.04.
Failures last week in New York were
PIG, against 272 the preceding week.
The Ohio flood is the result of seven
great snow storms and five great rain
storms.
Chicago has nearly 1000 licensed liquor
saloons, and an unknown number of un
licensed ones.
One factory in Springfield, Mass, made
ITO, 900, 900 envelopeds out of 10000 tons OF
paper last year.
The New England railroads are said to
have killed in the past year 221 persons,
and injured 535.
sive modesty. He objects to being called
philanthropist.
1t is expected that Mr.. Beecher will go
to Europe on lecturing tour in the spring
or early summer.
| Senator Edmunds goes into society in
| Washington far more this winter than
ever before, it is said.
| The Director of the Mint says the pres
ent supply of gold coin and bullion in the
country is $60O,0OO,OO0.
The Albany, N. Y, Eue1aing Journal
| is to be sold in day or two to Richmond,
of Montgomery county.
The Stockton hotel at Cape May was
/ sold to William B. Kempton. The price
paid was about $125,OOO.
| Reports from the western cattle ranges
show that the average losses by the late
/ storms to be ten per cent.
| Certificates of incorporation of the Mex
lean National Telephone Company were
| filed in New York last week.
A factory with facilities for making
| 100000 wooden dishes per day is to be
erected in Chattanooga, Tenn.
A cable road is to be constructed through
Brooklyn Immediately. It is likely to be
part of the Coney Island system.
The House committee on shipping has
authorized Dingley to report bill to cor
rect the abuses of compulsory pilotage.
Mrs. Lawrence, of Chicago, mother of
| the late T. G. Lawrence, of the class of
1884, has given Yale College $4,000 for
a dormitory.
Near Huron, D. T., on Saturday, a man
named McCroskey shot and killed his
brother-in-law. Family troubles. The
murderer is in Jail.
Oliver Dyer, Yale sophomore, who was
roughly handled by classmate in college
athlete games on the 9th inst, died last
week from his injuries.
| Carrie, daughter of Governor Thompson,
| of Columbia, S. c., who was frightfully
| burned while reading in front of CRATE
| March 4, died last week.
Heavy arrivals of Pacific coast salmon
| in New York have stirred lively strife
| between rival dealers, who are ventilating
their claims through the newspapers.
The famous horse. Judge Fullerton, was
raff1ed off in New York recently, W. II.
Smith, of the Hoffman House, being the
winner. $40, 900 was originally paid for
him.
A large party left Galveston few days
ago for Whitesboro, Texas, where it is
reported that an armed mob is waiting to
rob the pay car of the Missouri Pacific
railway.
Fish Commissioner Biskford shipped
last week, by the steamship Maine 10000
California trout eggs, which have been
presented to a fish society at Gestemunde,
Germany.
Semonini & Co., of Louisville, Kentucky,
an incorporation operating the Pike to-
bacco warehouse, assigned last week
Liabilities are near 100000, but the assets
are sufficient to satisfy the creditors.
1t is stated in New York that Elijah
dency of the Oregon and Transcontinental
Company. He will probably become pres
ident of the Oregon Improvement Com
pany.
A train of thirty-one cars, all loaded
with corn for sufferers from the floods in
the Ohio valley, left Wichita, Kansas, for
Cincinnati. The corn was donated by
people of Sedgwick county, and will prove
substantial present.
The Treasury Department has been in
formed that twenty five Cuban banditti
have sailed from San Juan de los Rene
dios in the brig Screamer, destined for
Boston. and Collector Worthington has
been notified to prevent their landing.
The New Y York Tribune says: The report
was published recently that Willard had
recently sold one-seventh of tract of
land at Portland, Oregon, for $26O,O0O, the
whole tract having cost him 100000.
Horace White said that there was no
truth in the report.
Gently on barge, which was towed out
into the East river to escape the. police.
The principals were Tom Hogan and Jim
Barr, from Green Point. Four rounds
were fought and both men were severely
punished. The fight was won by Hogan.
The employees of the Yellowstone Park
improvement Company are in bad way
There are about thirty-fve of them, and
they are patient lot. They haven't had
pay for six months, and thousands of dol
lars are due them, yet all through the
winter they have worked faithful and
well.
The Army Retiring Board, which met
recently at Bloomingdale Asylum to ex-
anime General Mackenzie for retirement,
has submitted a report to the War Depart
ment. The Board finds that General
Mackenzie is incapacitated, and that his
incapacity resulted from services. His
retirement will therefore follow.
Believing that all the dynamite in
| Europe is manufactured in America, the
HerdlTs Paris special says: At more than
one foreign Office it is limited that if he
present status continues no American
will be allowed to land in Europe, and
pass from one European country to
another, unless provided with duly vised
passports.
Bradstreets agency has made a list of
losses to business men from Pomeroy,
Ohio, to Madison, Indiana, occasioned by
the recent floods in that region. The esti-
mate is confined to merchants and manu-
factories, and the work in Cincinnati is
not complete. The estimate for Cincin-
natl is S200000; the losses in Ohio river
towns foot up $500 600; losses in Ken
tuclzy river towns, $4,000.
Captain Eads, now in London, has been
requested by Director General Burke, of
the Worlds Exposition, to ascertain the
terms upon which the steamer Great
Eastern can be had to bring exhibits from
Liverpool aud serve as floating hotel at
the exposition wharf until the following
June, and then returning to Liverpool
with full cargo through the jetties at
the mouth of the Mississippi.
z niatr1ch fallar of tho TocIodo a
Bank in ST. Louis, who embezzled $30, 900,
has been arrested. His whereabouts was
discovered by a Post Dispatch reporter,
: | who notified q Fidelity and Casualty