The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-08-23
DOMESTIC TEIEeRApH1c NEWS.

DOMESTIC TELEGRApHIC NEWS.
Crops in New England will yield fair.
Hog cholera is epidemic In New Jersey.
Rose Eytinge says she is no relation to
Pearl.
There are 125 prisoners in the Montana
penitentiary.
Another big gas well has been struck
in Pittsburg.
The Ute Indians are on the warpath in
southeastern Utah.
San Francisco is determined to have no
more Chinese lepers.
The Union Pacific shops at Kansas City |
have been shut down.
Green Mccullough was lynched at Cot |
thula. Texas, recently.
A Congressional naval committee will
soon visit San Francisco.
Billings, Montana, will ship 100000
pounds of wool this year.
New York canals have carried 2.O63, ,S53
tons this year-a falling off.
S. F. Wentworth committed suicide in
San Diego, Cal, the other day.
1t is runfored in Washington that Indian
Commissioner Price has resigned.
A squash weighing 12O pounds was the
boast of San Diego, Cal, last week.
British gold bars valued at 81, 500. 600
were landed in New York last week.
Last weeks bullion shipments from
Butte, Montana, aggregated $l0O,S $50.
A fire in Chinatown in Port Costa. CAL,
recently, did $4,000 worth of damage.
Two hundred negroes will march in the
knights of Labor procession in New ork.
The Salvation Army in Cincinnati has
been disbanded, not having been sue
cess.
Schley and Hazen deny that human
flesh was eaten during the Greeley expe-
dition.
A delegation of Commanche, Kiowa
and Wichita Indians is visiting in Wash
ington.
Near Helena, M T., the other day, Linn
Mcfarland was burned to death by a lamp
| explosion.
| General Grant is to receive $4,000 for
his articles on the war, for the Century
Magazine.
The continued rains have made much
| havoc with the smaller fruits in central
Connecticut.
/ A monument will probably be erected
over the grave of General James Shields
in New York.
One hundred and thirteen foundlings
have been picked up in New York in the
last six months.
At Glendive, Montana. recently, Thomas
Allen was seriously injured by the explo-
sion of a torpedo.
At Glendenin, M. T.. last week, Pete
McDermott shot and instantly killed a
man named Murane.
/ Governor st. John ran away from home
at II years of age, was married at l9, and
was widower at 20.
The sanitary inspection in progress in
San Francisco is bringing some terribly
nasty things to light.
The bricklayers of New York, who are
on strike, are jubilant, the bosses show
ing signs of weakening.
| A daughter of William Astor and Orve
Wilson, son of r. T. Wilson, will be mar
rled at Newport, R. l., soon.
There were $4,000, 600 gallons of French
champagne more sold in this country last
year than were raised in France.
A negro at Athens, Ca, bound out his
child for one year to get money to go on
an excursion with fire company.
The next meeting of the Army of the
Tennessee will be held in Chicago, on the
second Wednesday of August, 1885.
A Boston dispatch says: The old Beach
street theater burned last week. 1t was
occupied by number of tradesmen.
The skin of Florida rattlesnake, eight
feet two inches long, has been forwarded
to the National Museum at Washington.
A New York dispatch says: The leading
depositors at the Wall street bank peti.
toned the court last week to appoint a re.
ceiver.
Russell Sage, who was thought to have
quite well, and will soon appear on the
! exchange.
The Congressional committee, to inves-
tigate the Soldiers Home in Milwaukee,
have arrived there and will begin taking
testimony.
A Truckee, New, dispatch says: The
Truckee and Sierra Valley road is reported
to be in an almost impossible condition
owing to the late storms.
Dog stealing has been reduced to such g
science in Boston that protective society
against it has been formed, one man start
ing it with a contribution of $1,000.
Round Stone, police officer from Pine
Ridge Agency, Is in the Powder an6
Tongue valleys, in Montana, with orders
to bring back the 300 renegade Cheyennes
now wandering in that country.
A Chinese leper was discovered few
days ago in the state prison at San Quen
tin, Cal. The directors have concluded tt
/ ask the Governor to pardon him, on condi
tion that he shall at once return to China
, Postmaster General Gresham has beer
] thoroughly overhauling the subordinate
offices of his department, and will call tt
sharp account several heads of bureau.
. and divisions for laxness of discipline ant
shirking of responsibility.
RI A disastrous fire occurred in Cincinnati
| recently. Twenty dwelling houses, tht
: Little Miami depot and the lumber yart
: of Hinton & Cole were burned. Hinton
Cole loss is 800, 600. One fireman wa
injured and will likely die.
5 Three children living on farm nea
r South Perry, Ohio, named Robert Wood
: Louis ID. Wood and Kate Shaw, all unde
r ten years of age, were burned to death il
: a barn last week, having gone there tt
smoke, and in so doing set the buildin.
on fire.
4 The First Comptroller of the Treasur,
2 has given an opinion that there is no au
8 thority for the payment of claims of th
e Creek nation of Indians, sggregating $40,
740 alleged TO he due under article 5 q