The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-02-23
EASTERN rr1reRApHrc NEWS.

ONO.
Thomas Kinsella, editor of the Brooklyn
Eagle, died in New York last week.
The variable weather in Kansas is said
to have killed large area of wheat.
The last sale of seat in the New York
Stock Exchange was made at $23,O 600.
The Denver Tribune has been purchased
by New York synnicate for 100000.
Paul Boynton, the swimmer, is soon to
marry Miss Maggy Connolly, OF Chicago.
Ten persons were killed in Cincinnati by
falling building, undermined by the late
flood.
It is reported that Sara Bernhardt will
travel America next season playing In
English.
Mrs. General Trevins, daughter of the
late General Ord, died at Fortress Monroe
recently.
A terrific tornado swept over the south
ern part of Texas recently, doing consider
able. damage.
Sparta, Ca, has only 1000 inhabitants,
and yet two barroOms there pay $7,5OO
each for license.
A gasoline explosion at Alliance, Ohio,
demolished block of brick buildings and
killed six persons.
The Northwestern road has paid into the
Wisconsin State treasury $4,000 for
semi-annual taxes.
The steamer w. P. Halliday, of the New
Orleans Anchor Line, was burned at st.
Louis. Loss 800, 200.
A man and woman, while sleigh riding
upon the EAlleghany river, were struck by
an ice gorge and drowned.
Major Cadfield is in Washington with a
| bill to promote the construction of rail-
| road from Seattle to Whatcom.
The police of Minneapolis rescued lad
named John Nolan who had been strung
up in a barn by gang of ruffians.
Mr.. Shaffer, secretary of the Iowa Agri-
| cultural Society, estimates the corn crop
of that State at Ill 100000 bushels.
S. F. B. Morse, an artist and grandson of
| Morse the telegraph inventor, has mys-
| teriously disappeared from St Paul.
| Miss Sprague, sister-in-law of Fred.
Douglass, has sued him for $3, 600, claimed
| to be due for services as housekceper.
Hog cholera prevails so extensively in
Jersey county, Illinois, that rendering
establishment has become a necessity.
! Mrs. Stratton, widow of General Tom
| Thumb, has applied to the Mayor of New
York for permission to open museum.
An arch and inner wall of the Lincoln
monument at Springfield, ILL.,, have spread,
| but the injury can be repaired with $1,000.
| An Illinois Central train was derailed
recently, killing the conductor and brake
man and seriously injuring several pas
sengers.
Mrs. Bonanza Mackay is being sued by
| Meissonier, the French artist, for $1,000
| for picture of herself, which she refuses
to accept.
The will of Wendell Phillips makes mo
bequests, his property OF S25O.OOO value
being divided between his widow and
adopted daughter.
The managers of the bank of Abilene,
which was attached last week, were forced
at the point of revolvers to pay over So, QUO
to three depsitors.
tion of Lieutenant Rhodes, of the revenue
cutter Dexter, for gallant conduct on the
occasion of the wreck of the steamship
City of Columbus.
Terre Haute, Ind, is organizing board
of trade, with membership of 500 and an
nual dues of $40, to advance the business
interests of the city.
John D. Harrington and DR.. Peacock
have been arrested at Jersey City upon a
new charge of conspiracy to defraud the
American Legion of Honor.
Mrs. Marion Leavarre, of New York,
has offered part of her mausoleum, at
EaSCpOfE, IL. l., as reSIlTS place lOT lHo
| body of Commander De Long.
The steamer Nottinghill, lost at sea by a
| collision with an iceberg, contained mer-
chandise valued at $3.50 600. The vessels
value was $400, 600: both insured.
George @. Cannon, chief apostle of the
Mormons, boasts that he has the scalps of
all Objectionable governors, and that he
will soon have Governor Murray's.
Henry S. Church, for six years chamber
lain of Troy, n. Y, proves to be defaulter
for 81, 600. It IS thought that most of the
money was lost in stock speculation.
A petition asking an aspiration for con-
| tinuation of work on the Cascade locks
| has been presented in the Senate, signed
by Senators Dolph, Slater and others.
BY the laws of Illinois, the close season
| for fish commenced the 9Th of February
The State fish commission requests the
public to aid in enforcing the statutes.
Five f1remen were killed and eight others
injured by falling walls in conf1agration
at Allentown. Pa, recently. Two large
factories were burned, the loss being $780,
900.
The failures are reported of Pilkington
& Co., dealers in agricultural implements
at ST. Paul, with liabilities at s75, 900, and
r. A. Saalfeld, music publisher at New
York.
A black valise containg S25,OOO was
stolen from the New York Transfer Com
pany recently, while it was being taken to
Debrosses street from the Grand Central
depot.
Fifty dealers, who last year handled
$500, 100000 worth of cattle, have for
warded a protest to Washington against
the bill to establish a bureau of animal in
dustry.
Gilbert & Sullivan's latest work, "Prin-
cess Ida" founded on Tennyson's poem,
''The Princess" was produced in New
York recently. 1t was not pronounced
success.
The new iron ship Clara S. Bement, 900
tons, the first that the Gorringe shipyard
has built, goes to Philadelphia to load with
railroad iron and material forp Portland,
Oregon.
The affairs of the New York Metropoli-
tan opera house show deficit of $238, ,748,
for which an assessment of So, 500 on each
| stockholder is proposed, greatly to their
| indignation.
| A dentist in Scranton, Pa, named w. H.
| Heist gave Mrs. James Stevenson three
doses of chloroform and extracted fifteen
teeth. On completing his task he found
| his patient a corpse.
! Sixty-two criminal indictments have
been filed in the United States Circuit
Court against NJ. A. Dauphin, manager OF
the Louisiana State Lottery, also sixty -one
against his clerk Tina.
! Leon Cronson, drummer for Goldsmith
| & Kuhno, New 7 York jewelers., made away
with $38, 900 worth of diamonds. He has
been arrested. Infatuation for Chicago
cyprians is assigned as the cause.
Reports of the condition of winter wheat
in eight States say that the acreage seems
to be about as usual; the crop has been
well protected by snow, and there seems
yield.
Joe Emmett. the comedian. has lust pur.