The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-11-01
DOMESTIC TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
The Georgia drouth has ended.

Senator Fair, of Nevada, has returned
rom Europe.
c. P. Huntington says business in the
Cast is picking up.
The losses by the fire at Carthage, N.
Z, aggregate $500,OOO.
Commander Schley has issued his report
N the rescue of Greely.
ionaire. died last week.
Lack of funds prevents the completion
If the Bartholdi statue pedestal.
The stage between jefferson City and
Boulder, N. T., was robbed recently.
The coinage of silver in the United
States the past year, has been $27, ,00O, 600.
Extensive forest fires are raging in New
Jersey in Camden and Gloucester coun-
ties.
j. R. Dorsey, aged IS, and Jane Wade,
aged GO, were lynched at Centre, Ala, last |
week.
Scarlet fever or searlatina is epidemic at
the Wisconsin Industrial School for girls |
in Milwaukee.
Adams express office at Woonsoeket, |
r. l., was entered and robbed of S11, 600
the other night.
The taxable property Of San Louis Obs.
pe, Cal, exceeds $8, ,000, 600, an increase of
over 30 per cent.
The receiver of the Wall Street Bank,
New York, has begun the payment of
dividends on 20 per cent.
The liabilities of A. w. Bowman, capi-
talist, San Francisco, who recently as
signed, will reach 81 ,oO0, 600.
John Welsh, New York jeweler, gave
banquet last week to the surviving
members of Stevenson's regiment.
The private banking house of n. D.
Cooke & Co., of Washington, has failed.
Liabilities, 0,000; assets, $4,000.
The Central Pacific Railroad has adopted
the time of the 120th meridian for trains
running west of Ogden and Ell Paso.
Pension Commissioner Dudley has been
exonerated from the charge of giving
preference to applicants from Ohio and
Indiana.
The boys employed in a number of glass
factories in Pittsburg are on strike for
an advance of 5 to 10 cents per day in
their wages.
The engagement of President Arthur
and Miss Tillie Frelinghuysen, daughter
of the Secretary, is announced. The mar
riage will take place in January.
The Department of State has been in
formed by the consul at Buda-Pesth that a
general national exhibition will be held at
that place, beginning on May |, 1885.
Carrie J. Welton, who recently perished
on Longs Peak, Colorado, bequeathed
$25O,O to the Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals of New York.
The Chinese Consulate in San Francisco
has dispatched it's attorney to Washington
to represent it's interests in several con-
| tested cases arising from the restriction
law.
The Secretary of the Treasury has re-
ceived the reports of the special commit
| tee appointed to consider the general ques-
ton of classification of wool under new
tariff.
The Secretary of State has designated
| Kasson, United States minister to Ger
many. representative of the United States
at the Congo conference to be held in
| Berlin.
A fire few days ago burned the furni-
ture factories of John & Ellison, and
Freese & Brustmaier, Chicago. Loss on
both will be about $4,000; insured for
1000.
The steamer Amerique, of the French
| line, while lying at New York last week,
caught fire in her hold among some cot
ton. It was speedily extinguished, caus'
ing only slight damage.
Minnie Cummings, an actress, obtained
a verdict of $25, 600 last week against Viii
liam B. Davis, police officer, and Della
Murphy, milliner, of New York, in an ac-
ton for false imprisonment.
The Reading Coal and Iron Companys
shaft was discovered to be on fire last
week. The vein being perpendicular it is
impossible to reach the fire. The mine
will probably have to be flooded. The loss
will be heavy.
The Treasury Department last week is
sued warrant for $l66, ,667 in favor of the
President of the Worlds Industrial anC
Cotton Exposition. This is the fourth in
stallment ,of 100000 appropriated by
Congress for the Exposition.
The physicians sent by the Minnesots
State Board of Health to investigate the
disease at Brookings, Dak., report 1t to be
the most virulent type of smallpox. Al
least $50 people have been directly exposed
and the gravest results are feared.
The steamer Elder, from Bremen and
Southampton, completed the voyage In
seven days and five minutes from Queens
town. making the Elder the fourth fastest
steamer afioat, having only been beaten
by the America, Oregon and Alaska.
| Charles Mitchell the pugilist, has Is
| sued challenge to Dominick McCaffrey
to fight within six weeks, with hard
gloves or bare fists, in any city in the
world, barring New Orleans, from $500 tc
$2,5OO side. Mitchell has deposited $500
forfeit.
| Information from the Texas border in
dicates carelessness or misunderstanding
ON the part of cattle inspectors, several
Texas herds having been admitted to the
territory of New Mexico, which, although
free from the fever, have left poisoned
trail that has developed fever in the native
herds.
Says Louisville, KY, dispatch: Rubels
Rock, dangerous formation on the Ohio
at the falls, was blasted by the government
employees recently. Almost every steamer
af1oat on the Ohio has suffered from the
rock. Boats scrape the bottom and dis.
joint their hulls against the treacherous
lodges.
The wife of Joseph Shirley, residino
near Letart, W. Va, was instantly killed
last week by lightning. She was sitting
in her room with one of her little girls
when the bolt descended by the side of the
chimney, it being an inside one, and came
into the room with the above result. The
little girl was badly stunned, but will re
cover.
i The Secretary of the Navy has issued a
general order for the establishment of q
college for an advanced course of nrofes