The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-11-22
DOMESTIC TELEeRApH1c NEWS.

Butte City, NJ. T., is being worked by
burglars.
William II. Vanderbilt and family are
ia Detroit.
Canal boats in the East are tying up for
the winter.
The iron trade is very quiet in all de-
partments.
The Swain courtmartial is in session at
Washington.
J. A Greene, reformed gambler, is dy |
ing at Philadelphia.
Pension payments of the present month
amount to Sl3sOOO,OOO.
Hard times are being experienced all
through Pennsylvania.
The Cotton land case is now being ar
gued at San Francisco.
One hundred and four Mormons arrived
in New York last week.
John Dargie, aged "a, committed suicide
at Oakland, CAL, last week.
New York banks now hold $37, ,484 900
in excess of legal requirements.
There will be civil service examination
at San Francisco, December 1lth.
T. B. How'd, of Beveredge, N. Y.
prominent Mason, is dead, aged IA.
The South American Commission held
sessions in San Francisco last week.
The long drouth in North Carolina has
drained all streams to small proportions.
The Washington monument at Wash
ington is rapidly approaching completion.
Governor Crosby, in his annual report,
estimates the population of Montana at
$1,000.
A. D. January, Deputy Treasurer of Cal
ifornia, is defaulter to the amount of
| $4,000.
| Duncan c. Ross challenges any man in
the world to wrestle for from $4,000 to
| $4,000.
Secretary McCulloch is busily engaged
| in the preparation of his annual report to
Congress.
The steamships Donan and Umbra last
week brought to New York 81, ,000, 600 in
gold coin.
| There were 5000 delegates to the Cattle
mems Convention, which met at st. Louis
| last week.
Tom Walling defeated Billy Lynn in a
six-reund prize fight at Merced, Cal, the
other day.
Blaine and Cleveland have been invited
to attend the opening of the New Orleans
exposition.
Six children were terribly burned by the
explosion of a barrel of rosin at Chicago
the other day.
General Schof1eld, Commander of the
Division of the Missouri, has sent in his
annual report.
John Clark, wool dealer of Boston,
Mass, failed last week. The liabilities
are unknown.
New Workers care little for Italian opera,
and Colonel Mapleson is much disgusted
on that account.
The Secretary of the Treasury has re,
ceived petition showing the dangers OF
importing old rags.
The Oshkosh, Wis, insane asylum caught
fire last week, but was extinguished before
. any damage was done.
Ayers Hart was shot and killed by John
Peete near Grenada, Mass, not long
since, through mistake.
E. ]. Bennett, formerly lawyer of AL
bany, n. Y, suicided at Dallas, Texas, tho
other day. Cause unknown.
The New York Times says Mayor Edi
sons order prohibiting hard glove encoun
{ ters is likely to prove fruitless.
Paul Dana, son of the editor of the New
York Sun, and Miss NJ B. Duncan wer,
7 recently married in New York.
s Stephen Wiles has been found guilty a
Helena, NJ. T., of smuggling goods from
Canada into the United States.
t The President has decided to appoin
a Deputy Commissioner of Pensions Clarl
to succeed Commissioner Dudley.
n Three mills of the Tocrat Manufacturing
Y Company, at Woonsocket. r. l., shut dowl
n last week for an indefinite period.
Con. Murphy and band of outlaws ar,
in possession of a small island near Hele
ma, NJ. T., and defy the authorities.
A railway accident in Texas moi
long since was the cause of the death O
ten passengers, and fifteen wounded.
D George Montague has been elected Presi
dent of the Second National Bank, New
4 York, in place of the defaulter, John C
, Emo.
The large glass works of James Bedford
at Wilmington, Del, was destroyed by fir,
, the other evening. The loss is unknown
| but is large.
An Elizabeth, Pa, dispatch says: Th,
great strike at the lower pool ended las
week, the miners accepting the two and
= half cent rate.
2 Rev. William Deane, who has been
missionary to China and India the pas
sixty years, has arrived in New York on .
: visit to his son.
The net result in money for Sullivan
ten minutes fight with Latin at New
York the other day was $500. The tota
receipts were $6,569.
The New York Financial Chronicle re
J ports an increase of the earnings O
. twentv-one railroads during October, ant
decreased earnings of forty others.
Y General G.. Beauregard has paid S4OO, ,OO
5 for twenty years lease of the Ouchit,
: coal mines. near Hot Springs, Ark. De
e velopments show an ample coal field.
: The Eureka Cottonseed Oil Mills at Ar
y kansas City, Ark, were destroyed by fir,
t last week. Loss, 5000, 900. The superin
i. tendent and two engineers were fatal,
injured.
Three hundred furnace hands and min
ers of the Shenandoah Iron Works, Har
? risonburg, Va, went on strike last week
' owing to the failure to pay two months ar
: rears of wages.
The postponement of the New Orlean!
E Exposition from December 1st to 10th wa.
owing to the inability of President Arthur
: to officiate at the opening ceremonial be
O fere the latter date.