The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-11-08
DOMESTIC TELEGRApHIc NEWS.

DOMESTIC TELEGRApHIc NEWS.
Chicago had $4,000 fire recently.
Silver has been discovered near Oneonta,
N. Y.
Coal miners near Denver, COL, are out
on strike.
New York exported 3o1, IA bushels of
wheat last week.
prospecting in Alaska.
New Y ork banks now hold $31, 1881 900
in excess of legal requirements.
The finest block in Fayette City, Pa,
burned last week. Loss, 100000.
The schooner Lucy, from Raleigh, n. c.,
| for New Orleans, has been wrecked.
joaquin Miller's latest play Logan, the
Silent Man." is a failure in New York.
Heavy winds and SHOWS are reported
from Lakes Huron and Michigan ports.
The work of setting stone on the Wash
| ington monument was resumed last week.
General Fitz John Porter has been ap-
pointed Police Commissioner of New
York.
| Mrs. Jernegan, of Sandersville, Ca,
claims to have been cured by faith and
| PRAYER.
Lieutenant Greely, of Arctic fame, has
been initiated member of the New Y ork
G. A. r.
last week at Bradford, Pa, was won by
the former.
Bernard Nantre, real estate broker of
New Orleans, committed suicide last week
by shooting.
Fl. Lyon & Son, dry goods dealers. st.
Louis, have failed. Liabilities, $60, 900;
assets, $4,000.
The twelfth annual congress for the Ad-
vancement of Women was held in Balti-
more last week.
To New York reporter Captain PIN,
of the English navy, said that the Panama
canal is failure.
The work of improving the harbor at
| Memphis, Tenn, is progressing steadily
and satisfactorily.
A passenger train went through bridge
near Reading Pa, last week, and several
| passengers were killed.
The villa of Mary c. Holmes, of New
York, at Newport, r. l., was burned last
week. Loss, 1000: insured.
| George T. jackson, president of the En-
terprise Cotton Factory of Augusta, Ca,
is defaulter to the tune of 800, 900.
DR.. Joseph Walker, the Oldest Free
Mason in America, died in Montgomery
county, N. Y, last week, aged 81 years.
C.P. Huntington sold his brown stone
mansion and stable on West Fifty fourth
street, New York, last week, for $3.50. 000
/ Hon. Hugh Mccullough has been ap.
pointed by the President to succeed Wal
ter @. Gresham as Secretary of the Treas
ury.
It is said in New York that the Unior
Pacific is more likely to get the Oregon
Railway and Navigation lines than the
Northern Pacific.
Trains through Pennsylvania to the
Jersey coast pass through miles of smoke
. clouds from the forest fires in that sectioI
and through sitting atmosphere.
News from Mckenzie, Tenn, says An
drew Swain, who was poisoned last weel
by a man named Taylor, is dead. Taylor
is in Jail. There are threats of lynching
Lincoln Keith was shot in the head b,
|
) week. Keith lived but a few hours. /
: was an unprovoked murder, and lynchins
2 is feared.
DR.. Mrs. Helen Cummings, of Soutl
t Boston, Mass, has been arrested for ths
! murder of Mrs. William G. Hill, causet
through carelessly placing the wrong label
! ON two bottles.
The raising of flax has assumed i'm
portant proportions in southern DakotI
this year. Over 100000 bushels hav
been raised and the farmers are selling
, at $1.l0 per bushel.
: S, Selig, wholesale milliner of Sal
Francisco, assigned last week to Solo
mon Haas. His liabilities are SIS, 600; as
. sets are estimated at $4,000. The princi
/ pal creditors are in New York.
| The new cruiser, Atlanta, will be takel
i to New York for her machinery. The Bos
ton, it is expected will be launched in tw
+ or three weeks, and more than one-half G
n the work on the Chicago is completed.
= The Western Export Association decide
= = at meeting recently held in Chicago
reduce the production of whisky 10 pc
cent, or 10000 gallons day. They pre-
: pose to cut down the production to the de
:. mands of the trade.
Private Hines, of company d, Twenty
, nfth infantry, Whlte watching dance Tn
! other evening in negro dance house i
Deadwood, OAK, was shot and instantl
8 killed by woman named Maud S. Marks
n The cause of the shooting is unknown.
Rufus Blanchard, representing the Ns
= tional School Furnishing Company of Oh
cago, has been visiting the Northwest. II
! is the author of the Historical Map of th
United States, used generally in publ
D schools.
!, Santa Fe, N. NJ, is greatly excited owe
the attempted elopement of DR.. Pietl
: Baldaci editor of La AororG, Spanis
e newspaper, and Mrs. Perfecto Yrissar
daughter of Don Rafael Topaz, who's
marriage was celebrated with great ecla
e about one year ago.
The Surgeon General of the Marine Hos
, pital at Washington reports that the feve
: has again broken out on the west coast G
. Mexico, in the most malignant form. Tn
city of Colima, ,450 feet above the Sc
level, has not escaped the fever; it ais
r RACES in Manzanilla.
! At meeting of the American pape
manufacturers held in New York recent
1t seemed to be the general opinion tina
the price of paper should be increased t
correspond with the increased price O
rags, and that there should be decide,
r curtailment of production.
!, John T. Peasants, editor of the Mai
: an afternoon paper published at Pittsburp
{ Pa, was convicted last week and sen
e fenced to pay fine of So and be impris