The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-09-13
DOMESTIC TELEGRArH1c NEWS.

1hS SuAiACi sc<soOu at 1OuE Ofal1cl mas
ended.
There is no pleuro- pneumonia in Ken
tucky.
Kansas City, Mo-, had $50, 600 fire re.
Gently.
The American Hotel at Fort Erie, n. Y,
burned a few days ago.
An unknown man was drowned in San
francisco bay last week.
Jay Eye See is still trying to reduce the
trotting record of 2:09i.
San Francisco clerks are considering the
early closing movement.
The town OF Aarathan, N. Y, was de.
stroyed by fire last week.
Five horse thieves were hanged at Rocky
Point, NJ. T., the other day.
The New York Continent has been pur-
chased by Mrs. Frank Leslie.
An anti Chinese demonstration took
place at Philadelphia recently.
The Livingston, M. T., Enterprise and
Tribune have been consolidated.
Hearing in the Hill-Sharon case has
been continued until October 3lst.
San Francisco merchants are scheming
to recover the lost Northern trade.
Senator Henry B. Anthony, of Rhode
Island, died at Providence last week.
The Hugh Fitzgerald prize fight on Long
island last week was declared draw.
The total rainfall in New York for the
past eight months has been 46.4I inches.
Mrs. Nellie Holbrook, of San Francisco,
will stump Indiana for Blaine and Logan.
The National Engineers Association held
Its annual session at Baltimore last week.
The Pittsburg chief of police refuses to
apologize for his insult to the Austrian
flag.
General Harney, veteran of the Mexi-
can and Florida wars, is residing in Wash
ington.
Bishop Pierce, senior bishop of the M.
Z. Church South, died at Augusta, Ca,
last week.
At Heron, NJ. T., recently, Charles Roloff
was shot and Totally wounded by Frank
Weileman.
Charles j.. Folger. secretary of the
treasury, died at his home in Geneva, n.
Y, last week.
The American Association for the Ad-
vancement OF Science convened at Phila.
delphia last week.
II. A. Charles, secretary of the Julia
Mining Company, died in San Francisco,
last week, aged 65.
Charles Folis was blown to atoms by the
explosion of giant powder cartridge near
San Francisco recently.
The next reunion of the Army of the
Potomac is to be held in Baltimore on the
9th and 7th of May, 1886.
Emanuel Neumann, secretary of the
Alaska Commercial Company, died at San
Francisco recently, aged 80.
Oklahoma Paine and his followers are
protesting at the manner in which they
| are being brought to justice.
Teemer defeated Hosmer in the three.
mile scul1ing race at Haggetts pond, near
Lawrence, Mass, a few days ago.
Receiver Osborn, of the suspended Wall
street. New York bank. has begun the
| payment of 90 per cent dividend.
Albert Sutliff left San Francisco for
China, last week, to act as war correspond
| ent OF the San Francisco Chronicle.
| The Indians at Polar River Agency. In
northeastern Montana, threaten to go on
| the war-path if they are not better fed
The Associated California Pioneers of
New York celebrated Admission Day by
clam bake and excursion to Glen Island.
The headless body of DR.. Book, surgeon
/ OF the sunken United States steamer Tai
lapoosa.. was found in Boston harbor last
week.
| Pietro Delmas, French champion wres-
| tier, has challenged Clarence Whistler to
another match to take place in San Fran
cisco.
Attachments aggregating SIS, 600 were
taken out against the Bankers and Mer-
chants Telegraph Company at Chicago re-
Gently.
All doubt as to the payment of the Jer-
sey Central dividend has been settled by
the shipment of funds to New York to
meet it.
Martin Weinberg. Jew, was hanged at
Plttsburg, Pa, last week. He is believed
to be the second OF his race ever hanged
in the United States.
AT Buffalo, N. Y, recently, Mrs. Fred
Merrill, crazed with grief over the death
of her child, shot her husband and took
fatal dose of earbolic acid.
Says vincennes, Ind, dispatch: Mollie
E. Adams, q 12-year-old girl, committed
suicide last week while the family was alb
sent from home. She was discovered ".
ing on her face in bed, with an empty bot
tie by her side.
A Pittsburg dispatch says: The coke
and coal syndicate of the Connellsville re-
gions have decided to run their ovens six
days hereafter instead of flve on account
of the improved demand, This will in.
crease the output between GOO and 700 cars
Paper manufacturers of New England
are indignant at the action of the United
States government prohibiting for three
months the unloading of imported rags.
I Representatives were appointed to go to
J Washington to obtain modification of
the order.
!, Professor Dodge, statistician of the de.
I partment of agriculture, says reports
show that the crops have been somewhat
damaged by drouth in Ohio, Indiana. iii.
! nois and Kentucky. The injury, however.
is not sufficient to cause any feeling of
panic, as there is every indication that In
general the crops will be good.
:, II. W. Waterson, of Milton. Wis. fled
: summons and complaint last week In
!, 5000 damages in a suit against the Chi.
5 cago and Alton Railway Company with
: : the sheriff OF Milwaukee county. Water.
man was injured for life, he alleges, at
! Chicago by the carelessness of the railway
: companys employees. Service was made
on the company's agent in Milwaukee
Y A Sandusky, o., dispatch says: The
j Forty-second Ohio lGarfield's) Regiment
b held reunion at Lakeside last week
t and voted to meet there next year. Since
b the death of Garfield no president has
J: been elected, the vice president presiding
Il About 200 members. survive. Captain
q Hubbell of Cleveland is vice president,