The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-12-27
DOMESTIC TELEaaApH1C NEws.

The Dakota Bill has passed the Senate.
Benton, NJ. T., has new $4,000 school
house.
Trouble among the Hooking Valley min
ers still continues.
The postoface at Belknap, NJ. T.. has
been discontinued.
The senate discussed the silver coinage
question last week.
Governor Kinkead, of Alaska, has sub
mitted his report to the President.
Eastern pig iron men held session in
Pittsburg recently to form general tariff
club.
Stockmen are said to have majority In
the coming session of the Montana Legis-
lature.
The property of George B. Buchanan,
the Louisville swindler, was sold at auc-
ton last week.
General Benjam F. Butler has sold his
house on Capitol Hill, Boston, TO 6onR
Cassets for S75,uO0.
The general display from the Western
and Pacific states at the New Orleans ex-
hibition could not be finer.
Sheriff Davidson, of New York, has
been cited before the Governor to explain
the management of his Office.
The Helena Mining and Reduction Com
pany, at its last meeting, declared dlv1-
dend of $50, ,0O0, payable January ~, 1850.
The twenth-ninth annual meeting Of the
Illinois Horticultural Society took place In
the State University at Champaign, ILL.,.
last week.
Stamps & Co.'s chair factory, Dayton, o.,
was burned last week. 1t is supposed to
have been the work OF an incendiary. Loss
about $4o,0Oo.
The poet Whittisr's 77th birthday was
celebrated at Amesburg, Mass, last week,
A large number of friends called to con
graduate him.
Several ministers and others at Welsh
Mountain, Pa, have started revival meet.
ings, hoping to convert Abe Buzzard and
his mountain banditti.
Setheimer & Co.. dealers in grain. al
Carlton, N. Y, assigned last week. IheJ
give preferences to the extent of $36, ,0OO
They have been in business ten years.
The house committee on Indian affairs
has decided to report adversely the joint
resolution providing for the improvement
Of Indians, by giving them citizenship.
A majority of the manufacturing indus
tries of Dubuque Ia, are discharging hall
their forces, and making reduction OF IL
per cent in the wages OF the remainder.
a collision occurred at Sierra Blanca,
Texas. last week, between Sunset train
and Texas Pacific train. One Pullman
car was demolished. No lives were lost
The New York board of education has
refused to allow public school children tc
participate in entertainments in schoo
houses, in aid of the2Bartholdi statue ped
estal fund.
w. w. HALEY, superintendent of the
HALEY Sampiing Works, HALEY, NJ. L.
arrested for embezZlement, has beer
bound over to appear before the mex
grand jury,
Governor Pattison of Pennsylvania, ha
signed the death warrants Of DR.. Lewis
Beach, of Altoona, and Richard Trenk, o
Philadelphia, and both will be hanget
February 18th.
Nearly 1900 citizens of Bloomington
Ill.,. have petitioned the Governor to par
don Edwin Goodspeed, sentenced TO
thirty-three years for numbering Sila
Stoltz, thirteen years ago.
John L. Sullivan and Alfred Greenfield
arrested some time ago on a charge of en-
gaging in prize fight at Madison Squar
Garden, New York, were acquitted by tn
Court of General Sessions last week.
The Collier White Lead Works, of ST
Louis, Mo-, have shut down. The concerl
has a capital of 81 ,0U0, ,OU0 and employs 81
men. Ii has plenty of money and onl
stops on account of over-production am
dullness.
James Mitchell, a puqilist, was arrests
at Philadelphia last week on q charge Q
murder. The affidavit charges him wit
causing the death of one Muldoon, from
injuries received in fight near Yardley
vile one year ago.