The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-11-15
DOMESTIC TELEGRAPH1c NEWS.


in excess of legal requirements.
Chicago, have failed. Liabilities, $l65, 900.
A movement to place telegraph wires
under ground is now agitating st. Louis.
Three thousand men have signed the
Murphy temperance pledge in Indianap-
oils.
Trouble with miners in the Hooking
Valley Ohio are again assuming serious
shape.
Malaria breeding pools in Brooklyn, N:
Y, are being filled at cost to the city OF
$500
The trial of Joseph Evans, for polygamy,
was begun in the District Court at Salt
Lake last week.
Rear Admiral Phelps, who recently
commanded the South Atlantic station,
was retired last week.
A bill providing fer an increase of judi
cial salaries has been refused a third read
ing in the Vermont Senate.
A colored preacher was committed to
jail few days ago in NatcheZ, Miss, for
failing to perform road duty.
Two hundred citizens of Colombus, O.,
stree 8. One man has caused the arrests.
The delivery freight depot of the Louis
vile and Nashville road, at Louisville,
| KY, burned last week. Loss fully $780,
| GOO.
| 1t is said that gold and silver mines
| changed hands over the result OF the re-
cent Owens Murphy prize fight at Butte
| City.
Lena Haberl, 10 years of age, died at the
| female hospital in st. Louis the other day
| of trichinosis, caused by eating half-cooked
pork.
For slipping on the snow on the dock of
ferry boat and for sustaining injuries, a
Philadelphia woman has been awarded
$l,5O0.
Pat Herman has been sentenced to be
hanged on December 18th, for the murder
of Peter McCormic last June at Hunters
Point, l.. /.
By an explosion in dynamite mill near
Robesonia, Pa, recently, three men were
blown to atoms and neighboring building
was badly shaken.
The New York Central ticket offices in
New York city last week began selling
first-class tickets to Chicago for $12, and
second-class for 81.
1t has been proposed to furnish the rail
roads with grain cars built entirely of
steel. 1t is said that more grain can be
carried with less wear and tear.
The entire business portion of Silver
| Plume, Col, was burned few nights ago.
The loss is estimated at from between
$780, 600 to 500, 900; insurance, $55.000.
The house of James Cochran, at Ellijay,
Ca, was destroyed by fire last week. His
mother, SO years old, was burned to death.
Nothing was found of her body but the
charred bones.
Abel D. Breed, merchant of SO Broad.
way, New York, made an assignment last
week for the benefit of creditors, to Viii
liam Lindsey, giving preferences amount
ing to $16U,6O0.
Colonel r. A. Burke, Director Genera
of the Worlds Industrial and Cotton Cen
tennial Exposition, announces that the
formal opening will take place at noon
December 10th.
A well-to-do Stonetown, Pa, farmer
named Stoneback, committed suicide re
Gently rather than pay his taxes, the ta1
collector being at the time in the house
waiting for his money.
B. Haas, a German real estate agent o
) home on Union hill, last week. and ther
shot himself. Haas died almost instantly
but the wife still lives.
The earnings of the Union Pacific Rail
way the past nine months were $18,310,
600, decrease of So. .449, ,235 from the sam,
period last year. Surplus earnings, 81,
932, ,839: decrease, $2,323,586.
The New Jersey Central announces tha
| 70 tran nf ha wi h
closed till December I'd, for the paymen
of the guaranteed quarterly dividend 0
Ii per cent after December 1st.
!, The street car drivers strike in New Or
leans has ended by compromise. TIL
men demanded $50 month, and the com
promise agrees to 500 for fifteen hours
work day. The former pay was SIS.
Counsel for the receiver of the Pacif
National Bank of Boston, in a suit agains
some zoo stockholders of the bank, to en-
force assessment liability, stated that TIL
case had been withdrawn from jury trial
and would be heard by court.
Failures throughout the country during
the past seven days are 206. There is
marked decrease over last week, when tn,
total was 267, and that of the previous
week 25S. Decrease arises in New Yofl
city, New England and middle states.
The general passenger agents of roads
running south met at Chicago last weei
and made round trip rates to the New Or
leans Cotton Centennial Exposition. from
leading cities in the Northwest, on a basi:
of $25 for the round trip from Chicago.
The ship Henry Hyde was launched a.
j Bath, Me-, last week. She is 2,7S3 ton:
burden, and is the largest ship ever bull,
in Maine. She will be commanded b,
Captain P. Pendleton, and will probably
charter for the San Francisco clipper bus
mess.
i A suit for damages, it is said, is now
pending against the jailer of Leadvillt
jail by woman who was nearly fright
ened to death by being put into 6
haunted cen, in which prisoners whom
it is desired to especially punish are con
fined.
Two Jail deliveries occurred in the state
of Wisconsin last week, one at Appleton
where five prisoners made their escape by
digging through stone floor and under
the wall, and the other case at Neilsville
from whence two murderers and horse
thief made their escape.
A couple of colored magistrates in Boil
var county, Miss, tried capital case with
a jury recently, and on verdict of guilty
being brought in, sentenced the prisoner
to death. On receiving little legal ad
} vice they sentenced him to jail to await
the action of the grand jury.
The recent sword contest at the Acade
my of Music, Cleveland. o., between Dun
can G. Ross and James McGregor, for S5O(
a side and the championship of the United