The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-05-10
DOMESTIC rELEGRApH1c NEWS.

Colonel Mapleson did not sail from New
York for Europe last week, as was ex
pected.
The coinage at the mints for April was
-, 4,502. 410, of which 81, 200, 600 were stand
ard dollars.
The Treasury last week purchased 9O0,-
600 ounces of silver for delivery to the va
rious mints.
The decrease of the public debt since
June 80, 1888, is $S7, ,0OO, 600; cash in Treas
ury, $399, 1926.
Enoch Brown tcoloreD was hanged at
the Halifax court house, North Carolina,
recently, for wife murder.
The Chicago Board of Trade has taken
exclusive charge of handling its own tele-
graphic and other commercial quotations.
A bill was introduced in the Senate re-
Gently by Plumb, for opening to home
stead settlement portions of Indian Terri
tory.
William McHaigh was hanged in the
enclosure at the rear of the court house in
Cincinnati last week for the crime of wife
murder.
The House Committee on Public Lands
has decided to consider the bill to forfeit
the land grant OF the Northern Pacific
The son of Mrs. Catherine Friess of Bal
timore died recently, and three of her
daughters are in danger of dying from
eating sauerkraut.
The United States Treasurer is now pre-
pared to forward fractional silver coins in
sums of $500, or its multiple, at the ex-
pense of the government.
The sale of trotting horses at Woodlawn,
IL. ~ A1Ao <,E
Horace Bugher, was very successful.
Twenty-Five head brought $26, ,0l5, an aver
age Of $l,182.
It is reported that an explosion of fire
damp occurred last week in the Allegheny
valley coal mines, nine miles from Parker,
Pennsylvania, and that number of the
miners were killed.
Jacob Dobson, one of the Hill boys
gang, who shot ex-Sheriff Atkins, of
Boone county, West Virginia, two weeks
ago, was lynched last week at Griffiths-
vile, Logan county.
A reduction of 10 to Is per cent in the
salaries of employees of the Union Pacific
Railroad was ordered by Manager Clark
at Omaha last week. The men struck
against the reduction and the order was
cOuntermanded.
The report is received from Medicine
Lodge, Kansas, that the four bank robbers
were captured and placed in Jail. A mob
broke in the Jail, shot one dead and took
the other three out and hanged them.
Mrs. Frank Leslie, speaking of her con-
templated marriage with the Marquis de
Leuville, says: :" In my new life l shall be
compelled, not invoIuntarilyi however, to
devote my attention between my business
and husband"
A fire last week destroyed the rear por-
tion of S. r. S. Owleys & Bros livery sta
BILE on Fifth street, Kansas City. Twenty
six horses perished in the flames. Quite a
number Of vehicles and quantity of hay
were destroyed.
Senator Lapham recently introduced a
bill to provide that the provisions of the
act approved August 8, 1882, to encourage
and promote telegraph communication
between America, be extended to cover a
period until the 8th of August, 1886.
Henry Pfaff, German, who a short
time ago shot and killed Charles p. Perci-
: val, a Frenchman, living in San Francisco,
because the latter abused Bismarck, was
last week convicted of murder in the first
degree, with punishment at life imprison-
ment.
The Greely relief flagship Thetis sailed
from New York harbor last week. Secre-
taries Chandler and Lincoln, General Han
cock and other celebrities accompanied the
vessel to Sandy Hook on the gun boat Tai
lapoosa Harbor salutes were given to the
departing craft.
B. F. Sicielly, alias Sivolls, was arrested
recently at Oberlin, Ohio, by Inspectors
Bidell and King for swindling. His
scheme was to advertise for coins. such
as good specimens of trade and Bland
dollars, offering a premium for them.
When he received them, of course, he
made no returns.
The failure of Palmer, Batchelder s. Co.,
Boston jewelers. and importers of watches,
ETC., was announced recently. Business
was extremely light, compared with ex-
penses, and it was decided to cease pay
ment. 1t is impossible now to state either
the liabilities or the assets.
Thomas Dickson was hanged at Bloom
field, Missouri, recently, for the murder of
James McNab, near Essex, Stoddard
county, four years ago. Four thousand
people were present. Dickson made a
declared his innocence.
Gertrude Ash, accomplice of Jesse Will
liams, the negro who committed assault
upon Miss Maggie Harvey, on March 9Th
last, at the Sloan flats, Broadway and
Thirty-second street, New York, was
found guilty and sentenced to eighteen
and one-half years in the penitentiary.
The divorce suit in New York brought
by Roger M. Sherman against Florence
Sherman, daughter of the late Governor
Bagley, of Michigan, was again in the
courts last week, on motion to vacate or
der for examination of certain witnesses
by a commission. The decision was re.
served.
The Iron Manufacturers Association oi
the west, organized during the great strike
of 1882, met in Pittsburgh recently. The
dispute with the Amalgamated Association
over wages for the ensuing year was dis
the demand for general reduction of II
per cent.
The Western Union Telegraph Company
recently ordered a reduction of from 20 tt
80 per cent in rates to prominent points
South and West. All night messages as
far west as Kansas City will he forwarded
for Is cents for ten words, and one cent fol
each additional word. There will be NJ
change in the tariff in Eastern messages
The Sheriff of Mason county, at Poin
Pleasant, West Virginia, telegraphed re
Gently to Charleston same State, for car
tridges. There is prospect OF a mol
lynching James Kirby, who was fined $40
and imprisoned for thirty days for tn,
murder of young Hall. The people are in
furiated at the verdict of the jury in tn,
case.
Benjamin Wallace, wealthy soap man
ufacturer of New York, has been missing
since April 10th, when he left the office o
George McAdamS, his lawyer, in compan,
with a stranger. He had large amour
of money and valuable jewelry on his per
son, and foul play is feared. His busines
is in flourishing condition and he is sait
to be worth $1,000, coo.
A general strike of silk weavers in Pa
terson, Union Hill and Hoboken, New