The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-10-25
DOMESTIC rELEeRApH1c NEWS.


The President has appointed Paul Full
ton consul general at Bucharest.
Heavy snow was reported from New
Hampshire, the other day. the first of the
season.
Walter Hatton has been appointed Post
master-General, vice James Q. Gresham,
resigned.
AT meeting of the Dubuque and North
western road, recently held in Dubuque,
Ia, it was decided to commence work this
A negro was shot last week at Guthrie,
No., bv posse of armed citizens for the
outrage of l0-year-old girl named Ben
nett.
w. Thorne, of Virginia, Superintendent
of the Indian Industrial School at Chill
occo, Kas.
Pierre Lorillard has Withdrawn his libel
suit against the New York Star, being
convinced that the matter was published
without malice.
William F. Kitzing, well known GRIM
inal lawyer of New York, died last week
at his residence on Seventy-sixth street,
of typhoid malaria.
Jack Burke, an English pugilist. has is
sued challenge from Boston to Dominick
McCaffrey to fight him for gate receipts or
a purse with hard gloves.
The mill of the Dubuque Standard Lum-
Der Company will close in week. The
cut this year will be over 10000, 600 feet,
against 1880, 600 feet last year.
Davis, Atkinson & Co., an extensive
pork packing house of Chicago, on account
of financial troubles, have been attached.
Their liabilities are over SAC, 600.
The three-mile boat race between Albert
Hamm and James E. Ten Eyck, at Lake
Quinsigamond, Mass, last week, was won
by the former, in 10 minutes and 81 seconds.
The collar and elbow wrestling match
at Boston last week, for $500 side and
the championship of the world, between
III. M. Dufur and John Mcmahon, was
won by the latter.
| David Austin, chairman of the board OF
commissioners of Missoula county, M. T..
was last week accidentally shot and killed
while out hunting near Missoula. He was
an old timer in Montana.
| Managers and freight agents of the new
Utah and Colorado pool met at Chicago
last week, and chose j. w. Midgley as
commissioner. He and arbitrator Tucker
will formulate plan of operations.
The Hawaiian brig Dora, from San Fran
cisco September 18th for LapaZ, is a tota
loss on the coast of Lower California. The
steamer Estado de Sonora is ashore at the
same place, and is probably total loss.
Thirty-one mills at Fall River, Mass.
have shut down for an indefinite period
Over 1000 0O0 spindles of total of / 400,
900 employed on print goods are stopped
and 1000 men are thrown out of work.
Says an Allentown, Pa, dispatch: A re
duction of 10 per cent has been made sI
ries belonging to the slate exchange O.
the Lehigh and Northampton companies
S. S. Davis, the Cincinnati banker whC
assigned recently, gives as the cause of his
trouble the defalcation of $1,000 by hi:
paying teller, Samuel Judor. Judor ha!
confessed and says he lost it in whea
speculation.
Says Columbus dispatch of a recen
date: The fire in the Syndicate mine a
Carbon Hill has been extinguished. Th
effort to smother the fire in the mine a
Sand Run is failure, and the flames ar
still raging.
Agents of the Alton, Wabash, Missouri
L
fed the Burlington road that they will
make the passenger rate from Kansa
City to Chicago $13, first-class, meeting
the cut which they allege has been mad
by the Burlington.
A Milwaukee, Wis, dispatch says: TIL
committee having in charge the matter @
the Newhall house victims last week form
ally presented the monument at the Fores
Home cemetery to the city. Acting Mayo
Baumgartner accepted the monument O.
behalf of the public.
John Gerhardt, ex-alderman of NeenaE
Wis.,, went home last week under the in
f1uence of liquor, and with revolver i
his hand threatened his family. The
made their escape from the house an
!, Gerhardt then shot himself in the breast
inflicting fatal wound.
A prize fight with hard gloves, for
parse of $500, took place last week on
, steamboat ON the Monongahela river
J and James Connors. Thirty-six round
were fought, resulting in the defeat c
Connors. Both men were badly punished
The tobacco factory of C. A. Jackson
: Co., on High street, Petersburg, Va, tn
second largest in that city, was total
consumed by fire last week, with the cor
: tents, involving loss of $4,000; insul
ance, 100000. Four hundred colore
operatives are thrown out of employment
James Pennistan and George Smith, c
Argyle, Wis, have been arrested for caus
ing the death of the formers sister,
beautiful girl of II years. They crimiI
, ally assaulted her week ago. Great e1
element prevails at the place and Lynch
ing is freely talked of. An examination
of the accused is now going on.
Last week, twenty miles north @
jamestown, OAK, the wife and 3-year-ol
child of Karl Schroeder were burned t
death in prairie fire which the woma
was trying to prevent destroying whea
stacks. The mother and child had reache
ground burned over, but were suffocate
by smoke and fell, and their clothing wa
, consumed on their bodies.
! Jonas Robbins, of Pattenberg, n. J., al
ter having suffered for two years fror
, what the doctors called consumption, az
companied by an abscess in his side, fey
days ago, when he was declared to b
! nearly at the point of death, had violen
coughing spell, and coughed up piece @
peanut shell. Since then he has improve
, rapidly, and is nearly well.
; The Texas Pacific Railroad Compan
has five writs of attachments against il
issued by United States courts in New
York. The suits are for the recovery @
/ money and for breach of express contracts
The attachments are made upon bond
and other property belonging to the Texa
Pacific Railway, now on deposit with tn
Mercantile Trust Company.
ID. E. Seymour, President of the bank a
Chippewa, is the assignee of Fred Adler
of Bloomer, Wis, who made an assign
ment a few days ago. The liabilities ar
placed at $25, ,OO0 and the assets $4,000.