The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-09-27
DOMESTIC TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Philadelphia has bee charmer.

Hog cholera is raging in Pennsylvania.
New York city had a 100000 blaze re-
Gently.
Wyoming is taking steps to protect her
cattle interests.
C. M. Sheffield, noted attorney of San
Francisco, is dead.
Seven hundred cigar makers in New
York are out on strike.
Forest fires are burning fiercely on the
west side of Port Huron, Mich.
Oscar Strasburger, a wealthy New
Yorker, has been declared insane.
The miners in Hooking Valley, o., are
still out and are growing desperate.
A Buffalo man has concocted scheme
to float over the Niagara falls in rubber
ball.
The recent international cricket match
at Philadelphia was won by the Cana
dians.
Mrs. E. H. McCullom, formerly of San
Francisco, died at Newport, r. l., last
week.
Fritz Gonuenwein, a noted German
wrestler, has arrived in New York from
Berlin.
Earnings of the Northern Pacific show
an increase of $54, 700 over the same week
last year.
E. Demorella, the Italian consul at Bal
timore, Nd, has skipped the country
owing $4,000.
Grapes in the Hudson valley On. "
have been damaged by sudden change
in temperature.
General John A. Logan attended the re-
union of the Army of the Cumberland at
Rochester, N. Y, last week.
The wages of the employees of the
Cambria Iron Works, Johnstown, Pa.
have been reduced from 10 to 20 per cent.
1t is said that some hunter near Benton,
Montana, has been poisoning ducks and
selling them in the market as killed by
shooting.
Mrs. Anna Rutter, an inmate of the
county hospital at Paradise, Pa, COM
mitted suicide recently by setting fire to
her clothes.
The eighth semi annual meeting of the
American Association of Railroad Super
intendents was held in Boston last week.
1t lasted two days.
Excited and idle miners in and around
Athens, Ohio, are said to be committing
depredations upon small stock of farms in
their vicinity, owing to destitutien.
A suspicious looking individual, armed
with revolver, was arrested in Cleve-
land, o., last week, for prowling around
the residence of President Garfeld's
widow.
The new lines of the Baltimore and Ohio
Telegraph Company to Boston, Provi
dence, New York, Hartford and other
New England points were opened for bus
iness last week.
President Arthur has appointed Harry
Kislingoury, son of Lieutenant Kisling-
bury, who lost his life in the Greely expe-
dition, as cadet at large to the naval acad-
emy at Annapolis, Md,
A regular pitched battle occurred in
Edwardsville, Pa, recently, between a
mob of drunken Slavs and policemen.
The Slavs were defeated and about a
dozen of their number were locked up.
Captain Williams, of the New York po-
lice, last week met Hungry Joe" noted
bunko-steerer, and three accomplices, try
ing to victimiZe countryman. He gave
him an unmerciful beating, lasting fully
five minutes.
Moses p. Brown, of Philadelphia, for at
tempting to wreck trains on the Philadel-
phia and Atlantic City Railroad, was
few days ago sentenced to twenty-one
years Imprisonment with hard labor and
to pay fine of 81, 100.
Ex-Governor A. C. Gibbs, of Oregon,
now in New York, sends a communica-
ton to the San Francisco Bulletin, in
which he denies making the statement
that the grapes of California were trod-
den by Indians dirty feet.
Judge Donohue, of the New York Su-
preme Court, recently granted an attach
ment against the Mississippi Valley Bank
of Vicksburg, Miss, in the action brought
by the National Park Bank of New York
to recover $43, 1868 claimed to be due plain
tiff.
Two hundred Iowa saloon keepers held
meeting at Council Bluffs, recently, with
closed doors, and formed state anti-pro-
hibition association. 1t was decided to
raise funds to prevent the enforcement of
the present prohibitory law, and to work
for its repeal.
The early closing movement is gaining
strength in San Francisco. The milliners
have decided to close at o'clock here
ter under consideration. Clerks have or
ganiZed a society which numbers about
300 members.
The skeleton of white man was lately
found in a narrow ravine near the Little
Big Horn battlefield. One of the teeth
had been nearly built up of solid gold,
from which it is inferred that the body is
that of an officer of the regiment that per-
ished that day.
Petty stealing continues in the postoffice
at New Haven, Conn. Detectives have
been at work on the case, and in spite of
the fact that the postmaster, chief clerk
and other employees in the Office kept
strict watch the robberies have continued
with little interruption.
The train on the Indianapolis, Bloom
ington and Western Railway, conveying
Governor Hendricks to Peoria, H., was
thrown from the track near Indianapolis
last week. Governor Hendricks escaped,
but number OF passenges were more or
less injured, four seriously.
Reports have reached Washington the
past few days that farmers of Virginia
and Maryland. living along the Potomac
river and the Ohio and Chesapeake canal,
raging in that section, have been throwing
dead hogs into the river and canal.
Mayor Sand Robinson, of Charlotte,
Mich, was shot last week and now lies in
critical condition. The tramp was caught
at the window late at night and ordered
away, whereupon he fired twice, one ball
going through the breast. The man was
arrested and gives his name as John Nor
ris of Detroit.
Three Livingston, Montana, carpenters
recently started down the Yellowstone in
small boat en- route to Bismarck. Above
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