The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-07-05
DOMESTIC rELEeRAPH1C NEWS.

The Senate has passed the Mexican PEN
sion bill.
Morgan & Sons, New York bankers,
have failed.
Jay Gould says the Western Union is
earning its dividends.
w. ]. Watson, heavy oil operator of
Pittsburg. Pa, has failed.
The obsequies of Bishop Simpson took
place in Philadelphia last week.
The Yellowstone Hotel, in the National
Park, will be opened about the middle of
July.
Oliver Garfield, woman murderer of
Vincennes, Indiana, was lynched last
week.
The failure of Stout & Co., Of New York,
was announced at the stock exchange last
week.
The people of Alaska are in high pleas
ures over the news Of government for
Alaska.
j. W. Burnham, once wealthy. New
York merchant, committed suicide re-
Gently.
Great damage has been caused by the
recent breaking of the levees near Stock
ton, Cal.
| E1VC UlCn WcIC S0fCICly ~ -
falling building at Council Bluffs, Iowa,
recently.
A large number of Cinnamon are arriv.
ing in Philadelphia, principally from the
Pacific Coast.
The natural gas well at the Jefferson
works, Pittsburgh, Pa. were lighted
Tuesday night.
Jesse R. Grant, son of General Grant,
and family, are among the recent arrivals
in San Francisco.
Allen Pinkerton, founder of Pinkerton's
Detective Agency, is lying at the point Of
death in Chicago.
/ Mrs. Isaac M. Singer, first wife of the
noted inventor, died in Brooklyn, n. Y,
recently of cancer.
Fears of further damages to crops
throughout California from rain are no
longer entertained.
Two car loads of Columbia river salmon
were condemned in New York last week.
Cause bad packing.
The Lindell Hotel Association of ST.
Louis has made an assignment for the ben
eft of its creditors.
The Louisiana Estate Legislature has
passed bill apprepriating $lo0, 600 for the
, Worlds Exposition.
: A storm in the western part of Pennsyl-
vania killed a number of persons and
greatly injured grain.
Il Overflow water in the vicinity of Tiger
vile, La, is falling. Some land is uncov.
:. cred, but too late for crops.
e The boiler in planning mill at Wausau,
t Wis.,, exploded last week, killing four per-
sons and wounding several.
s Including real estate investments of
l. $4,000, Langtry has $4,000 in loans on
i property in New York at per cent.
The Senate committee on finance has
g postponed further consideration of the
It trade dollar bill until next December.
- The House committee on public lands
has agreed to report favorably on the bill
r forfeiting the Southern Pacific Railroad
=, land grant.
Among the important measures passed
by the House recently were bills repeating
e the pre-emption and amending the home
II stead laws.
- A Tigerville, La, special says: The
sugar house of J. p. Vigulrio, on bayou
d Black, was demolished by a cyclone. NJ
re other damage is reported.
From reports received Iby the Chicago
Farmers RerietC as to the wheat pros
n poets, there is promise of full average
N crops, but not an enormous yield.
The steamer Idaho landed four govern
ment explorers at Copper river, Alaska
Df on the last trip there, the object being tt
h explore the surrounding country and maj
h it out.
Because of the new story recently added
- to Cooper Institute, in New York, TIT
,e &c be strengthened. The work is very serious
40 40 and difficult.
Frank r. Carmen, a clerk, 80 years old
committed suicide last week by jumping
~ y. from the Oakland (Cal.) ferry. Drink ant
- remorse at his wife leaving him are be
u u lieved to be the causes.
Judge Toohy, of the Criminal Court o
: San Francisco, recently sentenced JOSEPH
:, Randall, one Of the eastern safe-cracker'
~ convicted of burglary in the first degree
e e to fifteen years in San Quentin.
Runkin, the Chinese mandarin who wa
not permitted to land at New York from
! the steamship Newport from Havana, ha
~ ~ made his escape from the customs officer
"a "a in whose custody he was placed.
Joseph Calamore attempted to dive from
- high bridge in New York day or tw'
ee ago and was killed. His body was not re
- covered. Very few witnessed the leap
IL IL and those only happened to be on tn
y bridge at the time.
DIR. John L. vailefellow, of the Roya
Il, College of Surgeons, London, attached t
so the medical health institute in San Fran
q :; Disco, is reported missing. Foul play /
- suspected. He is said to be the heir to a.
immense fortune in England.
- Andrew Long, wife murderer, wa
taken from Jail at Iona, Mich, recently
= y and conveyed to Union for preliminar
~ examination. There a mob made an in
effectual attempt to lynch him. The Gov
to ernor has ordered troops to the scene.
"a "a The will of Mrs. Eliza Cody, who die,
~ ~ recently in Philadelphia, leaving an estat
probate. She leaves 100000 to Catholi
y. charities, including $4,000 to the ST
ce Thomas Theological Seminary, near Louis
~ vile.
to A contest is going ON in the San Fran
cisco school board over the matter of fun
nishing text books, and it is openl
" charged that certain directors have bee
ae influenced" to aid the scheme of pub
>. fishing house, which has applied for a fou
IN years contract to supply all the books re
quired.
o. Emigration to California from Europ
le and the East is smaller than fer year
d. past. A railroad official said recently tina
st the Northern Pacific was carrying NOR
ps people into the Northwest than the Ger
trail Pacific and Southern Pacific togethe
- were bringing to California.
st A portion of tunnel on the Panhandl
ed Road, west line, near Steubenville, Ohio
at which was nearly completed, caved in RI
lg Gently, burying eight men and one DO.
Four of the party are thought to be ser
ously injured, and the others badly, bu
a as not seriously hurt. The men were mostl
~ Italians.
in A disastrous fire broke out last week i