The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-10-18
DOMESTIC rELEGRaPHIc NEWS.

Gang rule is supreme in New York.
John Mccullough, the tragedian, is in
New York.
A slight shock of earthquake was felt at
Santa Barbara, CAL, last week.
Levi p. Morton, United States minister
to France, has arrived in New York.
Michael Donahue, California pioneer,
died at Davenport, Ia, few days ago.
Mexican war veterans held three days
session at Pope's Theater, St. Louis, last
week.
\ Wisconsin has decided to exhibit her va
rious natural resources at the New Orleans
exposition.
Louis Green, Jr., was arrested in New
York last week, for swindling various par
ties out of 100000.
The National Rifle Association il consid-
ering the advisability of another interna-
tional match at Creedmoor.
The Atchison, Topeka ahd Santa Fe
road have declared a quarterly dividend
of u per cent, payable November 10Th.
It has been decided to hold the next in
ternational convention of the locomotive
engineers in New Orleans in October, 1885.
The Exchange National Bank, of Cincin-
matt, has gone into voluntary liquidation,
and its interests are now united with the
Cincinnati.
George K. Sandison, managing editor of
the New York Star, has been arrested for
criminal libel on charge preferred by
Pierre Lorillard.
The proposed reduction of 123 per cent
in wages of Oliver Bros. & Phillips has
8 Il %hn Ia
will be resumed at the old wages.
Mrs. Georgiana Huestis was arrested in
Boston recently, for the alleged larceny of
Lynch, New York dealer In diamonds.
The parties arrested recently in Ripley
county, Mo-, for ku-kluxing, have had
their preliminary examination, and for
lack of evidence against them were dis
charged.
Judge Marcus p. Norton, once prom
inent lawyer and judge Of New York, was
arrested in Boston last week for passing a
worthless check for $500 in payment of a
hotel bill.
Benjamin Thomas, a Narragansett In
dian, and president of the Indian Council
in Charlestown, Conn.,, was found dead
last week near Wood River Junction, hav-
ing been struck by train.
A report is current in Milwaukee that a
wild train on the Chicago, Minneapolis and
Omaha road ran through bridge near
Bayfield,, Wis, last week, and thirteen
persons were seriously injured.
Charles Crocker, the San Francisco rail-
road magnate, states that the steamers of
the Occidental and Oriental line will not
be drawn off from the China and Japan
route, as was reported from New York.
The general term of the New York Su-
preme Court handed down a unanimous
opinion last week, declaring unconstitu-
tional the bill passed by the legislature
| tforbidding the manufacture of cigars in
tenements.
Jack Dempsey of New 7 ork, and Robert
| Turnbull, of Long Island, fought a fierce
eight-round battle in public hail. in New
York city, last week. Dempsey forced the
| fighting from the start. He was awarded
! the $125 purse.
The safes of Noble & Sons and Tomlin-
| son & Son, at Perry, n. c., were blown
| open by burglars a few nights ago and
robbed of $21 600 of Arkansas state bonds,
besides a large amount of other securities
and money. No clue.
| Niblo's Theater. New York, had mar
row escape from fire last week. The elec-
/
| in vase on the stage, but before any dam
age could be done one of the employees
had extinguished the flames.
accept the challenge of P. III. Con]ey, of
Boston, to row four-mile race for $3.50 a
side, Conley to have ten seconds start and
| the race to take place in three weeks on
any of the courses near Pittsburg.
A Chicago dispatch of recent date says:
| A storm on Lake Michigan blew away a
| small shanty in which sixteen laborers
| employed in Inlet Lake tunnel were lodg-
ing. 1t was set on piles in the lake about
a mile from shore. Six were saved.
/ A recent Tombstone, Arizona, dispatch
says that Deputy Sheriff Fred Ward and
| G. S. Bradshaw. who have been on the
hunt of the Huachuca murderers, arrived
in that city, having in charge man named
John Mcfarland, accused OF the crime.
At Western Union meeting held in
/ New Y York last week q proposition was
made to the stockholders to reduce the di-
pose of increasing the surplus so as to ac-
quire other telegraphfc property when con-
sidered expedient.
| In wrestling match at Irving Hall,
| New York, last week, between A. Gosner-
weir, champion of Europe, and Augustine
Schmitt, champion of Germany, under the
Swiss rules, Schmitt pulled his antagon-
| lists arm out of the socket, and was
awarded purse of $3.50.
An Elkton, KY, special of last week
says: George jolly went to the house of
/ Scott Cobb TO whip him. They engaged In
an alteration, and jolly shot Cobb in the
breast. Cobb then wrenched the pistol
| from Jolly and shot him twice, killing him
almost instantly. Cobb's wound is serious.
The strike of the Pittsburg stove mould
ers, which was inaugurated nine months
ago, has been declared of, and all who can
1 90 to work will return, at a reduction OF
| Is per cent. The manufacturers have
agreed to take the strikers back, provided
| they make application as individuals, and
/ not as members of the union.
! A Boston dispatch says that private ad-
| vices from the superintendent of the Calu-
met and Hecla mine state that no damage
has been done to the mine. There were no
| gas explosions and the mill continues
operations as usual. Smoke from burning
timber will delay underground work in a
portion of the mine for few days.
The federation of trades and labor
unions. at a meeting recently held in Chi
cago, adopted number of resolutions,
among them one censuring President Ar.
| thur for not filing the position of chief OF
the bureau of labor statistics. 1t was de.
cided to telegraph Arthur that he had vic.
lated the law in not making the appoint
ment.
Charles E. Hinckley, who went to New
York about three years ago from San Fran
cisco, and engaged in the canned goods
business, disappeared from his office two