The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-04-12
DOMESTIC TELEaRApH1c NEWS.

ley, Cal.
It is said Blaine can carry both Ohio and
New York.
The principal undertaken at Palatka,
Fla, is a woman.
The naval appropriation, as amended,
calls for $20.706,676.
The fence cutters in Texas call them
selves the Jayelenas.
Three large whales were captured near
San Diego, CAL, recently.
The Springer committee are again at
work upon the Star Route cases.
Joe Hurlado, under sentence of death at
Sacramento, CAL, died last week.
The number killed and wounded in the
Cincinnati riot number about 200.
An English Masonic Lodge will be or
ganized in the city of Chihuahua.
Senator Malone is lying seriously i'll at
the Arlington Hotel in Washington.
Representative George of Oregon has
taken stand in favor of the education
bill.
A mass meeting has been called in Gin
cinnati to ratify the municipal reform
ticket.
Eureka, CAL. contemplates forming a
chain-gang and working the inmates OF
the Jail.
Milwaukee elected Republican Mayor,
but the other successful candidates were
Democrats.
A man at Jay, ILL.,, receives $2.75 per
week from the town for taking care of his
own father.
Six frame dwellings In Sherman, Texas,
burned recently. Loss unknown; insur-
ance, $1,000.
The first tenement house in twenty two
years is shortly to be built in North Truro
Cape Cod, Mass.
Mayor-elect Fulton, of Pittsburg, Penn,
has filed 4O0 applications for appointment
to the police force.
John Ryan, a sheep herder, was drowned
in Dry creek, near San Andreas, Calaveras
county, CAL, last week.
Good crop prospects are reported from
all parts of California. The ground is un-
tit for summer following.
Dick Liddell arrived at Huntsville, Ala,
last week to testify against Frank james.
The defense will be an alibi.
William Jones, of Washington, who
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1881, is to be tried April 28th.
| A fifteen minute recess was taken in the
| House last week to receive General Grant,
who happened to be present.
Mrs. Hannah Simon, of Newark, n. j.,
| recently celebrated her ninety ninth birth.
day by waltzing for ten minutes.
In Montana the law prohibits woman
from marrying until she Is l8 years Old
and man cannot marry until ne is Il.
In the Minneapolis municipal election
| last week considerable repressed excite
ment was manifest. The Republicans led
Mr.. Romer, jeweler in the Astor House
| New York, has been robbed of SIOUX
worth of diamonds by Joseph Rosenbaum
| a clerk.
| Gordon, ex-senator from Georgia, and 9
bosom friend of Tilden, says the latter viii
not run for the Presidency under any con
sideration.
A Rochester inventor has obtained q
patent on bowl-shaped floor as substi
| tute for an inclined plane in places OF
| amusement.
| Winnemucca, New, has been selected as
the place for holding the competitive ex.
animation for the vacant West Point
cadetship for Nevada.
A st. Louis gambler of mathematical
bent kept an account book, and hence the
police found that his net January profits
amounted to just $l,367.
A few nights ago rare sight was seen
| from Los Angeles in the northern sky, be.
ing an image of the Sierra Madre Noun
tains high up in 4he clouds.
A colony of twenty-five families left
| f&ol1, fho 1cfi
tie. Several hundred more will follow il
reports from the colony are favorable.
Advices from Pittsburg state that the
Blaine and anti Blaine Republican fac
tions of Allegheny county propose tC
carry their difficulty to Harrisburg fol
settlement.
G. B. Harris, while intoxicated, was
burned to death in his cabin near Dry
town, Amador county, CAL, recently. L
is supposed he knocked q lighted lamp
over.
The cabin of Martin Piantoni, neal
Eureka, CAL, is buried under the snow
Piantoni, in order to get in and out Of his
domicile, had to tnnnel through thirty fee
of snow.
Ex-senator Patterson, of South Caro-
lima, formerly Pennsylvanian, says tina
Blaine can carry Pennsylvania for tht
nomination and have 10000 majority a
the election.
The Cincinnati courthouse, at first re
ported to be total ruin, is not nearly 8,
badly damaged. The records are most al
saved and the money in the vaults remain
undisturbed.
/. The Northern Belle Mine was sold b.
the United States Marshal last week fe
S310,0 1t was bid in by the Holme
Mining Company, who held judgment TO
that amount.
Copper City, Shasta county, Cal,
again deserted. This is the second tim
in twenty years that the place has bee
. transformed from a thriving mining tow
TO deserted hamlet.
One of Davy Crockett's old hunting
knives, with four-inch handle and SIX
inch blade, with silver band around tn
handle, has been presented to the Tennes
see Historical Society.
i No trace has yet been found of j. H. Nc
Callum, who is supposed to have been los
in the snow. He left Truckee, New, fo
his home, some forty-f1ve miles distant
some sixteen days ago.
/ Editor Mcclure, of the Philadelphi
Times, thinks that Arthur, II he can hav
| fair representation ia the Pennsylvani
delegation, has the best chance for tn
Presidential nomination.
Three persons, Mcclure, Oliver Ia one
armed mani, and Rapier, alias Holden
, have been arrested at Red Bluff, CAL, las
week, charged with implication in the rot
berry of the railroadsdepot.
The Columbus military, on their retur
. from Cincinnati, were welcomed home b
hearty cheers from an estimated crowd G
1000, who met them at the depot and fo
lowed them to their armory.
eral Manager, A. S. Hughes IS made Ger
eral Traffic Manager, and r. A. Hutchir
son Superintendent of Telegraph on th
. Denver and Rio Grande Railway.