The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-12-13

Howard Sullivan, the murderer or Ella
Watson, was hung at Salem, n. j., last
week.
Six business houses at Whitehall. ILL.,, |
were burned last week, the loss being |
$21,O
The Chief of Police at st. Paul fore
stalled a hard-glove fight by arresting the |
principals.
The American Protective Union of
New ork has effected a permanent Or
ganization.
Navigation on the upper Mississippi is
at an end by the closing of the canal at
Keokuk, Ia.
There is continued exodus of negroes
from the upper counties of South Carolina
for the West.
Charles Stewart & Co., pork packers at
Cincinnati, have failed for $4,000, with
assets of 5000.
A boy, IA years of age, is in Jail at St.
Adams. w. Va, for robbing the mails. He
confessed his guilt.
John Fishback died at indianapolis last
week. He was at one time owner of the
Sentinel of that city.
The hog cholera has broken out in the
vicinity Of Nokomis, Ill.,, and some farm
ers are losing heavily.
The Pennsylvani Railroad Company will
reduce its expenses by doing away with
some of it's employees.
The furniture warehouse of George w.
Simons, OF Bristol, r. l., burned Sunday
morning. Loss, heavy.
William FL. Winnie, bookkeper for
Troy IN. W firm, is defaulter for large
sum, and has abscondsd.
The American Bell Telephone Company
of Boston last week declared the usual
dividend Of 90 per share.
David Sternberg, dry goods dealer at
Louisville, KY, has made an assignment,
his debts amounting to $4,000.
The Superintendent of Public Instruc-
ton for Dakota reports $4,000 children en-
rolled in the schools last summer.
Robert Garrett, on taking the Presidency
of the Baltimore and Ohio road. refused to
| accept an increase of salary to $25,0OO.
The executive committee on the inn
provement of Western water ways will
meet at Washington, January, IL, 1895.
Abram S. Hewitt, of New York, is
named as the probable successor to James
| Russell Lowell, as Minister to England.
The schedules of Adams & Leonard, the
Dallas (Texas) bankers, show assets of
| $6l2, ,561 and liabilities amounting to $3l7,-
ST.
Surgeon General Hamilton, of the Unit
| ed States Marine Hospital service, has
submitted his annual report to the Secre-
tary of War.
Gilbert Shirley. living alone in swamp
near Cambridge, Nd, was murdered the
other night and his house set on fire to
| conceal the crime.
| The President has appointed Rev. w.
| W. Hicks, of Washington, the spiritual
adviser of the assassin Guiteau, to be Sur
veyor-General of Florida.
The other night incendiaries burned the
barns of James G. Graves, W. l. Arnold
and John Hughes, near Nicholasville, KY.
Farmers and insurance men are alarmed.
Workmen employed in the American
Iron Works of Jones & Laugh1in, at Pitts
burg, Pa, numbering between 800 and
1000, have accepted the reduction of 10
per cent.
A sporting entertainment for the benefit
of the Hooking Valley miners fund took
place in the Madison Square Garden, New
York, last week, and netted about 81 900
for the fund.
.Tor the purpose of devoting his time to
the John f. Slater fund, DR.. A. G. Hay.
good, President of Emory College at Ok
ford, Ga, has resigned, and is succeeded
by Hopkins.
Baptisto Gallioni, an Italian frog catcher,
was found last week in the Spanish quar-
ter Of San Francisco, with his head split
open. 1t is supposed he was murdered
for his money.
| Thomas 2. Dunn, a young cavalryman
at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. who recently
| lest q near relative at Detroit, Mich, shot
himself through the heart the other day
with carbine.
A furniture factory and pluning mill at
| Allentown, Pa, was burned last week, an
adjoining structure and building on the
opposite side of the street being damaged.
The total loss is 1924, COO.
The committee on appropriations, it is
said, will act upon Secretary McCulloch's
suggestion to reduce the number of Gus
toms districts. The expenditures will
thus be cut down about million of dol
lars.
A few nights ago, Norris Eaton, farmer
living in the town of Manlius, N, Y, who
has been annoyed by skuuks stealing his
chickens, shot at black spot in straw
stack and killed an unknown man hidden
there.
| The earnest recommendation of Presi-
dent Arthur in his message to enact
necessary legislation to carry the Mexican
reciprocity treaty into operation will re-
ceive the immediate attention of the
House.
Charles.Stevens, alias Omaha Charley, y
shot and fatally wounded Herbert Kiermer
in saloon fight at Marysville, Mo-. last
week Before the latter died he seized
Stevens and dashed his head against the
floor innicting probably fatal injuries.
Tom Jones, a pugilist, training at Nan
ticoke, Pa, was arrested last week for be.
ing an accomplice of Sam Sheppard, in
shoplifting and burglarious expeditions.
By their crooked work the pair are al.
legged to have netted several thousand dol
lars.
A pamphlet entitled "Corpulency and
It's Treatment" by DR.. Ebstefn, and pub
lished by Brentano Bros, of New York,
has made its way to this coast. 1t is an
excellent work, written in thoroughly
practical style, with special hints on
diet. that clearly accomplishes it's mission
for % cents.
William Barsess, wealthy Warren
county On. " farmer, was called to his
door the other night by a person who said
he was sent to notify him his relatives
were sick. AS the door opened two men
bound him. placing revolver at his head,
and compelled him to give up his gold
watch and S1,5c0.
GOOD FOR THE CHILD.
The ailments of childhood need careful
attention and wise treatment. Some peo-