The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-29
DOMESTIC rE1EeRApH1c NEWS.


service reform bill.
Eleven hundred cigar makers are on a
strike at Cincinnati.
1t is now rumored that Blaine wrote
''The Bread Winners"
Collector Robertson says that he believes
Blaine can carry New York.
Hosmer and Hamm have arranged a
three-mile race, to place not later than
July Goth.
In the fast mail service between New
I York and San Francisco, whole day has
been gained.
Mark Twain says it is probable that he
will attend the international copyright
convention at Berne in August.
Peter Schmitz, held at Chicago on the
charge of having choked his wife to DEATH
committed suicide by hanging last week.
The Gill Car Manufacturing Company,
Of Columbus, o., made an assignment last
week. Assets estimated at about $4,000;
liabilities, $260,OO0.
The New York Coffee Exchange is ex-
cited over the refusal to readmit the Bra
ziliaan firm of Wolf & Selequeburg, who
suspended last week.
Rudolph Champ and Fitzpatrick were
hung few days ago at Columbia, KY, for
the brutal murder of Miller Brewster and
Neatsville, August 6. 1883.
Postmaster Tiffany, of Bennington. VT,
| fled while the government officers were
| making an examination of his books at
| the request of his bondsmen.
On last Sunday, George Cragen, who,
with George Humphrey Noyes, founded
| the Oneida Community in l848 was found
dead in his bed at Oneida, n. Y.
| The house committee on patents has de-
| cided unanimously to report adversely
Representative Andersons bill to limit
the lifetime of patent to five years.
James j. Rooney. John Rooney, his son,
and Andrew Mcnamara were arrested re-
Gently on charge of robbing brewers of
| New York city of ale barrels and beer
| kegs.
| The Longfellow Memorial Association
of Cambridge, Mass, has received nearly
| $12, 900. 1t holds land for a monument
worth 81 900 and Sos, 600 additional is de-
sired.
The Twenty-third Street Theater at New
| York was sold at auction recently. Alfred
B. Darling bought it for $144, 900. 1t will
probably become part of the Fifth Avenue
Hotel.
The meeting of the ex-Confederate SOL
| diers, called by General j. B. Gordon in
New York last week, was attended by
| large delegations from that and neighbor-
! ing cities.
| Captain Howell and Lieutenant Marke,
who have inspected the Chicago police
patrol system, say that it's introduction in
| Philadelphia would cause a saving of
nearly 80 per cent.
Nathan P. Pratt, aged 73, and formerly
treasurer of the Reading (Mass.) Savings
Bank, recently convicted of embezzling
S10O, COO was sentenced to four years i'm
prisonment at hard labor.
There has been considerable excitement
on the produce exchange, in New ork, in
consequence of d. J. Andrade, broker
challenging III. Burlinger. The challenge
was handed to the police.
Colonel Mapleson, of Her Majesty's
! Opera Company, was found guilty last
week, at San Francisco, of violating the
city fire ordnance in blocking the aisles
of the Grand Opera House.
The boiler of Rafman's sawmill, 81,
miles from Augusta, Ark, exploded re
Gently, killing the foreman and three
! children The SAWYER was blown forty
feet, but was only slightly hurt.
The right to the Lighthall patent fo
cable tramways for France has been solo
! to H. Woodrow, formerly of Cincinnati
who will shortly leave for Paris to in
troduce the cable street railway system
there.
One of the cable cars on the State-stree
line, Chicago, while crossing the track o
the Illinois Central Railroad recently, wa
run into by an engine, and two street ca
passengers were injured, but it is no
! thought seriously.
An explosion of sulphur in the Enter
prise colliery, in Mount Carmel. Pa, las
) week, instantly killed Carl Yakerbousky
Zachariah Herringer and Peter Jupolos
: key. The brattice work and timber in thu
mines are badly shattered.
) Seats for the extra week of the Maplesor
: Opera in San Francisco, Patti and Gerstel
: alternating throughout the week, were
sold at public auction. Every seat com
manded premium. Mapleson has nettec
by the sale over $1,000 in premiums
alone.
| The statement is made that George T.
Lorillard will retire from the turf, and sci
his country seat at Westbrook, with his
training stables, track and thoroughbred
at Islip, L. 1. His reason for selling is his
health, which has been poor for many
: years.
The Sanitary Inspector accompanied by
a squad of police, made an unexpected
raid last week on express wagons tina
carry meat into New York from New
, Jersey. One hundred and fifty carcasse:
[ of "Bob' calves were seized and sent of
the dock.
At Upper Pottsgrove, Pa, last week
Mrs. Woodward Kirklaff, crazed with ma
) larial fever, left her bed and deliberatel,
set her clothing on fire. She fought des
perately with those who tried to extin
guish the flames, and was slowly burned
i to death.
Water has backed up through the rail
, road culverts in Vicksburg, Miss, and i
flooding houses on Front street. TIL
! levees at Ships bayou and Point Pleas
ant will be broken. A steamer is bus,
now sending stock from the overfiowet
districts
2 Duncan C. Ross last week sent to Rich
l ard K. Fox, of New York, articles o
agreement for the signatures of John L
Sullivan and Mervine Thompson, to figh
under the prize ring rules. Accompanying
e this was s., 500 guaranteeing Thompson
3 signature.
: Michael Toney, aged 16. was arrested
at Mount Carmel Pa, in the act of chang
| ing switch for the purpose of Wreckiny
an approaching train. On one occasion h,
asked his associates to assist him to wrecl
{ a train and then plunder the wounded
passengers.
, Judge Dixon, of the United States Dis
trict Court, recently appointed L. Love, o
New York, receiver of the Yellowstone
Park Improvement Company, Rufus
Hatch states that he has put $1,000 il
the company, and that its liabilities ar
$4,000 besides.
Last week freight train on the LAX,
, Shore Railroad, near Angola, n. Y, tina
had parted, came together heavily, caus
ing an explosion of an oil tank on the OF
car, setting fire to the train and the woot
on the west side of the track. Two brake
men were burned, but not fatally.
General Howard, commanding the De
partment of the Platte, with headquarter
in Omaha, left last week for an extended
tour of Europe to study the present con
dition of the armies of the Continet. HI
intends to continue his trip into Egyp