The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-09-20
DOMESTIC TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.


Ben johnson was hanged in Cincinnati
asst week.
San Francisco lumber mills are running
on half time.
Disease has appeared among the cattle
n Usage county, Kan.
The steamer Wyoming brought 500 more
Mormon recruits last trip.
There is great excitement at Benton, NJ.
T., over recent gold discoveries.
The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad is
to be inspected and re- organized.
Levi P. Morton, minister to France, is
talked of as Judge Folger's successor.
A cyclone passed over Clear Lake, Minn.,
last week, and several people were killed.
The brig Anita Owen, Santiago de Cuba
to New I ork, lost three men on the pass
age.
Actors and actresses from abroad are
pouring into New York by every incom-
Ing steamer.
Frank HHtchings, the San Francisco
stranger, expiated his crime on the gal
lows last week.
Alonzo Morreys, formerly of Portland,
Or, was found dead in his bed at San
Francisco last week.
The grand council of the United States
Improved Order of Red Men held session
at Springfield, ILL.,, last week.
John Mccullough, the tragedian, who
was prestrated at Manhattan beach re-
Gently, is said to be recovering.
All telegraph, telephone and electric
light poles in PHILADELPHIA must be put
underground by January l, 1885.
An autopsy of the body of Judge Moore,
found dead at jackson, CAL, recently,
shows that he committed suicide.
There was a meeting held at Sacramento
last week for the purposes of developing
the resources of northern California.
At Norfolk, Va, recently, Sam Blouse,
aged 18, shot and killed Nellie Devlin,
aged IA, and then committed suicide.
Professor Newton. of Yale College, was
elected president of the American Asso-
citation of Scientists at Philadelphia last
week.
A representative of the Indianapolis
Sentinel has been in Pittsburg a week or
more looking up evidence in regard to the
Blaine libel suit.
Oliver FL. Bateman, confined in the Sa.
vannah, Mo-, Jail, confesses to the murder
OF the Mclaughlin girls at Flagg Springs,
Mo-, August 3lst.
At Petaluma, Cal, recently, Patrick
Shea poisoned himself and four children
with strychnine. The father and two
children are dead.
The difference between the New York
stone cutters and master masons con-
tinues. Apprentices are all locked out. I
There is no prospect of a settlement.
About 200 members of the Sovereign
Grand Lodge, /. O. O. f., from all parts of
the world, arrived at Minneapolis, Mimi,
recently, where session of the lodge was
held.
ington, ID. c., who made an assignment a
short time ago, committed suicide last
week by cutting his throat with pen
knife.
Last week the steamer ST. Paul, of the
ST. Louis and st. Paul Packet Line, was
seized at Keokuk, Ia., on an attachment
of the Second National Bank of Keokuk
for So, 255.
The agricultural department reports
that the product of winter wheat is above
the average, and is generally of good
quality. except where injured by sprouts
in the shock.
The junior bondholders of the Reading
Railroad are organizing to ask the United
States Court to instruct the receivers to
see that the Junior interests are not en-
tirely ignored.
Miss Victoria Morssini, daughter of G.
p. Morosini, millionaire and partner in
Jay Gould's brokerage firm, created SEN
sation in New York last week by eloping
with Ernest j. Shelling, her fathers
coachman.
During terrific thunder storm at Olean,
N. Y, last week, a 81, 200 gallon tank of oil,
belonging to the National Transit Com
pany, was struck by lighting and set on
fire. Loss, including car, tank and oil, is
about $4,000.
Several attempts have been made to
| wreck the East Tennessee train near Nc
| Donough, Ga. Last week colored boy
named Ed. Jenkins, aged II years, was
discovered placing Instructions on the
track and confessed his guilt.
Last week a largely attended convention
of residents Of Schenectady county, New
York, passed resolution calling on the
senator and assemblymen of that district
to work for the woman suffrage bill. in
stead of opposing it as heretofore.
The Northern Pacific Railroad Company
last week. obtained an attachment against
property in New York state belonging to
| David e. Swan, cashier of the company at
St. Paul, Mimi, charging that Swan
wrongfully appropriated 81, 900 of the
company's money.
The Lacowsie cashmere mill of Hamp-
den, ILL.,, is under attachment for $50. coo.
The nominal owner is George B. Webb,
but III. Smith holds mortgage of S25, ,0O0
to the full value. The unpaid wages for
the month are 5000. Seventy-five hands
are out of employment.
The United States sub-committe, con.
sisting of Senators Dawes, Cameron, of
| Wisconsin, and Morgan, have left Wash
ington for San Francisco en- route for the
| Round Valley Indian reservation, to in.
4 vestigate troubles existing between In
dians and white settlers.
i Charles Perdue, while cutting brush on
the Pewens farm, mile north of Decatur,
ILL.,, made the ghastly discovery of a
human skeleton dangling from the limb
of an old tree. The skeleton is supposed
to be that of an old German who disap.
peared last winter, and it is thought that
he hung himself.
i A jamestown, Va, dispatch says: The
hearing of Attorney Nancy before United
States Commissioners Hewitt, for the al
legged violation of the postal laws by using
cancelled stamps, resulted in his complete
exoneration, the Court stating that there
was nothing whatever in the evidence tt
cast any suspicion of guilt.
The Amalgamated Association. a.
Wheeling, w. Va, is out in card il
i which it calls upon all rail consumers t,
reject the steel rail and leave it upon ths
, hands of the manufacturer. 1t show,
, that the iron rail, which was so useful
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