The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-02-09
FOREIGN rErreRAPH1c NEWS.


dangerously i'll at Berlin.
American pork for Prussian ships is de.
sired by Prince Bismarck.
Ninety per cent of the Russian people
can neither read nor write.
The American Lumber Company of Tor
onto, Can, have failed for 81 800, 600.
Haworth & Co., commission merchants
OF Liverpool, Eng, have failed for ESQ, ,000
Russia has promised Germany that mill
tary operations in Poland shall be re-
stricted.
A conflagration at Lourvig, Norway, de-
strOyed sixty-two dwellings, causing a loss
of $4,000.
Professor Klinkerfus, the astronomer in
the observatory at Gottingen, committed
suicide recently.
Gabielof, the officer sent by Colonel SUI
deiker to investigateInihilis was assas-
sinated recently
Permission to erect a monument to
Luther at Riga has been refused by the
Russian authorities.
A terrible explosion, killing five men, oc-
CURED recently on the Canada Pacific Rail-
way east of Port Arthur.
The st. Lawrence Sugar Refinery in
Montreal was destroyed by fire recently.
The loss is placed at $2O0,00
The ship Juno, from Liverpool for Cal
cutta, foundered in the Mersey recently,
and twenty-five lives were lost.
Dean LIE Breton, the father of Mrs.
Langtry, now lives in retirement at St.
Bre1ade's, ten miles from ST. Helier's.
The wife of a sand dealer, residing at
Heppon-B -Bashi, Japan, gave birth to five
children, al of whom are doing well.
The first town to be entirely lighted and
have its tram-cars drawn by electricity
will be Montreux, on the Lake of Geneva.
A truce between Chill and Bolivia has
been agreed upon, the conditions of which
do not interfere with the Bermian ques'
ton.
A report was current in Paris that the
French forces, under Admiral Courbet, re-
Gently stormed Bacninh and had been re-
pulsed.
The Imperial Council will shortly con-
slider the question of forming Russian
American company, for erecting elevators
at ST. Petersburg.
Syndicate now wants is 5-per cent guar
antee for twenty years and a grant of $l5,-
100000 to finish the road.
Within radius of ten miles of Ayr,
Scotland, 200,0 trees were blown down
during the recent Storm 100000 being on
the estate of Marquis Alias.
In Russia the Clericals and Government
are at each others throats again. The Nj
hilists have given up the printing press
and now employ the hectograph.
The circulation has been forbidden in
France of the book containing articles
from the Neuvelle Revue, SO grossly libel
Gus of the German Imperial family.
Great anxiety is felt at Plymouth. Eng,
owing to the non-arrival of Dublin and
Liverpool steamers now much overdue.
They had numerous passengers on board.
The police have discovered plot for an
uprising of peasants in Little Russia and
also scheme for putting strychnine in the
Cars bread. Many arrests have been
made.
Blackberry. absconding member of the
firm of p. w. Thomas Sons & Co., which
failed for over 81, 100000, having no assets,
it is believed has sailed for the United
States.
The Vienna police have compiled list of
foreigners who are to be expelled from the
country and also closed the Jacobs print
ing Office, at which the Socialist paper,
The Future, was published.
The Newfoundland sailing steamer Bear
was sold recently at st. Johns, n. F., to
the American govern ment for the coming
Greeley relief expedition. She is the same
age, tonnage and build of the lost Proteus.
There was a serious confagration re-
Gently near Cemetery LaChayo, France, by
which lace factory, several coal depots
and shops and five dwellings were de-
stroyed. One hundred families were rem
dered homeless.
France is seriously disturbed. The des.
titution of quarter of million of peO.
MI Ia aRE loH O
chance of passage of grant of 10000
francs to release the tools of mechanics
from pawn offices.
Garcia, the most notorious gambler in
Europe, has entered Trappist convent in
Spain. Garcia has been known to win and
lose 9100, 600 stakes at Homburg and Mon
AGO. His last exploit was to break a Span
ish roulette bank.
Troubles are reported to have broken out
in the Khyber territory, Afghanistan. Alb.
dul-Lanur, the most powerful of the Khy-
Der chiefs, was shot in bloody feud re-
Gently. Since 1879 he has been the steady
friend of England.
The annual report of the Minister OF
Public Works shows that the government
management of telegraph lines in Canada
is unsuccessful. The lines cost $500, 900
the expenditure last year was 600, and
the receipts only $27, 600; loss, over 30 per
cent.
Placards have been posted in Paris In
citing disafected policemen and starting
wOrkingmen to arms. They are supposed
to have been issued by the committee OF
the revolutionary party. Large numbers
of the placards have been destroyed by the
police.
1t is stated that General Gordan, before
his departure for the Soudan, telegraphed
Colonel Coctlogon, commander at Khar.
fn frTJcf ~ 20
Mahdi, and ordering Coctlogon to suspend
operations until Gordon's arrival. Six hun.
dred men have left Cairo for Suakem.
Papers laid before the Canadian Parlia
ment recently show that the total cash
subsidy paid the Canadian Pacific, up tc
the 9Th of December last, was $12, coo, 600
The total land subsidy carried was Il, 600
600 acres. After deducting amounts al
ready paid the company on that date bal
of $316, 600 due them remains.
Several mountain tribes, under AL
Pasha, formerly Chief of Albania. have
revolted and seized the reins of govern
ment. They had resolved to oppose the
cession of the District of Gusinje an6
Koina to Montenegro, and recently they
entered Montenegrin territory but wer'
repulsed with the loss of fifty men.
A number of Irish and Irish-Americar
dynamiters have been recently arrested il
Paris, including several revolutionists wei
known at the Scotland Y ard. An Englisl
detective in service at New York state
that Captain McAfferty, also one of tn
number, went there to conceal furthe
measures with certain Irish residents
The steamer Rhywabons, bound from
Holyhead to Cardiff, struck on a group Q
rocks near Cardiff, recently. The mate
five men and boy escaped in smal
boat. Half an hour after leaving tn
steamer they saw her lights disappear
The captain and ten men remained o.
board the steamer and all were probabl
lost.