The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-04-19
FOREIGN rELEGRApH1c NEWS.
.yron, the dramatist, is dead.

The death of NJ. Jean Baptiste Dumas
is announced.
The Duke of Bucclench is dying. He
was born in 1906.
Charles Reade, the celebrated English
novelist, is dead. |
Two more dynamiters have been ar
rested in England.
Professional beauties are going out of
fashion in England.
The condition of affairs at Khartoum are
reported to be critical.
At Tetschen, Bohemia, 5000 factory
operatives have struck.
Bismarck advocates the workingmen's
accident insurance bill.
The Londoners consume about Is, SOC, 600
pounds Of meat per week
A shark thirteen feet long was caught
at Victoria by Indians recently.
The irregular troops in General Gordon's
command are in a state Of mutiny.
Ernest Dore, elder brother of Gustave
Dore, is dead, at the age OF 53 years.
General Gordon estimates that the rebels
about Khartoum number fully 1900.
The liabilities of Gillespie ISI Co.. Lon
don, who failed last week, are 9125, 600.
The British Columbia Chinese bill has
been disallowed by the Canadian govern
ment.
The Canadian House of Commons re-
fused to consider the grievances of Man
itoba.
The French attempt to cut off the Chi
nese retreat from Bacninh has completely
failed.
A huge octapus, weighing 100 pounds,
was caught in the Victoria harbor re-
Gently.
One-han of Mandalay, the capital of
Burmah, city of 10000 people, has been
burned.
A Fenian named Fitzgerald was arrested
in London a few days ago on charge OF
treason.
Some excitement has been caused by the
discovery of forged English notes on the
continent.
French merchants protest against con-
tinuance of the present state of affairs in
Madagascar.
of the London Times who ever visited the
United States.
The Marquis de Caux denies that a re-
conciliation has been effected between
him and Patti.
Mail and passenger service over the
Mexican Central Railroad was inaugur-
ated last week.
DIR. Norman Kerr says that the annual
mortality from intemperance in Great
Britain is 4O,5OO.
The Roman Catholic clergy no longer
oppose cremation, which is becoming very
common in Italy.
The Haytian government has put into
circulation the dreaded additional 81 ,000,
GOO in paper money.
In a Paris insane asylum there are
twenty-three patients made crazy by
blonding their hair.
The government has forbidden the cir
culation in France of two Anarchist jour-
mails published at Geneva.
Reports from Berlin state that the En-
peror has consented to the retirement of
Bismark from the Prussian ministry.
The Nova Scotia Legislature has ex-
tended the franchise in municipal cleo
tions to widows and unmarried women.
In railway collision at Black Rock, on
the Kingston railway, few miles south
of Dublin, twentv Ave persons uero in
jured.
The British government has sent posi-
tive orders to General Gordon to withdraw
from Khartoum with the garrison as soon
as possible.
Meetings were held last week in the
Ansein District, France, where strike OF
colliers still continues. Violent speeches
were made.
The plans of the great exhibition to take
place at Antwerp next year have been de-
cided upon, and the work will be begun
next month.
Advices from London state that Stetson
& Sons, owners of the Theater Royal, Mid
dleborough, have failed. Liabilities from
R100,O00 to a250 600.
Queen Victoria dimes at 8:45 in the even
ing, the Emperor of Brazil at in the af
ternoon, and the Emperor of Germany
half way between them.
A number of tradesmen and farmers in
and around Dublin are charged with being
Invincibles, and are said to belong to a
body founded at Tubbercurey.
Positive proof has been established o1
American Anarchists with those of Eu
rope. Intercepted letters in Switzerland
prove the fact beyond doubt.
Paris advices state that LIE Monde, g
clerical newspaper, SAYS that five French
missionaries and thirty catechists have
been massacred at Tanhoa, Tonquin.
The Queen of England arrived at Darn
stadt on the 18th inst. The Emperor oi
Germany left Berlin the 18th for Wies
baden, and meets the Queen at Darmstadt
the 21st.
The government inspector in live stock
reports that four-fifths of the sheep of La
Prairie County, Canada, afflicted with dis
ease from the infected districts, have beer
quarantined.
Emperor William, when receiving the
President of the Reichstag on his birth
day, recalled the attempt on his life, and
expressed indignation at the fate of the
anti-socialist law.
An attempt was made with dynamite to
destroy the magazine of Fort George, 6
few miles from Inverness. The marauders
escaped in boats, but not before sentry
bayoneted one of them.
/. S. Kirkland, a lawyer of Philadelphia
and three Canadian accomplices, have
been committed for trial at Toronto, Ont.
on a charge of attempting to bribe mem
bers of the liberal government.
The Canadian government will soon ask
authority to negotiate two loans of 92,
100000 and 100000, promptly to meet
maturing small loans, and meet charges
in the consolidated revenue fund
Latest advices from the City of Mexico
say that the trouble over the 'sstamp act
has been practically settled. The govern
meRt agreed to its modification. so thai
only goods actually sold shall be stamped
The rumor in Berlin that Herr Won Ell
sendecker, German Minister at Washing
ton, will be recalled is unfounded. The
question of his transfer to another posi-
was discussed long before the Lasker in