The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-11-22
FOREIGN rELEGRAPH1c NEWS.
,vnamiters are abroad in France.

The French have captured the Chinese
Runboat Feihoo.
Mr.. Astor, United States Minister to
Rome, has resigned.
China will not consent to even temporary
occupation of Formosa.
The Pekin court has countermanded its
order to send troops to Tonquin.
One of Ell Mahdfs chiefs is marching
against Dongola with 1900 men.
The Tribunal in Paris has condemned
Patti to pay the costs of her divorce suit.
The Traiquen and Victoria Railroad in
Chilli is being rapidly pushed to compile
ton.
Sanford, the American delegate to the
west African conference, has arrived at
Berlin.
The schooner Laveclar capsized near
Pilgrims, Can, last week, drowning seven
persons.
The steamship Weiland, Hamburg to
New York, is aground off Wlttenberg,
Germany.
Two Chinese ironclads are preparing at
Shanghai to break the French fleet at For
mosa island.
The English government has sent eco
tons of to- pedoes to protect coaling sta
tions in China.
A deserter from Berber reports that the
garrison is without powder and the town
nearly without food,
Bennett, the absconding cashier of the
Italian bank, of Lima, Peru, has been ar
rested at Guayaquil.
Spartali & Co., merchants, at No. % Old
Broad street, London, have failed, with
liabilities at 81, ,5OOOOo.
There were twelve persons killed and
twenty wounded in railway collision at
Hanan, Germany, recently.
The corporation in the city of Limerick,
Ireland, have refused to pay any attention
to the writ for extra police.
Twelve of the leaders in the recent riots
at Pertadoun have been imprisoned. The
other men were discharged.
General Wolseley left Dongola in the
Pinnace last week to inspect the depots
and hasten the advance of troops.
It is reported that an Irish organization
in England has sent large sum OF money
to aid the cause OF the CrOfters.
An Injunction has been granted in Lon
don restraining Miss Dewey from publish
The stoppage of business at Foo Chow,
by hostilities, is causing great distress
among the lower classes of Chinese.
The mammoth stramer Great Eastern
has sailed from England for New Orleans.
with European exhibits for the exposition.
Bullion from Holland to the amount OF
EGO, 600 was purchased in London in open
market, last week, for shipment to Amer
lea.
The Quebec Central Railway is blockaded
by the recent snow storm. The slelghlng
in Canada is now good and the weather is
cold.
The continued cold weather in France is
exercising favorable effect on cholere
mortality, which does not exceed one il
5000.
Frederick J. Allen, Vice-President o
the Young Ireland Society, charged will
treason felony, has been committed a
Dublin for trial.
The steamer Etna, which left Hamburg
recently tor New York, has put int
Queenstown, with her main shaft and ma
chinery damaged.
A Panama dispatch says: Peace has beer
restored in Cundinamarica and Santander
owing to the active Intervention of tn
federal government.
General Wolseley has received lette
from General Gordon, dated Novembe
4th, saying he has heard of the murder Q
Stewart and others.
Victor Guichard, aged 81, senior membe
of the French Chamber of Deputies, die
last week while conversing with colleague
at the Palais Bourbon.
Cali and other towns in the souther
states of Colombia last week felt the mos
severe shock of earthquake that has bee
experienced for three years.
Another attack was made by rebels O
Suakim last week, which was prompt
repulsed, and Egyptian cavalry is now i
pursuit of the flying enemy.
Final returns from the recent electio
for the second chamber of the states ger
eral of Hol and show that 4f anti-liberal
and 42 liberals are returned.
The Swiss government forbids railwa
cars from Paris to cross the frontier unit
the passengers have been subjected t
thorough medical inspection.
Dispatches from Admiral Courbet, date
Kelung, admit numerous losses to landing
parties. 1t is believed that the Chimes
have infected their buildings.
The carpenters and sailmakers' shops il
the dock of the North German Lloy'
Steamship Company, at Bremerhaven
were destroyed by fire last week.
OF the eight arrests made at Rostov
Russia some are of the aristocracy. Man
ladies have been arrested. They ar
charged with being concerned in Nihilis
plots.
The inhabitants of Kharagh revolted re
Gently and killed the Governor, and pi
laged an Armenian village. Many Arme
mans fled for refuge into the Russian ter
ritory.
Shares in Anglo-American Cable Com
pany have advanced in London. Rumor
are afoat there to the effect that there
some difficulty in the working of the Ber
nett-Mackay cable.
The Duchy of Schleswig, recentl
wrested from Denmarck by Germany,
in a state of ferment over the law original
ing with Bismarck, forbidding any of tn
people from speaking the Danish language
Papers in Madeira state that the treat
with the United States provides tha
sugars to the number of 16 will be admit
ted by America free of duty, but that to
bacco from the Antilles will be subject t
moderate duty.
Sir George Bawen, Governor of Hon
Kong, has been ordered by telegraph b
the English government to refuse permis
sion to any French men-of-war to refit O
ship contraband or war stores within tn
limits of that colony.
1t is estimated that the revenue in Gel
many for the year has decreased 200, COG, 90
md tho aYnQn6ifnrpS have iT