The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-02-09
EASTERN rEEGRApH1C NEWS.


msut $50, SO for ssextra" lawyer fees.
sent to the Carlisle, Pa, training school.
A crank made two attempts to assassin
ate Governor Terrasos, at chihuahua, .
few days ago.
General Booth, of the Salvation Army,
is coming to this country. He is expected
early in March.
The safe in the postoffice at Blue Island,
ILL.,, was blown open one night last week,
and 81, COO stolen.
An entire family of five persons in st.
Louis have died from the effects of sewer
gas in the dwelling.
An. attempt was recently made at Fort
Worth, Tex, to poison Miss Fannie MUIR
ply, school teacher.
A block on Adams street, Peoria, ILL.,,
burned the other day, entailing loss of
$150, 600; partly insured.
The Keeley Motor Company voted an
other postponement of a public exhibition,
at the request of the inventor.
Bonanza Mackay has guaranteed Patti
| $65, 900 for a season in San Francisco, and
Mapleson has accepted for her.
Mrs. j. J. Astor has sent 1,O63 homeless
children to the South and West in the last
few years, at an expense of nearly SIC, 600.
Samul A. Medary, for a number of years
paymaster of the Cincinnati, Hamilton
| and Dayton Railroad, is short $4,000 in
his accounts.
Savings bank depositors in Massachu-
sets added $11 ,296, $50 to their accounts
| last year, and the sum now to their credit
is $252, ,707, ,593.
mail matter were handled in the New York
| postoffice, and the money order business
exceeded $S72,0O0, ,0OO.
| Sixty policemen made night raid on a
cock pit in Philadelphia, securing ninety
| five spectators and twenty teams, also sew
enty-two fowls of all sizes.
A house near Norwich, N. Y, occupied
| by an old couple named Clinton, was
burned recently. The bodies of the occu-
pants were found in the ruins.
The New Jersey House of Representa-
tives recently defeated the joint resolution
asking New Jersey Congressman to favor
national postal telegraph law.
1t is reported from Liberty that Colonel
John G. Kasey, ex-treasurer of Bedford
county, Virginia, had fled from the State,
leaving an Indebtedness of $4,000.
| A strange and fatal disease is reported to
have broken out among cattle in the west
ern part of Texas. A large number have
died. The disease fails to yield to treat
ment.
| John Eagan, ex-Speaker of the New
| Jersey Assembly, was last week sentenced
| to imprisonment at hard labor for month
and to pay fine of $500 for the crime of
bribery.
| A terrible explosion of fire damp oc-
Cured in the shaft of the Lehigh Valley
Coal Company at Wilkesbarre, Pa, re-
Gently. The damage was great. One man
was killed.
The Denver and Rio Grande roundhouse
| tives, was destroyed by fire recently. The
loss is between $4,000 and $1,000; par
| TALLY insured.
But little more is said about the running
ice gorge at ST. Louis. The breakup was
tame affair, and steamboat men are con-
graduating themselves that so little DAM
| age was done.
A train on the Union Pacific Railroad
was delayed an hour by about 1,50O
antelope. The snow had drifted deep and
they had taken to the track as the easiest
road to travel in.
| The daughter of UIiah Blear who mar
ried the @living skeleton" declared in
court that her liberty was not restrained,
and preferred to go with her father rather
than her husband.
On the elevated railroad recently heav-
| lily laden train ran into another one dis
| charging passengers at the station. The
engine was wrecked and passengers well
shaken, but nobody was seriously hurt
John n. Alexander, of Ohio, is making
4 a better record at West Point than any
other colored cadet ever admitted. In a
class of ninety he stands third in some
studies. He is well treated by his fellows.
/ A fire in the f1fth-story of an apartment
4 house, No. 662 Sixth avenue, about mid
night, created panic among the occu-
pants, dozen of whom, occupying the up
per floor, escaped to the roof in their night
clothes.
/ George Brown and A. G. Gibson, a couple
| of notorious counterfeiters, were arrested
lately at Kerbyville, Mo-, and were taken
to Springfield for safe keeping. Brown
was once concerned in a train robbery in
Colorado.
County Clerk keenan,, of New York, has
informed the Legislative Investigating
Committee that he paid $500 to Tam
many Hall for the nomination, and paid
nothing else except incidental campaign
expenses.
/ Members of the House Committee on
Public Lands say bill will be reported
Ifdeclaring forfeited all lands along that
portion of the Northern Pacific not COM
pleted within the time allowed by the act
! granting the land.
i Tilden G. Abbot, for ten years cashier of
the Union Market National bank at Water
town, Mass, has absconded, taking funds
of the bank aggregating, as far as known,
i 81, ,160 There is besides blank check
gone from the check book.
Chief Charlis and his delegation of Flat
head Indians, while at Washington re-
Gently, had conference with the Secre-
tary of the Interior upon the proposition
Root valley to Jacks reservation in Mon.
tana.
The latest scientific explorations of the
Yellowstone Park, made during the past
/ summer by members of the United States
Geological Survey show that it contains
500 geysers and 5000 hot springs. These
numbers are somewhat larger than those
i obtained in earlier surveys.
i A bill has been introduced in the New
York Assembly declaring. void all con
tracts, written or verbal, for the sale OF
transfer of any share or interest in the
stock of any company, unless the party
contracting to sell or transfer shall be in
actual possession of such stock. etc.
. The Washington monument, whose tota
height is fixed at 800 feet, will remain
during the winter at 40 feet, the work o.
, hoisting the immense blocks will be re
sumed in the spring. The report of the
|, engineer IN cnafge SHOWS the monument
has only settled fraction of an inch.
} Last week William Manley, construc
T ton boss, and three men employed on tn,
Denver and South Park Railroad, cam,
, down hill into Leadville ON fiat car
f When near the depot they collided with ;
car of iron, and all jumped. Manley wa!
instantly killed, and the others were Sc
! riously injured.
!. Advices state that seven cotton mills il
1 Massachusetts and one in New Hampshir,
' have shut down, also that orders hav,
been issued to stop large number o
looms in Lowell, Massachusetts,, and Saco