Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1885-01-31
DOMESTIC TELEGRAPHIc NEWS.

The wife of Judge Stanley Matthews is
dead.
The weather in Colorado has been very
severe on stock.
Still more gold discoveries have been
made in Georgia.
The prison profits of Sing Sing for De-
cember were So,
There were two fatal cases of cholera at
st. Louis last week.
Speaker Carlisle is reported as opposed
to the Spanish treaty.
Theodore Ruth has been nominated post
master at Pomona, Cal.
James r. Lord, the veteran actor, died
at Denver, COL, recently.
John A. Post has been appointed post
master at Boise City, Idaho.
A mob of 800 attacked a Salvation Army
| meeting at Dayton, Ohio, recently.
| A policeman at Evansville, Ind, shot
and killed two chicken thieves recently.
| The Board of Supervisors of steam yes
sells is in session at Washington city.
| Railroad freights are now lower in Illi-
nois than in any other state in the Union.
The racing circuit of Texas has proven
a financial failure, owing to mismanage-
ment.
The Kansas Prohibittonist, st. Johns
organ in that state, has been sold by the
Sheriff.
The new aqueduct for the extension of
the New Yo.k water works will cost ST.,
100000.
The jamestown, Pa. bank has closed its
doors. The cashier left the safe and the
| building.
The New Orleans Fair is grand sue
cess. all reports to the contrary notwith-
standing,
More than forty railroads have passed
into the hands of receivers during the
past year.
The continued cold weather in Chicago
has worked considered bic hardship on the
poor of that city.
/ General Hatch has surrounded the
boomers at Saltwater, Ind. Ter, and is
starving them out.
Dr. J. p Newman has rendered his
resignation to- the Madison Avenue Con-
gregational Church.
The Secretary of War has declined to
order courtmartial for the trial of Chief
Signal Officer Hazen.
The robbery of street-car conductors and
drivers has become quite common in
Louisville, KY, of late.
The New York elevated railways carried
96, 7G2.620 passengers last year, and had a
net profit of $289, 9,697.24.
The House committee on postoffices and
Epostroads have recommended that news
paper postage be reduced.
Thousands of acres in Illinois were lately
submerged by heavy rains and melted
snow. and much live stock lost.
The Secretary of War has refused Lieu
tenant Fred Sehwatkas request to with
draw his resignation from the army.
John c. Platt. of San Francisco, is re-
ported as having absconded with $4,000
belonging to his mother and brother.
I Reports come from the Hooking valley
that large number of men are drilling
near Long Staetch, and an outbreak is
feared
General Fitz John Porter, acting in the
capacity of Police Commissioner in New
York city, is successfully raiding gambling
houses.
At Youngstown, Ohio, recently, John
Burke, aged 13, fatally stabbed James
arney, school mate, during a political
dispute.
Collections of internal revenue for six
menths of the fiscal year were $66, 500 q,
being ST 30. .000 less than the same period
last year.
The Senate has agreed to bill that all
material for the construction and repairs
of government vessels shall be entirely
domestic.
Three men were instantly killed and an
other mortally hurt by the explosion of a
lard rendering tank at Sioux City, lows, a
few days ago.
Bishop William Taylor's missionary
party, numbering over fifty men, women
and children. left New York for Central
Africa last week.
Philadelphia policemen are taxed q
cents apiece each month, to pay for the
services of a surgeon and lawyer to look
after their interests.
Minneapolis millers are selling flour in
Canada for less than the price of Canadian
wheat, and this has caused big mills in
Winnipeg to shut down.
The Ohio Divorce Reform League at its
second annual meeting have resolved in
favor of expunging the divorce laws from
the statutes of that state.
The annual report of the Washington
Monument Association calls for $l68, ,00o
to finish the obelisk and recommends an
appropriation of that amount.
The city council of Oskaloosa, Iowa, pc.
tions the Legislature to repeal the prohi.
bition law, declaring it failure and det.
rimental to the public interests.
Ex-County Clerk S. D. Scott has been
arrested at Council Bluffs, Iowa. charged
with embezzling $1,000 of the county s
money during his term of Office.
The House committee on public lands
have reported bill prohibiting aliens or
foreigners from acquiring title to or ewn-
lag any land in the United Stateo.
The San Francisco Chamber of Com
merce have passed resolutions protesting
against the Spanish treaty, and urging the
ratification of that with Nicaragua.
Thomas Chapman, who murdered Mich
elas Hubbard in Coles county, was hanged
at Charleston, ILL.,, recently. A large con-
course was present to witness his depart
ure.
|. Representative Sumner is an applicant
for position on the official staff of stem