Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1885-05-22
LATE NEWS SUMMARY.
ForeIgn and Donnestic.

aggregate $l51, 900.
In spite of the doctors Gen. Grant seems
to be steadily gaining.
The strike of taiiors in Paris is participa-
ted in by 1900 workmen.
Ex-Secretary of State Frelinghuysen Is
gradually but surely dying.
China is going to work her coal mines
with labor imported from Europe.
James r. Osgood 6 Co.. of Boston, the
well-known publishers, have failed.
The Minneapolis mills last week beat the
record by turning out l50,8s8 barrels of
flour.
1t is now thought that more than twenty
people perished in the recent Brooklyn dis
aster.
The Indians at Qn'Appelle have left
their reservation, and general uprisingis
feared.
In the northern counties of Indiana
| Winter.
The cold wave throughout the West has
injured fruits and vegetables to consid-
cradle extent.
In Mexico, railroad conductors and engi-\
neers are arrested and lodged in jail when
they run over man.
In the Dominion Parliament a resolution
| favoring reciprocity with the United States
was NOt0Q uOWn, % TO Do.
The next international convention of the
oung Mems Christian Association will be
held in San Franciscs in 1857.
A Toronto Ledge of Free Masons has ex
| peled one of its members for being sssec-
| ularist, agnostic and free-thinker.
Mrs. Weldon, the vocalist, was awarded
| In a London court damages of 500, 600
against Gounod, the composer, for libel and
breach of contract.
Geo. w. Tripp, 70 years old, of Freevilie,
| N. Y, hanged himself, on being informed
that mis- wife, whose age is 78, had cancer
and could not live.
Mr.. Walter p Johnson, a wealthy far
mer OF MoWeaqua, Ill, was thrown under
| a revolving corn-cutter, and fatally woHn-
ded by the machinery.
The jury in the case of Dick Short. for
stabbing Capt. Phelan, returned verdict
OF not guilty. The Judge expressed aston
ishment at the verdict.
A memorial to Edgar Allan Poe has
been unveiled at the Metropolitan Museum
of Arts, in New York, Edwin Booth max
the presentation speech.
A New York syndicate has purchased
2C0,00O acres of land in Dickson and Hum
| phreys counties, Tenn, which will be
settled by Northern colonists.
The race for the 2,0O0 guineas stakes at
OAs
was ridden by Fred Archer. Parodox is
now the favorite for the English Derby.
At Walthamville, Ca, a party of negroes
quarreled over game of poker and six
were killed and five injured. The fight
assumed the proportions of small riot.
At Charlotte, N. c., recently, house oc-
cupied by Minnie Bell and Lizzie Blout,
| two women of doubtful character, was
blown up by dynamite and badly wrecked.
New York market reports indicate that
the winter wheat crop east of the Rocky
Mountains this year will fall short 100,-
i OO0, 600 to 125 o0O,0 600 bushels of the crop of
/ 1884.
/ Princess Louise sent cablegTam to
the Canadian Minister of Militia, asking
that fifty pounds of tobacco and five hun
dred pipes be presented to the troops in
the Northwest.
Prince Albert of Saxe-Altenburg was
married May to Princess Marie. The
ceremony was a quiet oHe Emperor Will
| liam and all the members of the imperial
family were present.
One of boilers of the fremont Hotel. at
| Galveston, Texas, exploded, killing num-
| Der of persons, wounding several others
and doing great damage to the hotel and
Heighboring property.
/ Near Lancaster, Pa, May 18th, Mrs. Hi
ram Pantz, a woman of unsound mind
jumped into creek with her twoyoungest
children and they were all drowned. Their
| bodies were recovered.
/ The war-ship Niagara, which was sold
/ at auction in Boston recently, for $12 800,
aided in laying the first Atlantic cable, and
| took home the earliest Japanese embassy
visiting the United States.
| King Louis, of Bavaria, has ordered the
manager of the Royal Theatre at Munich
to produce Sardou's Theodore" His Maj
/ t.a fbae Ia 81 4.
will cost him 10000 francs.
The three men in England who nav
/ taxes on the highest assessed value of per-
sonal property are Giles Lodor, $15 000, 600:
| Richard Thornton, SI4, ,000, GOO; and Baron
Lionel Rothschild, $13,5O0,O00.
Sawyer and Mann have beaten Edison in
the courts on the priority of electric light
patents. The court held that Sawyer's in
vention was perfected In March, 1873 and
the Edison not till October, 1879.
In the Ohio Penitentiary colored con-
vict named Wilson thrust his head into
kettle of molten iron. When pulled away
the hair, flesh and scalp were burned off
from the forehead to the back of the neck.
England does one-third of all banking
business of the world. The Bank of Eng
land holds oneseventeenth of all the de-
posits of Great Britain. The total amount
held is, in round numbers, 81, ,0G0, QUO. GOO.
A column or three hundred Canadian
troops and police from Battleford, had
fight of seven hours with six hundred In
dians under Poundmaker one day last
| week. Eight white men were killed and
twelve wounded.
The average maple sugar crop of Ver-
mont is in the neighborhood of twelve
million pounds, but this year it will ex-
ceed that amount. The Green Mountain
State produces abouUone- third of the sugar
crop of the country.
James G. Smiddy, the most trusted in
mate of the Joliet penitentiary, serving as
dispensary clerk, killed himself with NOR
phine because of his failure to receive q
pardon which had been promised him. He
was serving life sentence.
The Red Sea has encroached upon the
land as far as Rosetta, Egypt, whose in
habitants are in great distress. Cattle are
dying by hundreds from drinking the salt
water, and all the fresh water has to be
brought to the city many miles by rail.
The White Cross Line Belgian steamer
Helvetia, with general cargo, which start
ed from Antwerp, A pril 23d, for Montreal,
sunk off Seatterie, Cape Briton, May 9th.
This is the fourth steamer of that line
which has been lost within as many years.
Professor g. Y. Riley, etomologist of the
Agricultural Department, says that the
United States will soon be visited by two
swarms of locusts of the thirteen and sev.
enteen-year species, remaining until July.
He predicts that they will do but little
damage.
| A prominent citizen of Gordon. Ca, met
with a singular death recently. On return