Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1885-04-17
LATE NEWS SUMMARY.
Fol.eIgn and Domestic.

Madrid.
A Newburgh, Il. :, boy has been fined
81 for swearing on The streets.
Twenty inches Of snow fell at st. Vim
cent. Mich, on the 9th of April.
The wheat crop over large area of
West Virginia will be failure.
Three Pennsy ylvazlia railroads have j0st
passed into the hands of receivers.
The Egyptian Government has ordered
the raising of an army of 80, 600 men.
John w. Mackey has gone to Mexico TO
look after his railway interests there,
The Rhode Island Legislature has de-
feated the biennial sessions amendment
The young ladies Of the Ontario Ladies'
College have organized two baseball clubs.
Some 81, ,0G0 miners are about to strike
IN England against reduction of wages.
Queen Victoria is reported as being per-
sonaily very much opposed TO war with
Russia.
Among the exhibits at the Crazy Quilt
Show in Boston is fire-screen containing
*, Quo beads.
The Second Adventists of Concord, n.
H., predict that the end of the w.rld will
come May 18th.
Mrs. De Sofa, wife of the ex-president
of Honduras. has bought house and lot
in New York for $2I0,000
On the notification of the County At
torney, every liquor saloon in Atchison,
Kansas, has ceased to sell.
The Postmaster General has introduced
in the British Commons a bill fixing the
rate of kilograms at six pence.
Grand Army Posts in every part of the
country have been sending resolutions of
sympathy to Gen. Grant recently.
The Governor of Victoria has issued an
order forbidding the entry of foreign ships
into port Phillip during the night.
The Supreme Court of Iowa has unani-
mously decided that every provision of the
Prohibitory Law is constitutional.
They are trying to get up law in Illi-
nois compelling railroads to reduce their
rates for accommodations in sleeping cars.
A disease resembling cholera has broken
out at San Felipe de Jatiya, Province of
Valencia, Spain, and the people are panic
stricken.
Mrs. Victoria Morosini Schilling has
withdrawn her suit a gain her father for
moneys deposited in the Hanover Bank by
him for her use.
In Tallahassee, Fla, few days ago,
couple were married who had only been
personally acquainted for the brief period
of ten minutes.
A perfect skeleton, to which was at
eartned twenty-five feet below the surface
OF the earth near Savannah.
III. Quinn, nephew of the Indian
Agent, who escaped, says fourteen per-
sons were killed and many wounded in
the Frog Lake tManitoba) massacre.
1t is reported that the negroes near Eu-
faula, Ala, are looking for body of Y an
kee soldiers who are expected to mas
sacre all the whites who voted for Cleve-
land.
The twelfth annual Convention of the
wyoming Stock Growers Association met
at Cheyenne last week. The attendance
| was large. Sixty-seven new members
were admitted.
While Joseph Bohlman was attending
to some repairs on the roof of the Gibson
House at Cincinnati he caught hold of an
eiectrlc-light wire, aud was instantly killed
by the shock.
Six thousand Canadian troops are sta
toned along the boundary line to prevent
the American Indians crossing. It is said
that Rlel has 5000 men and six fline-
pounder cannon.
Desoronto, Canada, is said to be lighted
with gas made from sawdust, q ton
of which yields 10, COO feet of gas, at net
cost, after deducting the value of by-pro-
ducts, of $l.f6 per 1000 feet.
On Broadway, New York. between Ca
nal and Fourteenth streets, there are sew
enty-flve large stores vacant. Dull times
and excessive rents demanded by the
owners are the cause of this.
Near Asheville, N. c., last week. a house
was robbed of So, ,000 and the family muir
| dered. The victims were J. p. Joyce, aged
20; Margaret Joyce, aged 10; Charles Joyce,
aged z and Mary Rice, aged 40.
At the Chicago municipal election the
| Democratic candidate for Mayor Thar
rison) defeated his opponent tSmith) by
majority of 334. The Republicans claim
fraud and will contest the election.
| At the New Orleans Exposition. Cali
fornfa has been awarded the sweepstakes
gold medal against the world for best va
rieties of citrus fruits. s.!also two gold medals,
eleven silver medals and thirty premiums.
A bellboy in Portland, Me-, hotel, while
running up stairs lately with some loose
| change in his mouth, stumbled and swal.
lowed the whole amount-two TWENTY-FIVE
/ cent pieces, two dimes, and eight pennies.
The tide of emigration from South Caro-
lima continues to flow westward. Almost
/ every day bands of colored people depart
for Arkansas and other Western States,
| influenced by the glowing accounts of the
railroad immigration agents.
The Bartholdi Committee has so far
raised about $185, eco, of which over $780,.
900 has been contributed by citizens of New
York city. The sumof $25, 900 was quietly
raised within ten days. There is needed to
complete the work about $125,000.
The returns of the census taken In 1882
give the population of Russia in Europe as
numbering II ,879, ,52l, of whom 80 65l .977
were males and SO 227, ,544 females, making,
with the Grand Duchy of Finland and
other parts of the Empire, a total over
102, ,000,G00
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs has
issued schedules of the supplies required
by the Indians this spring, including ST.
500, ,000 worth of beef and $750, ,0C0 worth OF
dry goods. Advertisements for proposals
will be printed in Democratic newspapers
hereafter.
The length of the wire used in the con-
struction of the submarine cables, now in
operation, is computed to be ten times he
distance from the earth to the moon. The
total length of the cables now used is 66-
COO miles, each cable containing an aver
age of forty strands of wire, and making
over 2,50a 600 miles.
Reporters and detectives find about ], 500
Socialists in Pittsburg and vicinity, of
whom not one In a hundred is q real work
ingman, or has an honest means of livi-
hood. They are all foreigners, and have
| come to this country to get somebody else
, to support them. Among them were two
incendiary women speakers.
s. In celebrating with Sunday dinner TO
, some of his friends his eighty ninth BIRTH
day, William Brown, prominent Demo-
! erat of Marion county, w. Va, made q
speech saying that now the Democratic
party had returned TO power he was pre-
pared to die in peace. Within thirty min
j utes he was choked to death while eating
, a piece Of meat.
II Near Bonds Mills, Wise County, Va,
s L IL i