Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1885-03-13
LATE NEWS SUMMARY.
Foreign and Domestic

4
Gladstone is improving in health.
The price of rice has increased 20 per
cent in China.
The French have blocked the Ming Poi
river in China.
The new Chinese loan is already sub
sribed in London.
Pope Leo XIII celebrated his 10Th birth
day on the Sd inst.
BENJAMIN Butterworth, Commissioners T
of Patents, has resigned.
Failures of the last seven days were III,
as compared with i8i last week.
Mrs. Eliza B. Walker, James 6. Blaine's
only sister, died at Baltimore on the ID
inst.
Twenty-one divorces were granted by
the Philadelphia courts IN one DAY re-
Gently.
A woman II years of age was baptized
in mill pond at North Haverhlil, n. ~,
recently.
Forty-one persons were killed by an ex-
plosion in Usworth colliery, Sunderland,
England, recently.
Seven children were severely injured in
Charleston, S. c., recently, by the expio-
sion of coffee pot.
The opening of the first line of railway
in Germany took place fifty years ago on
the 7th of December next.
The proposed canal treaty between the
United States and Nicaragua, unanl-
mously passed the Nicaraguan Senate.
Chan Pal Tiff, Chinese laundryman:.
has obtained verdict of $1.Ot0 for libel
against the Chinese -Amer-icGn, New
York newspaper.
The Police Commissioners of Boston
have received 8 0 reyolvers with which to
arm the force. The captains will be held
responsible for the weapons.
| tice forbidding members of the church to
read the works of Zola, the French nove-
| list, under penalty of accommodation.
The German press, commenting on Bis
marck' speech in the Reichstag, expresses
4 a belief that it will result III a serious
estrangement of England and Germany.
The Clovis -Hugues affair has served to
| suggest a new cotillion figure in which
| the lady. with toy revolver loaded with
| perfume, shoots at The partner she selects.
The city of Paris has leased n 900 acres
/ of the iow-lying forest OF st. German and
the adjoining meadows for the purpose OF
experimenting in utilizing the sewage of
the capital.
/ Francis S. Drake, well known literary
Imam of Boston, who went TO Washington
with the Boston Light Guard, to attend
the inaugural ceremonies, dropped dead
in the fremont House.
Major w. III. Wilson, architect and civil
engineer, of Dallas, Texas. has left for the
Soudan, in response, it is said, to formal
proposition for his services in fertilization
engineering under Ell Mahdi
! A sale of 600 head of cattle has just been
made b the Powder River Cattle Com
pany to Marquis de Mores, at the price Of
$50, 600, for shipment to England. This Is
the first sale of series soon to follow.
The highest railroad viaduct in the wore
is that of Garabit Bridge, france. Tha'
remarkable structure is 1900 feet long
and near the middle of the great centra
rch the distance frsm the bed of thu
river to the rail is Alb feet.
The city of Charleston, in its corporal,
capacity, is about to undertake the driv
ing of the deepest artesian we'll IN th'
world It will be 200) feet deep, will b.
at least six inches in diameter at the boz
tom and is to be completed by next Au
gust.
& l. L
passenger colIided OH the Atlantic and
J Pacific road, near Blue Water Station
Arizona, instantly killing John Breed, Jr.
and fatally injuring Morris Barth, both 0
whom were young merchants OF Holbrook
! Ariz ma.
, | A tract of territory west of ZanZ bar
, comprising z, a0D square miles, which wa
! acquired by the German Colonization So
ciety, has been placed under the Sover
i eignity of the Emperor of Germany. TIL
society's officials are under control of tn
German Consul at Zanzibar.
A bank in small town in Orange couH
{ ty, n. Y, suspended payment recently bt
: cause the clock OF the time-lock in its saf
: door ran down at 6 o'clock in the morning
and, consequently, never reached O'Clock
; when the lock was set TO open. 1t too
five days to get into the safe.
The total number Of theaters. ircladin
places licensed for, tricalIperformances
in Great Britain at the end tf the yea
4 was 335, compared with 355 at the end c
1888. OF existing places of theatrica
I amusement, London takes the lead wit
49, Liverpool comes next with 10.
At Charlotte, N. c., Sam Richa. dson,
= coiored fireman. ran against Isaiah Bror
son, also colored. and broke two eggs /
Z the latter's pocket. Bronson thereupe
walked across the street to a drug stor
Y and fell dead. Bronson was arrested.
. A large Buddhist temple is now i
i course of erection at Kioto, Japan. A
y it's timbers and pillars are put in place b
/. ropes ma e of human hair. The devotee
|, of the god they worship offer their hal
: on its shrine. The hair is then cut off an
: is twisted by the priests into church ropes
1 ~.
: on charges of conduct prejudicial to goo
: order and military discipline, in havin
e. officially and publicly criticised the Secrt
Z tary of War for not following his recon
. mendation to send an expedition to th
e relief of Lieutenant Greedy, in September
i, 1888
IS Three thousand mill hands employed 9
d Alexander Smiths Sons carpet mills 9
a Yonkers, n. Y, have struck. 1t is sal
the strike is due 10 the action OF Superb
!, tendent CoyBe, who had some hands di
: !, missed because they Joined New Yor
q trades union.
, ranchero and desperate, killed Don NJ
guel Montana ant his wife in fftof il
n sanity. After assuring himself that Iii
5, victims were dead, he went To his ow
10 home and cut the throats of his entir
& family, consisting of his wife, i've daugl
4 ters and young son.
le The only two charges pending again,
h Frank james in the Cooper County tMu
Circuit Court were dismissed and he is
free man. L. is doabtfnl whether Go,
J elnor MarmatluKe will recognize the r,
.e QUESTION of the Governor Of Minnesot
h of the removal of James to the latte
e state for trial there.
eI Hal Casting, United States NJ ,rshal IL
l1I the Western District of Texas, aud hi