Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1885-03-20
LATE NEWS SUMMARY.
Foreign and Domestic.

Italy will undertake the relief of Kas-
sala.
There viii be three. .Quakers in the next
Congress.
The Hazen courtmartial is in session ct
Washington.
War between England and Russia is
now probable.
Rebels and Englishmen are fighting
heavily at Suakem.
Failures the last seven days were 282, as
compared with 277 last week.
The Spanish Cortes has ratified the COM
mercial agreement with England.
II is rumored that Count von Munster,
German Minister to England, is about TO
resign.
The English government has invested
g2u,O00 for the use of General Gordons
family.
The English government intends to
build fifty stern-wheel steamers for use on
the Nile.
The loss of Chinese in their position
around Kelung, captured by the French,
was 200.
There is rumor in London that the
Queen and Kaiser are to meet at Baden
next m0nth.
General Black, the newly appointed
Commissioner of Pen ions, has arrived In
Washington.
Blaine called on President Cleveland
and spent several hours with him In the
library last Friday.
The Treasury Department has purchased
465, ,O0o ounces of silver for delivery at the
Philadelphia mints.
A Young English lady has just been ar
rested in Holland for wearing felt hat
and having short hair
It is reported that $50 Cansdian servant
girls will arrive at Victoria in MAY pre-
pared to accept service.
A Lcndon paper announces the engage
ment of Miss Chamberlain, the American
beauty, to an English baronet.
Two Italian woodcutters were drowned
at Kanaka, b. c., while trying to cross the
river in canoe few days ago.
The number of immigrants said to have
settled in British Columbia during 1864 Is
l2.OtO, of whom 5000 were Chinese.
General Lew Wailace's novel, Ben
Hur." has been translated inte Turkish at
the express command OF the Sultan.
Osman Digma is concentrating large
force at Tamaneib to oppose the advance
of General Graham towards Berber.
Piano.tuning has been added to the
course of instruction for women in the
New England Conservatory OF Music.
A gargIe of strong black tea used cold
night and m 1rning is now fashionable Ill
London as preventive of sore throat.
The English government rejects the of
fer of The United States to negotiate
convention with the British West indies.
A well armed man is employed to
watch the vault in which the body OF r .
A. Drexel, the Philadelphia banker, is IN
TERED.
The United States government recently
spent 81 600 at Bozeman, M. T., TO convict
a man of stealing 81 worth of postage
stamps.
The price of board for students at Har-
yard Memorial Hall was $3.4 per week
during January, the lowest point ever
reached.
A Bridgeton, N. j., storekeeper has in
troduced rather novel way OF drumming
up customers, by treating callers 10 cup
of coffee.
There is great dissatisfaction among the
Delaware and Hudson River Railroad enl-
ployes, and there will propably soon De
strike.
The President has issued a proclamation
warning The boomers not to enter Okia,
hama lands at the peril of election by the
military
Snakes are so numerous and poisonous
in southern Australia that remedies Tor
the cure of snake bites are always IN great
demand.
The scheme to make Montreal insteal
of Chicago the great cattle marker Tor the
Northwestern cattle trade is making great
progress.
Boston has 1853 school houses, occupying
2.923. .925 square feet of land, and the az.
sessed value of the buildings and land Is
$7,8t0,O00.
There were 2,76l,3 ,39j more letters and
81, GA more newspapers handled at Cana
dian free delivery postotfices last year
than in 1888.
The French, after five days fighting
carried the Chinese positions around ke
lung. Forty Frenchmen were killed and
200 wounded.
London cabdrivers have a mutual pro
tective insurance company that pays $lOt
per annum to disabled drivers. 1t has
100 members.
Three hundred and fifty girls employed
in the National Rubber Works, at Bristol
R. l., struck few days ago for five
months back pay.
Fall River, Mass, roughs took the Sal
yation Army at it's word, with volley o
stones, disabling several women, and ia
tally injHring one.
A farmer living near Schenectady, n. Y.
retired the other night in the best o
health and eyesight, but awoke III tht
morning stone blind.
The value of exports of breadstuffs tht
eight months ending February 18th, was
$50, 100, go, l35, against $llO 363, ,674 for the
same period in 1888 81.
A terrific boiler explosion occurred a
Middle on, Pa, March 18th, in the Ameri
can Tube and Iron Works. Twelve mer
were injured, and two fatally.
Long distance telephoning is about t.
be tried between Brussels and Madrid
The enterprising King Leopold had I
hand in arranging for the test.
John West, colored, was hanged a
Montgomery, Ala, March 18th, for thu
murder of Claiborne Wilson. he con
fessed, made a speech and prayed.
The common school system intro lucet
into Utah by the various religious demon
nations is said to be slowly but surely un
dermining the system of polygamy.
An English lady, Mrs. Hayward, hai
been engaged as professor ofSelocution il
the Cincinnati law school, and the innova
ton has been received with favor.
A glove fight took place at Columbus
o.. March 18th between Bob Farrell, o
New York, and Tom Harmon, of Eng
land. The fight was won by Farrell.