Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1885-06-26
LATE NEWS SUMMARY.
ForeIgn and Domestic.

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campaign for 1888 IN Illinois.
At Stromsberg, Neb., two married
women eloped with saloonkceper.
It is estimated that the wheat harvest
In Texas will average q bushels per acre.
An election riot occurred in Lampassas,
Mexico, recently, In which three men were
killed outright.
The President has appointed Israel Law
ton to be Superintendent OF the Mint at
San Francisco.
Parnell and several followers win visit
America in the Autumn to raise funds for
the political campaign.
James Russell Lewell's name is men,
toned in connection with the vacant pres
idency of Cornell University.
Randleman's cotton factory in Randolph
County, n. c., was partially destroyed by
fire, the loss reaching $150, 900.
Over 10. 600 tons of metal have been used
in the construction of the ironclad Beubon,
recently launched at London.
The steamer Joe Fleming, owned by 9
st. Louis brewing company, was burned
at Dupue, ILL.,, the loss being $4,000.
A gale on the Newfoundland coast re-
Gently wrecked several fishing boats, caus-
ing the drowning of several persons.
BY an explosion of soda fountain at
Strany's drug store at Pittsburg, James
Mcconnell, clerk, was fatally injured.
While standing in the door of their resi-
dence at Mendota, Missouri, father and
son named Kinley were killed by lightning.
Five hundred policemen IN citizens
clothes are still employed In guarding the
public offices OF London against dynami-
ters.
Frank Rivers, who was convicted of wife
no of tn
six months in Jail and to receive fifteen
lashes.
Farmers in Illinois are busy replanting
corn, some for the third time. Never be-
fore was there such a universal failure in
the seed.
Near Jacksonville, Arkansas, Martin
West, a planter, was assassinated by his
son-in-law, Al Clemens, who used VIM
chester rifle.
Confederate Memorial Day was observed
at Norfolk, Va. All places of business was
| closed and the parade was the largest ever
seen In the State.
in the Pendbury colliery near Manchester,
England. Over 100 men were killed, many
leaving large families.
A French gunboat, having on board a
crew of ninety-twe persons is reported to
have been lost during the hurricane in the
Gulf of Alden on June 8.
The towns of Leutschan, in Hungary,
and Tysnan, in West Hungary, have been
partly destroyed by forest fires, and four
teen persons burned to death.
The ravages of the Hessian.fly will
cause an estimated loss of 10000 bushels
in the wheat crop of Richland Township,
Kalamazoo County, Michigan.
The New York banks used to pay per
cent. interest on margin deposits, but last
month the rate was reduced to per cent.
and now one bank only offers II.
While sailing on the Delaware river
near Trenton, N. J.. Fred Weiss, aged IA,
| fell overheard. N. Cook, aged 10, plunged
after him. and both were drowned.
At Minneapolis, Mimi, REV. F. S. Bow
dish, Methodist preacher, was sentenced
| to three years imprisonment for the lar
ceny of $3.50 from his divorced wife.
Cass Corwine, well known as an artist
who made 8 specially of sketching blooded
stock from life, committed suicide at Lin
coin, ILL.,, by shooting himself through the
head.
There is great excitement in Ripley
county, No., over the discovery of silver.
One company has ordered machinery and
win employ 800 miners to develop its prop
erty.
/ The steamer Peerless, valued at $50, 600,
was burned to the waters edge at Monte
/ bello, Ontario. An excursion party was
aboard the vessel when the fire broke out,
but escaped uninjured.
/ At Tarentum, Pa, the explosion of a
can of petroleum, to which one of the lads
applied lighted match, fatally burned
the three sons-aged seven, five and
two-of Henry Altmeyer.
A sail boat containing twenty men was
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sion steamer Columbia on the Delaware
river. Two drowned bodies are supposed
to have been carried out by the tide.
At New Orleans, garroters attacked
James Stafford, q wealthy butcher, with
slung shots. An officer came to his rescue,
and during the melee Joseph Martin, one
of the garroters, was shot and instantly
killed.
Official information has been received al
Paris to the effect that the French dis
! patch boat Renard, recently reported lost
| in the Indian ocean, foundered in a cy
clone and all the crew, numbering III
souls, were drowned.
Adolph Gallon, the French cook Of
throat with a large carving knife and
jumped from the third story of the build
ing, falling in an almost unrecognizable
mass upon the pavement.
The casualties of the recent tornado il
Iowa foot up seventeen persons killed anC
sixty wounded. The damage is over 81,
0U0, 600. Many heartrending scenes oc
Cured, and many houses were ruined, ane
also many public edi6ces.
i On account of the reduction of the ap
propriationsfor West Pennsylvania Hos
pital, in Pittsburg, sixty. five old soldiers
were notified that they must seek othel
] quarters. In notifying comrades, Genera
Sweitzer was visibly affected.
Reports from Indian Territory state
} that Ben Williamson, Pete Moore anG
George Morgan, members of q gang o.
desperadoes and horse and cattle thieve,
were overtaken by vigilance committe.
near Healton, and hanged to tree.
The Secretary of the Treasury has issued
a warrant for SIS, 900 to the Director Gen
eral of the New Orleans Exposition ans
the head of the Woman's Department, Il
be used exclusively in payment of claiml
against the Woman's Department.
4 Near Arkansas City, Ark, a man ans
woman named Taylor were struck b,
lightning. The woman was killed in
morning. A child who was sitting on th,
same seat with the parents was not hurt
A traia on the new cable road at Kansas
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lided with another train. Ernest Roberts
passenger, had both his legs anputatet
and will die. Three others were seriousl,
injured. The grip man got excited ant
lost control.
:. The Pixies Peak Railway, which will b,
in operation probably next year, will b,
the most noticeable track in the world. I
will mount 2, 600 feet higher than the Linn,
and Croya railway in Peru. It is now ii