Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1885-05-15
LATE NEWS SUMMARY.
Foreign and rlornastfe.

" VICTORIA.
Mrs. Frank A. Vanderbilt, wife Of Conn
nlodore Vanderbilt, Is dead.
/ King Leopold, of Belgium, is now to be
recognized as King OF the Congo.
The reduction of the public debt during
the month of April was $8, 49,, ,00o.
The Government has appropriated $50.
600 for q new penitentiary IN Utah.
The Opera Festival In Chicago brought
in Sl30, 600, and more than paid expenses.
Near Medicine Lodge, Kansas. i water
spout caused the death Of several entire
families.
John Adams, San Francisco garroter,
has been sentenced 70 forty years impris-
nment
The Illinois Senate passed bill appro-
priating $1,000 o for the erection of sol
diers home.
Lucy Gilchrist of Newark. while crazed
with drink, chopped off the head of her six
months old baby.
At the reunion Of the Army of the Poto.
mac at Baltimore. General Grant was re-
elected President.
/ The parade in honorof the visiting Army
/ of the Potomac in Baltimore, was partici-
pated in by &C, 900 men.
/ The people of Victoria are insisting that
Il
meetings for that purpose.
The Government will transport $35 600,
Of0 in gold coin from the San Francisco
sub-treasury to that of New York.
George Smithy, of Pittsbarg, a young
married man, died recently from over
exertion caused by rolIer-skating.
If war breaks out between England and
/ Russia visitors to Europe will have to
cross the Atlantic in second-class steam
ships.
/ Suicide by drowning in cistern seems
/ epidemic among the CINCINNATI girls. The
fourth in two months occurred there last
week.
The New York Times figures that the
/ Panama cana cannot be finished in less
than five years, and that it will cost S55,
001C00.
During fire at Pittsburg, a building fell
/ killing two men, seriously wounding foui
persons, aud iDjuring number OF Others
slightly.
The Royal mail steamship Humbert
which left New York, FEBRUARY 10th, has
not since been heard from, and is believed
to be lost.
Martin Nelson shot and killed no less
than eight persons at Bonita, New Mexico,
before he was disarmed. He is supposed
to be insane.
The Legislature of Ohio has passed an
i Act requiring that all executions in that
State take place within the walls of the
Penitentiar..
Joseph Dietz, 18 years of age, residing
east of Carlinyille, Ill, was fatally shot by
a companion named Michael Trunk while
coon hunting.
Mrs Shay, residing I'm West Jackson ST.,
/ Chicago, died in the dental chair of DIR. w.
III
i istered TO her.
j The protracted cold of the early Spring
in the Eastern States has been disastrous
| to bees, many colonies of which succumbed
1 to the weather.
Reports from Eastern Siberia are 20 the
effect that armed bands of Chinese have
crossed the frontier and surprised several
Cossack villages.
Mayor Harrison has brought three suits
for damages against the Chicago Inter.
Ocean and Edwin Lee Brown, the aggre-
gate claims being $500, 900.
i Last week fleet of mackerel schooners
arrived in New York from the capes OF
Virginia with more than 1900 coo fish
which were netted within "a hours.
A Congress is to assemble in San
Domingo on September 10th, to decide
whether the remains of christopher
Columbus repose there or in Havana.
i It's believed that the body found in q
trunk at Pittsburg, shipped from Chica0e
by unknown parties, IS that OF an Italian
lemon peddler named Phillipo Curuso.
The aggregate losses by- fire in the
i United States and Canada during the
month of April were 81, ,750, ,0c0, and for the
five months, so far this year, $50. .25O, ,000.
4 AtRichmond, Va, w. R. Smith, charged
with stealing $24, Oh while clerk in the
Auditors office, was found guilty and SEN
fenced to two years in the penitentiary.
Annie Schalch, who fell heir to $4,000
in cash a few days ago, was arrested fol
drunkenness at Colorado Springs, Colo, and
the following morning was found dead in
/ her cell.
Mr.. Moody appears to have been spe.
ciaIly successful in drawing crowds at
Pittsburg during his recent mission in
that city. People fiocked in from radius
i of 100 miles.
The residence of John Knight, farmer
j living near Brunswick, Mo-, was destroyed
by fire, and in it perished William Bruner,
a young man about 2l years old, who was
4 living with Knight.
Major General Irwin Mcdowell died al
San francisco May 5th. He was placed on
the retired list Oct. 13, 1852, and has since
lived quiet life with his family at his res.
idence III that city.
An order has been issued from the War
Department placing on the retired list OF
enlisted men who have served as enlisted
men for thirty years.
Many wealthy Russian mobiles are taking
to & milling heavily on the stock exchange
Several of these amateurs have been ruined
and OIL recent Sunday there were three
suicides, owing to losses.
/ Twenty four deaths from disease re.
sembling typhoid -pneumonia occurred in
one day in the mining town of Plymouth,
Penn. Seventeen hundred persons are
| said TO have been attacked.
! A public sale of negroes occurred at
Richmond, Va, May 9Th, under the va.
three months; one $14 for three months,
and woman 70 cents for year.
In drunken rage Adolph Hess, living
near G ncordia, Ohio, beheaded his little
child with an ak, beat his wife to death
i with the same eapon, and then hanged
himself TO a rafter of the dwelling.
i The present Ameer of Afghanistan at
the age of twelve years was placed at the
head of an army of q, GOO men by his
father, and ever since he has been inter
ested in soldiers and military matters.
a Raleigh prisoner, who had been de-
i clar, not guilty In a murder trial, hanged
himself the other day after confessing
that he was guilty and that remorse led
him to infiicU upon himself the punish
meat he escaped in the courts.
A strong effort is being made to break
upthe gaming at Monaco Several suicides
of late, one being handsome and aristo-
cratic young lady, have aided in concen-
4 tratlng attention to the demoralizillg in
/ fluenees surrounding European watering