Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1885-05-08
LATE NEWS SUMMARY.
Foreign and Domestic.


Chinese forces in Tonauin have received
orders toscease hostilities.
The loss by the destruction of Aspinwall
is put at from $40, ,O0U, 600 to 81, ,OOO, ,000.
The value OF the shipbuilding industry
1t is now thought that no further trouble
need be expected on the Isthmus OF Panama
The largest quantity of maple sugar
made in any one State is made in Vermont.
The President of Bolivia has been fined
$50 for careless riding through thestreets.
Five steamers have been purchased in
America for cruisers in the Russian SER
vice.
A f1ve-year-old child was choked to
death in Cincinnati a few days ago on a
peanut.
The Mormon Church has more mission
aries than the American Board OF Foreign
Missions.
A little scare has been occasioned in
Boston over the presence of few cases OF
smallpox.
Eleven miners persisted in snow-slide
at the Homestake mine, near Leadyllle4
April 10Th.
The Panama country is prolific of Presi
dents. Within the past three months 1t
mas 0au TOUR.
The floods in Arkansas are unusually
destructive this spring. The loss of stock
is very heavy.
Five hundred and thirty enumerators
began taking the census of Massachusetts
on the 1st of May.
| Berlin has but one church to sc, coo of It's
population, but it has LOCO drinking sa-
| looms in the city.
The Custom House at Ell Paso, Tex, has
been robbed of $50, 600 package and $780,,
600 of unsigned notes.
| Madame Barrios and party, consisting
of twenty persons, left San Francisco for
the East few days ago.
There is great scarcity of coal in St.
Petersburg and at Cronstadt, and prices
have risen to fabulous prices.
| A pestilence is raging among the Hun
garians and Poles at Plymouth, Pa, oc-
casioned by want of cleanliness.
At Fair in Boston in aid of the Soldiers
| Home photograph of President Cleve-
land, with his autograph, sold for $3.50.
TEE Kimberly Diamond district, South
Africa. exported more than e200, { 60 worth
of cut and uncut stones during January.
The striking shoemakers in a factory in
/ Williamsburg, N. Y :, resolved when they
/ struck neither to drink nor enter saloon.
The President has refused to exercise
| the power of executive clemency in regard
to General Swain, Judge Advocate Gen
| eral.
Russia has ordered the mobilization of
her southern army. Tt is rumored that
200, 600 troops will be available in forty
days.
Temesvar, in Eastern Austria, city of
SO, 600 people. is said to be the only town in
the world lighted exclusively by cleo
tricity.
A bell on the roof of Bridgeton, Conn,
beer saloon, is struck three times every
time the proprietor has a fresh keg of beer
tapped.
Within the past two years nearly 200C
Pittsburgh puddlers have been thrown out
of employment by the substitution of steel
for iron.
Arbor Day was spoiled in many parts OF
pennsylvania by the fact that from one tC
two feet in depth of snow was still ON the
ground.
In Moscow there is said to be over 1O0,.
600 children of school age, yet the munich
pal schools have accommodations for 1000
pupils only.
The Greely expedition steamer Alert is
to be lent to the Dominion Government by
Great Britain, to be used in the survey Of
Hudson Bay.
The recent storm at Pointe de Monte
cast up a number of cannons supposed to
be reliccs of the English fleet wrecked
there 200 years ago.
f. C. Cross, Chicago and Alton brake
man, who leaves wife and child in Chi
cago, fell from his train and was cut in two
at Chenoa, ILL.,, recently.
April 23d, Martin Mitchell went to Mem
phis, Tenn, to deliver himself up to the
legal authorities for having shetland killed
three men who attacked him.
A party of twenty-five Canadian sur
geons and students passed through Chi
cago recently, on their way to the scene o.
the rebellion in the Northwest.
The United States war steamer Florida
which cost the Government 81, 800, 100, was
recently sold for $4,000, 1t was bought
by a junk dealer in New York.
There is said to be lady in jackson
vile, Fla, who has been wife, a mother
a widow aHd wife again all in one year
The season in Florida is usually a short
one.
Panama is in danger of being destroyed
by fight between the National troops an6
the forces under AizpuIu. The United
States will probably be compelled to inter
fere.
Seven men were buried beneath a mass
of fifty tons of brick in slab-burner at Qs
, coda, Mich. 1t was five hours before the
bodies were reached. Finally two were
taken out alive.
/ At Waterloo, S. c., the citizens held &
meeting and warned an immigration
agent out of the country. He has been in
ducing colored people to leave by hundreds
for the West and Southwest.
There are twenty three persons whose
gifts to colleges in this country aggregate
over $23, ,000,000. Three of these rich meI
Stephen Girard. John Hopkins and ASS
Packer, gave over SD, COG, coo.
AS high compliment to his character
Gen. Grants testimony in the Grant
Ward case was taken without administer
ing the oath. Such a thing is almost un
prccedented in criminal proceedings.
The smallest human being living is pos
sibly dwarf living in Shingaken, Osaka
He is SO years old and is only II inches
high. He is reported to have received
good education and can write remarkabl,
well.
An old man in Allegheny county, Pa.
received 5000 from his children on agree
ing not to marry fascinating girl of sew
enteen. Then he married her and CAV,
her the money and she has disappeared
with it.
Lieut.. Schultze, who is going to Russis
to distribute rewards to the people WHIT
, succored the Jeanette survivors. will
carry a gold medal from the President tt
the man who discovered the party il
charge of Melville.
, Prairie Grove, Texas, was recently visi
ted by severe cyclone causing serious re
suits to life and property. A two-story
schoolhouse. in which were about twenty