Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1885-05-01
LATE NEWS SUMMARY.
Foreign and Domestic.

Foreign ana Domestic
A $3.50, 600 fire occurred at Vicksburg,
Miss, on the alst.
TwentY-four persons were killed by an
avalance at Seydisford, Iceland.
Hon. A. w. Wyman, Treasurer of the
United States, has rendered his resigna-
tion.
Another earthquake in the island of
Java has devastated many plantations and
destroyed 100 lives.
Blind Tom, the pianist, has been ad-
judged insane and placed under the cart
of legal guardian.
The Pullman Car repair shops in Phila-
delphia we're destroyed by fire April I'D.
Loss, $780, Fully insured.
Not less than 5000 artisans of Buffalo, N.
T., it is stated, are building houses for
themselves on the cooperative plan.
A fire at Toxic, Japan, recently des-
troyed twelve hundred buildings, render
ing one thousand families homeless.
At Diamond Island, in the Ohio river,
Mr.. Mary Draper and two children were
drowned by the capsizing of a canoe.
In a street-car at Newport, KY, Mr.. Nc.
MILAN killed bank clerk named John L.
Cummings for seducing his daughter.
The Empress of Austria is said to be
travelling incognito along the south coast
OF England without a single attendant.
At New York City last week p. C. Kel-
Iogg & Go. sold at auction 207 head OF
horses for S67, l25, an average of $324.Z7
A private hotel on Lookout Mountain
will be rendered General Grant for his fret
use this summer during his convaiescence.
Rev. Thomas Spencer, colored, of Nor
folk, Va, pleaded guilty of house breaking
and was sentenced to five years in the pen
itentiary.
Newspaper postage has been reduced
from two cents to one cent pound. Tht
reduction goes into effect on the first o.
July next.
The continued ill.health of First Assis-
tanI POst-Master General Malcolm Hay
has given rise to the report that he viii
soon resign.
The largest prune orchard in the worlo
is situated one mile from Saratoga, Ca.
and contains ,0OG trees. ItWas sold re-
Gently for S72,tG0.
Fifty persons were burned to death in &
confiagration which destroyed severa
houses III the town of Meieeg, a few miles
north Cairo, Egypt.
The Logan CO unn in the Illinois Legis-
lature has finally broken. Representative
florence has signified his intention to vott
for Logan ne longer.
The new merchant ships just hired BY
Great Britain will carry 2I2,0O0 soldier
with cannon to match. The ships referre,
TO c st $780, 90 day.
Gilbert Parher and Ferdinand I. Roger.
of Davenport, la, were drowned in til
Mississippi at that place recently while
taking pleasure sail.
w &. Britton, Tax Collector of Hal.
county, Alabama, has been convicted oi
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Penitentiary for six years.
A law firm of New Orleans claims t.
have found III the We'll brothers, of tina
city, the heirs of the Levy estate in Lon.
don, worth $60, 0,O0O,0 900.
The Governments of France, Holland
Portugal and Turkey have declared quar-
antine against all vessels arriving from
Spanish ports, on account of cholera.
Otto Funk, public libra thief and dy
/ Mantle fiend, confessed that he was tht
author of plot to blow up the Chieag,
University building. He was locked up
Reporters, printers and editors at Win
nipeg have been summoned for violating
the Sabbath by getting out a paper con
tanning latest news regarding the Riel ris
/ ing.
Thomas Ju6ah, for thirty years promi
nent Hiember of the bar of MontreaG ha.
b. eli sentenced to imprisonment for si,
months for obtaining $35, coo by false pre-
| lenses.
The people in Perry county, KY, are OF
the Yer q of starvation. They follow log
ging for a living, and there has been n,
rise in the streams to float their logs Il
market.
Mrs. Robert Davis of ofLeavenworth, Kan.
whose husband is in the State Penitenti
airy under sentence of death, has petit,onet
the Governor to sign Davis death warran
and have him hanged.
Edmund McCurtin, Chief of the Choc
taws, calls upon all freedmen residing il
the nation and entitled to citizenship t,
register themselves before June or suffel
expulsion as lntruders.
At farm house near Monmouth, ILL.,,
man nam d Edward T. Nash, who has
spent year in the insane asylum. killet
his mother and sister, and laid their bodie
side by side on the porch.
Hiram Foulks, a hermit living near In
dependence, Kan, was shot dead an,
thrown into a well. The Coroner found il
a canvas bag sewed inside his drawers
bills amounting to $l,725.
A solid silver balustrade, which has
stood in one of the Mexican churches sine
the time of Cortex. was torn down no
long ago and taken to the mint, producin,
over sixty thousand silver dollars.
i Pulitzer, editor of the New York World
J has transmitted to William M. Evarts
chairman of the Bartholdi Statue Pedes
trail Committee, $500 received by th
i World from 70, 10 people for that fund.
| The Indians and half-breeds now in re
volt against the Canadian Gavernmen
have laid waste a large section of countr
; to the north and " est of Battleford. Owe
100 settlers are rendered homeless by th
raid.
i Noah Vest, marshal of Buckner, Mo
was fatally shot by an unknown assassin
Various plots have been discovered fo
the destruction of Vest, one of which wa
; the finding of large amount of chrystal
lized strychnine in his well.
Reports from Winnipeg indicate goo
deal of excitement over extra agant ru
mors. The disaster at Fort Pitt has reso
we'd Itself into The killing of two men an
four Indians. The occupants of the for
/ took shelter with friendly Indians.
The heirs to the Lawrence -Townley es
tale in England, valued al 500 00O, ,00l, re
port having found the missing link il
their chain OF evidence-the marriage Gel
titieate of Mrs. Sidney I Brown, of Bag
dad, N. Y. The documents is to bring he
$40 00,0tO,
Several families are reported to hav
been drowned in Medicine river, Kan. b
water spout. Several families of mover
we're camped in the bottoms, many @
whom ost their lives. Large numbers @
stock were drowned and large fields q
crops entirely ruined.
A Fargo Cd. T) ispatch says: Tw
hundred wagons, teams aud drivers wer
shipped to " innipeg to-day TO 90 to th
front to engage in transporting supplies +
the troops fighting Riel. There is grea
activity in all lines OF business here an,
considerable British gold is already in cir
culatien.