Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1885-02-07

elevated road was laid on the 9th ult.
Ell Paso, Texas, is making it hot for
bnnko men, tramps and horse thieves
The Y. M. C. A. of New York last week /
celebrated its thirty-second anniversary.
Chief Engineer Melville wants to go on
another expedition in search of the North
pole.
A white female child, aged I6 months,
was found in Chinese brothel at San
Jose, Cal.
George j. Gould, son of Jay Gould, has
seat in the New York Stock
Exchange.
The heirs of Ahneke Jams are about to
begin another suit against Trinity church,
New York.
The Senate failed to pass the Nicaraguan
treaty. It lacked five votes for two
thirds vote.
A forty-foo whale, worth $l,9lO, has
been captured off the village of sSouth-
ampton, l.. |.
The brig Hibernian and the schooner
Messenger from Portland, Maine, are be-
lieved to be lost.
Florida is discussing the erection of an
$4,000 to $4,000.
During the last year 32a, 800 steerage pas.
sengers and 59, 500 cabin passengers land
ed in New York city.
The report that fourteen men were
frozen to death during a recent blizzard
in Nebraska is denied.
The run on the New Haven, Conn, Saw
ings Bank subsidized after two days. Over
$2 0,000 was drawn out.
Only two tickets were sold for Victoria
Notwithstanding concert in Rockford,
ILL.,, last week, and she did not sing.
The entire building fund of Methodist
society in a Michigan city is said to have
been lost at faro by two of the trustees.
The coinage of the United States mint
at Philadelphia during last year aggre-
gated 02, 100 pieces, valued at sic, ,949,-
The widow of 'Stonewalr Jackson has
consented to allow his war horse, "Old
Sorrel, to go to the New Orleans exposi-
ton.
Tons of the best butter have been
bought at twenty cents per pound from
New York dairymen within two weeks
past.
A speculative Yankee has rented six
teen halls in Washington, in which he
will put up 5000 cots for Inauguration
week.
At the annual Hebrew charity ball at
the Academy of Music, Philadelphia, 600
we're present. The receipts were over
SIS, GOO.
A vigilance committee, called the Isl
cily Guards" has been formed in Gage
county, Neb., to protect horses and mules
from thieves.
A 7O-year-old citizen of Morrisville, vt.
who had lost second wife few months
ago. dropped dead recently while about to
marry another.
The Governor of Ohio renews his recon-
mendation that in Presidential years the
election OF state and county officers be
held in November.
William E. Lehman. aged 53, was found
dead in his cabin at Deals shore, near An
napolis, Md, cut to pieces. There is no
clue to the murderer.
Theodore Schuren, a prominent and
wealthy florist of Cleveland, O., was
found in bed at a hotel in Young, town,
dead from escaping gas.
The State Sunday law compelling the
closing of saloons, billiard halls, cigar
stores and fruit stands, is now being rig
idly enforced in Little Rock, Ark.
Thomas Daily, wealthy retired banker
of Atlantic City, N. j., dropped dead in the
Catholic Cathedral of Philadelphia, while
attending the funeral of a sister-in-law.
All the funds of the Island City Savings
Bank at Galveston in the hands of the
State National Bank, of New Orleans,
how hoor. at+onbod ~ nj IN, rf n0n
New York city provides free baths only
for the summer season, and it is now pro-
posed in the interest of good sanitation,
to extend the privilege to the winter
months.
The House committee on postoffices and
post roads will favorably report substi-
tute for bills pending before it relative TO
reduction OF newspaper postage from
two cents to one cent per pound.
The fly wheel of the Western Nail Mill,
Belleville, H., burst the other day. caus-
ing damage of SO 010. No one injured.
The escape of 900 workmen ia miraculous.
The building was nearly demolished.
Secretary McCulloch has addressed a
communication to the Speaker of the
OF $500, for the construction of an ad-
ditional vault for the storage of silver.
e. F. Mahony has instituted suit
against the Union Electric School of Tel
egraphy, at Cincinnati, to recover ex.
penses incurred hy himself and wife in
going there from San Francisco to learn
telegraphy.
Mrs. Mary T. Dovley. of Des Moines. Ia,
saicided last week with opium. She also
administered some to her son, aged 5, and
daughter of 10. The son died hut the
girl recovered. They were in destitute
circumstances.
Vigorous'efforts are being made atICedar
RaDids, Iowa. to enforce the prahibitory
law. Several liquor sellers have been held
in bonds for maintaining nuisance, and
there have also been two or three convic-
tions for violating the law.
President Smith, of the Oregon Railway
and Navigation Company. denies that the
usual dividend will be passed because of a
decrease in the earnings. He says it win
be paid, and Ithat the earnings are at the
rate of more than per cent.
Secretary Lincoln has instructed Briga-
dier-G General AuQur to turn over to the
civil authorities for prosecution such lead
ers among the Oklahoma boomers as vio-
lated section 2148 of the revised statutes
relating to the subject in dispute.
A Straightsville, o., dispatch says: The
mine at Plummer Hill has been fred
There is no hope of extingufshing the fire.
The mine is valued at 500, ,000 Addition.
al guards were placed there recently,
which fact is supposed to be the cause of