Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1885-04-10
LATE NEWS SUMMARY.
Foreign and Domestic.

Jefferson Davis is reported seriously i'll.
His recovery is doubtful.
Loadon has u, ,O01 people who get their
living by appearing in public on the stage.
Twelve miners were killed by an explo-
sionin acoal mine at McAlister, Indian Ter.
The Hanlon- Beach rowing race on the
Parametta river, Australia, was won by
the latter.
land is expected. The reduction will effect
$1,000 people.
Coinage at the Philadelphia Mint in
March was So, 200, 492, including 81, 800. 200
silver dollars.
The mounted police In Manitoba is to be
increased to 800. The rebels are getting
away with them.
Bismark has advised King Leopold of
Belgium against assuming the sovereignty
OF the Congo States.
The will of Willard Dodge, of Kalama.
zoo, Mich, gives SAG, 600 to the female
seminary of that place.
The municipal authorities of Paris, have
voted $1O0000 for the relief OF wounded
French soldiers in Tonquin.
A memorial tree in memory OF Davy
Crockett was planted week before last Ia
front of Tennessee Capito'
Two passengers died of yellow fever on
board the City of Peru during its last trip
from Aspinwall to New York.
A number of Russian officers who have
been sojourning In Paris have leen or
dered to rejoin their regiment.
A fire in Boston destroyed the Continen.
tai sugar refinery. with large amount of
product, the loss being 100000.
The reunion OF the Society of the Army
OF the Potomac will take place at Balti.
more, on the 9th and 7th OF May.
Queen Victoria refuses to permit the ap-
pointment of Valentine Baker to posi-
tion on the staff of Lord Wolseley
A bed of salt seventy. eight feet thick is
said to have been reached at East Aurora,
New York, at a depth of 3 20 feet.
The Princess Montlear, mother of the
late King Charles Albert. of Sardinia. COM
mitted suicide at Lembourg, April I'd.
Cyrus w. Field was refused by London
court sui against James Gordon Bennett
for libel for the reason that both are aliens.
English men of war In African waters
have been ordered to show the greatest
respect to the German flag wherever met.
The war in China is demoralizing the
tea trade in New York. There are 3,oOO,-
GOO pounds less in market than last year.
The glove fight between Sullivan and
McCaffrey Is off, both principals having
been placed under bail TO keep the peace.
The Dominion Government has rejected
the proposal of the Canadian Pacific Rail-
way syndicate for the relief of the COM
pany.
The King is said to have made prepara.
tions to fly from the Capitol in case OF pop
ular riots.
During q recent performance at the Renz
Circus at Vienna, one of the lions attacked
the lion-tamer named Zeth, killing and de.
vouring him.
General Grant receives daily about TWEEN
ty applications for autographs and his son
gives notice that these requests cannot be
complied with.
The widow of George Mccullough has
sued several citizens Of Cotulla, Texas, fol
lynching her husband She demands
$500, 600 damages.
Twenty-Five millions OF acres of lands II
this country are held by a few individual'
who are aliens by birth and who rarei.
visit this country.
At the palace gates in Corea last monu
about forty relatives or adherents OF TIT
leaders of the independent party wer'
publicly hanged.
Charles w. Gould, of Elgin, H., proprie
tor of eighteen cheese factories in that re
gion. has made an assignment with 1iabil
tiles of 100000.
OF those who participated in the war o
1912 hardly dozen are now living. As
toria ILL.,, has one who is 93 years old ant
saws wood for living.
The marriage of Mrs. General Ton
Thumb to Count Mayri took plac
- ~, cf ha nj
Trinity, in New York City.
The S8th anniversary of the birth 6
Emperor William was celeb ated at Berll
with great enthusiasm, the streets bein
brilliant with decorations.
In the province of Viatka. Russia, ther
are produced annually 72,O0O0tO pound
of tar, s, ,400,0OO pounds of pitch and los
600 pounds of turpentine oil.
The Illinois Board of Health Is advise
that there are fifty-one cases OF small DO
at Mound City, caused by infet tod negroe
attending revival meeting.
Six Texas convicts fed from ranch i
Crimes County, recently. Two of ther
were shot down by the guard, and four ar
being pursued by bloohounds.
At London, recent y, Baron Rotch'
child gave a dinner to several hundre
poor unemployed people. The Baron mad
q speech advising emigration to Canadf
The Pope reached the age of seventy -fiv
on the I'd of March. The semt-centenar
of his ordination to the priesthood occur
not this year, as has been stated, but /
1887.
A fire in the extensive lithographing es
tablishment of Schumacher & Ettlingel
No. 32Bleeker street, New York, damage
the buildings and stock to the extent c
1926, 900.
1t cost 100 to repair the damage b
the dynamite explosions in the Parliamen
buildings at London, and $l90, 600 was ex
pended duringSthe year upon extra polio
for that city.
An English firm in Birmingham ha
made during the past six months 20, COO, 90
cartridges for China and consigned ther
to a German officer in active service unde
the Pekin Government.
There reside In Leicestershire, Engl4nd
upwards of 1000 heads of families who ar
threatened with prosecution on account O
their conscientious refusal to allow thei
children to be vaccinated.
Hiram H. Kimpton, formerly Wal
street broker and worth about $2,0v0,00(
has been committed to the care OF the con-
missioners of charities and corrections
He beggared himself by drink
Sylvester J, Osborne skating professor
who eloped with Rebecca Kearslev, al
heiress, some time age, has been SENTENCED
to three years in the New York peniten
tiary for bigamy. He pleaded guilty.
A sack supposed to contain seeds explo
ded in the postoffice at Temesvar, Hun
gary, and dangerously wounded two per
sons. The bags passed through the mail
: from Germany ana inciosed dynamite.
At Shafpsville, Pa, the Catholic citizen
have petitloned the Mercer county courts
asking that the School Directors O