Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1885-03-06
LATE NEWS SUMMARY.
Foreign and Domestic.

Ice in Cuba is worth ten cents pound.
An extra session of Congress is not
improbable.
Five men were recently asphyxiated in
a Chicago sewer.
The public debt was decreased about
$3, ,000, ,0U0 during February.
There are $50 tradesmen in Paris who
deal in nothing but old postage stamps.
A large portion of the business section
of Vassar, Mich, was destroyed by fire.
The number of letters posted in the
world every year is said to be o2,0OO,OOO.-
COO.
The Canadian government has increased
the duty on American flour to IS cents per
barrel.
The National Theatre at Washington,
n. c., was destroyed by fire on the q inst.
Loss, about S160,00.
A Wabash train which left Chicago ran
into snow drift within two hours and re-
NAMED there three days.
Rear Admiral George Henry Preble,
retired officer, died suddenly at Boston
recently; aged SO years.
Athens, Ga, has heen thrown into con-
sternation by the threat of dynamite in
case of whisky being voted out.
Thirteen anarchists were arrested at
Berne, during the day, in addition to the
ten captured in the morning raid.
A negro at Marshall, Texas, caused his
wife's death by pouring kerosene over her
clothing and setting them on fire.
Joseph Edward Cauchan, Ex-Governor
of Manitoba, and an eminent lawyer,
journalist and statesman, is dead.
A woman in the City of Mexico gave
birth to seven children in one day. The
babies died, but the mother survives.
The wages of workmen in the Texas
and Pacific Railroad shops at Marshall,
Texas, have been reduced l2a per cent.
The Fenian Brotherhood has been re-
viyed in the East. They talk of invading
Canada and sending troops to El Mahdi.
Adviees from Cape Coast Castle state
that the British hanged ten of the leading
participants in the murders and riots at
Winnebah.
An unknown young man arrived at
Niagara Falls, walked on the ice bridge,
looked around, drew a revolver, and shot
himself dead.
The steamer Benwell Tower, from Balti-
more for Liverpool, was abandoned Janu-
ary 20 in sinking condition. Two OF the
crew perished.
The remains of Major McDermit and
fortv-two soldiers have been removed from
Fort Churchill and inferred in the Carson
New cemetery.
To prevent another raid into Oklahoma,
five troops of cavalry and company OF
infantry are encamped at the Ponca Indian
Agency and Camp Russell.
Jack Burke, pugilist, is out in a chal-
lenge to Paddy Ryan to spar four or five
rounds, for $500 side, within two weeks,
the winner to take everything.
A horse sale at Lexington, KY, attract
ed purchasers from different States. In
four days 288 head changed hands, the
amount realized being $S8, 600.
HIP. Veazle, railway mail clerk at
New Orleans, has sued the Mississippi
Valley Road for $4,000 damages occca-
stoned by the wrecking of a train.
From report received by the Horticul-
tural Society, the entire peach crop OF
Kansas will be a failure, with probabll,
ity of the death of young orchards.
Thos. Bostwick, well known saloon
keeper at ST. Louis, killed Mrs. D. Is. Nc
Cue. and then fired two bullets into his
head and stabbed himself five times.
Pekin adyices state that all dignitaries
of the Chinese mission have been sum-
mOned to give opinions as to the expedi-
ency of continuing the war with France.
A Catholic missionary organ states that
several hundred Catholics resident at
Yunnan have been massacred in sbedi-
ence to secret orders from the Chinese
Viceroy.
An invention by two Canadians, by
which telephoning and telegraphing can
be carried on simultaneously on the same
wire, was successfully tested between To-
roHto and Hamilton.
The French envoy, who was about to
return from China to France, has been IN
structed tn remain in Shanghai and await
the expected resumption of relations with
the Chinese Government.
At London, Feb. 26, while a number OF
artillery officers and scientific men were
testing new patent fuse a terrible expio'
sion occurred. Three men were killed out:
right, and severaily fatally wounded.
Fifteen thousand attended the Nation
alists' meeting at Phoenix Park. Dublin,
recently. Resolutions were adopted de-
nouncing Speaker Peel for suspending
O'Brien from the House of Commons.
Governor Sheldon, ef New Mexico, has
offered reward of 81 600 for the capture
of border ruffian named Dick Rogers,
who has bas been running the town OF
Ration at intervals during the last three
or four weeks.
Oders have been issued from the war
office at London for the immediate medical
inspection of every regiment OF the Brit
ish army, with view of attaining cor
rect estimate of the number of men avail
able for active service.
Representative Logan, OF Whiteside
county, Illinois was stricken with heart
disease in the Illinois Legislature Feb 2e
and fell dead on the floor of the house
His death will not effect any change in
the election of United States Senator.
Ostrich farming in South Africa has ad-
vanced with such strides that the number
of tame birds there is estimated to have
increased from eighty in 1865 TO at least
10 600 in 1884. producing feathers for ex.
port to the value of about $3,0O QUO per
annum.
A petition has been laid before Attorney
General Brewster at Washington, asking
for the pardon of Douglas Vanderhoof, OF
St. Paul, who was sentenced in the United
States Court to ten years imprisonment
for embezzling $40, 900 from the First Ma
tional Bank of st. Paul.
The N. Y. Tribune and Chicago Inter
Ocean print sensational articles stating
that the Fenian centres at Chicago, New
I.York. Buffalo, Philadelphia and Boston
have received orders from the head centre
to furnish immediately 90 men each to
go to Soudan and assist El Mahdi.
Within a few davs after the bill was
| passed by Congress restoring the north
eastern corner of the Yellowstone Park
| n tho nuhlic domain night STAMPEDE