Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1885-02-20
LATE NEWS SUMMARY.
Domestic.

Al female resident of Gardiner, Me-, has
been made dangerously i'll by the bite of a
cat.
Vice President-elect Hendricks has re-
turned to Indianapolis from his Southern
tour.
The steamer Alaska at New York has
been attached by the Lake Winnipeg in a
suit for salvage.
The President has transmitted to Con-
gress the econd annual report of the Civil
Service Commission.
Lake Ontario is frozen ten miles out
from the Canadian shore, and the ice is
strong enough for teaming.
The bark Emma, New York, January
18TH for Austria, has been passed at sea,
dismantled and on fire.
Ex-Mayor Edison. of New York. has been
fined $3.50 and sentenced to fifteen days in
Jail for contempt of court.
A strike is impending in the Tuscarawas
Valley, 1000 coal miners refusing to ac-
cept reduction of wages.
Rents in New York tenements and busi-
ness houses, real estate men there declare,
will go downward this year.
The latest cut down in pay is in the case
of the Mayor of Auburn, Me-, who is re-
duced from $3.50 to 800 per annum.
burning of the opera house and some busi-
ness structures at Mt. Sterling, Ky.
English detectives have been inspecting
the passenger lists of the several steam
ship lines in New York for several days
past.
Frank Hanneman, saloon keeper at
st. Louis, was fined $4,000 for keeping
saloon twenty days after his license ex-
pired.
BY fire in residence near ST. Charles,
Mimi, recently, two daughters of nj.
Burns, aged and Ii years, were burned
to death.
A conscientious ex-horse-car conductor
in Jersey City has sent the company $50
the amount of "knock downs" while on
the road.
A large number of counterfeit SO treas
| Webster, have been put into circulation
in Philadelphia.
John Kelly who has been at Rockaway
beach for his health, not being benefited,
| has returned to New York. His condition
| is said to be critical.
| The fund to the credit of the money or
der office in the United States Treasury,
on account of unclaimed money orders,
| now amounts to 81 200 600.
| In an Ohio town, where revival has
been in progress for several weeks, 500
converts have been made and all the sa-
looms in the place closed out.
Fire in the Philadelphia aims house,
February 18th, entirely destroyed that
| portion set apart for the insane, and thirty
4 isv,0v Il 49, Il
j The Boston Board of Aldermen have
/ passed an order making an unanimous
vote necessary hereafter for the issuing OF
a license for pugilistic exhibition.
A Maine man who received two years
ago legacy of $4,000, paid over his last
nickel for whisky the other day, and rolled
into snow-bank to freeze to death.
Adelbert Lerch, editor of the Council
Bluffs German Free Press, has been sent
to Jail for burglarizing Geises brewery
and stealing several hundred dollars.
A bill has been introduced in the lower
House of the Missouri Legislature requir
ing that telegraph and telephone wires il
all cities of the first-class shall be laid an
der ground.
All of the five men who blew open the
safe in Seely's bank, of Osceola, Pa, an6
stole 1880, were captured near Elmira
n. T., on the night of the 18th, after 9
desperate fight.
A woman in New York who showed
her faith in faith-eure doctor by leavina
$4,000 with him, on account, lost bstl
faith and money by his sudden decampine
with the funds.
The late Admiral Powell, in his will, en-
dowed the Columbian University of Wash
lington with property to establish nava
school to prepare students to enter the
Naval Academy.
The entire family of Philip Schraut, 8
German baker, living at 32z Lombard
street, Philadelphia, have been poisoned
by water impregnated in pipes with oxy
died lead. One child has died.
A sugar war has broken out between
Spreckels, of the California Refinery, ano
the American Refinery, which has had the
effect of reducing its price to lower rates
than ever before ruled in this market.
Miss Cora Peters and a man named
Gremsen were married by telegraph the
other day, she in Indiana and he in Ari
zona. The girls parents frowned on the
match, and hence this queer ceremony.
Two youths who smoked cigars in 8
bob-tail car on New York line, and an
swered rudely to ladies who asked them
to desist. were sent to the Island Correc
tion for three months each few days ago.
At Baltimore the 18th inst, Owen Leon
ard, while intoxicated, demanded liquor al
John Murray IS saloon. Being refused, he
attacked Murray with knife, when the
latter drew revolver and shot him dead.
Albert A. Hill, formerly of the editorial
staff of the San Francisco Chroiele, and
late treasurer of the United States Bridge
Company. is reported to the police as miss
ing from home, No. 6 Poplar street, Brook
lyn, since the Sd inst.
DIR. Goersen who was sentenced to hang
at St. Louis on March 5ih for poisoning
his wife and mother-in-law, will probably
escape the gallows. Sadie Louder, niece
of Goersen's wife, eonfessed that her tes.
Foreign
1t is said that there over 10000 Irish
people out of work in London, and fully
| one-tenth of them have been discharged
/ since the recent explosion.
English towns of less than 10, 70 inhabi.
tants have scarcely grown at all in the last
decade. The increase of ports and sea.
board towns is much greater than that OF
those lind.
construct to unite the North and Baltic
seas is to be large enough to admit the
i largest war vessel passing through it. It
is estimated that the work will be com
pleted in five years.
/ The Chinese government will. it is
stated, make an international matter of
the expulsi n of the Chinese from Eureka
Cal. q few days ago, and claim indemnity
| from the United States government for