The Delta independent., 1886-12-28
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Inc Cunaru line mas cut Storage
tickets to s15, and lively war is now looked
| for.
An estimate upon the costs of the
Colin Campbell divorce case places the fig
ures at e25, 900 sterling.
Land has been purchased from the
| Egyptian Government for the purpose of
widening the Sucz Canal.
A fire at Galveston, Texas, burned
twenty-eight dwellings and two stores. Loss
$1,000 insurance $4,000.
NJ. De Lesseps is credited with the
statement that it will cost 137, ,5OO,O 600 francs
to complete the Panama canal.
| Ex-Alderman McQuade, of New York,
has been sentenced to seven years impris-
onment and to pay fine of 5000.
Mr.. Parnell is very i'll in London, and
his physicians have prohibited him from
taking any part in political discussions.
The coal miners and operators of the
Mahoning Valley, in Ohio, have agreed to
resume work.
A memorial building costing $780,
900 is projected at Sioux City, Iowa, in
| memory of Rev. George c. Haddock, who
| was killed in August last.
The private banking house of V. G.
Hush & Co. at Minneapolis has suspended.
The head Of the house was overloaded with
the paper of an iron mine.
The men on the lines of the Brooklyn
City Railway Company struck, and the peo-
pie on its eleven lines were forced to walk.
The strike ended at night.
The great snow storm in Germany
has ceased, but the railway blockade has
not been raised. There is suffering in some
places for want Of provisions.
Six Knights of Labor are on trial at
Wyandotte, Kansas, for wrecking Mis-
souri, Pacific train during the strike last
Spring and causing the death of two men.
The German students in Switzerland
have been ordered TO rejoin their regiments
Immediately. Many officers who are on
furlough have also been ordered to return
to Germany.
William Mussell. who murdered
Daniel Christman at Eaton. Ohio, Decem-
Der Z, was arrested at Greencastle Indiana,
and taken back 10 Eaton where mob
lynched him.
Two men drove up in front of Min
neapolis jewelry store, fastened the door so
that nobody could get out, smashed the WIN
dow with an axe, and captured s, 600 worth
OF diamonds.
Reports come from Chicago of
movement among the Knights of Labor
there to have Mr.. Powderly deposed, on ac-
count of his action in connection with the
stock Yards strike.
The Cashier of the First National
Bank at Milwaukee left 5000 in partly
signed notes in his office while he went to
dinner. and before he returned some expert
thief had stolen them.
Obey f. Owens, who was sent to
prison for five years for embezzlng $780,
600 from the Third National Bank of ST.
Louis, has been pardoned by the President
after serving one half his term.
Governor Hill of New York has
granted respite until February es to Mrs.
Druse who is under sentence of death. but
he refuses 10 pardon her. II the Legisla.
turc chooses to do II he will not object.
Commissioner Sparks says the recent
decision of Judge Blair in Wyoming on
Homestead case where one entry has been
committed and a second made that il is
contrary to the statute and will not stand.
Mrs. Mcclure and her grown daugh-
ter and son, residing in Maplewood, south
Of Chicago, fastened all the windows of
their house closely and filed the stove full
of coal. They forgot to put on the lid and
the gas killed them all.
Mrs. Susannah Warren, who was
born slave in Florida in 1850. died Decem-
Der last, in the Seminole Indian Nation in
the Indian Territory. She leaves one daugh-
ter who is % years old, and many grand
children, some of whom are nearly 20 years
of age.
A committee has been organized in
London with a view of raising fund for |
woman's and girls offering to Queen Vic
toria in honor of the fiftieth year Of her |
Teipn DoIatloIs ol lrpil oile penny 10 RI
will be received. The Queen will decide on |
the nature of the offering. All the great |
ladies are helping the movement and COM |
mitties have been formed throughout the |
country.
1t is said Emperor William has writ
ten long autograph letter to the Gar with
out having consulted Prince Bismarck, urg
ing the maintenance Of peace and asking
his forbeaance Of any policy tending1t to
bring about an European war. In his letter
the Emperor asks the Gar to give him an
explicit assurance that he will assist in the
preservation of peace during his closing
days. The Gar has sent an atfectionate
to the Emperor assuring him of
his cooperation.
A communication from the Secretary
of the Treasury was laid before the House q
few days ago in which he says that the ca
pacity of the vaults already constructed for
the storage of silver dollars is now practi-
cally exhausted. There is, therefore, he
says, n necessity that provision be made for
the storage of silver dollars at the earliest
practicable day. Estimates are transmitted |
Of the cost of storage vault of 800, ,000. 900 |
within the courtyard of the Treas
ury building. For double steel-lined vault,