The Delta independent., 1886-12-07
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1t is proposed to build a ship canal
across the peninsula of Florida.
Henry George is to start weekly
paper to be called the Standard.
The public debt was decreased three
million dollars during November.
Henry NJ. Stanley, the African ex-
plorer, has arrived in this country.
The number of cholera cases and
deaths in Buenos Ayres is increasing.
Earthquake shocks continue to be
felt in South Carolina, but not to damag-
ing extent
The extradition treaty with Japan
has become operative by the Presidents pro-
clamation.
1t is reported that the Presidents
message will be considerably shorter than it
was last year.
A new telephone has been invented
which is said to be greatly superior to the
Bell patent.
The Canadian surveyors in the North
west Territory report the discovery of i'm
mense beds of coal in that region.
General Hazen will present bill this
winter to have the Signal Service made a
bureau of the War Department
John Bright does not think England
will return to protective duties until the
United States restores slavery.
President Cleveland has been suffer-
ing from an attack of rheumatism which
confined him to his room for several days.
The widow of Judge David Davis is
afflicted with paralysis, which, while not
endangering her life, renders her unable to
walk.
In the suit of the National Soldiers
Home against General Butler the jury as
sessed a verdict for sl6,5s7 against the war
rior.
A proposition to impose n license of
e.. 900 year on book makers and pool sell
lers is before the city government of st.
Louis.
Nine youths have been sentenced to
death at Sidney, New South Wales, for
committing an outrage on a ten-year-old
servant girl.
Mr.. Sullivan has been reelected Lord
Mayor of Dublin and Mr.. O'Keefe has been
chosen as Mayor of Limerick. Both are
Nationaiists.
Frank kerner. a crazy An archist at
Reading. Pean., choked his wife to death
and endeavored to blow up his house with
a keg of powder.
76Merlatti. after fasting thirty mine
days in Paris, fell from extreme weakness,
and his attendants left him because he re-
fused TO end his fast.
Reports from the principal winter
wheat growing States indicate that the crop
has started in under its snow blanket in
unusually fine condition.
The Delaware. Lackawanna & West
ern Railroad has suspended all its firemen
under 81 years of age in order to give full
employment: TO the married men.
The Attorney General for Ireland ad-
vises the landlords to seek some method of
getting money from their tenants which will
not involve government assistance.
William kurz attempted suicide by
jumping from the Brooklyn bridge. He
turned two somersaults and struck the
water on his back. but was fished out alive.
The President has decided that im-
prisonment for life In Florida will be the
extent of the punishment for the Apaches
They are dying or rapidly in that climate.
George Hazlett and Miss Sadie AL
len, of Buffalo, went through the Niagara
river rapids and whirlpool in n barrel and
were fishcd up afterward in good condi-
ton.
William Herbst, ex-President and
Cashier Seitz, of the First National Bank
Of Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, are under ar
rest for defrauding that concern out of $50
ooU.
The terms for an extradition treaty
have been definitely settled between Eng
land and the United States that will keep
thieves from running into Canada, and vice
versa.
BY the burning of fMackendorf's store
1t Mason, Nebraska, his son and two other
persons lost their lives, and Mr.. Macken-
iorf broke his legs by jumping from the
second story.
The French Ministry was defeated in
he Chamber Of Deputies on the motion to
abolish the Office Of sub-Prefects which the
Government opposed. The Ministers have
resigned.
1t is proposed to connect New South
Wales with British Columbia by submarine
,ables, touching at New Zealand, the Fiji
Islands, Tanning Island and the Sandwich
A st. Louis syndicate has purchased
he property of the Rio Bravo Land and Cat
lie Company, comprising strip on the
Mexican side Of the Rio Grandc 160 miles
long and six miles wide.
The steamer Westernland from Ant
xcrp for New York encountered a hurri-
zane lastw and an immense sea stove in
/ part Of the deck killing four sealnen and
Two passengers and injuring fifteen others.
A recent consignment of United
States mail en- route for Russia was
robbed of l4i registered packages while
passing through Belgium. The money and
taken arc estimated as worth
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