The Delta independent., 1888-04-10
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

maICH WIS Sll,ooo ,oCo.
General George Crook succeeds Ma
jor-General Terry, retired.
Four thousand Irish emigrants sailed
from Queenstown. Thursday, for America.
An extra session of the Legislature
has been called by the Governor of Texas.
1t is reported that Bismarck has asked
the Emperor to relieve him on account of
his health
6Roscoe Conkling has an abscess in
his right ear and his physicians have Or
dsrsd complete rest and quiet.
The 81. Paul road has laid Off 5, 900
yard and switchmen along its lines until
he present trouble blows over.
The President has signed the bills
granting pensions Of e 900 to Mrs. General
Logan and the widow of General Blair.
The Michigan Central yard employees
at Chicago were out on a strike from am
until pm. and then they resumed work.
Claus Spreckles has decided to locate
his Eastern sugar refinery at Philadelphia
1t will have a capacity of 1000 barrels per
day.
A ticket composed Of women for AL
dermen and woman for Mayor was elect
ed at Oskaloosa, Kansas, by six.y-two ma
ority.
A satisfactory adjustment of the diff
ficulty between the United St,tes and Mo
rocco Is to be reached through the media
tion OF the British, French and italian
Ministers.
1t is authoritatively stated that John
Mclean of the Cincinnati Enquirer, has
bought the stock Of the late William Dors-
hemer in the New York Star.
The Common Pleas court of New
York decides thxt a railroad company is To.
Jponsible for the safety of a passengers
prope, ty when lost In sleeping csr.
Mis-. Tillie Sipp while insane threw
her le-year-old son from the fourth story
window Of New York tenement house
and then Jumped after him. Both will die
The German police have increased
their vigilance on the frontier OF Alssce-
Itlust o
everyone who is not provided with author
ity to enter.
The funeral services over the re-
mains OF William Dorsheimer were held in
Grace church Saturday. Among those
present were Presiden. Cleveland aud Sec.
retary Whitney.
In the lower branch of the Iowa
Legislature a resolution providing for an
amendment to the constitution granting
suffrage 10 women was called up and passed
by vote OF Is to %.
c. ?. McMann. who represents the
Maxwell Grant settlers at Washington,
while distributing circulars on the east
front Of the Capitol discharged pistol and
the police LOCKED him up.
Father Kennedy and sixteen farmer.
OF County Cork have been convicted o. at
tending a national league meeting in pro-
claimed district and were sentenced to
three months Imprisonment
An sronaut named Hogan drol ped
Jackson, Michigan. His parachute worked
suCCtsslullO anu lie Itsrhtu 'Ile tarII safe
ly. though badly OF for breath.
Sunday was the seventy-third ami
ve-sa,y OF Prince Bismarck's birth. Con-
Gra;uls;ory kilograms aud notes Of con-
graduation and gifts OF flowers poured into
the palace during the whole day.
The peace negotiations between the
Italians and Abyssn!ans have ended and
the troops at Massowah are in danger OF an
attack The heat in that city is intense and
Its sanitary condition is deplorabls.
The principal of the Washington
High School while riding a bicycle last
week was run down by the colored coach
man Of Senator Cullum, receiving injuries
from which he died in a few hours.
The residence Of William Walter
Phelps, two miles from Englewood, burned
last week. The fre was caused by the ex-
plosion of gas in the art gallery the loss is
very heavy. Phelps was in New York.
1t is reported that President Cleve-
land will present the name Of Senator
Gray of Delaware to the Senate as the Sic
cessor to the late Chief Justice Waite. The
ChhiV ChpihCt 10 SAil ~ te III lhNol VI HIS
election.
On Sunday afternoon FIRE in the
bull ring at Celeya, Mexico. caused n wild
panic. and number Of women and child
rem were burned or trampled to death.
Eighteen dead are reported. besides scores
of injured people.
Tho boycott of 20" cars has been
permanently raised, and henceforth the
contest will be confined strictly to the %"
system. All strikes except the 20" are to
stop forth with, and NIL those which are i'm
minent are to be averted.
A Pittsburg dispatch says: On tho
sttikers at the Thompson Steel Works re.
fusins to accept his cooperative PROPOSE
ton, Andrew Carnegie at once shut down
the works until January l. 1850. Five
thousand men will become idle.
The bark British Princess has been
wrecked oil Cnminta, Portugal, and twenty
three persons drowned. 1t Is reported that
the Spanish custom officers prevented the
saving Of lives by firing upon the Portu.
guese life-boat which had gone to the res
cue.
Mr.. Cox. Chairman of the Census