The Delta independent., 1888-01-10
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The London Times celebrated the
one hundredth anniversary of its founda-
ton on the end.
Mr.. Gladstone will treat with the
Vatican for its support in the home rule
struggle for Ireland.
The railroads in Minnesota, Iowa,
blocked with snow.
The works of the Stevens & Bruce
Iron company at Kansas City burned. Loss
slo5, 600; fully insured.
A fire at Los Angeles, California,
burned the Los Angeles Furniture Com
pany's works, Loss, 100000.
The flint glass-workers of the Allan
tic coast have Joined the Pittsbusg strikers,
and bitter contest is predicted.
Ammi Baldwin, the indicted cashier
OF the Fidelity: National Bank of Cincin-
| natl, died suddenly at his residence of heart
disease.
The President by proclamation has
separated Greer county from the great
state OF Texas and added 1t to the Indian
Territory.
Tom Buttstield, a young farmer liv-
rest on the charge OF poisoning lhis father
and mother.
Mexico is giving encouragement to
capital to be invested in smelling gold
ores in that republic and English capital is
flowing thither.
The last span OF the International
bridge over the Rapids at Sault Ste. Marie
! was completed Just before noon on Dec
3lst, amid universal rejoicing.
In the southern states the amount OF
capitsl including the capital stock of incor
porated companies for 1857, was sa5S, ,29s,
600, as against sle9 eeS, 600 for 1856.
Chicago has a storage capacity for
q, ,67o, 900 bushels OF grain, and there were
l2ae, ,3J5, 500 bushels Of wheat, corn, oats and
barley shipped from that :city in 1857.
The Herald. of Gauda Springs, KAN
sas, announces tha. the Oklahoma boom
ers are awaiting action by Congress which
will permit them 10 enter the coveted coun-
try.
Some soventy-five employees Of the
Minnesota granite works at Hinsdale
Minnesota, are on strike and riotiDg
They are mostly Hnngarians and Bohem-
ians.
Six persons were killed and fifteen
or more were injured by collision on the
81 D,;t
dent was caused by one OF the conductors
misleading his orders.
A fire New Years morning destroyed
Seminary Chapel at Quebec, together with
about half million dollars worth of orig
inal oil paintings. Insurance. So,ooc. The
chapel was erected in l7s5.
The celebration of Pontifical high
mass by the Pope in 81. Peters was attend
ed by GO, 900 people. King Humbert said
the smoothness OF the service was the best
evidence OF the Pope's liberty in Rome.
Tho white and black soldiers at JEFF
ferson Barracks, Missouri, got into a fight
after getting drunk and three or four of the
number were dangerously hurt. Four
troops of cavalry were sent against them.
Governor Marmaduke of Missouri
died at the executive mansion in Jefferson
City on the 18th. He had been unwell for
some time and last summer took n brief
trip to Europe in hopes of Improvement.
He was fifty-four years old.
At Fulton. Kentucky. two white boys
named Bruce and Hays Eddings were
elected from colored dance. They re-
turned and while one held the door open
the other fred two charges OF buckshot
into tho crowd. wounding seven persons
The total documented tonnage of the
United States merchant vessels is 4, los, ,sIi,
distributed as follows: Atlantic and Gulf,
a,6Ss, ,212; Pacific coast $50, AS; northern
lakes, 7sS, III; western rivers. Ss7, ,s0s. The
foreign registered tonnage is l,0l5, 500 tons.
An l.S00-ton bark. bell eyed to be an
American vessel. has been wrecked at the
entrance of Waterford Urelandl harbor.
Her crew consisting of twenty-five persons
were all drowned. The vessel is supposed
to be the ship Eureka, Captain Southland,
which sailed from San Francisco August 10,
for Queentown, with q cargo of wheat.
The first oysters ever shipped from
Texas were carload lot shipped to Kansas
City from Galveston last week as an ex-
pertinent, which, II successful will bring
the price OF bivalves down somewhat. For
ty and fifty cents dozen is the price
charged for Baltimore oysters in that city,
while the Texas parties claim they sell their
oysters In Kansas City for $3.50 per barrel,
or about cents dozen.
The Emanue Presbyterian church,
one OF the finest in Milwaukee, was totally
destroyed by fire at an early hour Sunday
morning. Nothing but the bare stone walls
are left. Loss, saoo,0oo. Insurance., sss,-
900. The building was erected In 1878 at n
cost of seoo,ooo The organ cost sls,ooO. A
fierce blizzard was raging at the time and
was with the greatest difficulty that the
fire engines reached the scene. No casu
alties.
The Popo laments the revolutionary
spirit fermenting In many states, and says
he is preparing two encyclicals dealing
with socialism, the license of the press and
the great power of universal suffrage, which
he considered terribly menacing. The Pope
gives the jubilee gift money tn the st.