The Delta independent., 1888-03-06
TELEGRAPH BRE1IIIES

The death of the Crown Prince is
daily expected.
A great religious revival is in pro-
gress at Ottawa, Canada.
, The Democratic National Conven-
| tion goes to St. Louis, and June is the
J date.
Twenty-eight counties in Michigan
have voted for prohibition under the local
option'law.
Senator Frye of Maine says the fish
cries treaty will be rejected by an over
whelming vote.
Twenty-six cases of alleged illegal
Court at Santa Fe.
The Knights of Labor offer to send
300 engineers from Philadelphia to the Bur
lington road at once.
The public debt reduction for last
month amounted to s7,75s, 1856. The Treas
ury now holds S572, ,39o, ,9s9.
Chief Arthur has requested all the
Brotherhood engineers engaged on the
Reading road to quit work.
The Utah Legislature have adopted
memorial protesting against the removal
Of the Colorado Utes to Utah.
Personal Liberty clubs have been
formed throughout Maine to try to secure
the repeal of the prohibitory law.
1t is reported that the fight between
Sullivan and Mitchell will take place about
the 18th of March and probably in Spain.
DR.. McGlynn has secured an iniunc-
tion restraining Henry George and others
from incorporating an Anti-Poverty So.
ciety.
Seventeen bodies have been recover
ed from the sunken steamer Julia, at Val
lejo, California, and twelve persons are
still missing.
Pete Mccartney, known as the king
of the Counterfeiters," has been arrested in
New Orleans on the charge Of raising one
dollar bills to fifties.
Ex-Treasurer La Pache, of Colfax
county, Nebraska, has absconded, leaving
deficit in the state funds OF about eight
cen thousand dollars.
By the giving way of an iron girder
in nearly completed new hotel in Kan
sas City, six workmen were badly injured
and one has since died.
Mrs. Langtry was compelled to can
eel her engagement inTChicago on account
of III health, but Manager McVickers has
sued her for 5000 damages.
Tom Forsythe. who confessed at
Carthage, Texas, that he murdered County
Treasurer Hill and cut oG his head, was
lynched by q mob of 400 men.
1t is reported that there are thirteen
opium factories in British Columbia and
the surplus product in refined opium is
smuggled into the United States.
The conductors and brakemen on
the Atlantic & Pacific road have struck
against reduction in wages and no trains
are moving. About 20 men are in it.
= The will of the late W. W. Corcoran
| has been offered for probate. The greatest
portion of the estate, which is valued at
IS, ,Ooo, 600, is left to his grandchildren.
Mr.. Blaine's personal reasons for
declining are said to be financial ones The
| last campaign nearly bankrup;ed him, and
about all he now has is what he made out
OF his book, Twenty Years in Congress-"
A rousing mass meeting was held in
Albuquerque Saturday favoring statehood.
The majority of the people of the Terri
tory are strongly in favor of state govern
ment.
A fire at Sutter Greek, California,
burned all of the business houses. The
town has a population of 1,5oo. The
loss is somewhere between 100000 and
seoo, 900.
A large number of unemployed
workmen eff Rome engaged in n riot. They.
pillaged the hake-shops and drove off the
police with stones. TIE troops finally dis
persed the mob.
NJ. Wilson, ,ex-Presldent Grevy's SON.
in law, has been convicted aud sentenced
to two years Imprisonment and fine of
5000 francs for his completely in the Legion
of Honor scandals.
Tho Curtis building in Buffalo
burned. The Express newspaper Office and
Matthews .S Sorthrup, printers and itho-
graphers, are the heaviest losers. rhe loss
will aggregate se5o,o
The village of Valtorta in northern
Italy has been buried in an avalanche
Troops have been sent thither 10 aid in dig
ging ont the people. Twenty-three corpses
have been recovered.
The London police are trying to
prevent the fight between Sullivan and
Mitchell. They have watched Sullivan's
quarters closely and they We're astonished
to learn that he had disappeared.
The express car on the St. Louis,
Arkansas h Texas road was robbed Of IS,
0oo or Sl0,o 600 at Kingsland, Arkansas. The
ho,d-ups smashed in the doJr of the car,
which had been locked against them.
At the meeting of cattlemen at Fort
Worth, Texas, resolutions were passed
denouncing the bill to abolish the Bureau
of Animal Industry and to substitute
therefor board to be appointed by the
President.
The Republicans of New Mexico
will hold their Territorial Convention
a. A.