The Delta independent., 1888-04-03
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losion near Rich Hill, Missouri, last week.
Ex-Governor William Dorsheimer, of
New York, died at Savannah, Georgia, on
Monday night.
An extensive sleet storm in Iowa and
Minnesota is reported and great damage to
fruit and wheat is feared
Major-General Terry requests that he
be ordered before the Army Retiring
Board on account of ill-health.
After the funeral services of the late
Chief Justice Waite the remains were taken
to Toledo. Ohio. for interment.
The River and Harbor bill calls for
the appropriation of sl9, 49,, ,7s3. This is
the largest amount ever asked for,
More favorable reports are issued
they give rise to the hope that he may be
cured.
The late Chief Justice died poor.
All his family have is their home in WASH
ington valued at s25, 900, and s., 900 life in.
surance policy.
Seven election judges and clerks who
were sentenced in Baltimore to two years.
imprisonment have been pardoned by the
Governor.
DIR. McGlynn has been reelected
President of the Anti-Poverty Society and
James Redpath succeeds Henry George as
Vice President.
Mrs. Julia ID. Grant, through ner
attorney, has served general denial on the
attorneys for General Badeau as her an
swer in the case.
A Greek named Raptohorilos was ar
rested in Paris for robbing the Munismatic
Museum at Athens of ancient coins valued
at soO, 600 900 francs.
DR.. Mary Walker has been attempt
ing to obtain an increase of pension from
Congress. She now draws 3. 20 a month
from the Government.
Gold has been discovered in the
Nipissing district, township of Cortier,
thin a mile Of the Canadian Pacific track.
The ore assays $500 per ton.
James Kerrigan, twenty years of age,
fell dead in the Catholic Church in Chey-
enne last Sunday causing intense excite
mept among the congregation.
The Commissioner of the Land Office
has rendered decision which will result
in restoring ell. coo, 600 worth of timber land
an California to the government
Eighty-fve switchmen from the east
have reached Chicago to take the places of
the strikers on the Burlington road They
report that $50 more can be had when
needed.
The six-days match in London be-
tween the cowboys mounted on mustangs
and the bicyclists terminated in favor of
the latter, they rnakine 9el miles to ssa for
the cowboys.
Sixteen Mormons were convicted at
Provo, Utah. on Saturday last of violating
the Edmunds law, and the most of them
were sentenced to six months Imprisonment
and $500 fine.
The defalcation in the State National
Bank at Raleigh, North Carolina, is now
said to be t7s.ooo instead of $3.50 900, as at
first reported, and 1t is believed that depos-
itors will be paid in full.
The office Of the Minister of Finance
in Cons.antinople was Sesieged by mob of
women who sought to obtain the arrears of
pensions to their husbands, and the Minis
ter was obliged to secret himself to escape
their fury.
Tascott, the Chicago murderer, has
been traced on the Canada Pacific road to
point forty miles from the Pacific Ocean.
where he hired an Indian to canoe him
down Harrison river. Detectives are fol-
lowing bin.
1t was stated at Ottawa that diplo-
matte correspondence is passing between
Great Britain and the United States rela-
tive to the appointment Of commission to
fix the boundary between British Columbia
and Alaska
A bill to amend the naturalization
laws so that applicants will be obliged to
make an oath that they are not polyga-
mists, Anarchists or Communists. has been
In the House by Representa-
tive Stewart, of Georgia
III speeCu NJ otaicy otiuSo, NIL
Balfour declared that America is the most
conservative country in the world. He ex-
planned that the term conservative" was
applied to the affection Of the American
people for their institutions.
The President has sent to Congress a
message recommending legislation to pro-
hlbit the importation OF swine from France
and Germany. It's accompanied by COM
munications from Minister Pendleton and
from the Consul at Marseilles.
The Dominion Government proposes
to nurchasc from the Canadian Pacific Rail-
way company 1900 900 acres of land at q. so
per acre. and In return the railway company
is TO surrender Its monopoly in Manitoba
and the Northwest Territory.
Reliable information is received that
the posses pursuing the murders of Captain
Gribble, superintendent Of the vulture
mine In Arizona, killed one of the robbers
and found bar Of bullion on him, also
jewelry and watch belonging to Grlbble.
tits reported that William X. Van
derbilt has spent $4,000 in the London
curiosity shops. He has large collection
Of bric-H-brAc, curios and objects Of vertu
to take to his home In Amsrica, and the