The Delta independent., 1888-11-13
HELEGRAPHIC BREVIHIES.

The Republicans carried Kansas by
about 70, 600 majority.
Harrison is being deluged with con-
gratulatory kilograms.
A Texas woman gave birth to six
children one day last week.
The Tammany candidate was elected
mayor of New York by large majority.
Several lives have been lost in Min
resota prairie fires within the past few
days.
New York, Indiana and Connecticut
seem to have gone Republican by decided
maiorities.
Fifteen miners were killed by an ex-
pIosion in a coal mine at Lock Haven,
Penn, last Saturday.
The centennial of the inauguration
of Washington is to be observed in New
York April 80, 1859.
A large sugar refinery in Chicago
was wrecked by an explosion in the starch
drying room few days ago.
A terrible collision occurred on
Wednesday on railway in southern Rus
sis near Kouel. Many were killed.
Miss Anna Dickinson has sued the
National Republican committee to recover
81, ,25O for services rendered during the CAM
paign.
Cleveland did not not seem greatly
disturbed by the result of the election. He
has not deter mined where he will make his
future residence.
The Republican and Democratic pro-
cessions in New York last Saturday night
had each between fifty and seventy-iye
thousand men in them.
1t is said that Prince Bismarck has
asked Emperor William to relieve him Of a
great portion of his duties, and to appoint
in his stead his son, Count Herbert.
The mausoleum of the Emperor
Frederick, OF which the corner stone has
just been laid at Potsdam, will be a repro
duction OF the Sepulcher Church at Jerusa-
lem.
Fifty persons have been arresteu IN
Moscow, including Professor Holxoff, pro-
prietor of the pan-SIavist paper Rnsski
Mysol. Other arrests have been made al
Charkof.
English and German gunboats have
been ordered to Formosa to protect the in
terests of foreigners there. A rebellion
has broken ont among tie Chinese resi-
dents against excessive taxation.
The results OF the Prussian election
in 246 districts are as follows: Conserva.
tives s3 seats, free Conservatives II, Cen.
treists A, National Liberals, 70. Freeisin-
niege Is, Poles :, Danes ., Guelphs > All
the Berlin members have been reelected.
A dispatch from Jacksonville, Flor
ida, dated the 5th says: 1.-The colored Re-
publicans, shout 100 strong, are indulging
in an impromptu parade tonight. This is
the first note of band heard on the streets
and the first sign OF life after nishtfalI for
fully three months.
DR.. Harris, of Washington, is the in
ventor of new system of machine tele-
grsphy by which messages are printed at
the farther end, the sending instrument be-
ing similar to type writer. He claims to
be able to send 200 words a minute, and
that the machine will revolutonize tele-
graphy, making 1t cheaper to send by wire
than by mail.
After nearly year of silence, the
sunset and sunrise guns will be heard at the
various army posts throughout the country.
The appropriation for powder ran out
nearly year since and the sunrise and
sunset guns were abandoned. Last week
an order was issued directing the resump-
ton OF this practice and the daily raising
ard lowering of the colors.
According to reports received by the
Department of Agriculture over 300 Nor
mons have emigrated from Utah to The
Canadian Northwest during the past sea-
son. The settlements already established
south of the Canadian Pacific are thriving.
The Mormons cannot take up land before
agreeing to abandon polygamy. They are
devoting themselves to cattle raising.
President Cleveland s&id to repor-
ter the day after election: II look upon
the situation from q practical and common
sense standpoint 1t is not a personal INST
ter. 1t is not proper to speak of II either
as my victory or my defeat. 1t was a con.
test between two great parties battling for
the supremacy OF certain well defined
principles. One party has won and the
other has lost. That is all that there is in
it."
General Harrison, says a correspon-
dent, did not rise very early the morning
after the election. 1t was o'clock when
the bulletins1ceased coming for the night,
and the General retired after figuring ont
from the Indiana precincts that the result
showed net gain of elk votes to a precinct
which, II maintained throughout, would
turn the state Republican. This was hope.
full, even encouraging news. At least it
proved good news for the General to no to
bed on, for he got good nights rest He
is looking and feeling in excellent health
and spirits. At O'Clock the bulletins
were resumed and seemed to set at rest all
daubts about New York.
The campaign that has just closed
cost an immense amount of money; more
than twice as much rs any previous one.
The exact amount Is d,ficult to estimate,
but each of the National Committees
raised and spent more than Il, 600. 900, and
each of the New York State Committees
81 ,00o. 900 more. Tho Democrats sent out
II, ,0o0, 0Ooiocuments from their headquarters
In New York. which does not include those
,-.>uod - tha;, ,,n stltnaut. hv CnpCrass.