The Delta independent., 1888-01-03
TELEGRAPH BRE7ITIES.

None of the missiles hit him.
The Corean embassy are detained at
quarantine at San Francisco on the steam
er Oceanic. There is smallpox on the yes
sci.
Judge Hoffman, in the United States
Court in San Francisco, decides that the
Chinese can import opium through the
Custom House.
The Mexican Government has gran
ed subsidy of &, 900 a round trip to line
of steamers to ply between New York, New
Orleans and Vera Cruz.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has a doubt about the application of
the law to express companies. and Congress
is requested to solve the doubt.
In six years the losses to working
men and employees by strikes and lock-outs
in this country amounted to 50, ,023, ,169. So
says the Commissioner of Labor.
Some seventy-five employees Of the
Minnesota granite works at Hinsdae,
Minnesota, are on a strike and riotiDg.
They are mostly Hungarians and Bohem-
ians.
An attempt was made TO rob Mis-
souri,, Kansas & Texas train in the Indian
Territory by seven well-armed men, but the
trainmen kept them at bay and they failed
to get cent.
The towns of Harper and Anthony
in Harper county, Kansas, are having
county seat war. Harper claims it by a
majority of votes, but Anthony holds it by
an excess of Winehesters.
A man named F. H. Parker worked
into the confidence of the Omaha Methodist
Church and a handsome widow, marrying
the latter and securing money from both.
The funds and the man have disappeared.
The Prussian and German depart
ments of justice have commissioned Judge
Aschrott to sstudy and report upon the
American penal system, with a view of
making it the basis of new system in
Germany.
The Lathrop Memorial Home for
working women's children was dedicated
at Albany, New York. 1t was built by Mrs.
Senator Stanford of California on the site
where she was born and is a memorial TO
her mother.
The soldiers of the York and Lam
caster Regiment at Halifax got on win
drunk while preparing to celebrate Christ
mas in the old English style, and were in
mutinous state when their Colonel stopped
their festivities.
AL the freigh. hands on the Reading
railroad are on strike which threatens TO
spread to tie coal miners and passenger
crews. The road persisted in selling coal
to company employing non-union men,
hence the strike.
Governor Marmaduke of Missouri
died Mt the executive mansion in Jefferson
City on the 2Sth. He had been unwell for
some time and last summer took a brief
trip TO Europe in hopes of improvement.
He was fifty-four years old.
Paddy Ryan and Joe McAuliffe
heavyweight champion at the Pacific
Coast, fought with three-ounce gloves for
81 900 purse at the rooms of the California
Athletic Club, in San Francisco, Friday
night. Ryan was completely used up.
The issue of standard silver dollars
from the mints during the week ending
December ~ was S675, 759; issued during
the corresponding period OF last year s0g-
ps9 The shipments of fractional silver
coin since the first instant amount TO $780,,
o5l.
Mr.. Powderly has sent word TO the
Senate Committee on Post-roads that he
would like an early hearing before them on
behalf of the Knights of Labor in favor of
the Culum postal telegraph bill. and will
be invited to appear soon after the reas.
semblinc of Congress.
The steamer Rowan. which arrived
in Boston on Tuesday last, brought a stow
away, n Scotch boy of Is, and permitted HIM
to land and escape. The Commissioner of
immigration has fined the company $1,000,
and his vessel is detained in port until the
boy is found or the fine paid.
Two of the gang who stopped the
passenger train on the Denver Il Rio
Grande railroad in October last near Grand
Junction, Colorado, were captured yester-
day at Vernal, Unitah county, Utah, by
two ranchmen from Colorado named II. A.
Castle and C. p. Hill, respectively.
The pall-bearers at Mr.. Manning's
funeral were Manton Marble, Rufus w.
Peckham, A. p. German, Charles J. Canda,
Sidney Webster Conrad n. Jordan, Erastus
Corning, Roscoe Conkling, Simon W.
Rosendale, Samuel j. Randall, John II.
Vanantwerp and Hascall II. Pratt.
A dispatch from ST. Petersburg says
the univers ty students there, being irritated
by the action OF the authorities in contining
them to the university buildings, renewed
their rioting. The students deny that they
were actuated by political motives. They
say that their aim is to secure the dismissal
of the rector, the abolition of the new uni
versity statutes and the release of the stu
dents who were arrested during tile recent
troubles.
A committee of gentlemen who have
charge of the fund to purchase and present
a residence to the widow of the late Cen
eral w. s. Hancock, expect that the
amount necessary will be subscribed im-
mediately. Fifteen thousand dollars has
been subscribed In various amounts by
friends Of the late general and the COM
mittee hopes to secure the remainder in