The Delta independent., 1888-07-17
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IRE lew days ago.
The Academy of Music at Haverhill,
Mass burned on the 7th.
The Burlington switchm.n at Kan
sas City are on a strike.
Mr.. Morton was formally notified OF
his nomination on the 9th.
The Governor OF Missouri has re
fused to pardon Brooks.
The thermometer stood 100 in the
shade In Omaha Thursday.
Large quantities of California fruit
are being sold in Chicago a. auction.
There was terrible wind and hail
storm near Albany, Wis, last week.
All the flint glass factories of Pitts
burg have shut down Tor six weeks.
New Rochelle, N. Y, is excited over
the appearance of the ghost of Tom Paine.
The probability is that Congress
will not adjourn before the first Of Octc-
Der.
The English railroads are introduc-
ing the American system Of checking bag.
gage.
The fifteenth annual conference of
charities and correction is in session at
Buffalo.
A national convention of the Amer
ican party will be held in Washington on
the lath of August.
Senator Quay. of Pennsylvania. has
been chosen chairman of the Republican
National Committee.
Extraordinary efforts are being made
to save the life Of Maxwell. the condemned
murderer OF ST. LOUIS
The Department of Agriculture at
Washington reports Il, ooo, 900 acres of land
planted TO corn this year.
European reports for July make the
wheat crop late and unpromising through
out Europe. Russia excepted.
Through the efforts Of the A. T. & s,
F. men at Kansas City the boycott on the
Burlington road has been raised.
Ht sNapiC VI lhS ettSCt aN CUu-
pany of Wichita was burned few days
ago and forty mules were roasted in the
flames.
The bill to establish land Office a,
been favorabiy reported upon by the House
committee.
Editor Moore of the St. Louis Post
Dispatch, who disappeared few days ago
with the wife of Coione, Norton has been
arrested in Topeka.
II is reported that the coming inter-
view between the Gar and Emperor Will
liam will result in the beirothai of Princess
Margaratto the Czarovitch.
1t is announced that Mr.. Pulitzer.
owner OF the st. Louis Post Dispatch, will
stand by Moore, his wayward managing
editor, to the last.
A train on the Virginia Midland
railroad fell through trestie the other day
a distance OF fifteen feet, killing five per-
sors outright and wounding twenty FIVE
others.
General Master Workman Powderly
has written letter in which he calls st.en-
ton to the alleged corner in coffee and
advises abstantion from the use of coffee
until the corner" Is broken.
The President of the National Asso-
citation OF Union Prisoners of War has is
saed a circular announcing the sixteenth
annual convention OF the association to
take place In indianapolis september Is
and IL next
The exports of breadstuffs from
Southern Russia duriog the coming
autumn are expected TO be enormous. Re-
potts from Odessa Indicate harvesl Of i'm.
mepss promise.
"a proposition to submit TO the peo-
pie of the several states a constitutional
amendment to prohibit liquor traffic in the
United States has been fsvoraSly reported
by Senator Blair. from the Committee on
Educational Institutions in America.
The church agents at Salt Lake City
have turned over to Receiver Dyer the
noted church farm near that city of LILO
NtlNNu Nv Slsb,up. FuILUet IAfEG
amounts of property are expected to be >
claimed within few days in the govern
ment proceedings against the Mormon
church property.
Two of the most prominent of the
striking engineers OF the Burlington rail-
road have been arrested charged with issu-
ing ecretcircuar advising two men from
each division to apply for work in answer
to the advertisements of the Burlington
officials, having first supplied themselves
with good quantity of sal soda and emery
with which to disable the engines.
The Maplewood Park association Of
the Minnesota Chsutauqua is preparing to
bring suit for $40. 900 damage against Rev
DE Witt Talmsge OF BROOKLYN. The asso-
citation charges that Mr.. Talmage agreed to
come to Maplcwood and assist in opening
the assembly on july 3, 4 aud 3. and his
failure TO keep his engagement has dam
aged the association to the amount named
{ A dispatch from Cape Town. Africa.
says the Dubois coal mines at Kimberley
caught fire Tuesday evening. Eight hundre
men are entombed. The work Of rcscue,
which began at ones, still continues, but Il
Is believed 500 persons have per,shed, In.
cluding Mr.. Lindsay, manager Of the com.