The Delta independent., 1888-02-21
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The President will make a flying trip
to Florida next week. Aa. o
Atchison, Kansas. suffered from a
80 900 FIRE last Tuesday.
Mr.. Childs. of Philadelphia, again
declines the Presidency.
The Kansas City Paper Company
has made an assignment
The Blair Educational bill has pass
ed the Senate by vote of 80 to 90.
A Congressional committee is inves-
tigating the causes which led to the Read
ing strike.
The roof OF the ordnance building
in the Washington navy yard fell in from
snow. The damage is $500
The SHOWS are deeper in eastern
New York than ever before, and people are
obliged to tunnel out to the roads.
The visible grain supply February 7
was: Wheat, 4o,2s7 900 bushels; corn, s.
$50. 600; oats, lsl. 900; rye, 3s1 600; barley,
2, ,s0s, 900.
ID. X Locke, editor of the Toledo
Blade, and writer of the renowned" Nasty"
letters, died Of consumption on the 18th,
aged s. years. . .
Gas was struck at Fort Worth Satur-
day at depth of eighty feet The flames
SCARED sixty feet and the roaring could be
heard for over mile.
Mrs Emmons, whose erratic career
has furnished the gossips Of Washington
with choice morsels for year or two past,
died suddenly on the 18th.
A steel steamer is to be built to run
on the Mississippi river between St Louis
and St Paul which is expected to make the
trip in half the time it takes q wooden YES
sci
The journeymen painters of Pitts
burg and Allegheny have made demand
for 8 day and nine hours work. II 1t is
not granted before March there will be q
strike.
The Census Committee of the Senate
propose 70 draft bill under which the next
census will be taken, that will greatly re-
duce the amount of labor heretofore ex-
pended in this work.
A six-days' walking match was fin
ished in New York last Saturday night. A
man named Albert covered in that time
osiS miles, beating the best previous rec
ord by over ten miles.
The sub committee OF the House
k.s rxaI- NJ,
upon the bill to prohibit the circulation
through the mailsof newspapers containing
lottery advertisements.
Senator ingalls, is preparing speech
on .The political situation generally, and
the mission Of the Anglo-Saxon race on this
continent" which his friends expect will
be the greatest effort ofhis life.
A favorable report has been deter
mined upon by the House JudiciaryCommit
tee OF the Hoar resolution to amend the
Constitution so as to change Inauguration
Day Of the President from March Ito April
80.
A Swiss and Italian syndicate has
been formed which will advance to the Ital-
ian Government 50 000, 600 francs to enable
1t TO complete the Simplon railway tunne
and railway line which will connect there
with. q
Mr.. Blaine has written a letter to
Mr.. Jones, chairman OF the National Re
publican Central Committee, announcing
that he will not permit his name to be used
before the coming convention as that Of
candidate.
Various valuables which were pre-
sented 70 the Pope rs jubilee offerings and
which were on exhibition have been stolen
oles are . chalice valued at $1,000, some
gold snuf-boxes and several pairs Of slip
pers. r. .-I 81 !
The Rush county, Kansas, county
seat-war, which has been waged for
nearly nine years, has been decided by the
Supreme court and officers Of the court
have issued a writ to command the county
officers to move their books and Offices to
Rush Center.
Tho government directors Of tho
Union Pacific, in lengthy report recon-
mend Immediate settlement with the COM
pany OF . well-secured mortgage and com
mend the present management The ma
jority report Of the Pacific Railroad Inves-
tigating Commission Is endorsed.
1t is rumorci in sporting circles
that the wonderful record of Albert in the
New York walking match was q fraud. II
is asserted that there are TWO Alberts, twins,
who resemble one another SO much that
they cannot be told apart and that these
two took turn about in rolling up the 70
markable record.
Fresh ejectments from Oklaiama
have taken place at the hands Of colored
troops, who are said to have handled the
settlers in anything but ugentle manner.
The prisoners were taken to Fort Reno and
there, In most part, they were turned loose,
though some were held for trial at the next
term Of the Federal court
3 The sub committee Of the Senate
Committee on Postoficcs and Post Roads, to
which the Postal Telegraph bills have been
referred, ,has been increased to iive and now
consists Of Senators Sawyer, Reagan, ,Chsce,
Salisbury and Mitchell. IthAs entered upon
Its work and Is expected to present bill to
the Senate without much delay.