The Delta independent., 1888-09-25
TELEGRAPHC BREVIIIM.

New Orleans.
Mr.. Carlisle has been re-nominated to
Congress from the Sixth Kentucky district.
An incendiary fire, at Paducah, KY.
caused loss OF 500, 900. half covered by In
| surance.
DR.. B. Brawble OF Cincinnati has
purchased Libby Prison at public auction
for s1l,oco.
Keely states that it will take $780,.
100 to put his motor in such condition that
1t would operate.
The German-Australian steamship
company has been founded at Hamburg
with capital Of 4,ooo. 900 marks.
1t is estimated that over two thous.
and speeches are being delivered every
night now throughout Hoosierdom.
The bill to create an executive de.
partment Of agriculture stands at the head
of the Senate calendar as unfinished busi
ness.
The international literary and artis-
tic congress At Venice has declined to au
lhorize that copyright shall include the
right of translation.
The business portion of Florence,
Wis, was wiped out by fire Friday after
noon. Fifty-six buildings were. burned
No particulars. Loss, $4,000.
At caucus of the Democratic mem.
oers Of the House held . few days ago II
was decided that the House should not in.
iiate an adjournment resolution.
The news of the spreading Of yellow
fever at Decatur, Alatama. is confirmed
There is great excitement there and people
arc fleeing. The stores are all closing up
The Chronicles Berlin correspondent
says that Prince Bismarck has asked En-
peror Williams permission TO resign, bul
that It is unlikely that any change will bt
made at present
An attempt was made by a mob oi
300 Saturday night to break down the
doors OF the lookup at Rochester, Pa, and
lynch John Nicoli, an Italian charged
with assaulting two little girls.
Spokane Falls, Washington Terri
tory, has just been visited by another fire
which destroyed about sas, 900 worth Of pro
perty. The insurance Is oabout SIS, goo
There is every reason to suspect that these
frequent fires are the results of incen
diaries
The Calumet and Hecla company
offers 60, ,0oo reward for information lead
ing to the conviction Of the persons who
set fire to Hecla shaft No. In the sixteenth
level last November. This shows that tn.
fire Is ct last conceded 70 be OF incen
diary origin.
X. F. Seymour. who says he is from
Chicago. in daylight stole five pack
ages OF money fIom two New York banks
the aggregate being s1l, 100. After he had
fred three shots at the officers who chased
lin, he was caught All the money say,
s., 900 was recovered.
Rear Admiral Kimberly, command.
ing the Pacific station, telegraphs to the
secretary of the navy from San Francisco
that he has sent word to the commander o.
the United States steamer Nipsic, at Cal
lao, to proceed at once to Samoa for the
protection of American interests.
A Wholesale haul Of horse thieve.
was made Tuesday night by Deputy Sheri,
Rogers of Crook county, who captared five
Of mo gentry near Sundance. They had
In their possession band OF horses, some
stolen from Dundy county, Nebraska.
ranohmcn and others as indicated by the
brards from Kansas and Texas.
News received from the South Sea.
shows there wns heavy fighting on the Mar.
ones, group before the natives allow the
French to hoist their flag and take posses
si0n. Two hundred French warriors and
several thousand natives were killed. Tn.
natives rctreated to the mountains, from
whence II will be difficult to dislodge them
A heavy fire is reported at Spokane
Falls, Washington Territory. which destroy,
ed whole business block. doing damage
amounting to $loo, 900 and but partially in,
sured. During the progress Of the fire ar
explosion occurred. but no one was injured.
For some time 1t looked as " all the bust.
ness portion of the town would be de-
troyed.
A special from Paola, Kansas, says
ghastly discovery was made at the For,
Scott S Memphis depot to-day. Last
raesday mysterious box was left thert
by a well dressed man, who asked to have
It checked to Fontana, Kansas. BY some
n,ishap the box was broken and askeleton
exposed to view. The mysterious stranger
promptly fed.
John Murphy. deputy postmaster OF
Artesian City, Meaie county, Kansas, wa.
! arrested Monday on the charge Of robbins
the United States Express Company Of slO
100. Tho robbery was committed at Green
Vile, Ohio. year ago. Murphy was
driver for the company. He confessed hi.
guilt ard returned 5000 of the stoler
money. He is now on his way tc Ohio.
A Jacksonville dispatch Of the 18th
says I'VE have had a bright, sunshin,
but delusive day, in which the pestilencs
has seemed t. do Its worst It has been the
most terrible in our history. The record oi
new cases Is ,58 for the "a hours ending a,
.. m. This includes some IS cases report
ed by the medical bureau just after the
official reports closed. The death roll /.
twenty"
Tho London Chronicles Berlin cor,
respondent says that France has submitted
10 the csar the draft Of treaty OF alliance