The Delta independent., 1888-04-24
TELEGRAPH BREYTrlES

The Central Labor Union of New
York has declared boycott on all pool
beer.
The New York Assembly has passed
bill which substitutes electricity for
hanging.
A son of Henry Watterson stabbed a
woman in Washington with whom he had
become infatuated.
The brewers lockout in New York
has begun and more than 5000 men are
thrown out of work.
Matthew Arnold, poet, scholar, critic
and theologian, died suddenly in Liver
pool of heart disease.
The editor. publisher and two sub
editors of the Social Democrat are to be ex-
PEELED from Germany.
The election of General Boulanger
excites lively discussion among the French
papers on its significance.
The brewery of Philip Freisnus &
Sons at New Haven, Connecticut, burned
Loss tl5o.ooo Insurance 10000.
The upper Mississippi is higher than
it was ever known before, and the water is
over the railroad tracks at Winona.
The bill to legalize marriage with
deceased wife's sister has passed the House
of Commons by a vote of 239 to ls2.
Emperor Frederick has given orders
for the prosecution of all newspapers that
may be guilty of insulting the Empress.
A fire at Owensboro. Kentucky. de-
stroyed half block in the business portion
of the town. Loss, slT5,ooo: Insurance.
| SIS, coo.
The union ,nalsters and brewers of
Chicago are on a strike, and the brewery
owners OF New York threaten general
lock out
The School of Mines at Rapid City.
Dakota. has succeeded in reducing tin or.
and plans for the erection of large works
have been formed.
The twenty-third anniversary of the
dea'h OF Abraham Lincoln was observed st
Springfield, lll.Doi-, last SstuI dh! by the
Lincoln Memorial League.
Joseph NJ. Brown, engineer OF 20"
switch engine at Nebraska City. was Sc;
up-n by unknown men and terribly beaten.
He ioot the place OF a striker.
A broken levee above Portage, Wis
constr, has let the water from Wisconsin
river over n large area Of country and vii!
delay the agricultural season oue month.
Fotheringham. the Adams Express
messenger who was held on the charge Of
robbng that company, has secured ver-
dict Of 81. .0O0 damages for ,alse imprisor-
ment-
A portion of the stables of Senator
Stanford nj Palo Alto burned. Involving a
loss of 500 Oco Three fine horses we'e
burned to death and two were severely in
tureh.
The opinion prevails in Washington
tina, the President has selected Hon. +. J.
Phelps, United States Minister to England,
as the successor TO the late Chief Justice
Waite.
Mrs Grassie A. Bulkley. the di.uCh-
ter of Judge Curtis J. Hilyer, of W .shing-
ten whose elopement and marriage treated
a sensation some months ago, cor united
suicide.
A satisfactory adjustment of Uhe diff
ticul;y between the United States and No
rocco is 10 ce reached through thn media
,ion of the British, French and italian
Ministers.
Roscoe Coukling died on thu 18th
after n week of most intense suffering. His
sickness was brought on by expo urr in
the great blizzard tha. visited New York
last month.
Hon. b. +. Askew of Magnolia.
TexGs. was terribly bitten bya mnd dog.
The dog was killed as he was abe ut to a,
tack some children. He started at once
for Paris TO test Pas,eur's cure.
Mayor Hewitt has vetoed the reso-
luton passed by the New York Board Of
Alderman to repeal the ordinance which
gives HIM the power to control the rails
ing OF flags over the City Hall.
A dispatch from Calcutta says that
the damage caused At Dscca by the recent
tornado will amount TO 10000 rupees and
that ia bodies have been recovered from
the ruins, and over Looo persons who were
more or less injured are in the hospital.
The weekly weather crop bulletin
suys: The weather for the week has been
favorable for growing rops in all the agri.
cultural dist ricts. Rel orts from the south
ern states show that it was favorable for
cotton and cane. and that small grain crops
have been affected favorably. The season
Is probably ten days later In the middle
Atlantic states, and from fifteen to twenty
days late In the northwest where seeding
is progressing slowly.
Anthony Comstock. Secretary of the
New York Society for the Suppression OF
Vice. addressed large audience at the
Congregational church In New York City,
Sunday. on 1.-THE Moral Purity of our
children a. / Youth" Mr.. Comstock said
he had been opposed and ridiculed by tho
newspapers for fifteen years, why, he did
not know. but" this cause" he continued,
lis too holy and just to be impeded by the
opposition Of our enemies"
The Now York Tribune. in an inter-
view with Minister Phelps, has the follow
ing: 1.-THE English people are beginning
to think" he said, THAT free trade would
be bad for them on account of the almost