The Delta independent., 1888-02-07
TELEGRAPH BRB7TTIES

A lockout IN the shoe manufactur-
ing business at Cincinnati leaves 5000 men,
women and girls idle.
| A fire mt Charleston, S. c., destroyed
or damaged 1000 bales of cotton. Loss,
100000; fully insured.
There has been heavy snow-storm
in Wales. The roads are blockaded and
heavy losses in stock are feared.
Four ste lmers with other property
were swept away and sunk by the break
| ing of the ice gorge at 81. Louis.
Mr.. Powderly emphatically denies
the statement of DIR. McGlynn that the
former sentmoney or an ambassador to
| Rome.
Mr.. Cox, member of Parliament, who
offended the Government and was impris-
oned, has donned the prison garb and gone
10 work.
Smith intends to sign articles to
fight Sullivan in May or June for 81 900 a
side. 1t is not probable that Sullivan will
agree to this.
Jem Smith declines to meet Sullivan
before the end of May and the latter re-
fuses 10 postpone their fight beyond the
last of April.
An English syndicate already own
ing 2.Oo0,Ooo acres in the state OF Coahula,
Mexico have purchased 10000 acres more
at IS cents per acre.
Prof. Asa Gray, the eminent botan-
ist and professor OF botany in Harvard col
lcge, died of paralysis in Cambridge Mon
day evening, aged n.
Twenty-Five tons of concentrated am
monia are TO be sent down the burning
shafts OF the Calumet and Hecla mine to
| quence the fire at once.
Five mysterious arrests have been
made In Paris by the London police, and it
is believed that they are connected with
some gigantic forgeries.
A fire in the Virginia penitentary
| burned large shoe factory which was run
by Boston firm. Loss 10 the firm, sl25,-
600, and TO the state s25,too.
Coal oil has been discovered within
fifteen miles of the city limits of Emporia,
a
formed to develop the discovery.
The Chamber of Commerce of Birm-
ingham, Alabama, demands the repeal of
the internal revenue laws and protective
tariff on iron, iron ores and coal.
a fire Oh Broadway, New York,
burned six buildings and destroyed the
stock OF large number OF firms. The loss
is estimated at 81, 400, 600; insurance large.
Professor Virchow has examined q
fragment taken from the very center of the
trouble of the Crown Princes throst and
declares that it shows no evidence of cam
GER.
Orethusa Weller. an orphan of Kan
sas City, IL years old, who has closely at
tended the meetings of Jones and Small,
the evangelists, has become violently in
anc.
On account Of the urgent demand
for fuel along the Northern Pacific road,
its Duluth agent has been ordered 10 ship
nothing west bu, coal until the famine is
checked
George d. Hunter, of Palestine,
Texas, shot and killed Colonel T. l.. Will
liams, prominent lawyer, because he in
young man.
Mr.. Ingalls,. president of the Senate,
has appointed the following special com
mittee on Pacific railroads: Messers. Frye,
Dawes, Hiscock. Davis, Morgan, Butler
and Hearst
AT the village of Sowden, near Pitts
burg, Pa, Christian Frick, a discharged
mine boss. killed himself and his wife in
the presence of their six children. Poverty
was the cause.
Twelve hundred convicts at Sing
Sing are idle, and $50 at Clinton prison, and
they will remain so until the New York
Legislature passes a pending bill for man
uiacturing in prisons.
II is reported in Manitoba, that ne
gotiatIons are in progress between the Can
ada Pacific and the Northern Pacific roads
to induce the latter 10 abandon lis plans
fur invading Manitoba.
Father Mckenna. n priest of Kildy-
sari, has been summoned for denouncing
the resident magistrate of Ennis, before
whom Mr.. Cox was tried, rs dog, a scoun-
drel, a blackguard and traitor.
The Anarctic Committee at Mel
bourne, Australia, arc urging British mer-
chants and ship owners 10 combine for
the purpose q. sending two steamers TO the
South pole during the coming summer.
Eugene Tacfcl. principal of one of the
public schools at Columbus, Ohio, received
$500 with which to pay on the teachers. Tie
lostncarly sll of it In gambling and fled to
Cleveland, where he committed suicide.
A communication in tho Knoxville.
Tennessee, Journal, caused n shooting af-
fray In tho streets, between John Vest,
man named Govclman and James f. Rule,
city editor OF the paper. John West will
probably die.
Stcpniak, the Russian Nihilist, has
sent 10 Senator llawiey protest against
the adoption of an oxtradi,ion treaty be-
tween the United States and Russia, and
he asks that 1t be laid before the Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations.
Captain Ritchic of tho State Line
Steamer, State of Indiana, has been pre-