The Delta independent., 1888-01-24
TELEGRAPH BRRQTTIES.

Supreme bench was confirmed by vote OF
81 to 2s.
The Governor of Washington Ter
ritory has signed the bill giving the ba LOT
to women.
The Massachusetts Senate has passed
the Constitutional Prohibition amendment
by vote of a5 to 9.
The total value of all importations
from Mexico through Ell Paso for the year
1887 was s14, ,1ss.
Browns Valley, Minnesota, has been
blockaded three weeks, and there is no
wood or coal to be had.
George Walker, late Consul General
for the United States in Paris, died in that
city of pneumonia, aged 65 years.
Speaker Carlisle was taken suddenly
III at the Riggs House and his physician
says he is threatened with congestion of the
brain.
Russia is reported to have 100000
cavalry ready to invade Austria and act
Independently of her other troops on the
frontier.
The St. Paul papers place the loss
of life by the blizzard at 2S5. The authori-
ties In Dakota are reported to be suppress
ing information.
Mr.. Gladstone again returns his
thanks through the newspapers for the
large number OF birthday congratulations
which he has received.
Mr.. T. j. Potter denies emphatical-
ly that there is any truth in his reported
resignation of the vice-presidency of the
Union Pacific railway.
Twelve persons were injured, one
fatally, ina wreck on the Chicago, Kansas
& Nebraska railroad, near Topeka, Kansas
A broken rail causedit.
Don Carlos thinks that Spain must
become one of the great European powers,
and that the present Government is untitled
to carry on the work before 1t.
The stockholders of the Street Rail
way company in Dover, New Hampshire,
elected Mrs. Mary Dow president, and her
husband was elected treasurer.
The National Democratic Committee
will meet in Washington on February -,
To fix the time and place for holding the
National Democratic Convention.
A bill granting woman suffrage has
passed both branches OF the Legislature of
Washington Territory. Efforts are making
to induce the Governor to veto il.
A bob-sled forty-one feet long, con-
tanning ffty-two people, had a collision in
Kansas City with another sled and seven-
teen people were injured, three seriously.
Freezing weather is reported all over
North Louisiana, extending as far south as
Baton Rouge. Snow and sleet are reported
at Shreveport, Alexandria and other points.
The Governor of Nebraska on the
recommendation OF the State Live Stock
Association, has issued quarantine proc
lamation against certain infected districts.
1t is announced that Governor Hill
offered Colonel Fred Grant the nomination
Of Quarantine Commissioner, in place Of
T. c. PIatt, but that Colonel Gran, de-
clined.
Some 800 or 1000 bakers are on n
strike in San Francisco, and the restaurant
heavy cash penalty, not TO employ any
union bakers.
The National Board of Trade calls
upon Congress to enact a law providing
that all packages containing impure or
spurious lard shall be so plainly labelled as
t, avoid deception.
The books which were burned in
Senator Ingalls, library numbered 6ooo, and
they were annotated with marginal notes.
On their leaves were inscribed the thoughts
of twenty-five years.
At a Hungarian christening in Mount
Carmel, Pennsylvania, the drunken people
kicked over the stove, burning the house,
and three men were cremated. One wom-
an and child are missing.
The latest returns from the blizzard
report ninety-sevcn dead in Dakota, thir
teen in Minnesota, six in Iowa, seventeen
in Nebraska, and one in Montana, total
of 1si, besides fifty-five reported missing.
Dispatches from dozen places in
northern Texas say the blizzard reached
that part of the state ON Sunday afternoon
and that the mercury almost reached zero.
The cattle in the Panhandle are reported
TO be suffering badly.
1t is figured out that there have been
ei7 deaths by the blizzard. The remains
of many people who are reported missing
may not be found until the snow thaws in
the spring, the bodies being covered by
deep drifts that formed over them.
Secretary Fairchild has prepared n
letter to Speaker Carlisle showing tho ne
cessitv for additional legislation to prevent
the smuggling of opium, and recommend
ing either reduction of the duty on that
or its restriction altogether.
The French Governments arsenal at
Toulon Is the scene OF great activity and
everything is being hastened to place a
squadron of lronclads and all the available
cruisers In readiness to sail, This means
probably demonstration against Italy.
Frank Gordon, a murderer and forg
or and his paramour arc intrenched In a
frame house at Williamsport, Pennsylvania,
and the building has been surrounded for
two days and nights by officers whose
lives nro threatened II they attempt to en-