The Delta independent., 1888-07-10
TELEGRAPH BRE7IIIN
Forest fires are raging in Michigan.

General Sheridan is steadily gaining
strength.
Gen. Lew Wallace is writing biog-
raphy of Mr.. Harrison.
Flagstaff, Arizona, was totally de-
stroyed by fire on the End.
O'Donnell twas beaten in his libel
suit against the London Times.
Mr.. HARRISON was formally notified
of his nomination on the Fourth.
All the flint glass factories of Pitts
burg have shut down Tor six weeks.
George William Curtis delivered an
eloquent Grafton at Getty sbuIg on July %.
Thirty people were poisoned at David
| City, Nebraska, on the I'd by eating ice
| cream.
Severe wind and thunder storms
have been prevailing throughout Iowa and
| Nebraska.
1t is reported that the Democrats
| will establish National headquarters at
indianapolis.
Extraordinary efforts are being made
to save the life of Maxwell. the condemned
murderer OF ST. LOUIS
About 1000 delegates, representing
societies of Christian Endeavor, met in Ma
tional Convention in Chicago on the 5:h.
A fire at Brainerd, Mimi, late Sat-
urday night destroyed the best part of two
blocks in the.heart of the city. The losses
aggregate $4,000.
The Pan-Presbyterian Council opened
its sessions in London on the 4th, Lord
Cairnes presiding. Many delegates from
America were present
The twcnty-fifth anniversary of the
battle of Gettysburg was celebrated in the
early part of this week by great reunion
Of the participants on the historic ground.
During n sham battle that took
place at Kiibourne, Wis, yesterday. /. W.
Carpenter was killed and c. ii. Foote ser
iously injured by the premature discharge
of a cannon.
The Burlington officials clam that
the men who struck on their line several
IN onths ago, and who have never been re-
ins,a;e6, are trying to damage their prop
erty by dynamite.
The National Association of Music
Teachers began its. annual convention at
Chicago on the Sd. Over thousand pro-
fessional. musicians were in attendance
from all parts OF the country.
The locust plague in Algeria is be-
coming worse. Sixty thousand laborers
and two thousand. soldiers are powerless
The whole country is devastated and Il,
is feared that famine, and pesiilence will
result
A Northern Pacific train ran off the
track about fifty miles from Helena, Mon
tana, Sunday night and three cars were
ditched. Nobody known to be hurt
though about twenty-five received slight
injuries.
4The French section of the African
international association will organize an
expedition for the relief of Henry NJ. Stan
lev and Kmin Bey. Funds will re sub
scrib,d Immediately. Charles Soller will
command the expedition.
The tive.story building of the Read
ing (Pa-) Hardware Compapy, covering
several acres OF ground. was destroyed by
FIRE Monday night The loss will aggregate
ssl5), ,oIo; well insured, Seven hundred en-
p!oyes are thrown out ct work.
The Commissioner o. Patents, Mr..
Hall, in opinion upon the application of
Professor DeBausseu FOR patent for an
air-ship, has decided that the proposed ma
chine can't be built, and IL il was built that
IL would be incapable Of use.
1T is believed that after definite un-
Outstanding with Russia has been estab-
lishcd that Emperor William will propose
that the European powers reduce their
armaments. The emperor will arrive Mt
81. Petersburg on July 10, the czarina's
fete-iay.
Al uncomfortable car on one ot the
Chicago cable lines last Sunday created a
big excitement After running into and de.
molIshing several other cars and crushing
the limbs of two ladies' besides severely in
iuring several others, it finally jumped the
track and was itself smashed TO pieces.
It is estimated at the Treasury De-
pnrtment that there has beeu decrease OF
sl3, ,5oo, coo in the public debt during June
and decrease of sl1a, 900. oc0 in the debt
for the fiscal year ending J une 30. The total
receipts during the year are estimated Mt
ts7o, ,ooo, ,0)o, and the total expenditures at
SsTS, COO, 900, leaving n surplus of seIcoaooo.
The weekly crop weather bulletin
says: The weather for the past week has
been favorable for all growing crops In the
wheat, corn and tobacco regions in the
Ohio, upper Mississippi and Missouri val
lcys aud Tennessee. Heavy rains have
doubtless interferred. with harvesting from
Missouri eastward to Michigan. Reports
from the interior of the Middle States indi-
cate that 1t has been very beneficial to grow
ing crops.
Albert Griffin, chairman of the anti
saloon Republican National Committee, has
issued an address 10 the country in which
he summarizes the work OF the Republican
national convention ON temperance matters
and appeals to the voters to support the
ticket nominated by the convention. He
gives Ms a reason for his advice that the
platform commits the party against the ma.
tlonal whisky ring protection tax, that
Harrison Is n pronounced anti-saloonist,
and that ringing temperance plank was
after all added to the platform. The friend