The Delta independent., 1888-09-11
TELEGRAPHIC BREVIEIRS.

zee OF Central Park, Is dead.
The fellow fever epidemic shows no
signs Of abating at Jacksonville.
Forty counties in Arkansas have
voted against licensing saloons.
The Czar and Czarina have started
upon two months tour Of Southern Rus.
sia.
Congress has passed most string
ent bill excluding Chinese from this coun
try.
1t is reported that Secretary Whitney
is about to resign his position in the Cabi.
net.
An outbreak of the Favajo Indians
in the southwestern part Of New Mexico Is
feared.
Hon. W. Russell has been nominated
for Governor by the Democrats of Massa'
chusetts.
There were thirty-seven new cases
of yellow fever reported at Jacksonville
last Monday.
Twelve hundred spinners at Bolton,
England, have struck. 1t is expected the
strike will spread.
A resolution has been introduced in
Congress providing for the adjournment OF
hat body on Sept. 20.
Hon Anthony Joseph has been re-
nominated by the Democrats of New Mex.
leo for Delegate to Congress-
Mayor Hewitt has issued an appeal
to the public for aid for the yellow feve;
sufferers of Jacksonville, Fla
The city of Leon, Mexico. lately in
undated. is again under heavy rains. The
railway stations are flooded and local train
service suspended.
Thurman was taken suddenly III
while addressing an audience at Madison
SQUARE Garden, New York, and had to be
taken to his hotel.
Br the explosion of n boiler in the
Perry Stove Works al South Pittsburg,
Tennessee, Monday morning, five men were
killed and much damage done.
The London Standard makes all
kinds OF ugly threats as to what England
would do If the United States adopts a
policy OF retaliation toward Canada
The President has sent the following
nomination to the Senate: Charles L.
Boyle OF Pennsylvania TO be Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court of tbs Territory OF
Washington.
A fire in Baker City, Ore, destroyed
one entire business block. The total loss
will reach 500 900, partially Insured. The
whole town had very narrow escape from
being swept away.
The Catholic congress At Frieburg,
Germany. unanimously adopsed a resoiu'
ton in favor of the temporal power of the
pope and condemning the Italian pena
laws affecting the clergy.
General DENLY, .he United States
minister to China, teIegraphs to Washing.
ton that he has no positive information re.
garding the action OF the Chinese authori'
ties respecting the treaty.
1t is reported that Gen. Harrison S
letter of acceptance Will be furnished to the
public in few days and that President
Cleveland has invited MT. Randall to assist
him in preparing his letter.
The Parnellite members of Parlia-
ment have refused n have any further con
nection with the Cork branch of the Ma
tional League on the ground that the
Fenian element control = its action.
Mrs: Pierrepont Morgan of New
York and friends, while out among the
Thousand Islands were thrown into the
water by the capsizing of their boat Mrs.
Morgan lost iewelry to the value Of $1,000.
A dispatch from Rome TO tho Croni-
Gle says that the Pope has instructed
the papal nuncio at Brussels 10 aid Cardi.
nal Lavigerie to convoke an International
conference on the suppression of slave
trading.
More than twenty-five Republican
and quite as many Democratic members OF
Congress have accepted propositions IRON
the National committees 20 deliver cam
paiyn speeches during the next eigh;
weeks. The current market price is sSl 9
speech.
A Shanghai dispatch of the 9th says:
1t is hoped there that the immigration
treaty with America viii be Iatiiied in a
modified form. The discussion OF the ques-
ton has caused great excitement mob
incensed at the American ministers
action, attacked the American oiliciaps res.
idence at Caution.
Apostle Moses Thatcher was arrested
at Logan. Utah, for unlawful rehabilitation
He is one of the twelve apostles Of the
Mormon Church and has two wives. lie
has avoided the officers for several years.
having spent the greater part OF the time
in Mexico. He is quite weslthy.
The Nebraska State Fair opened nj
Lincoln on the 7th with fine prospects oi
the most successful meeting ever held. Tile
exhibits outnumber those of 1857 by 70 per
cent The day was spent chiefly in prepa'.
ations for the work of the week and in as.
signing places for the!exhibition.
A Democratic mass meeting nj which
$500 people were present, was held In Now
York City Friday night as protest agains,
the denomination OF Governor Hin. Wheeler
II. Peckham presided. Among those an.
nounced as vice-presidents were Oswald
Ot.endorfer, Anson Phelps Stokes. Everett
c. Wheeler, Louis +. Post, George II. Put
nam. T.. II. Van lngen and Charles Cau.