The Delta independent., 1888-01-17
TELEGRAPH BREYITIES.

Mr.. Lamar has resigned the officc OF
Secretary of the Interior.
During the past year there were
landed at Castle Garden 37i, ,Gl9 immigrants.
The President has nominated Gem
eral Bragg of Wisconsin to be Minister to
Mexico.
Kansas City is overrun with foot
pads and there is talk of vlgilanse commit.
tee to clear them out.
The Utah wool-growers have formed
an organization. They protest against
reduction of the tariff on wool.
Hon. James G. Blaine is grand
father. The wife of James G. Blaine, Jr.,
has presented him with son.
Miss Campbell secured verdict of
si5, 900 against Arbuckle, the coffee mer-
chant, who had malaria and couldn't marry
her.
An old man in At.ica, Indiana, fell
from bridge two feet into a spring where
the water was but four inches deep,a was
drowned.
Eight armed men robbed an express
car on the Mexican Central road, three
hundred miles south of Paso del Norte No
body was hurt
j. C. Talmadge shot and killed tel
graph operator at Brunswick, Missouri.
during quarrel over train order. Tai
madge is a conductor.
There was an earthquake shock at
Somerville, South Carolina, and it was felt
slightly at Charleston. This was the first
shock for many months.
The Portland express, between Bos-
ton and Portland. was wrecked at the Mer-
rimac river bridge, killing nine persons
and wOunding ffty-two.
Governor West in his message to the
Utah legislature recommends the repeal of
all local laws which are in opposition to the
laws OF the United States.
Charles Bourton. who swindled the
people of the City of Mexico about year
ago by selling tickets fora Patti concert, has
been arrested in New York.
The members of the Grand Army of
the Republic are making preparations for
a national inspection Of posts TO occur dur
ing January and February.
Three persons were seriously in
jured and FIVE others slightly hurt in
wreck on the Atlanta & Pacific railroad,
near Coolidge, New Mexico.
Senator Ingalls, residence at Atohi-
son. Kansas, burned. Ii was filed with
books and works OF art, and the loss will
exceed the insurance by 10000.
The Supreme Court of the United
States decides that the detention of the
mayor and city council OF Lincoln, Nebras-
ka, by the District court was Illegal.
The remains of Napoleon III. and
the Prince Imperial have been removed
from Chiselhurst TO Farmhurst, where the
eS-Empress EngenIe has erected mauso-
leum.
A new conspiracy against the Gar
has been discovered a. st. Petersburg Of
unusual magnitude, both as regards the
number of people implicated and their po-
sition.
The jury in the case of Thomas c.
Plat, TO oust him from the position of Quar-
an,ine Commissioner OF New York on ac-
count of non-residence, brought in verdict
against him.
More than a dozen emigrants were
injured and one child was burned to death
in collision on the Union Pacific road at
Edson's station, some thirty miles east of
Rawlins, Wyoming.
"Grandma" Garfield. as President
Garfield's mother is called by those who
know her, is i'll at the old homestead at
Mentor. She wants to see Jimmy" her
son, and although not very sick II is thought
that her end is drawing near, as she is very
AGED.
The Pittsburg steel works have cast
an immense gun for the Government which
must lie in It's mold for week. II is
thought 70 be success from outside indi-
catious. II will weigh nine tons when
completed.
Tho dedication of Texas new capi-
,ol building at Austin will occur May "A to
10. President and Mrs. Cleveland, and
many distinguished people throughout the
United States have been invited to attend
the celebration.
A fire about the woodwork of the
engine-room of the Irving public school in
Chicago was discovered while there were
1000 children in the building. Discipline
was SO well maintained that all were
marched out safely.
The Wyoming mine on the Reading
Railroad has been ordered closed by the
Knights of Labor. This practically stops
work in the anthracite region and thous-
ands OF men will soon be Idle from want
of coal TO run the factories aud Mills
The Florida judge who sentenced
fifty tramps to receive each ,hirty.nine
lashes on the bare back has been moved by
numerous appeals to revoke the sentence,
but declares the penalty shall be enforced
on the next lot of tramps brought before
him.
Senator Manderson has introduced a
bill In Congress TO increase all invalid PEN
sIons to s. per month. The statement ac-
companying the bill gays that 1t will in
crease the pensions OF 1l6,5ss persons now
carried on the rolls and will increase the
annual pension payment by II, 20, S5c.
The worst storm Of the year PREVAIL