The Delta independent., 1888-03-20
TELEGRAPH BREVTIIES.

Journed.
The Czar will attend the funeral of
Emperor William in person.
The Prince and Princess of Wales
celebrated their silver wedding this week.
Rev. r. X. Dunlop, Episcopal Bishop
day.
The hardest snow storm of the year
visited the Atlantic coast the fore part of
this week
Miss Louisa NJ. Alcott, the authoress,
died at Highlands, New York, from spinal
meningitis.
The reward for the arrest of Tascott,
the Chicago murderer has been increased
$1,000.
The San Francisco Board of Health
has declared the smallpox epidemic in that
city ended.
Sullivan's failure to whip Mitchell
American sports.
The cattle in Wyoming are in excel
lent condition. The winter has been mild
and the losses light
A train left Kansas City the other
day on the Slnta Fe route with the engin-
eer's wife for fireman.
Five thousand persons are said to
have been killed by recent e arthquake
in the province of Yannau, China.
General Boulanger is to be relieved of
his commission in the army. His expected
arrival in Paris created great excitement.
Henry Bergh, founder and president
of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
10 Animals, died in New fork on the 18th.
The Pope has sent an autograph let
ter to Emperor Frederick depressing his
deep sorrow at the death Of the aged EN-
peror.
John Sherman, nephew of the Sem
ator, is thinking of purchasing the Omaha
Republican and using it for booming his
| uncle.
! Senator Vest, of Missouri, announces
his Intention to retire from public life upon
the expiration OF his term, which will occur
in 1891.
A special service was held in ST.
| Petersburg in memory OF the dead Ger
man Emperor, also In Vienna, London and
Constantinople.
The county-seat war in Rush county,
Kansas. has broken out again and the rec
ords have been forcibly removed from Wal
nut City to Lacrosse.
Mormon elders are working among
the farmers in Botecourt County in Vir-
ginia and they are now threatened with
| lynching by the people.
Tine new Inman steamer City of New
York, the largest In the world except the
Great Eastern, has been successfully
launched in the Clyde.
Governor Larribee of Iowa has sent
letter to President Perkins of the Bur.
lington in which he advises settlement OF
the strike by arbitration.
In murder trial at Bonham. Texas.
Andy Lacefeld, who it was supposed had
been killed by Jim Scarlet, appeared in
cour: and testified In Scarletrs behalf.
The remains OF the late Thomas J.
Potter have been placed in the receiving
vault at the o,tumwa, Iowa, cemetery, to
await burial in the grounds of the family,
A freight train was wrecked on the
Southern Pacific road near Cotton, CALI
fornia, killing the conductor and brake
| man. and thirteen loaded cars were burned.
The story is current that life insur-
ance company recently rejected an appli-
cation by President Cleveland for a pol
| icy on the ground that his obesity is abnor-
mai.
Joseph Pulitzer, proprietor of the
New York World, has bought French's
hotel for 1850, 900, and It is said that he in
tends TO erect mlllion-dollar building
| thereon.
Frank Catlin, a Deputy United States
Marshall. was shot and killed at Ration,
New Mexico, by Deputy Sheriff G. W.
Cook. An old feui was at the bottom of
| the affair.
Complaint is made to tho State
Board OF Transportation of Nebraska that
the Burlington road is employing incompe-
tent engineers and an investigation has
been ordered.
The Prince of Wales, his son, Prince
| Albert Victor, the Duke of Cambridge and
Prince Christian OF Denmark have LEFT
London for Berlin TO attend the funeral of
the late Emperor.
The Indiana State Prohibition CON
vention met Thursday at indianapolis and
nominated ticket. The platform de-
mands straightout prohibition, and is in
| favor of female suffrage.
A fire in Milwaukee destroyed the
building occupied by Atkins, Ogden *
| Company and others. A number of fire.
men were buried under the falling wall
Loss, s425, 900; insurance, s25O,ooo.
j. r. Dixon, Of Rawlins, and Leo.
pold Kabis, of Cheyenne, have been select
ed by the territorial Democratic committee
as delegates to the ST. Louis convention
and instructed to vote for Cleveland.
A fire In the dry house of tho
Empire mine near Grass Valley, Califor.
MIA, caused tho explosion of two hundred
pounds of viSorite powder, killing one man
and injuring six others, two of whom will
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