The Delta independent., 1888-07-24

The olive. fig and pomegranite are
grown in some OF the New Mexican val
leys.
The Chicago dynamiters have been
jury.
The Colorado Conference in the future
will be divided into three districts nsead
II two.
The explosion of n tugboat engine
near Loui, vile, I,v., caused the loss of
seven lives.
A volcanic eruption occurred in
Japan by which 400 persons were killed
and I 600 injured.
Miss Delphine Baker, an American
lady, is about to estAt lish Christian news
paper in Jerusalem
1t is reported on reliable authority
that Mackay has disposed of his cable TO
Gould for sli ,ooo coo.
General Boulanger is recovering rap
Idly. His frieI ds xrect him 10 be able 10
resum- work In ten days.
Senator Quay, OF Pennsylvania. has
been elected chairman Of the NationsI Ra-
publican Genital Committee.
1t Is stated that all right and interest
in Edison's phonogrRph has been sold - an
English syndicate for sa5o, 900.
The Prohibitionists held fatifca-
which wHs attend. d by 5000 persons.
A meteor is alleged to have fallen
rear Kicw. Russia, which Wh.n hroi en-
cpen Wa found fall OF mall d,s:s, md.
Dispatches from Nonquitt are not re-
assuring Of the prospects OF G ,nera, Sh,ri
dams. permanent recovery as his friends
have hoped
The Grant Locomotive Works. of
Patterson. have been compelled 20 shu,
down, being unable TO compete with sim.
las iaSii,hmenls elsewhere.
A German merchant was secretly
tried and condemned to fifteen months in.
prisonmcnt for making insulting remark S
about tie Dowacer Empress Victoril
whitelaw Reid's county house IN
W-sichestr county, New York, was de
st-,y yrd by ii'e a few days ago. The loss
Is s,1n, ,onu. The house was 90 years old
and contained htty-four rooms.
Six persons were drowned Sunday
while crossing the Arkansas river near
Fort Smith. The party bad been attending
a dance md were on their way bone
When in the IN ddle OF the river tho boat
upset
Dowager Dmpress Victoria is en-
gagged In reorgsnizing her court Her
Majesty will remain In Berlin and Pots.
dam until she finds : suitable castle ON
the Rhine in which she can reside with her
daught sr
The free wool clause Of the Miyls bill
was passed in Commiuee OF tho Whole
NJ nday by avote of la) tp1ea. Only three
Democrats voted aga,ust'tne bill. w: vii.
kips and Foran, OF Ohio, and Sowden, of
Pennsylvania.
Adviccs from Bcnkleman, Nebraska,
say n terrific wind storm Sunday night d..
molshed number OF buildings in the
town. There was no loss of life. The
buildings destroyed were mostly cheap
frame affairs.
Saturday morning. near Crete, Neb.,
Burlington train ran into the rear of a
passenger train, causing considerable dam.
age and shaking things up pretty lively.
The Pullman porter WAS killed and the
Pullman car conductor badly hurt.
Many Engl1h and Scotch Gladst. n
ians arepreparing an address expressing
ympathy with Johu Dillon. The address
which is engrossed on vellum, illuminated
and handsomely bound, will be presented
to Dillon on his release from prison.
Representative Morrill, OF Kansas,
from the committee on invalid pensions,
reported favorably the Senate bin to ex.
tend the benefit of the pension laws to ex-
confed.rates, who, having had their disa.
bili,y removed, have since enlisted and
become disabled In the United States navy
The Kansas Prohibition State Con-
ven,ion assembled at Hutchinson on the
18th. An unusually large number OF wo
ulct WSlS PiSsCuN SOluuti w. NOUS
tor, temporary chairman, predicted that the
Republican party would be thing of lh,
past before another year. The usual com
| Eitteeswere appointed.
Tho National Educational Associa
tion have elected the following officers
President A. Z. Marble. of Worcester
Mass. Secretary, J. II. Garfield, OF Law
renee, Kansas. Treasurer, E. e. Hewett o
Normal, Illinois: and n long list of Vic,
Presidents, Including Aaron Cove, OF Colo
RADIO, and G. Il. Hodgin, of New Mexico.
The United States Consul at Victoria
British Columbia, reports to the State DE
partment that there has been renewet
influx OF Chinese into British Coiu mbiA
the arrivals from May To July numbering
q so4 persons. Most OF the immigrants ar,
provided with return certificates issued b.
the United States Customs oficera At Sal