The Delta independent., 1888-05-22
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near Hannibal are under water.
Michigan suffered from 24-hour
snow storm in the early part OF the week.
The Mississippi river is higher at
Quincy than at any other time since 1851.
A rigid high license law is being pre-
pared by Congress for the District Of Col
umbia.
John Stetson. a prominent sporting
man, has obtained control OF the Boston
Herald.
Las Vegas promises $75. 200 to any
railroad which will make that city an OBJ
Jective point.
| Fifty thousand people witnessed the
ormaI dedication Of the new state capitol
at Austin last Wednesday.
| There were 1884 noteworthy fires
in the United Statss last year. The value
of the property burned was slls, 30 $50.
The first game Of ball of the season
between the Boston and Chicago clubs WAS
won by the former by score of % to5.
The German Emperor conGnuss to
improve and his strength has increased, but
Professor yirchow admits that the case
puzzles him.
Claus Sprecklss has written to Las
Cruces that II the people will plant $500
acres with sugar beets he will start . sugar
manufactory At that point.
JEFF Davis has accepted an invitation
TO take part In the ceremony Of laying the
corner stone Of the Confederate Monument
at jackson, Miss, on May &c.
1t is claimed by the New Mexican
that eight capitalists from Louisville will
come TO New Mexico for the purpose OF ex-
amining the Chama gold placers.
Harry Benson, the Patti ticketswin-
dler, who was awaiting extradition to Mex
leo. committed suicide at Ludlow Street
Jail by jumping from the second tier TO tie
| ground.
The PottsvIlle Iron and Steel Com
pany has given six hundred employees Of its
| Fishback rolling mill notice OF 10 per
| cent reduction in wages, to take effect on
the 2lst instant
The shortage Of Honest Dick Tate"
Kentucky's abscord!nK Treasurer. has
reached t2t7, 600. One lump OF SIS 0oo paid
for taxes by the Kentucky Central Rail-
road was never accounted for.
The presiding officer of the Meth
odist General Conference now in session in
New York felt obliged TO request the del
gates one day last week not TO read the
daily papers during prayers.
The Russian Count Strogonod and
his sister. Princess Tscherbaotoh, with an
escort OF $50 men, have been captured in
Asia Minor by tribe Of Kurd nomads, who
demand I immense ransom.
A resolution introduced in the Meth
odist conference to the effect that no one
| should be elected or consecrated as a
bishop until he had taken . cast-iron oath
| to abstain from tobacco was voted down.
A dispatch from Anthony. Kansas
| says that in drilling for natural gas at that
place the drill passed through SIS fee. of
pure solid ro.k salt which Is ovCriaid with
an apparently inexhaustible supply of salt
water
The Journal Of United Labor, the
Official organ OF the Knights OF Labor, has
been placed in charge of A. NJ. Dewa,, pub
Usher of the Labor Journal at Detroit The
paper has never been a financial success,
although it has had large circulation.
Eddie Gould. Jays second son, has
released himself a seat in the Stock EI-
change for 80 900, and will in 3 few days
go before the governing board for eHamina-
tion AS to his qualifications Eddie has
already established . reputation As a shrevd
operator.
There is report which comes from
a very reliable source that tha Atchison,
Topeka h Santa Fe company are neGotiat-
ing the purchase OF the Lake Erie and
Western road. II the sale goes through all
right their line will be extended on to New
York.
The President and Mrs. Cleveland
have taken possession Of oAkview as their
summer residence. They will take dinner
sleep nights and eat breakfast in their eoun.
try home and eat luncheon at the White
House. and there too, they will celebrate
the second anniversary OF their marriage.
day on June %.
Mrs. Ida A. Jordan. the wife II
Thomas Jordan, agrain dealer of Indian.
apolis, administered fatal dose Of poison
to their child last week and then cut her
own throat with razor. The woman was
partially demented and her inhrmlty was
intensified by her excitement over
"Christian Science Of which abe WAS an
ardent student Both are dead.
Marshal Bowen of Carthage,s village
ten miles fromCincinnati, shot and killedC.
ID. Phillips last night in the council cham
Der in the presence OF the mayor and vii
lase officers. Bowen had refused to prose
cute man VIII, owed Phillips Sl,oso. Hot
words followed, and the marshal pulled his
revolver and shot Phillips. Bowen Is In
Jail.
General Rosensrans will DO placed
on the retired list OF the United States
army, with the rank and pay OF maiior-gen.
eral II the bill prepared by General Spin
ola passes. The bill authorizes the nomi-
nation OF such ex-srmy offieers now in civil
life as were promoted for gailantry and
good conduct.to the grade OF major-Eeneral
and commanders Of departments or divis-
IONS
The New York Star says Colonel