The Delta independent., 1888-08-28
TBLEGRARHlC BREVITIHS.


ersl men-of-war to be built in Germany.
The fisheries treaty has been reject
ed by the Senate by strict party vote.
The Republicans of Nebraska have
re-nominated John NJ. Thayer for Cover
nor.
Missouri Republicans have nonin-
ated Mayor Francis, of st. Louis, for Gov
ernor.
During the present session Congress
men have already sent out eleven million
speeches.
George A. Bigelow has been nomi-
mated for Governor, by the ProhibitionIsts
of Nebraska.
A Duluth woman gave birth to quad
ruplets the other day. Mother and children
are doing well.
Heavy rains are reported from Ten
nessee which have done great injury to the
growing cotton.
The steamship City of Chester was
sunk in San Francisco Bay few days ago
and many lives lost.
The Pail Mall Gazette says that
Mr.. Blaine is going to write a book on his
recent coaching trip with Mr.. Carnegie.
Evangelist Moody advises young
men who desire to be reyiyalists 10 start
out as book agents and study human ma
! ture.
A cyclone passed across Delaware
Tuesday morning leveling trees, orchards
and outbuildings and doing sl5o,0o worth
OF damage.
The summer roundup in Colfax
! county. New Mexico, now closed, shows
the number of calves to be the smallestever
known in that section.
A reward of 81 900 has been offered
ey William French, who lives near Alma,
y. NJ, far the arrest of Mcneil, a notorious
horsethief and iail-breaker.
rhe Emin Bey relief committee has
received a telegram stating that Major
Bartlellot, with other whites and H5 na-
tives, left Yambunga early in June with
supplies for Stanley.
At the Nebraska State Republican
convention last week platform was
adopted. one of the planks OF which favors
the submission to a popular vote OF a pro
hibitory amendment.
Captain Matt Ginney. the famous
chief and founder of the Bsld-Knobber or
ganiza.ion. WAS shot and instantly killed at
Ozark Tuesday, by Bill Miles, an anti
Bald d-Knobber. Miles escaped.
Secretary Bayard says he considers
the action OF the Senate In rejecting the fish
cries treaty misfortune, but he declines to
be interviewed in regard to the future
course to be taken by the government in tie
| matter.
Rawlins people are indignant over
the fact that the Governor has granted a
respite for sixty days to Ben Carter, sem
fenced TO hang on August -, for one of the
most cold blooded murders ever committed
in the Territory.
The three men who held up train
near Rawlins the other day have been
traced TO Laramie Peak. Most of their pur
suers have returned home, as it is consid-
cred absolutely impossible to follow the
trail in that country.
L
secured 200 coo acres of land in Mexico and
Mr.. Cannon states that several Thousand of
their people will Immediately move 10 tina,
country, where they will be unmolested.
Mr. Cannon will make Mexico his perma-
| nent home
The New York Free Trade club has
challenged the New York Protective
league to debate on protection or free
trade Henry George to represent the free
trade club and Col. Ingersoll the protection
league. The debate will probably take
place in September at the METROPOLITAN
Opera House.
An explosion of twenty thousand
pounds of black powder occurred in the
drying-house OF the Gisnt Powder Company
nesr West Berkeley shortly before noon FIR.
day. Two white men and three Cinnamon
were killed. The white men were joseph
LAWS, unmarried, and C. Bunce, who leaves
n wife and three children. The building
was blown to atoms.
Early Wednesday morning a serious
accident occurred on the Columbus, Spring.
field Il Cincinnati railway east of Spring
field, A train consisting of eight freight
two passenger cars and two sleepers, struck
broken rail. The engine and every car
were derailed. The sleepers, both carrying
passengers, were thrown down an emhans.
ment and four passengers injured.
w. E. Talbot. one of the earliest
American settlers of this portion of the
country and enc of the most prominent and
enterprising citizens of Albuquerque, died
at his residence at that place at noon Fri,
day he was an honorary member of the
New Mexican Press Association and was
identified with all movements for promot
ing the interests of the country and was
well known all over New Mexico.
Candidate Cleveland is rated among
his fellow-citizens as worth less than $780,
600. Candidate Harrison's worldly goods
are valued at sum even less than that
Candidate Belva Lockwood is not rich,
nor is Candidate Fisk of the Prohibitions
lists, though he is probably worth more
money than any of the others. But Cam
didate James Lsngdon Curtis, of the
American party, is reputed to be worth his
two millions.
Last Wednesday night the large
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