The Delta independent., 1888-02-28
TELEGRAPH BRE7IrIDS.

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Associate Justice MeCleary of Mon
tana has resigned.
The text of the treaty with Great
Britain has been made public.
The Grant Monument Committee of
New York have now ondeposit sl26, ,l69.
The Democratic National Conven-
tion goes to st. Louis, and June 5 is the
date.
The President has gone to Florida to
visit the Tropical Exposition at Jackson
Vile.
Senator Frye of Milne says the fish
cries treaty will be rejected by an over
whelmiDg vote.
German Bankers in New York have
advices that there is no hope for the recov-
cry of the Crown Prince.
The Supreme court of Dakota de-
cides that local option is good in sixty-four
counties Of that Territory.
A 16-year old daughter of DR.. Morris,
Methodist clergyman of KansasCity, ,eloped
with 2O.year old boy last week.
Governor Oglesby has issued pro-
clamation calling for money and supplies
for the Mount Vernon cyclone sufferers.
A terrible earthquake has occurred in
the province of Yuma in China. Two
thousand lives are reported to have been
lost
The visible grain supply February
was: Wheat, &C, ,2S7 600 bushels; corn, S.
ssa 900; oats, 5, Isl. .OoO rye, a6l, 900; barley,
2, so3, 900.
Graft Bennett & Co., iron manufac-
turers of Pittsburg. have made an assign
ment. Their liabilities will reach about
q, SOC, ,OCo.
The Gloucester fishermen assert that
by the fisheries treaty the rights of the
American fishermen have been sacrificed
to Canada.
Senator Spooner reported favorably
a bill for the erection of public building
in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The bill apprc-
PIRATES $500
Edward L. Randall, a telegraph op-
orator, has sued the Rock Island road for
him as Incompetent.
Eighteen men were injured at Du-
luth by an explosion of cartridges which
had been dormant since Saturday last
Nearly all OF them will die.
charles Wingard and Annie Fox, an
uncle and niece who eloped from Monroe,
Michigan, and were caught at Alliance.
Ohio, committed suicide in the jail.
Joseph Hoffman, the boy pianist, is
to retire from tho stage, as his health is fail
ing, and will play no more for some years.
The boy is delighted with this decision.
A delegation from Utah was before
the Senate Committee on Territories last
Saturday appealing for statehood. They
did not meet with much announcement.
An enormous meteor passed over
Marionette. Illinois, on Wednesday night
with roar and an explosion which Jared
the town. No fragments have been found.
The evictions on the Ponsonby estate
at Donegal have been resumed. A large
ambulance and fre-engine accompanied
the bailiffs.
James Banks, of Dale City, Iowa,
was shot and robbed near Kearney, Ne
braska, by C. II. Rankin, of Hastings a
farmer who witnessed the affair at a dis
lance pursued Rankin with shotgun and
captured him. He is in danger of lynch
law.
1t is expected that the betrothal of
Prince Albert Victor to his cousin, the
Princess Alexandra of oseece, will soon
be announced by the Prince of Wales, and
also the betrothal of the Princess Victoria
to the Duke OF Sparta, Crown Prince of
Greece.
Mr.. Charles H. Smith of Denver has
resigned his position as president of the
Republican Publishing Company of Omaha
and has filed petition asking that an exc
cutor of the Rounds estate be appointed in
his stead. 1t is understood that Mr.. Smith
resigned for personal reasons.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
received through the Adams Express Com,
pany package containing 81, 900 in National
bank notes shipped by "a Freeman" at
Cincinnati. 1t was accompanied by a note
asking that the money be placed to the
credit of the conscience fund and bearing
the signature of zone Who VIII BE Hon
est"
An unusually large amount of snow
has fallen in the north Of England and rail-
road traffic is seriously delayed. A number of
trains are showed up and much discomfort
is being experienced by the passengers.
Farm houses and thousands of sheep are
buried In the snow and a few persons have
died from exposure. The storm is general
throughout the country.
The House Committee on Territories
have been considering the question relat-
ing to the admission as states of Dakota,
Montana, Washington and New Mexico.
1t WAS decided to formulate an Omnibus
Enabling Act for the four territories, and
preparation OF the bill was referred to a
subcommittee consisting Of Springer, Man.
sur, Hayes, Struble and Symes.-
Tho Toronto Board of Trade have
passed resolutions declaring that the pro