The Delta independent., 1889-10-22
BY TELEGRAPH.

Gcneral Hartranft, OF fennSylVa
is dead.
The Paris Exposition will be cl
Nov. 9th.
The carpet manufacturers are al
to form trust.
Tie New York Post has entered
Democratic fold.
Yellow fever has made its appe
ance at Key West.
Since 1852 5000 Norwegians h
emigrated to Utah.
Johnstown, Pa, is suffering from
typhoid fever epidemic.
The majority fer prohibition
South Dakota was 6,O53.
A Chicago company is building
sugar refinery in Mexico.
The London Times wants the Uni
States to buy the Sandwich Islands.
| General E. L. Bartlett has been
pointed solicitor general of New Mexic
| Messrs. Moody and Pettigrew ha
been elected Senators from South OAK
Talmage's Brooklyn Tabernacle '
burned to the ground early Sunday M
| ing.
Two young ladies, daughters
wealthy New Workers, have mysteriol
disappeared.
Mr.. Stevens, who was sent to Afr
by the New York World has arrived
Zanzibar. He has not found any trace
Stanley.
| General A. B. Campbell, one of
prominent candidates for the pension c.
| missionership has been rendered the
sition of consul at Melbourne, Austria
He will accept.
1t is understood that the entire pi;
of the Brush Electric Company has bt
sold to the Thompson Houston Elect
Company on a cash basis, the considerati
being $685. coo.
| New York proposes erecting a mo
ument to Columbus. As the Italian ci
zens are in charge of the affair and do
expect aid from the rliliionaires it W
probably succeed.
The firm of Leasing, Solomon
Rosenthal, wholesale dry goods and
ton factors of Waco, Tex, have assign
Liabilities about sa5o, 900, with assets
timated at 81, ,aoo, 600.
A bad wreck occurred on the b
lington road near Gibson, Nebraska, Tu,
day evening. One man was killed OF
right and about fifty other passenge
were more of less injured.
A foul plot has been discovered
bribe the jurors in the Cronin case Tt
| jury obtained with so much trouble wi
probably have to be discharged and th
whole business all gone over again.
William Waterman died yesterda
at Grand Rapids, Wis, aged ia years
His first wife died at the age of 75. H
married his second wife when he was ,
his Tooth year. She died few years ag'
George Francis Train is still in
Boston Jail and declares that he will cour
that man his enemy who attempts to ba
him out Mr. Trains serene contentmer
with the situation is shared by the gensr,
public.
1t is reported that Secretary Blain
has instructed Minister Fred Douglas j.,
try and get Hayti and San Domingo ,
place themselves under protection of th
United States. He is also working to &
| control nf Cuha
Postmaster General Wanamaker /
about to bid adieu to Bethany Sunda
School at Philadelphia, over whose Bib
| Glass he has presided for SO many year.
The strain of breaking off his business o
! Saturday afternoons and going to Phil.
delphia has proved too much for him.
James A. Spradling manager of tn
| Dailu Ne,r Mericdn and receiver of pul
lie moneys at Santa Fe, was stricken wit
| paralysis Sunday morning and died Tue.
day morning. He was an able journals
and IS years old. Death was caused b
overwork.
Frank Buchanan, the chief witnes
against the Averil-Watson lynchers {
Wyoming has disappeared, forfeiting HI
bond of $500. An attachment has been il
sued for his arrest and an officer was ser
in search of him. 1t is charged that he ha
bribed to leave.
The President has received hundred
| of letters during the past several month
| inqriring whether he is Mason. A un
form letter is written them to the effec
i that he is not member of any secret $.
ciety, which is the fact in the case. The,
| is no knight Templar in the Cabinet an
only two of its members are Masons.
The American Board OF Commi:
| sioners Of Foreign Missions, at their al
nual meeting in New York last weel
passed resolution calling on the Pres
dent of the United States to get Congress
to take such action that the United State
should cooperate with Germany and Gres
Britain iu trying to abolish slavery
Eastern Africa. Tho election Of Officer
resulted In the election of o. s. Storrs,
D., president; Eliphalet w. Blachfort
| vice president; Nathaniel G. Clark, Ed,
rak Alden and Judson Smith, correspont
| ing secretaries; Henry Stimson, recordin
secretary; Langdon p. Ward, treasurer.
| Brigadiei General Casey, chiet er
gineer, In his annual estimates submitte
| to the Secretary Of War, makes the 10