The Delta independent., 1889-12-03
BY TELEGRAPH.

The only brewery in wyoming was
burned q few days ago
Wyoming has $50 miles OF railroad
and $500 miles of irrigating bitches.
There is strong probability Of free
coinage act passing the next Congress.
Lynn, Massachusetts, was visited
by very destructive fire few days ago.
A consolidation of the Knights OF
Labor with the Farmers Alliance il prob
able.
Lyman r. Casey has been elected
| a United States Senator from North Da
kota-
The St. Louis Silver Convention was
composed of delegates from 50 States and
Territories.
Two Connecticut men claim to have
discovered an immense cliff house in the
| Msncos Canon.
An escaped elephant held possession
of the town of West Point, Neb., for few
hours the other day.
The Thanksgiving Day fire at Boz
ton was the most disastrous confagration
that has visited that city since 1s72-
A sixteen-year-old girl of Columbia,
South Carolina, hung herself the othe day
| because her parents objected to her mar
| rying.
The insane asylum at Blackfoot.
Idaho Territory, burned the othe' day
| and a number of inmates perished in the
| flames.
Six hundred men are thrown out OF
| employment by the fire at the Hecla Iron
| Works Monday night. The damage was
| 500,
The desertions from the army last
| year from white regiments varied from II
to % per cent and from colored regiments
was only per cent
The Ohio wool growers in conven-
in any shape, and demand that Congress
give the industry all the aid possible.
Four hundred tickets were sold for
the dinner which was given by the Ameri-
cans in Berlin under the presidency Of
Minister Phelps on Thanksgiving Day.
Hon. George II. Pendleton. who
served as United Sates Minister to Ber-
| lin under President Cleveland's admins
tration, died at Brussels last Monday ev en-
| ing.
The Geological Survey says that
Professor Russels explorations in Alaska
resulted in many interesting discoveries
regarding glaciers, mining, etc. A book
will probably be issued.
Eighteen foreigners landed in New
York Tuesday TO oversee the manufacture
of so-called Spanish wine in California, and
they will start across the continent at once
unless the officials forbid under the con
tract labor law.
The Emperor William has author
lied the establishment Of q lottery to be
managed by syndicate for the purpose of
| raising the sum Of 1000, 900 marks for a
site on which to erect a monument to the
late Emperor William.
Thomas A. Edison has just patented
new cell for the use Of telegraph COM
pauies which bids fair to revolutionise
| this branch of telegraphy. The new cell
Is - slupIS Ol ZluC WllAlu WHICH Is
| placed a thick stick of caustic soda, and the
| cell is then filled with water. The most
| wonderful claims are made for this new
| cell.
Americans received larger pro-
| portion OF the prizes offered by the Paris
| Exposition than the exhibitors Of any other
nation. the actual amount being over !. 900
| And this in the face Of the statement
which has always been made that the
American exhibits formed q most beg
carly show.
The annual report Of the General
Superintendent Of the Life Saving Service
shows that at the close Of the fiscal year
that establishment embraced as stations.
The work of the service during the year
was as follows: Number of disasters, ,5aS;
value of property involved, %, ,+;6, 175 value
of property saved, S,os+, 40; number Of
persons involved, S,4s6; number of persons
succored, TS1.
English capitalists have purchased
for $780, 600 the rapid-fring cannon in
vented by Lieutenants Schroeder and DriSrs
of the United States Navy, the former
commander Of the dynamite cruiser
yesuvius. 1t is made of very strong stee,
and can fire a shot three miles. Its advau-
tages are, in addition to its light weight,
its rapid firing capacity, which is three
times as fast as the famous English Arm
strong gun.
Fredericksen & Co., Chicago real
estate agents, have failed. Recent devel-
opments seem to indicate that the firm was
gigantic swindling concern. 1t 10 as
serted that thousands of settlers, mainly
Scandinavians, in Kansas, Iowa and other
Western States, who have, As they sup
pose, paid for their lands and got deeds
from Fredericksen, have absolutely no
title TO it. Eight or ten western capital
lists are also said to have contributed $780,
900 each to Frcdericksen's Golfers, and So
600 is thought to have been dropped by o
single victim out Of many in Milwaukee,.
A banquet was given ut Roach's
ship yards the other day upon the occasion
Of tho launching Of now weasel. Mr.
Blaine was invited to be present but could
not on account Of his other duties. He
sent, however, the following letter: "Ten
years since visited Chester on an invita-
ton of your father to witness the launch