The Delta independent., 1889-10-01
BY TELEGRAPH.
Wilkie Collins, the English novelist,

An extensive strike Of dock labor
ers has begun at Rotterdam.
Emmons Blaine and Miss Anita Nc
Cormick were married on the Goth.
The extensive steel works at Swan
sea, England, have been destroyed by fire.
Massachusetts Republicans have
nominated J. p. A. Bracket for Governor.
Mississippi Republicans have placed
a ticket in the field-the first for several
years.
The Temple of Heaven at Pekin con-
tanning dragon throne has been destroyed
by fire.
Mayor Warner of Kansas City has
positively refused the position of Pension
Con u.m!ssicner.
Great interest is being taken in the
Congress of American nations about to as
semble in Washington.
George Francis Train languishes in
Jail because he refuses to pay judgment
of 81 900 obtained against him.
Eta Robinson, a handsome 17-year-
old West Virginia girl, has been creating a
big sensation by number Of horse stealing
escapades.
An explosion of gas occurred in a
coal mine near Dayton, Tenn, Monday
morning. Nine men were badly burned,
| some fatally.
There is. sadness in Switzerland be-
| cause of the whole destruction Of grape
| and tobacco vines by an untimely frost in
the valleys.
1t is charged that the officials of
| Spokane Falls have been robbing the fund
contributed for the relief of the sufferers
| by the late fire.
The Constitutional Convention Of
| New Mexico has adjourned after having
| been in session seventeen days. Its total
| expense was but 8, 1856.
A dispatch from Athens says hat
| Christians are dragged, bound hand and
feet, through the towns of Crete and many
| have escaped into the country.
Hon. William Walter Phelps, the
new American Minister to Berlin, pre-
sented his credentials on the Goth and was
cordially received by the Emperor.
The Latin & Rand powder mill at
Cressona, Pa, blew up the other day. The
| explosion was terrific. Three workmen
were killed and number Injured.
John McIlvaine 4 Son, whisky deal
ers of Louisville, Kentucky, have assigned
for the benefit of creditors. The firm has
been in existence twenty-five years.
The New York Graphic has sus-
pended publication and the office is in the
hands of the sheriff. The cause of the sus-
pension is said to be q lack of funds.
The Hatch Lithographing Company
Of New York has been placed in the sher-
IFS hands on Judgment of $4,000. The
company's liabilities are about $3.50, 900.
Repeated attempts have been made
within the past few days to destroy
inhabitants are almost in a state OF panic.
The police commissioners of Kansas
| City have ordered the police to suppress
the Salvation Army because of the numer-
Gus disturbances at the army's headquar-
| tcrs.
| An express train on the Santa Fe
road, a few miles north of Fort Worth, was
attached by robbers a few days ago and q
haul of several thousand dollars in silver
was made.
Extensive oil refining works at
Shadyside, New Jersey, composed of fif-
| teen buildings and eight oil tanks, were
totally destroyed by fire. The loss is esti-
mated at sseo,ooo.
The Secretary of the Navy has been
| formally advised by the Columbia Iron
| Works of Baltimore that the gunboat Petrol
has been completed and is ready to be turn
| ed over to the government.
John Allen and E. H. Platt, who
| left New York May Il for a trip across
the continent on horseback have arrived in
| San Francisco, having made the trip in 100
| days, the actual riding time being III
| days.
Dispatches from Crete say the
| Christian inhabitants of the Island arc
fleeing to the mountains. Their cattle and
other property is being stolen by tho Turks.
Many Christians have been cast into
prison.
| One of the largest blast furnaces at
the Edgar Thompson steel works at Brad
dock, Pa, gave way at the bottom the
| other day and six tons of motion metal
rushed out horribly burning seven work.
men.
General Sherman has been re-elec-
ted president of the society OF the Army
| of the Tennessee. Resolutions were adop-
ted asking liberal pension laws and re.
cognition of the services of the military
telegraph corps.
| A teacher of Odessa, in Russia,
named Sausc. committed suicide the other
day. His wife was so much effected that
| she lost her reason. She killed her five
children, carried their bodies to the third
story window and threw them to the
ground. She then threw herself out, ~
sulting in fatal injuries.
The funeral of tho victims OF the
recent landslide took place to-day. Tho
ship laborcrs, about 500 strong, headed BY
President Dcahorey, led the procession !,
then followed tho police force bearing
costly flowers presented by the city coun