The Delta independent., 1889-03-05
THE WORLD.

dinner at Washington last Thursday.
The increase of membership in the
G. A. r. during the last three months of
1888 was Il, ,23s.
Ten girls and a man were killed by
an explosion in a squib factory in Pennsyl-
vania last Monday.
The President has signed the bill
pensioning Mrs. Sheridan and retiring
General Rosecrans.
Mr.. Morton was given an elaborate
farewell dinner last Monday on the eve of
his departure for Washington.
The Washington hotels have raised
the price of board and lodging to $50 day
during the inaugural festivities.
President Cleveland has issued a
proclamation convening the Senate in ex
ira session on the 4th OF March.
A clerk IN the Office OF the county
treasurer Of Cook County, Illinois, has
skipped with 5000 of public money.
Several Mormon elders who have
been preaching in Indiana were stripped
and beaten by masked mob last week
A young man was drowned in the
swimming pool connected with the Y.M. C
A. building at Kansas City the other day.
The Union Pacific has finally deter
mined to build shops at Cheyenne to cost
500, 900. Work will be commenced at once.
1t has been rumored that Sir John
Macdonald has been offered the post of
British Ambassador TO the United States.
Folds & Griffith. Minneapolis, dealers
in carpets, etc, have assigned. Their la
bIlities are placed at $4,000; assets SO,
0o0
A large number OF New Mexico at
torneys have indorscd Louis Sulzbacher, of
Las Vegas, for Chief Justice of the Terri
tory.
Eleven produce merchants of Pitts
burg have been convicted of selling oleo-
margarine for butter and fined from 500
TO s250 and costs.
There were two natural gas explo-
sions in Pittsburg the other day by which
several buildings were wrecked and num-
Der of persons injured.
The City Council OF Douglas, Wyom-
fng, has decided to provide at once for the
construction of water works. A 1oo, 600
gallon reservoir will be built
The Bank of England is the most ex-
tcnsive banking institution in the world.
II employs over one Thousand clerks, and
its buildings cover more than eight acres.
The Empress of Russia has sent up
wards OF 81, 900 to the St Petersburg Hos
piial rs thank offering for her miraculous
escape from death in the recent railroad ac-
cident to the royal train.
The village OF Blooming Prairie,
Minnesota, was almost wiped out by fire
Wednesday morning. The postoffice was
among the buildings burned. Total loss,
SO 1000; insurance, $1,000.
A. b. Cleveland, president of the A.
b. Cleveland Company, of New York,
wholesalers of seeds, has been missing FOR
three weeks 1t is said he provided him
self out of the company's funds and by
loans with over sioo, coo before leaving
A disgraceful personal encounter
took place between Senator'S Blackburn
and Chandler in one of the committee
rooms of the National Capitol last week.
The kentucky Colonel seems TO have been
the aggressor and the one principally to
blame.
The Pacific Hotel Company, it is
stated on good authority, has sold its entire
plant to the Union Pacific road. 1t is val
ued at $500, COO The eating houses opera,-
cd by the hotel company are in all the
principal cities on the road as far west as
Pocatello, Idaho.
Pigott, the principal witness on
whom the London Times relied to support
its charges against Parnell has confessed
himself on the witness stand to be Is per
iurcr and blackmailer. There is no rca-
son TO believe that the Times wilfully
libellcd Mr.. Parnell, us 1t is evident the
paper was cruelty hoaxcd.
Chilli has passed law excluding
Chinese immigrants from the Republic, but
all other classes of immigrants will find a
repeated its orders to immigration agents
uDrpau uutntTlAiuS tncul 10 give lrNe pas
sage to all who desire TO emigrate to Chilli,
where, on their arrival they will receive
board and lodging for 10 days,
Pigott, the witness on whom the
London Times principally relied to support
its charges against Mr.. Parncll. after nc.
1nowlcdging himself to be pcrjurcr and
forgor, has fed to parts unknown. Patrick
Egan, of Nebraska, was mainly instru-
mental in procuring evidence which re.
vcaied his true character. MIR. Parnell
stands before the world thoroughly vindi-
eaten.
Considerable interest has been
aroused on the Pacific Coast over the gold
finds in Lower California A special from
Enscnada says the discoveries embrace
quartz land and placer diggipgs. Several
parties have arrived with large nuggets. II
is stated that the people in the diggings are
taking out q to $3.50 per pan, and one
nugget weighing SEQ has been brought In.
People are thronging to the diggings from
Ensenada and tho neighboring towns, and
many will 60 from San Diego.
Representative Springer, of Illinois,
expects Now Mexico to become State be-
fore the close Of the session. A hill for