The Delta independent., 1889-12-24
BY TELEGRAPH.
Emin Pasha is recovering.

Whittier celebrated his eighty-sec-
ond birthday on the 18th.
DR.. Ayres, OF Brooklyn, has given
$500 to Wesleyan University.
The number of persons in Berlin
who are suffering from influenza is placed
at 1900.
Judge Dundy, of Omaha, is now men,
toned as the possible successor of Judge
Brewer.
Twenty thousand iaborers in the
Schuylkill mining region have been put on
three-quarters time
Malietoa has been proclaimed King
oi Samoa, and has been formally recog-
nlzed by the consuls
The ironclad prohibition measure
passed both houses of the North Dakota
Legislature Wednesday.
Mr.. Stead has resigned mis- position
as editor of the Pail Jfdll Gu=ette. He
proposes to start review.
A Zanzibar dispatch says that ma
tVes have made an attack upon British
ooat uehvering mails at Lima.
The verdict in the Cronin trial does
not please any one. 1t is evidently the re
suit OF compromise ariePg the jurors.
Late dispatches say everything is
not so peaceful in Brazil as was at nsst re.
ported. Outbreaks are of continual occur
renee.
A London publishing house has Of
fered Stanley s2Oo, ,oeO for the right to print
his forthcoming book on his African
travels.
Two thousand colliers in the Mar
quis Of Londonderry's Seaham coal mines
in Durham have struck, owing to dispute
about wages.
A sawmill boiler explosion near
CovIngton, Tennessee, demolished the
iured two others.
II is reported that the Car refuses
to recognize the Brazilian republic and has
broken of relations with the Brazilian
Minister at ST. Petersburg.
The Boulangist journalist, Villas,
has been sentenced at Paris to two years
Imprisonment for killing Pierrotte, a
brother journalist, in u duel.
The Interstate Prohibition League
of Kansas. Iowa, North and South Dakota
and Nebraaka assembled in Omaha
Wednesday in Exposition Hall.
The cigar strike is further from set
tlement than ever. Only fifty cases of
cigars were shipped last month. The out
put is generally l.soo cases monthly
A passen ger train on the Missouri
Pacific collided with a freight train near
Pleasant Hill, Missouri, and two ,ramps,
stealing ride, were crushed to death.
The bank of Richfield. Kansas, as
signed Saturday morning for the benefit of
its creditors. Liabilities, saI,OoO; assets
claimed, $4,000. The bank expects to re
sumo in short time.
Juror John Culver, of Cronin trial
notoriety has begun suit against the Chi
caso Herald for $4,000 damages for the
article published Sunday, intimating that
he had been influenced by bribes.
A new Constitution has been framed
in Idaho, looking TO its admission as n
State, one clause of which provides that a
three fourth majority of jury shall de-
eide all questions submitted to them.
The Governor of West Virginia has
called a special session of the Legislature
to convene in the third week of january.
The matter 10 be considered is the settle
Inent of the Fleming-Gofr contest for thu
Governorship.
Deputy internal revenue collectors
have seized the winery, distillcry, wines,
brandies, cooperage and personal property
of the Fresno Vineyards Company amount
ing to $500, 900, said to be the largest seiz.
ure ever made in California. 1t is claimed
the amour, of brandy made and disposed
of is in excess of TINT accounted for
Gladstone declines to accept an in
vitation to initiate the agitation looking to
the establishment of working day of
eight hours. He says his time must be
largely devoted to settlement of the Irish
question, and that for this reason, as well
as on account of the infrmitics of age, he
must aDstAln lroul tsakifiE u leiiUlnE part IN
the movement.
The prosecuting attorney of Chicago
in speaking of the verdict in tho Cronin
case the other day, said; when the time
for balloting arrived Culver voted for the
acquittal of all the defendants. He stead
fastly declared that Bcggs particularly he
would not have sent to Jail even for ono
day The result was n long struggle and
repeated ballots, ending in the compromise
verdict announced. Farmer Pierson had
voted steadily for the execution of all tho
Ave defendants and was the last man to
yield. 1t was he who was holding out TO.
ward the end, and not until an hour or so
before the verdict reached the public did
he give in to the entrcatics OF his COM
rades. The leading thought of majority
Of tho jurors other than Culver and Pier
son seemed to be to prcven. u disagree
ment They apparently believed that a
mistrial was what had been aimed ut by
the defense"
Miss Maud Curran, who had been
supposed to be one of the most faithful
workers for various charitable associations
in Kansas Cts, has been arrested for shop.
lifting. Tho police found over q 900 worth
of goods stored in her rosidonce.