The Delta independent., 1889-10-29
BY TELEGRAPH.


Persia.
The President is hard at work on
his annual message.
Governor FoI aker of Ohio is report
ed better and will be out in a few days.
H. II. Berger has been appointed
Receiver of Public Moneys at Santa Fe.
Grand Duke Nicholas, uncle of the Car,
is dying from cancerous affection of the
ear.
The railway posta.- clerks are hold
ing their annual convention in New Or
leans.
Typhoid symptoms among Yale Col
lege students are causing increased uneasi-
ness.
The senior class of Harvard Col
iege have elected colored man class
orator.
The birth rate is steadily decreasing
in France while the death rate is on the
increase
Oscar F. Williams has been ap
pointed United States Consul at Havre
France.
The delegates to the International
| American Congress spent Sunday resting
| in Chicago.
Extensive forest fires are doing much
damage around Black River Falls and
Chippewa Falls, Wis.
The delegates to the Pan-American
Congress were given grand banquet in
Chicago Tuesday night
| Chas. Bradlaugh, the well-kuowu
politician and reformer, is very ILL.,, 1t is
feared that he is dying.
| A jury has at last been found in the
Cronin case and the. trial has begun, it
promises to be long and tedious.
Systematic work has begun for re-
lieving suffering caused by the failure of
crops in several counties of the Dakotas.
Amos j. Cummings has been en-
dorsed by the Seventh District County
Democratic Congressional Convention for
Congress
The steamship Bro oklyn from Dar-
len to New York is six days overdue and is
thought to have foundered with all aboard,
is in all.
4 Ex-President Cleveland will make
what will probably be the first stump
speech of his life at the Brooklyn Academy
Of Music next week.
| A new Canadian cable from Ireland
to Greeley Island in the Straits of Bell
Isle, distance of 300 miles, will be laid
next year, says dispatch from Ottawa.
| a company has been formed to lay a
cable from Marseilles to Buenos Ayrcs. Il
has a capital of 4, COS. .oOo with the interest
guaranteed by the Argentine Government.
General b. F. Butler says he pro-
poses to write n complete history of public
affairs in which he has been concerned, in
which he proposes to DO Justice to his
friends and enemies, especially the latter.
A conference OF leading colored men
from every State and Territory in the
| Union is 20 be held in Chicago next June
for the purpose of forming Nationa
league for the advancing of the interests Of
| their race
On October. so, 1889, the net stan.
dard silver dollars in the Treasury after
deducting the silver certificates in circula-
tor, amounted to S., ,G2i, ,4Sl. Two years
ago it was S53, ,46i, $40. One year ago it was
little over twenty millions, to-day it is
$780,, 80.
The Pan-American train arrived in
st. Paul Thursday and the delegates as
sisted in laying the cornerstone of the
new Y. NJ. C. A. building. Signor Peraza,
|
were then welcomed by the State and city
officials followed by lunch at Governor
Merriam's. This afternoon was spent
driving about the city.
A special from Tarmont, Ohio, says
that at tho village of Woodvilie, that
county, nearly one third of tho COO persons
in the town are the victims of typhoid
1 fever and diphtheria. Last week there
were ten deaths from typhoid fever and
nearly that number from dipthcria. Great
excitement prevails in the town and busi
ness is entirely suspended.
Postmaster General Wanamaser has
awarded the contract for furnishing ad-
hcsive postage stamps for the year begin
ming the lst of January next to tho Ameri-
can Bank Note Company of New York
The new stamps will be about one-eighth
smaller than those in present use. One
cent stamps will continue to be printed in
blue ;two-ccnt stamps now printed in green
will be printed in bright carmine and
changes will be made in some of the other
denominations.
Secretary Tracy has concluded his
work on tho estimates for the naval cstab-
lishmcnts for the year 1sa0-al. Appropria-
tions for the year 1ssa-90 were in round
numbers sas,45o,ooo. This included scv.
eral millions for the construction of new
vessels now under way or projected. 1t is
understood that the estimates finally passed
by Secretary Tracy show an Increase of
about $1,000, 900 over those Of last year,
chiefly for new W ork on vessels and inn
lprovements and additions TO navy yards.
The Secretary of the Interior is pre-
pairing letter to tho Cherokee authorities
upon the subject of the lease of the Chcro
kce strip which, it is suspected, will con-
tain somc rathcr pertinent and valuable
suggestions The Secretary refuses 10
disclose In advance Just what it will be,