The Delta independent., 1889-01-22
THE WORLD.

have recently been found in California.
The wife Of Jay Gould died at her
residence in New York Sunday evening.
A bill to divide the great Sioux res
ervation in Dakota has been introduced in
Congress.
Our consul at Panama writes that
he anticipates serious trouble there before
many weeks.
A Republican, Anthony Higgins, has
been elected to the United States Senate
from Delaware.
Judge Tuley of Chicago decides that
the police have no right to forbid the meet
| ing of Anarchists.
The President has nominated Thos.
| c. Anderson, Of Iowa, Assistant Justice Of
the Supreme Court Of Utah.
Miners are in great demand in Chilli
owing to the extensive development Of the
country's mineral resources.
President and Mrs. Cleveland will
give an elaborate dinner to the Supreme
| Court and Congress on the 3lst
A letter has been received from
Stanley which was written August nth
He was well and in good spirits at that
time
A Statehood convention was held IN
Santa Fe last week at which resolutions
were passed pleading eloQuently for State
| hood.
| ha1 1f tha
| in process of erection Of Montreal col
Iapsd Thursday, owing to the mild
| weather.
The House Committee on Territories
heard arguments last Saturday on both
sides of the question Of admitting Utah 70
the Union.
Prince Bismarck made speech in
the Reichstae on the 18th, In the course Of
| which he took occasion TO severely arraign
the Liberal press.
The United States consumes l60,-
coz, 900 pairs Of boots and shoes per annum,
| 100, 900 900 OF whichEare furnished by the
New England States.
| The Montana Legislature have pass
|
| Utah on the ground of polygamy. There
were only three dissenting votes.
Secretary Whitney says the State
| Department has done all it can in the Ss-
| moan matter and It now rests with Con
gress, which alone has power to declare
war.
Mr.. Abraham Hunsaker, an ancient
Mormon, died few days ago at Ogden,
Utah, leaving an interesting family Of five
widows and forty children, and Iso grand
children.
The Republicans of the Minnesota
| Legislature met IN caucus Thursday night
| TO select Senator 10 succeed D. NJ. Sabin
and nominated General washburn of Min
| neapolis.
Alexander l. McGill, D. D., LII. D..
| professor of ecclesiastical, homilet;c and
pastoral theology at Princeton Theological
Seminary, died at Princeton New Jersey
Sunday morning in his e2d year.
The most important items in the
naval appropriation bill, which carries
go, ,ooo, 600, are those providing for the CON
struction of the dynamite cruiser, TO cost
| s45o, 600 on the pattern of the Vesuvius,
and s, ,5oo-ton cruising monitor, to cost
s5oo, 900, on the plan originated by Repre-
sentative Thomas of Illinois.
A London special to the New York
Times say: ~ have direct information
| from an official source that the government
received letters from Henry NJ. Stanley
| and that his safety is assured. These let
| tiers will soon be published, being tenn
porarily withheld for Official reasons not
given. OF their authenticity Of the safety
| of the explorer there is no doubt what
ever"
The planters of Union and Kenshaw
Counties South Carolina, are alarmed at the
prospects Of a negro exodus. Yesterday sew
eral carloads of ofnegroesleftUnion for Arkan-
sas, their passage being paid by railroad con
tractors. Two hundred left Kershaw for
Louisiana to work on sugar plantations. 1t
is expected that many will follow. Agents
| nre at work in other counties, and it is ex-
pected that many will soon leave for the
Mississippi Valley.
Wednesday evening the wind blew a
| freight car from n side track to the main
track OF tue CnlCaSp, NllWaukee " St.
Paul road Mt Sylvania, near the Western
Union Junction, and u freight train ran in
| to II, wrecking the engine and seven cars.
| Harvey Brubaker, a brakeman, Of Free
port, Illinois, % years old was crushed to
Jelly. Engineer A. ]. Flack was fatally in
jurcd by inhalins scaldins steam. The
head brakeman, George Otto, was badly
scalded and burned.
Mr. Phelps, the United States Minis
ter to England was the chief guest at
banquet given by the Fishmongers com
pany in London Wednesday evening. In n
speech he said that the only complaint he
had to bring against that country was that
| the people had made It more difficult for
him to say good bye to them than to per
| form any duty that he had to do since he
came. He hoped to often have the pleas
ure Of seeing in one country, II not in an
| other, his numerous English friends.
The Secretary of the Navy has is
sued Instructions to Rear Admiral Kim
bcrly. commanding the Pacific Station, to
proceed in the United States Steamer
Trenton TO Samoa for the purpose Of pro
| tecting American interests on that island.