The Delta independent., 1889-09-24
BY TELEGRAPH.

have been sold.
Ben Butler is about to write an au-
photography.
Philadelphia is suffering from q
strange invasion of f1eas..
Cholera has made its appearance at
Bardad, and is spreading in western Per
sia.
Louisville, KY. had fire Monday
which destroyed property valued at over
81 ,250, 900.
Bob Younger, the noted bandit, died
Monday night in the Saltwater, MIMI,
penitentiary.
A deposit of high grade yellow
ochre has been struck in Hastings, Nep..
in boring for gas well.
Mrs. Elizabeth S. Mcclellan, mo-
ther of General George B. Mcclellan, died
last week. She was 90 years of age.
The loss by the st. Joe Exposition
fire is $500, 900. Captain Foster, who had
charge of the cereal exhibit, lost his life in
the fire.
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.
On the steamer Evan, which arrived
at New York Monday, were 100 Arabs
from Syria. They were locked up pending
action as to their admission.
Mrs. Logan having been mentioned
suitable successor to Corporal Tanner,
that lady hastens to say that under no con-
ditions would she accept the office.
NJ. Corpillaine, proprietor OF the
cent terrible explosion occurred, has been
arrested, together with the engineer Of the
factory.
Governor Thayer, of Nebraska, has
issued a proclamation qua rantining Ne
braska cattle against the importation of
cattle from Logan and Weld Counties,
Colorado.
Mrs. Hamilton, the notorious wo-
man who attacked a servant with murder
| GUS ferocity at Long Branch q few weeks
ago, has been sentenced to two years in
States prison.
Citizens of Hockberry, Arizona, have
tclegraphed to Kingman for arms and am
munition in anticipation of trouble with
the Indians. The Indians have been hold
ing war dances
General V. d. Groner, formerly
chairman of the anti Malone wing of the
Republican party in Virginia, has called a
conference of anti Mahoncites to be held
in Richmond, Oct. l.
Della Walker, aged 10, committed
suicide at Langdon, Vermont, on Friday
night by drowning. She was beautiful
and accomplished, a college graduate and
well known. The cause is a mystery.
A number of merchants in Berlin
have signed memorial to Bismark. in
which charges of impoliteness and general
mismauagement arc made against Mr.
Edwards, the United States Consul at Ber-
lin.
A fire in The Kansas City Desicating
and Refining works at Kansas City. Kan,
caused n loss of $4,000. George Esten-
berger and Joha Hslpeeb, employees of the
company, We're fatally injured. Two fire.
men were seriously hurt
Several newspapers OF London have
charged a Scotch peer with having COM
mitted an indecent assault upon a child.
Testimony is given to show that the ac.
cused is guilty of the crime but the magis-
tracy are afraid to take action.
The fifth annual reunion OF Mosby's
famous battery was held at Palatine, w.
Va, Saturday. The principal speaker was
Hon John NJ. Mason, Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue. Mr.. Mason declared him
self in favor of a service pension for every
honorably discharged soldier.
The captain, ten sailors and one
passenger of the Spanish vessel captured
by the natives off tho Riff Coast of Mo
rocco, have been carried into the interior
TO be sold into slavery. The Spanish Gov
ernment will made an immediate demand
on the Sultan of Morocco that the prison
ers be restored to liberty.
What promised to be very de-
structive fire broke out in the main build.
ing of the Chicago Exposition Saturday. A
panic seized the 5000 people in the building
and it seems marvellous that no one was
killed in the mad rush to escape. The loss
was only about 5000 owing to the excel
lent work of the fire department.
The English and Italian Govern
ments have signed a more stringent anti.
slavery convention than has hitherto ex-
listed. Tho convention declares the slave
traffic to be an act of piracy and enables
cruisers to deal more promptly with cap
tured slavers. The Mediterranean is ex.
Guided from the operations of the treaty.
The new man-of-war Baltimore did
so remarkably well on its trial trip last
Saturday that the Secretary Of the Navy
sent the following telegram to ex. Secretary
Whitney, who procured the design for the
ships hull and contracted for her construc.
ton; Permit me to congratulate you on
the magnificent pcrformanc, Of the Balti-
more. benjamin +. Tracy"
A New York engineer proposes to
locate the Worlds Fair OF 1899 in New
York Bay. There arc several thousand
acres there covered with water to . depth
Of only u few feet. This man thinks II en-
.irely pcssiblc to erect buildfncp on niles