The Delta independent., 1889-07-02
THE WORLD.
Mrs. Hayes died early on Tuesday

Mrs. Hayes died early on Tuesday
morning.
General Cameron's body was buried
in Harrisburg.
General Simon Cameron died on the
Goth, aged ninety.
Rich discoveries of gold ore are re-
ported from Michigan.
Governor Foraker has been re-nom-
mated for governor of Ohio.
William Walter Phelps has been ap-
pointed minister to Germany.
An Illinois farmer died the other
day from the effects OF . bee sting.
Vancouver, Washington Territory.
suffered from $40, 600 fire last week.
The graduating class at Yale Col
lege this year consisted of 12s members.
The cashier of the State Bank OF
Sidney, Nebraska, suicided few days
ago.
The Oldest son OF General Sherman
has been ordained priest of the Catholic
church.
A Kansas man has discovered that
cholera is making ravages among the
chinch bugs.
Colonel Saxton, one of the Oldest
settlers of Missouri, died in ST. Joseph a
few days ago.
Chintz bugs are doing considerable
damage to the wheat in the Solomon Val
ley in Kansas.
The chief industries of Mo ntana are
ting on Spokane.
A destructive fire broke out in
Johnstown Monday which destroyed many
houses lett by the flood
The disappointed office-seekers o.
Illinois are preparing to hold reunion at
Starved Rock early next month.
A Mrs. Whiteling was hanged at
Philadelphia the other day for the murder
of her husband and two children.
A law has been passed in Waldeck,
Germany, forbidding the granting of a
marriage license TO person addicted to
intcmperance.
Kidnapping has become OF SO fire.
quent occurrence in Illinois that the Legis-
lature has been compelled to enact spe-
cial law against 1t.
The courts of Sidney, New South
Wales, have decided that no Sunday news
paper can sue for pay for advertisements,
the contracts being Illegal.
Triplicate copies of the Berlin treaty
have been delivered to Secretary Blaine
who will keep them under lock and key
until the meeting of Congress.
Prof. E. Benjamin Andrews, OF
Cornell University, formerly of Brown,
and Brown alumnus, has been unani-
mously elected president of Brown Uni
versity, vice DR.. E. G. Robinson resigned.
Joe Plummer. prominent farmer
living near Hendley, Neb., was found dead
by tho roadside last night with his body
full of shot. His brother and neighbor
named John Jones have been arrested on
suspicion.
With the falling off in the number
of visitors at the White House, due to the
hot weather, the mail received is increas.
ing, and now it nearly equals the volume
of that received at the beginning of the
administration when it surpassed all pre-
cedent.
About 100 citizens of Pittsburg have
purchased and forwarded to Major Geo. S.
Armes, at Washington, gold medal which
bears the following inscription: "Pre.
sented to Major George Ames, by 100 sub
scribers, in approval of his pulling Cover.
nor Beavers nose"
The Navajoes of New Mexico are a
wealthy tribe. They are said to own a45,
COO horses and ponies, 800 mules, $500 cat
tie, o,oo0 sheep and $4,000 goats. Tho
last wool clip amounted to / 200, 600 pounds,
and besides they sold 10000 sheep pclts
and 100, 900 goat skins.
Tho following appointments have
been announced: John l.. Stephens, of
Maine, TO be minister to the Hawaiian
Islands; George Morey, of Tennessee, to
be minister to Paraguay and Uruguay
John Martin Crawford, of Ohio, to be con,
sui general ut St. Petersburg.
A boating party at Albany, N. Y,
consisting of John Mattinorc, Edward and
Joseph Cody, Maud and Maggie Horncr
and two girls, cousins of the Horners,
while rowing on the river were run down
by tug and the boat upset. All were
drowned except Joseph Cody.
Governor Prince has issued proc
tamation, urging on tho people of New
Mexico the Importance of taking an active
interest in tho constitutional convention to
DO held at Santa Fo September 8. He rec.
oumcnds tho sinking Of partisan personal
preference that New Mexico's admission
to statehood may be hastened.
A telegram announces the discovery
by Prof Barnard, of the Lick observatory
of u new comet located in Andromeda. II
is very faint. The comet was discovered
at2 a. m. to-day in right ascension, h. 81
IN. dcclination, north IS deg. "a min. The
comet is moving rapidly to tho north and
cast This Is tho fourth comet found by
Mr. Barnard at .he Lick observatory.