The Delta independent., 1889-07-23
THE WORLD.

nominated full State ticket.
Nearly q. .0OO, 900 have already been
expended by the Johnstown Commission.
The Michigan Legislature has re-
duced sleeping car rates from 25 to 40 per
cent,
A determined effort is being made
to keep Kansas City saloons closed on Sun
days.
Heavy rains have fallen recently in
the City Of Mexico, and portion Of the
city is inundated.
A runnor that Blaine has rendered
his resignation to take effect September
hrst is in circulation.
DR.. Mellow. the slayer OF Captain
Dawson, has been expelled from the South
Carolina medical society.
For the first half Of 1889 the Bur-
lington shows gain of over ea,ooo, 900 in
earnings Is compared with 1888.
A long snow shed on the Union Pa
cific Road in Wyoming was burned Sun
lay, delaying ali trains fourteen hours.
1t is reported that General Legitime
Of Hayti has enlisted regiment Of female
troops. This il practical kind Of woman's
rights.
Sunday was the one-hundredth an
uiversary Of the destruction Of the Bastile
and was appropriately celebrated by all
Frenchmen.
A Topeka paper which has investi-
gated the matter asserts that there are $50
empty business houses and 8, ,90O vacant res
idenoes in Kansas City.
A special from Bar Harbor says
that Secretary Blaine denies with his own
lips the story of his resignation sent out
from Washington Saturday night
Mr.. Lincoln. the United States Min
lister. and his wife, and Mr.. Russell Har-
rison, son of President Harrison, dined
with the Queen at Windsor Monday.
The large stable OF the Lowell
tMass.) horse railroad was burned Tues
day night together with 100 horses, forty
cars and much grain. Loss about sls0, 600.
What is said to be fine quality Of
cooking coal has been discovered at the
new Burlington & Missouri mines on the
edge Of the Black Hills near Sundance,
Wyoming
The Parnellite members Of the
House OF Commons intend to demand in
Parliament that a committee of inquiry Be
appointed to ascertain the origin Of the
Piggott forgeries.
President Harrison will 60 to
Georgia in October, and will make an ad-
dress at the celebration in Atlanta of the
twenty fifth anniversary of the rise Of that
city from the ashes Of war.
1t is reported that the residents Of
New Foundland are becoming very much
dissatisfied with their connection with
Great Britain and are agitating the ques-
ton Of annexation TO this country.
A frightful explosion occurred Tues
day on the Union Pacific Railway, three
miles west Of Topeka, fatally iniuring
Fireman James T. Dutton and Engineer
S. Ssoord. Tho trainmen also received ser
ious injuries.
More than 800 operatives in the
silk mills at Patterson, N. J., are on q
strike because, owing to hard times. the
employers are forced to close or reduce
wages 10 per cent. A notice Of reduction
was posted and the workers struck.
The French brewery at Fort Wayne
burned the other day. While the fire was
In progross three men were severely In
iured by the explosion Of an ammonia tank
on the ice machine. The total loss will
reach $3.50, 900 with only $4,000 insurance
A committee Of the vigilantes num-
bering several hundred broke into the Jail
at Springview, Neb., and shot to death H,
A. Maupin, . squaw man. Maupin was
charged with being 'rustler," or cattle
thief. There was no one on guard at the
timc of the shooting,
Ex-Governor Crawford, attorney for
the Cheyenne and Aprapahoe Indians, has
issued an address TO the United State.
Commissioners who arc about to negotiate
Tor the Cherokee Strip, in which he pre-
senta tho claims of his clients to 1000, 600
acres Of land also claimed by the Chero-
KEGS.
Nine hundred and fifty members
Of the Connaught Rangers have been
scnt to Malta to take the place of troops
who have been dispatched TO Egypt
Four regiments at Aldershot have been or
dcred to hold themselves in readiness to
proceed to the front In Egypt at mo-
mcnt's notice.
The Rhode Island Legislature met
Tuesday In adjourned special session 70
enact the license law. The bill reported
provides for Wholesale license fees from
800 TO q, 500, u be determined by the
license commissioners, and retail fecs e400
In Providence, running down to as In ANAL
towns according TO their regulation.
Mayor Grant Of Now York recently
sent request 70 half Thousand Of the
most prominent men In that part Of the
country representing over d ,0oo, ,Oo0, 900,
asking them 70 be present at = conference
Of representative citissns 70 consider the
advisahility Of building m International
cxposition In that city In iSea and 70 ar
raAss for the preliminary work. II Il 10
deemed advisable. The meeting 10 10 be
held % the afternoon Of Tie 96th Instant
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