The Delta independent., 1889-09-17
TELEGRAPHIC BREV!ITIES

The geysers in Yellowst Park arc
unusually sctive Of late.
A very disastrous storm has been
raging along the Atlantic Coast
The city Of Washington has one sa
loon for every ITS inhabitants.
The Union Pacific Railroad Com
pany have 10000 persons on their payroll.
Five men were killed by boiler ex-
plosion near Carbondale, Illinois. last
week.
The President has appointed George
W. Lyon to be surveyor Of customs for the
port of New York.
Mr.. Ellison made donation OF TO-
COO francs TO the poor Of Paris before he
left that city for Berlin.
The capital stock OF the Bell Tele-
phone Company has been increased from
10000 600 to s12, SOC, COO.
The London branch of the Salvation
Army provides food at a merely nominal
price for 5000 strikers daily.
Silver is said to have been found in
the mountains near Connellsville, Pa.
Prospectors are swarming in.
The Johns Hopkins University is
said to be in . financial condition border
ing on the verge of bankruptcy.
The Deep Harbor Convention at To-
peka will begin its sessions October l. II
promises to be an important gathering.
1t is said to be definitely settled that
Judge Grof. of Omaha, will be the next
Commissioner Of the General Land ONCE.
The new steel cruiser ..Philadel-
phia" was successfully launched from
Cramps shipyards in Philadelphia last
Saturday.
One hundred and fifty-four Mormons
arrived in New York Thursday, from Eu-
rope. About half OF them were women.
They proceeded at once TO Utah.
Johnstown, Pa. is rapidly recover
ing from the effects of the great deluge.
Fifty-onc saloons are already dealing out
liquid comfort to the Inhabitants.
A priest charged with preaching
seditious doctrines in Guanajuato, Mexico,
has been sentenced to eleven months i'm
prisonment and to pay fine of $1,000
The leaders Of the London strike are
greatly disappointed at having received no
financial aid from American workingmen.
Over fl5, 600 have been received from Aus
tralia.
The Mexican Government has
granted 40 exequatur to General Sampson
Of Colorado as United States Consu. t
.Paso del Norte. after having evinced CON
siderable opposition to his appointment
Sylvestro Morales, the outlaw who
has for some time terrorized residents in
Southern California, has been captured. A
girl whom Morales abducted and compelled
to live with him was found and will be re
turned to her parents.
The will of Mrs. Ellen NJ. Gufford.
Of New Haven, the widow of Arthur Cuff
ford, Of New York, who died last week,
after giving q legacy of sl5l 900 to her
own and her husbands relatives and ESQ.,
600 to various friends, leaves the rest of
her property, amounting to nearly 500, 600.
to charitable objects.
Orders were received at Cheyenne
Saturday from the Union Pacific head
quarters to get bids by Thursday next for
the construction Immediately Of additional
shops to those already under contract. The
extra structures include car repair shop
5px2oo feet coal chutes and trestles, and
water tanks. The cost of these buildings
will be SIS, 900.
The United States Signal Service
Bureau has established signal service sta
tions at Carbon, Saratoga and Sundancc.
wyo., and furnished instruments for tax
ing observations OF temperature, rainfall
and state Of the weather by voluntary OBJ
servers. Stations will be established
throughout the Territory at points not
nearer than 50 miles to the regular sta
tions.
In his speech at banquet given
him in Paris last Saturday Gladstone, re
fcrring to the rapid increase of population
in America, said: 81 wish to recognize
Americas right to be considered, prospect
lively at least, and even now to some ex-
tent, the great organ OF the powerful Eng
lish tongue wish. also to indulge in feel
ings of satisfaction on rcficctiug that no
cause on earth, unless our own folly, now
or hereafter, ought to divide us from one
another, or revive those causes Of conteu.
ton that have heretofore prevailed among
U.S."
A cable dispatch from Zanzibar to
tho Govermcnt OF the Congo State says:
STANLEY, on ieaving the basin OF Albert
Nyanra, endeavorcd to make his way
southwark by passing to the west of Vic
toria Nyanss, but failed. He then went
northward and reached the eastern shore
Of the lake. Emin Pasha accompanied
him. After . stay on the borders of the
lake awaiting supplies, Stanley, leaving
Emin Boy, marched In the direction of
Mombas He 10 expected to reach tho
eastern scacoast about the end Of Octo
ber.''
Phil Watson, City Marshal of CAS-
per and Deputy Sheriff Of Carbon County.
Wyoming, has been arrcsted with i've
others. charged with horse stealing. Tho
arrests were made by Sheriff Rogers, OF
Crook County, assisted by Sheriff vii.
liams, Of Converse County. II the stories