The Delta independent., 1889-02-19
THE WORLD.

"Jack the Ripper" has been getting
in his work in Dundee, Scotland
A bitter war between the Atlantic
steamship companies is in prospect:
Gov. Alger's name is prominently
mentioned as the coming war-secretary.
Eleven cars OF California oranges
went east over the Union Pacific on Sun
day.
1t is generally conceded that Mr..
Window will be Harrison's Secretary OF
the Treasury
President Harrison will make Deer
Park, Maryland mountain village, his
summer residence.
A Massachusetts man has accom-
plished the difficult feat Of eloping with two
sisters at the same time.
Word comes from indianapolis that
Senator Teller is more than possibility
for the portfolio of the Interior.
Joseph Medill of the Chicago Tri-
bune expects to represent this country IN
France under the new administration.
An Omaha servant girl robbed her
employer OF several thousand dollars at
different times before she was detected.
The Cheyenne Street Railway Com
pany has secured right of way to Fort
Russell and will extend their line to that
point.
1t is reported that Colonel Lamont
will become General Passenger Agent OF
the New York Central Railroad after the
ith of March.
The electoral vote was formally
canyassed by Congress last Wednesday
and the result declared by the President OF
the Senate.
The members of the French Cabinet
have sent their designations to President
Carnot. 1t seems to be another triumph
for Boulanger.
Stonewall jackson is to be commem-
GRATED in bronze at an expense of 1900 to
the jackson Memorial Association OF Lex
ington, Virginia.
The Senate has appropriated $780,
600 to enable the President to provide for
Isthmus of Panama
Another Indiana man has gone
wtong. This time it is the treasurer OF
Vermillion county, who is about sls,oco
short in his accounts.
The new japanese Constitution was
proclaimed by the Emperor of that country
on the llth. The day was observed as a
holiday throughout the Empire.
During chinook last week the
buildings on the ranch Of George Cooper,
near Sun river, Montana, were burned,
together with 800 sheep. two horses and
800 ton of hay.
The President has nominated Nor
man J. Colman 20 be Secretary of ACri-
ciate Justice of the Supreme Court Of the
District of Columbia
A National Prohibition Conference
was held at Louisville, Kentucky, last
Wednesday. There was the usual dis
agreement over the woman suffrage ques
ton, those in favor of it, however, coming
out victorious.
There are between 1.SO0 and l.6O0
women regularly enrolled as art students
in New York. They come from almost
every State and Territory in the Union,
Canada. Mexico and South America, and
one very promising duslly beauty is from
Japan.
Mrs. Livermore. of New York. says
her husband is Republican, while she is
Prohibitionist; he is a protectionist and
she is n free trader; he has a pew in one
church, she in another; he has one doctor,
she another; and yet they are happy and
harmonious and never dream of quarrel
ing.
1t is reported that leading financial
houses of Paris are negotiating
with the object Of forming n new combina-
ton to complete the Panama canal and pre-
vent it from passing into the hands of for
cigners. De Losseps, it is said, will be
merely honorary president Of the new COM
pany.
The Secretary of War has trans
mitted to the House statements of the chief
signal officer Of the army, setting forth tho
very unsatisfactory condition of the signal
corps and the inefficiency of the present
lieutenants of that corps. General Grcely
urges the passage of a reorganization bill
for the improvement of the service gcncr-
ally.
The Emperor of Russia has distrib-
uted small tokens of gold to all those who
were with him in the imperial train at the
time of the railway accident near BorlSi in
memory OF their miraculous escape, The
kccpsakes are miniture copies of sacred
picture which was found quite undamaged
after the accident in the dining saloon of
the train.
Reports from 65 winter wheat-grow-
ing counties in Texas as to the acreage and
condition of the plants have been received
at Fort Worth. Fortyt two counties report
an increase acreage of from 10 to 40 per cent.
Fifteen counties report adecreased acreage
Of from 10 to so per cent Five report the
acreage about the same MS last year The
condition is uniformly reported fair to good
A terrific ceXplosion occurred Monday
morning between Williams Bridge and
Bedford Park, on the New York, New
Haven and Hartford Railroad, AS the train
from Stamford Connecticut passed there.