The Delta independent., 1889-11-05
BY TELEGRAPH.
Over 5000 cigar makers are still on
a strike at Key West.

Typhoid symptoms among Yale Col
lege students are causing increased uneasi-
ness.
p. NJ. Arthur has been reelected
Chief Of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers.
General Hyppolite was inaugurated
president of Hayti on the 10th inst. with
great pomp.
The original Mrs. Bender of unsav-
ory Kansas reputation has been discovered
in Michigan.
Eugene Fiske, of New Mexico, has
been appointed Attorney of the United
States for New Mexico
Colonel Cockrill. of the New York
World, is said to be planning to buy the
Matt and Express of that city.
The American minister to Costa
Rico is said to have greatly offended Mex
leo by some recent Official utterances.
An old woman and l2-year-old boy
are said to have been devoured by bears
recently near Espanola in New Mexico.
IL - sdlu ludt at least llousauu
families in South Dakota are in state of
destitution occasioned by failure of crops.
Lord Woolseley has accepted an in
vitation to be present at the uuveiling of
the statue of General Lee at Richmond, Va
George B. Mcclellan, son of Cen
eral Mcclellan, and Georgiana Pecksher
of New York, were married a few days
ago =
The Westinghouse Electric Com
pany of Pittsburg, has secured contract
for large electric light plant in Pekin,
China.
The 5000 saloons of New York city
have raised the price Of beer from 5 to 10
cents pint. and there is great wailing in
consequence.
The first conviction under the Kan
sas prohibitory law for the sale of hard
cider was secured in the district court in
Topeka last week. The defendant was the
proprietor Of hotel.
Eighteen school children OF Frank
lin. Pa, were badly injured, four of whom
"A4A PtSoaots bANs ~ eAS SAf+SsAS.- "a &"
gas pipe which had been filled with dyna
mite, and with which they had been play
ing.
One OF the recent discoveries in Ere
mont County, Wyo., is an eight foot vein
of almost pure alum. The Bayonne Chem
ical works Of Bsyonne, n. j., are nogoti-
3 ting with the owners of the vein for its
purchase.
Secretary Rusk has issued a notice
stating that the order of July 8, prescrib
ing regulations for the transportation of
Texas and other Southern cattle, is re
voked. as the danger of Texas fever this
year is passed.
The Pan-American eXcursionists
spent last Sunday in Omaha. Before leav
ing each of the party was presented with a
souvenir, a steers horn, brightly polished
decorated with ribbons and filled with
fancy little sacks containing samples of
Nebraska grains.
The Union Pacific has secured con-
troll of q majority of the stock of the Chi
cago &. Alton Railroad and the latter now
becomes a part of the Vanderbilt Union
Pacific system. The amount involved in
the latest deal is not known, but it is sup
posed to be nearly Sl3, zoo, 900.
Secretary Tracy has awarded the
contract for building two of the a.ooo ton
cruisers to the Columbia Iron Works of
Baltimore, for the sum of s., ,2a5, 900. The
contract for the third one will be awarded
either TO Harrison Loring of Boston, or y.
F. Palmer & Co, of New York, each of
whom bid s614, 900.
The machinery for big oil derrick
has arrived at Salt Creek. 30 miles from
Caspsr, the present terminus of the North
western Railroad in Wyoming. The oi!
claim to be developed is owned by big
Pennsylvania company. which has the
capital and disposition to develop it to its
fullest extent at once.
Advices from Brisbane state that
the natives of Southwest New Guinea
have massacred Rev. MIR. Savage, who
was sent out by the London Missionary
society, a number of native teachers and
the crew of the cutter Mary, belonging to
the society. The steamer Albatross, be
longing to the Queensland government.
has been dispatched to the scene.
The walls of three-story double
house in course of erection fell Thurs
lay in Passaic City. n. J. and sixteen
workmen were buried in the ruins. Three
others We're fatally injured, three ser
iously and other slightly injured. Nothing
but broken timbers, bricks and mortar
mark the spot where the house stood.
The owner of the building is severely con
demned, as it was a "Buddensick'' affair.
A Pittsburg paper prints an improb-
able story to the effect that Krupp, the
German gun founder, intends To remove
his works to that vicinity. To effect this
it is said that tract Of land covering about
five square miles must be secured. Krupp
now employees 10000 men, but IL the trans
fer is made to this country it is thought
shat much larger force will be needed
The advantages of natural gas are said to
be one reason for removal
Rev. DR.. Talmage started on Wed
nesday for Palestine. During his absence
the congregation viii meet in the Academy
of Music. The new tabernacle will De
ready for occupancy in September, iS9l
Talmage will go first to London, thence to
Rome, where he will call on the Pope.