The Delta independent., 1889-09-03
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITlES


in Kansas City last Saturday.
Excellent oyster beds have been dis
covered in the Gulf of California.
President Strong has resigned the
presidency of the Atchison railroad.
General Alger of Michigan has been
elected commander of the Grand Army.
1t is reported that Queen Victoria is
about to bestow decoration on Mr.. Edi-
son.
An idiot named Graham made q
successful trip through the Niagaga rapids
Sunday.
Large numbers of cattle in southern
Kansas and the Indian Territory are dying
from Texas fever.
The office of prohibition newspaper
in Dakota was completely demolished by q
mob few days ago.
The widow of General Logan divided
the honors with General Sherman at the
Milwaukee encampment.
DR.. George I. Shrady of New York
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life delusion and snare.
Legitime has given up the contest in
Hayti and Hyppolyte has peacefully en-
tered Port -au-Prince, the formers strong
hold.
Several people and many animals
near Columbus, Ind, have beon bitten by
mad dog, and an outbreak of rabies is
feared.
John Robinsons circus tent was
blown down by storm at Toledo, O., Sat
urday night Over hundred people were
| injured.
A strike is reported among the Gin
cinnati shoe lathers caused BY the refusal
of certain employers to oreinstate discharged
union men.
Miners are leaving Spring Valley
for the Southern Illinois coal field and the
mines in the former place will probably be
abandoned till next year.
North China and Japan have been
visited by series of typhoons of unpre-
cedented severity. At the lowest estimate
LOCO persons have been drowned.
f. Hewins, president. OF the Chero-
kee Cattle Company says that reports that
Texas fever exists to al alarming extent
in the Territory are greatly exaggerated.
3The Chicago Neics of recent date
printed editorials in nineteen different Ian.
guages giving reasons why that city is the
proper place 20 hold the next Worlds Fair.
1t is reported that Claus Spreckles
has discovered a process for hardening su
gar so that il can be used for building pur.
poses, rivaliIg marble in beauty and dura.
bility.
| pressure is being brought to bear
upon the Mexican Cover umeut TO have
them refuse to receive General Sampson
the recently appointed consul at Paso de-
| Norte.
The steamship City of Paris, which
arrived in New York Wednesday morning
from Queenstown, made the quickest. trir
on record. The actual time was days, Il
hours and Is minutes.
A bold highwayman held up" a
stage in Wisconsin the other day in the
i
with resistance, however, he was obliged
to shoot two Of the passengers.
Much of the Sioux reservation which
1 will soon be open to settlers is declared to
be worthless and none of it equal to thou.
sands of acres which can be had in Colo,
RADIO, Wyoming and New Mexico.
Dispatches from Egypt say q famine
prevails at khartorm, Eassola, Tokar and
other river towns. Survivors arc said to
be feeding upon bodies of the dead. Abou,
twenty deaths from starvation a.rc daily
| reported at Tokar
| reporter of the ST. Louis Post DIS
patch enlisted in the regular army for the
purpose of discovering why so many SOL
dicrs deserted. He tells a horrible tale of
the cruelties and petty tyranies practiced
on the men by the officers.
The average size of farms in this
country is steadily decreasing. 1t went
down from ls3 acres in iSio to 1871 acres IN
1850, and it is believed that the next ,ea
sus reports will show tho average Ameri.
can farm to bc still smaller.
The Department of Agriculture is
in receipt of q cablegram from its Euro.
pean agent in London stating that the In
tornational Grain Market at Vienna esti
mates the wheat crop of Europe as lower
than expected. Tho crop in Russia and
| Hungary is especially bad.
A bad accident occurred to Santa
l Fc train near Kinsman, Illinois, Monday.
BY the spreading OF tho rails two Pullman
| slccpers and dining car were thrown
from tho track and down a steep cmbank,
mcnt forty feet. 1t is reported that fifty
were moro or less injured, some of whom
will probably die.
Buffalo Bill on Tuesday gave n
| breakfast to n number of distinguished
American tourists in Paris, Mr.. Edison
and party, Chaunccy NJ. Depew, Augustin
DAILY, Whitciaw Reid, United States Min.
lister, were among the guests. AT the Wild
West show in the afternoon 5000 specta.
tors gave Edison IN ovation.
Tho New England division of the
Salvation Army had baptismal services at
Nashua, New Hampshire, last Sunday, and
thousands crowded around tho baptismal
stream. One man fell in and called for