The Delta independent., 1889-10-08
BY TELEGRAPH.

Prohibition received a majority OF
1900 in South Dakota.
The decrease in the National debt
during September was sls, ,6s5, ,094.25.
The Prohibition Amendment seems
to have been carried in South Dakota.
Jacob Levi, Topeka clothier, has
assigned. Liabilities, $4,000: assets not
known.
Mississippi Republicans have placed
| o ticket in the tield-thc first for several
| years.
The trustees of the Peabody fund
distributed $4,000 throughout the South
ern States.
New York people are being aroused
to the necessity of hurrying up work on the
Grant monument.
NJ. Eiffel is expected in Quebec soon
to build s., 900, 900 bridge across the St.
Lawrence, it is reported.
| Utica, N. Y. is stirred up by the
marriage of prominent society lady aged
"a years with boy of II.
The son of j. Russell Jones, one of
Chicago's millionaires, has been sent to the
insane asylum. Cause. dissipation.
The mind of Ex-Governor Cornell Is
so shattered that his friends fear they will
be obliged to place him in an asylum.
1t is announced that the rubber
trust is about perfected. Boston, New
| York and Brazilian parties are interested.
| They have capital of $50, ,ooo, 900.
Latest returns seen, to indicate that
the Republicans won the late elections in
| both the Dakotas and Washington Terri
tory, while the Democrats have q majority
| in Montana.
The unveiling of the portraits Of
| Grant, Sherman and Sheridan took place
at West Point last Thursday, during the
| visit of the International American Com
| gress to that place.
The number of arrivals by steamer
| at New York during the present month, has
been unprecedentedly large, the record
| showing 1907 passengers of whom Ii, 434
were cabin passengers.
The opposition of New Yorkers to
desecrating Central Park with necessary
buildings for the Worlds Fair has finally
compelled the committe having the matter
in charge to look up another site.
Rev. DR.. McCosh, ex-presideut of
Princeton, is said to be strongly in favor Of
a revision of the Confession of Faith. He
ordination as not taught by the Scriptures.
Senator Plumb was made permanent
president of the Deep Water Convention at
| Topeka. On behalf of the Denver Cham.
| Der of Commerce he was presented with n
| solid silver gavel by MIR. II. b. Chamber
| lin.
Two express trains running opposite
| directions between Naples and Faggia
came in collision Monday, while running
| ut a high rate of speed through tunnel.
| Twenty carriages were smashed and fifty
| persons killed and injured.
| An inquest into the cause OF the
death of the victims of the recent disaster
at Quebec has closed The verdict was
that their death was the result of gross
and cupable negligence on the part of the
federal officers of the dominion in not
building buttresses, recommended by the
city engineer in lsSo.
The Deep Water Convention mot at
Topeka on the lst. There was a large at
tendance of prominent men from all parts
of the country west of the Mississippi
Ex- Governor Evans, of Colorado, called
the convention to order and Congressman
Mansur, of Missouri, was made temporary
| chairman.
1t has been discovered that the fire
in the Temple of Heaven at Shanghai was
of incendiary origin. Several persons have
been arrested for completely in the crime.
| and the authorities have learned that tho
object of the incendiaries was to create an
idea that it was an omen TO warn people
against the introduction of railways in
China.
Farm laborers of County Glare, Ire
land, are indignant at the farmers, who
they claim are using the Nationa, League
for their own profit, while they oppose in
every way the interests of laborers A
meeting was held by laborers at which it
was resolved to form a laborer's league
and demand power to elect representatives
to local boards.
I 1t is reported that Boulanger will
take up his residence in the Isle of Jersey.
1t is said that the change is due to desire
| to reduce expense, as persons who have been
furnishing him financial support have re-.
fused TO continue to supply him with money
He has had a quarrel with Rochefort
Rochefort will visit Egypt and pass tho
winter there unless granted amnesty by the
French Government.
A costly wreck occurred Saturday on
the Union Pacific ut Evanston. A double.
header" freight and a pusher engine col
lidcd while rounding cut about milo
east of town. Engineer ], C. Powers Of
the pushsr engine received injuries which
will prove fatal. Fireman Marshall and
Brakeman Perry Were seriously injured.
The men were taken to the Ogden hospital.
An investigation into the cause Of tho col
lision is in progress.
Cardinal Gibbons says there is now
embraced within tho territory Of tho
| United States Catholic population OF
about 9,0Oo,0c There are 10, 800 churches
| and chapels, twenty seven seminaries ex.
| tlusively devoted TO candidates for the
ministry GOO colleges and academies for