The Delta independent., 1889-08-06
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITlES.

damage in New Jersey.
The National debt increased over a
million dollars last month.
All the Omaha treweries have been
purchased by an English syndicate.
The Montana Constitutional Conven-
ton has decided against woman suffrage.
Seven hundred operatives at the
Fishback, Pennsylvania, Rolling Mill have
struck for increase of pay.
A very,pretty fight is in progress be-
tween New York and Chicago for the cap
ture of the proposed Worlds Fair.
In England there are over 800, 900
more widows than widowers. In France
there are 1874 widows for every 100 widow
ers
An eight-year-old son of farmer
named Benjamin, living near Pender, Ne
braska, was shot dead by drunken Indian
recently.
The Spanish Government supports
Austria in advising the Pope to take up his
residence in Portugal if he is obliged to
leave Rome.
DR.. Puhek, a prominent physician
of Nebraska City, Neb., has been arrested
for sending Objectionable matter through
the mails.
Guthrie, with its suburbs, has now
1900 inhabitants, six banks, eight news
papers, thirty seven lumber yards and hun
dreds of stores.
DIR. Carroll, editor OF the New York
Independent, has been appointed special
agent of the census bureau to collect
church statistics.
Russell B. Armstrong "a Kansas City
newspaper man, was run over by train
and so badly injured that both his legs had
to be amputated.
San Luis, village near Santiago de
Cuba, has been visited by a disastrous fire
Sixty house were destroyed and two chill
dreu were burned to death.
The Anarchists of Chicago cele-
bra ted the Tooth anniversary of the fall Of
day. Lucy Parsons made the principal
address.
Reports to the United States fish
commission say that new cod bank has
been discovered in the Pacific, eight miles
off Nestucca, Oregon, ,sixty-five miles south
Of Columbia River.
The grand national monument in
honor of the Pilgrims was dedicated at Ply
mouth, Mass, on the 1st. The dedicatory
exercises were carried out by the Masonic
Grand Lodge according to the ritual Of their
order.
1t is said that William L. Scott of
Pennsylvania is figuring with an English
syndicate for the entire Spring Valley,
Illinois, coal mine, including the machinery
and 10000 acres of land. The price is said
to be 8, 900, 900.
Nearly 200 persons were made very
i'll by poisoning at q Seeley's Bay (Ont.l
picnic. The people partook freely Of ice
cream which had been kept for several
hours in zinc freezers. Lactate of lead
permeated the ice cream.
Mr.. c. A. kenaston, OF the geologi-
cal survey, has been appointed by the Sec.
rotary of the Interior special commits
sioner of the department to visit France
for the purpose of studying the irrigating
systems of that country with view to the
improvement of our own.
Boulanger has issued a manifesto
in which he attributes his defeat in the
elections for the Council General on Satur
10 Iae N, ho Of 1.,,,al
dates. He declares that he is confident of
the result of tho elections in France for
members of the Chamber of Deputies.
DR.. William A. Hammond is expert
mcnting with the elixir of life recently
discovered by DIR. Brown -Sequard of Paris
So far his experiments have been wonder
fully successful. DR.. Brown-Sequard's
calculation is that an injection once a
month will suffice to keep man twenty or
thirty years younger than he really is.
An artesian well in North City. a
suburb of St. Augustine, Florida, is said
to have the largest flow of any artesian
well in the world 1t Is an S-inch well, and
its flow exceeds the highest expectations.
From a measurement made by DR.. ]. X
Rainey, the flow exceeds 5000 gallons per
minute, or over IL 500, 600 gallons every "a
hours.
Mr.. Roosevelt, Civil Service Com
missioner, and Frank Hatton have been
exchanging compliments. Tho former
says he would as lief ''enter into discus
sion with Richard X. Fox AS to the moral
Justification of prize fighting rs to discuss
the merits of civil service law with
spokesman like Frank Hatton. OF tho two
the spoils system is the most ignoble and
degrading
Miss Kate Field. who rec entity sew
cred her connection with tho California
Viticultural Commission as lecturer, has
written to President wetmore from Rich,
field Springs, N. y, withdrawing her res
iguation. Sne says that she has taken this
action on account Of sympathy and support
given her by the viticultural Commission
and press of California, and because the
Prohibitionists already boast that they
have forced her to abandon her opposition
to their cause.
A stick Of dynamite was fed into
threshing machine in the western part oi
New York last week. The machine was
blown to pieces. Thrcc mon and two team.
wore killed. Latest ad vices indicate that
an old feud has recently been renewed, and