The Delta independent., 1889-04-23
THE WORLD.
The Pope is seriously i'll.

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A navy yard is to be established at
Puget Sound.
james A. Sexton has been appointed
postmaster at Chicago.
The representatives Of this Govern
John P. Usher, the last surviving
member Of Lincoln's cabinet, died last
| week.
The peach crop of Kansas and Mis-
souri, promises to be the largest ever
| known.
The town council of Edinburg have
conferred the freedom Of the town on Mr..
Psrnell.
The President intends removing his
office from the White House to the State
Department building.
Robert P. Porter, editor OF the New
York Press, has been appointed Superin-
tendent Of Census.
The military authorities Of the In
dian Territory have issued an order forbid
ding liquor being brought into the terri
tory.
Word reaches San Francisco by
steamer Of q cholera epidemic in the Phil
| lipine Islands. Out Of 800 cases / 600 were
| fatal.
All the United States troops within
several hundred miles are being concen-
trated at Oklahoma to prevent anticipated
trouble.
Arkansas City, Kansas, had ten
| thousand Oklahoma colonists on their way
| to the promised land added TO its population
last week.
The telegraph and telephone poles
on many Of the principal streets of New
York arc being cut down by the police au-
thorities.
The Cimarron River is on boom
and the Oklahoma boomers on the north
side Of the stream are puzzled to know how
TO get across.
Over 500, 900 Pigs in Clover puzzles
have been manufactured and sold to date.
Crandall, Of building blocks fame, was the
inventor OF the puzzle.
Stock men are highly pleased with
the present outlook for the cattle industry.
The winter has been unusually mild and
the ranges are already green
The Secretary OF the Interior has
awarded the contract for the erection OF an
Indian Industrial school building at Santa
Fe, New Mexico, to A. NJ. Mckenzie, for
ta7,os9.
Six thousand emigrants. at Liver
pool, Wednesday, embarked upon seven
steamships The majority are bound for
the United Safes, few going to the Ar.
gentine Republic.
Terrible forest fires have been rag
ing in Virginia in the neighborhood Of Dan.
vile. Great numbers of cattle, hogs and
horses have been burned and one hundred
families are reported homeless.
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Com.
pany are trying TO saddle an expensive and
undesircd insurance system upon their en-
ploycs. The latter object most vigorously
and threaten to strike II the company in.
sist
David Sheehy, member OF Parlia-
mcnt, undergoing imprisonment for ofenses
under the crimes act, has been confined in
cell and placed on bread and water die,
for refusing to perform meuial work about
the prison.
One hundred to $50 fourth-class
postmastcrs nrc being appointed daily. OF
these one-third fill vancancies, another
third are appointed in the places of post.
third succeed poctmasters who have served
about four years.
John Albert Bright, the candidate
Of the Liberal Unionists, has been elected
to succeed his father, the late John Bright,
as representative OF the central district OF
Birmingham in Parliament Bright re.
ccived 500 votes against a,s0 for the
Gladstonian.
A special from Kaw, l. T., says that
Patrick Ryan, late of Kansas City, and
Sister Eleonora, beautiful black eyed nun
from the convent ut the Usage agency,
passed through there in company yester.
day, having eloped from the convent. They
wcrc bound for Oklahoma The sister said
she was tired of q convent life.
The United States consul at Havre in.
forms the State Department that from and
after May /, next a duty of co cents per
100 pounds.'net will be levied on all impor,sA
tions into Franco of lard mixed with cot.
ton seed oil, irrespective of the percentage
Of such mixture, and that all lard imported
from tho United States will be subject to
governmental examination.
The story Of the fruitless attempt OF
our war vesscls Mt Samoa to escape de-
struction Is full Of pathetic features, md
no American can read without emotion the
thrilling episode of the crews of the Trcn
ton and vandalia cheering each other und
OF the band Of tho Trenton striking VI
"The Star Spangled Banner" as the shiI
swept on toward certain death.
| Commissioner Stockslager has re.
commended TO tho secretary that civil and
criminal suit be instituted against John NJ
Batcheler for maintaining nm unlawful on
closure in townships a3and - south, range.
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