The Delta independent., 1889-01-15
THE WORLD.

A Wisconsin murderer has been ar
rested in London.
Ration, New Mexico. had q 5000
fire few days ago.
An awful cyclone visited Reading,
Pa, few days ago.
Illinois and Missouri have been hav-
ing heavy snow. storms.
A sleet storm In Canada Last week
did $1,000 900 worth Of damage:
The entire West has had an unusu-
ally open and pleasant winter 30 far.
The husband Of Emma Abbott died
very suddenly in Denver last Sunday.
Mrs. Cleveland was prostrated last
week with severe attack Of indigestion.
A New York man was robbed while
In Detroit Of s4,50O cash and $4,000 in
drafts.
In the Indiana Senate tho Lieuten-
ant Governor was denied admission md
the Democrats organized.
A caucus of the Republican MEM
bers Of the Kansas Legislature unani-
mously agreed to re-elect Senator Plumb.
California is suffering from q scar
city Of farm laborers, and in some localities
more Of even the despised Chinese would
be welcomed
A wild native silk worm has been
discovered from the propagation Of which
the Commissioner Of Agriculture predicts
great things.
General P. M. B. Young, late rep
resentative Of this Government, says there
are about 1000, 600 Jews in the world, Of
whom 1859 0Oo live In Russia.
A large mass Of rock fell from the
precipice Of the horseshoe in Niagara Falls
. few days ago, making quite change IN
the appearance Of the cataract.
1t has been arranged that the Kill
in-Sullivan fight shall be for &c, 900 and
the championship belt, held by Kilrsin, to
take place July near New Orleans.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe has
largely regained her health. She is able
to walk out every fine day, and writes let
tiers to her friends in q firm, strong hand.
The switchmen who struck through
sympathy with the Burlington engineers
are complaining that they are left out in
the cold by the recent adjustment Of the
strike.
Five ships missing since the great
storm of Nov. e5, have now been given up
for lost. The number Of persons on them
was fifty four and the value Of ships and
cargoes e, 1oo, 600
A National German-American Pro-
hibition League has been organized in Chi
cago. Its object is to create q sentiment
among German Americans in favor Of total
abstinence and Of a league of prohibition
The Senate has passed resolutions
distinctly notifying France to keep her
hands OF the Panama Canal. This il the
strongest affirmation of the Monroe doc
trine that has been made for many years.
Inspector Bonfieid and Captain Setback
continue to bring libel suits againft the
Chicago Times people on account of the lat
tcr's charges of corruption against the Of
ficials in connection with the dynamite out
RACES.
The centennial Of the Inauguration
of President Washington occurs on the
S0th OF next April, and New York clergy
men recommend that religious services Of
thanksgiving and praise be held on that
day throughout the land
The Secretary of the Navy has is
sued peremptory orders to hasten the work
OF repairing United States Steamers At
lanta, vandalia and Mohican for the sea.
1t is reported that the two last named will
be sent to Samoa to reinforce the Nipsic,
Oscar S. Straus, United States Minis
ter to Turkey, reports to the Secretary OF
State that ho has obtained Of the grand
vizier the necessary authorization for q
Bible house at Constantinople to print in
Turkish 5000 Bible tracts, consisting OF
Psalms, Proverbs, the four.gospels and the
Acts.
A terrific wind and hail storm Wis
tied Pittsburg last Wednesday during
which sevcn-story building in process of
construction was blown down, carrying
with 1t in IS destruction nearly dozen
neighboring buildings. Forty persons
were buried in the ruins, at least half Of
whom were killed outright Tho money
loss is fully 100000.
William R. Foster, father Of Will
liam r. Foster, Jr., who recently robbed
the Produce Exchange gratuity Fund of
sles, 900 and then decamped, sent to-day n
check for 81, 900 for the benefit of the gra.
tuity fund. In note inclosed the old man
said he had intended to divide his fortune
among his children, but had come to give
his sons share to the gratuity fund ~ =
partial payment Of the steslings.
It is reported from Paris that the
debate In the American Senate on the Pan.
anna Canal cxcitcs Ill will there. The friends
Of De Lesseps arc desperate. When De
Lesseps, in 1887, asked American Minister
Noyes for an explicit statement Of the
views Of the American Government Gen.
eral Noyes replied that, while he thought
Americans viewed the project with sus.
picion, he was unable to obtain ofacial
statements from the Government.
In these days Of unopposed lynchine
II Ia relief 70 read an item like the follow.
ing from Tcxas: "On Friday night At Gar
land Sheriff Moore started TO take Jack