The Delta independent., 1889-03-12
THE WORLD.

The King of Servia has abdicated.
Mary L. Booth. editor of Harper's
AGAR, died Tuesday.
Some parts of West Virginia are
overrun with mad dogs.
Senator Ingalls, has again been
elected president of the Senate.
Ex-President Cleveland is stopping
at the Victoria Hotel in New York.
Maryland and Pennsylvania were
shaken by an earthquake last Friday.
A pool has been organized by the
butter makers of Illinois, Wisconsin and
Iowa.
The Tc"onto Mail has been sued for
CSC, 600 damages for an alleged libel of the
Jesuits.
It is reported that Russell Harrison
will try to capture one of the Montana Sen
atorial prizes.
A good portion of President Harri-
sons time so far has been taken up in
hand-shaking.
The increase of membership in the
G. A. R. during the last three months of
1855 was IA, 23S.
The English Gov ernment asks Par
Lament for e10, 1000, 900 with which TO in
crease their naval strength.
A Shanghai dispatch says there is a
marked increase in hostility to foreigners
noticeable throughout China.
Ex-President Cleveland has been
elected an honorary member of the New
York Chamber of Commerce.
President Harrison declines to Grip
pie himself by shaking hands with all the
curiosity-seekers who haunt the capital.
Three leading breweries of Roches
ter, N. Y, have been purchased by an
English syndicate at price stated to be
80, 100000.
By vote of SO to 80 the Minnesota
init to the people an amendment in favor of
prohibition.
President Harrison has announced
that as rule appointments to office will be
made only as the terms Of the present in
cumbents expire.
The London Standards Berlin cor
respondent says it is stated that Mr.. John
A. Kasson will represent America in the
Samoa conference.
The amount carried by the General
Appropriation bills passed at this session
of Congress is s2s1, SIS, ,OO0, against s3Oe, 1885,.
600 for the current year.
1t has been discovered that the juice
of the peuca, or magic plant, is a certain
remedy for hydrophobia in man and dogs.
So says a report from Panama.
A large and enthusiastic mass meet
ing was held at Wichita and Caldwell,
Kansas, Tuesday night to celebrate the
opening of portion of Oklahoma country.
There is great excitement over
some recent gold discoveries in Lower
California, and a great exodus from San
Diego and other California points is in pro-
gress.
The Reading Iron Works Company,
which operate blast furnaces, rolling, shot,
tube and i.pe mills, forges and machine
shops, employing over $500 hands have
failed.
There were manufactured In the
United States last year, in round numbers,
IA, ,OOO, 600 pounds of tobacco, 400, 600 pounds
of snuff, 1000, ,OOO, 600 cigars and 800, 900,
600 cigarettes.
Ira Barkhurst, the famous hunter of
the Rockies recently killed at Benefits
Peak, Wyoming, two of the biggest noun.
tain lions that ever ranged the hills. One
measured nine feet and the other eight
feet.
Forty-five members of the Dakota Leg
islature have telegraphed President Harri-
son, asking him to remove Governor Church
at once and to appoint tSecretaryM Cormack
acting Governor, the object being to shut
off more vetoes on the part Of Governor
Church.
A Washington special says: Presi-
dent Harrison appears to do as differently
from Mr.. Cleveland as possible. Yester-
day he rode the whole length Of Pennsyl.
vania Avenue in an open buggy and to-day
he walked down the avenue mile, when
the promenade was thickest.
Sidney Bartlett, LII. D., well
known Boston lawyer, died Thursday,
night, aged 90. He was of counsel before
the Hayes Tilden Electoral Commission
and very many other prominent cases. He
leaves large estate, including million in
stock of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Road.
Mrs. Harrison is fascinated by Mrs.
Cleveland. The incoming mistress Of the
White House recently remarked: MRS.
Cleveland is positively the loveliest crea-
ture ever saw. ! almost feel guilty in de-
priving her of position that she adorns so
we'll" This report is circulated by one of
Mrs. Cleveland's friends.
Thomas A. Edison discovered new
explosive last week-a mass that went of
like powder upon his adding chemical 30
luton to it-but, as he was not looking for
such result and had his face close to the
vessel he came near beng blinded. As 1t
was, he was severely burned, those famil-
lar with his laboratory say.
The incandescent electric lighting
patent held by Edison Elecric Light Com