The Delta independent., 1889-07-30
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITTES.

COuicIEc0 upOu AkuCh.
Between 700 and 800 carpenters at
Kansas City are on q strike.
An English syndicate has purchased
five of the six breweries in Patterson, New
Jersey.
The Lieutenant-Governo of Ne
braska had narrow escape from drown.
ing last week.
AL Graham, County Auditor at Leb.
anon, Ohio. decamped with $50, 1000 of the
peoples money.
Robert Marvel, IS years old, living
near indianapolis, has not partaken Of food
for thirty-six days.
Alexander Johnston, professor OF
political economy in Princeton College
died Saturday night.
Rev. j. B. Helling. of Springfield,
O., has been nominated for Governor op
the Prohibition ticket.
The wheat crop OF Minnesota and
Dakota is estimated at from eighty to
eighty five million bushels.
Grand Duke Constantine, uncle OF
the Car, has suffered stroke Of paralysis
and lost the power of speech.
A still in Dodge & Alcott's chemical
works at Jersey City, n. J., exploded re
Gently, causing loss Of s3OO,oo
Mrs. Hattie Gibson Heron, an Amer.
lean missionary in Corea, is under sentence
Of death for teaching Christianity.
The president of the Cherokee Strip
Stock Association denies that his compa hy
has asked the Indians to extend their lease
Gladstone and his wife celebrated
their golden wedding on the 25th. They
received a great many handsome presents.
From May to June 80, 5,994. 600
people were admitted to the Paris Exposi-
ton, as compared with 3,343, 600 admitted
in 1878
Four tinsmiths who arrived at New
York last week from Germany, under n
contract TO work for Milwaukee timer
were sent back home.
Minister Dinsmore OF Seoul. Corea,
telsgraphs that the stories regarding Mrs.
Heron being under sentence Of death are
wholly without foundation.
The editor of the Chicago Times is
In sea Of financial trouble and IL seems
likely that he will be Obliged to retire from
the management Of that paper.
Fredonia, Kansas, was threatened
with an inundation last week. Tho river
was seven miles wide and the heavy iron
bridge near the town was swept away.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Sussmilch, old
residents Of Rockford, III, tied their arm.
together Friday night and drowned them
selves in Reck River. Ill health caused
the act.
The saloons of Cincinnati and Kan.
sas City were all closed last Sunday. In
the latter place there were but four ar
rests altogether on that day, only two Of
these being for drunkenness.
General Fisk says that at n recent
swell banquet at New York, attended by
about three hundred prominent meE Gov.
Hill and himself were the only ones who
turned down their wine glasses.
Several of the leading New York
dailies undertook to buck against the typo
graphical union Of that city the other day.
1t took the type-setters less than six hours
to force an unconditional surrender.
A party Of forty-two representative
workingmen, bound for a trip throughout
the big manufacturing centers of England,
Scotland, France, Germany. Belgium and
the Paris Exposition, smiled from New
York few days ago.
The French brewery at Fort Wayne
burned the other day. While the fire was
in progrcss three men were severely in
iurcd by the explosion of an ammonia tank
on the ice machine. The total loss will
reach $3.50. 600 with only 10000 insurance.
In response to n request of the
Queensland (Australia) Government that
the Department of Agriculture nominate
to that Government suitable person to
be appointed rs instructor in agriculture,
Secretary Rusk has appointed Prof. Ed
ward NJ. Shelton, Of Manhattan, Kansas,
to the position.
In reports to the Chief of Engineers
of Operation under the River and Harbor
bill, tho officers in charge make the follow
ing recommendations of appropriations for
continuing tho work next year: Entrance
to Galveston harbor, Texas, q, So, 900; ship
channel in the bay, ssoo,ooo; Yellowstone
River, Montana, ssis,ooo.
The Attorney General has appointed
James 1. Caldwell, of Nebraska, special
assistant attorney TO act in the prosecution
OF the Government suit against tho Union
Pacific Railroad Company and the Western
Union Telegraph Company under tho act
of August !, 1855, with special reference to
the operation OF telegraph lines owned by
the railroad company.
The captain of the Atlas line steam
ship Alcno brines tho news that on July II
Hippolyte attempted to take Port,au.
Prince, and on the 18th no made several
assaults, but was rcpulscd each time with
heavy loss. Subsequently hc rctrcatcd to
Croix dos Bouquets, point ninc miles
from Port au- Prince, where he il now en-.
camped.
Civil Service Commissioner Roose-
velt says that the charge has been brought
against the Pension Ofsicc and the Sixth
Auditors Once that mon had been dis.