The Delta independent., 1889-05-14
THE WORLD.

| DdHNllle, v SeTIuOHb, hdu u ScO,OOO
fire last week.
Count Tolstoi, Russian Minister of
the Interior, is dead.
Frank Palmer, of Chicago, has been
appointed Public Printer.
The great Paris Exposition was
opened with elaborate ceremonies on the
9Th.
The International Convention Of the
Y. NJ C. A. will meet at Kansas City next
year.
Major John Edwards, for long time
editorial writer on the Kansas City Times,
died last week.
General Harney, the Oldest officer
in the United States Army died last Thurs
lay aged eighty mine.
A new patriotic club to be called the
George Washington Club" has been or
ganizcd in New York.
The Boston paper which started the
story of the enlightenment of Samuel Fes-
scnden has been sued for 100000.
The volcano of Vesuvius is in an
alarming state of eruption. Streams Of lava
are coming down the mountain on the Pom
peii side.
The steamship City of Paris reached
New York Wednesday only 8 days, % hours
and minutes out from Queenstown. This
is the quickest time ever made.
| II the report given by the New York
Times is correct, the scenes at the Centen-
uial ball in New York last week would
have disgraced q Lcadville dance house.
The United States Deputy Marshals
who used their official position to secure
valuable claims in Oklahoma are 70 be
prosecuted to the full extent Of the law.
| New hatcheries are to be located at
Put-in Bay Island, Lake Erie, which will
be the largest fish hatchery in the world.
The Matching capacity will be 5oo,0OO,0 600
eggs year.
A corps OF surveyors will leave
Pierre, Oak, May 10 to make q preliminary
survey OF a line of road from Pierre to Pu-
get Sound. The Illinois Central is said to
be backing the scheme.
The passengers of the steamer Dam
mark, which foundcred at sea, who had
been LETT at Azores by the Missouri, were
landed at Castle Garden from the steam
ship wieland Saturday. There were $50
of them.
Six persons left ST. Andrews, N. B.,
on Saturday afternoon, in q sloop for Dide-
l Al d..
the sloop capsized and all the men went to
the bottom.
The City Council of Liverpool has
refused to ratify tho purchase of Sir Fred
criek Leighton's Captive Andromache"
for 5000 on the ground that classical
subjects are out of place in gallery fire.
Nucnted by common people"
The stage coach between Pulsifer
and Linwood, Wis, was held up by a
masked man Saturday afternoon, and the
mail pouches carried of and rified. They
contained little. The two passengers were
terrified and dared not interfere. A simi-
lar attempt a few weeks ago failed.
Johns Hopkins Hospital was form
ally opened in Baltimore Tuesday morning.
II is one Of the finest and most complete
institutions in the world, embracing seven
teen buildings, which cover four acres, sur
rounded by ten acres moro of beautiful
parkage. The total cost was s,o5o,ooo.
Chief Justice Fuller has purchased
of Judge Andrew wylic of Washington
the lattcr's residence property on Four
i. ,h
between Vermont Avenue and NJ. Street,
for $500, 600 Tho Chief Justice will takc
possession of the property next autumn.
The Commissioner of Education. in
a report to the Secretary of tho Interior,
says that Wyoming takes u high rank
among tho Territories in educational mat
tors, md that there IS good deal Of inter
| cs, shown by the citizens in the efforts to
maintain the public schools at q high stan.
dard.
The Pioneer Press special from
jamestown, Dakota, says that during a
severe storm Wednesday large number
of frogs were prccipitated to tho ground
from q cloud. II Is claimed tho funnel
shaped cloud was seen in the West shortly
before, and tho theory is that tho frogs
were caught up from some slough in the
whirlwind and carried In the air until II
spent itself.
Tho President has appointed Asa
| Matthews Of Illinois to be frat controller
of the treasury, vico NJ. Durham, resigned
| Matthews is tho present speaker Of the
| Illinois house OF representatives, which Of
| fee ho has held for several terms. He was
colonel OF an Illinois regiment during the
war, and subsequently, held the ofiec Of
collector Of internal revenue for tho Peoria
district Ho lives at Pittsacld, Ill.
Tho Twenty-eighth International
Convention of tho Young Mcns' Christian
Association was called to order Wcdnosday
morning In Philadelphia, by General O. O.
Howard, of Now York, in tho presence Of
| tho most prominent lnymen Of tho Evan
! gelical churches OF the Unitod States, Can
adn, England, Germany, Sweden, Switaer
| land and other countries. Ono thousand
delegates were present MIR. H. b. Cham
berlin, of Denver, was clcctcd president.
Tho trustees Of the proposed Prot
ostant Episcopal cathedral At New York
hold meeting Friday and looked over the
plnns Of tho cathedral submitted for priroe