The Delta independent., 1889-11-12
BY TELEGRAPH.
Ohio has elected a Democratic Log

LltF were lnurSOay,
A street railway from Cairo to the
pyramids is nearly completed
Governor Foraker, of Ohio, was de-
feated in his race for re election.
Ex-mayor Seth Low of Brooklyn has
decided TO accept the presidency of Colum-
bia College.
The Santa Fe had a bad smash-up
down in Texas last Sunday. Twenty pas
sengers were injured, four fatally.
The business men of Sundance, Wy
oming, offer s., 900 bonus and free mill
site TO any mill men who will erect s10-
900 Touring mill.
A horse was burned to death before
an immense crowd in New York the other
day by falling across telephone wire
which was lying on the ground.
A special from Richmond, Va.
SAYS that Governor Lee sent the following
dispatch to ex-Prcsident Cleveland: ..Vir-
ginia has buried Malone by probably 3d.
coo majority"
Thomas Fortune (colored) has is
sued a call to members of the Afro -Ameri-
can League throughout the country 10
meet in convention at Nashville, January
18th next, for the purpose of forming a
National League.
Dispatches from Des Moines, Iowa,
counties and the remaining four counties
estimated the same as two years ago show
that Boies, Democrat for Governor has
5,966 plurality
Farming in this country produces an
annual yield of nearly 81 COO. .O0O, 900, en-
ployes on 5,oOO, 600 farms 10, O,OoO, 900 persons
representing population of &c, ,oOO, 900 peo-
pie, while the value of live stock alone is
estimated at S2,50'. .OoO,o coo.
Edward O. Leech. Director of the
Mint, reports the coinage at the Mint dur
ing the fiscal year as follows: Gold coins,
in value, S25,543,9lo: silver dollars, s33,-
793, $50; subsidiary silver, SG2l $50; minor
coins, S9O6,4'3; total SO, 965, go.
A call has been issued signed by diff
ferent temperance societies in Nebras ka,
Dakota for convention to be held in
Omaha, Dec. Is, for the purpose of uniting
the States into central prohibition or
ganization.
BY the breaking out of molten iron
in the stock OF Colebrook Furance No. |
in Pittsburg five men were killed and
three severely burned The men were
overwhelmed by the rush of molten metal
while at work and some of them burne d
beyond recognition.
Third auditor Hart, in his annual
report, says the number OF pensioners on
the rolls July l, 1888. was 4aO, 900, and
there will probably be added 35, 600 more
by June -, 1890, thus giving for examina-
,ion :, l0o, 900 vouchers, and requiring for
payment at least 500, 600, 600.
The President has formally opened
the Southern Exposition at Montgomery.
Alabama, Tuesday by touching an electric
key at the White House connected with the
exposition building, thereby starting the
machinery. The button was pressed in
the presence of the members of the Cabi-
net.
DR.. Mary Weeks Barnett, Of Chi
cago, has brought suit for So, 900 damages
against Frances f. Willard, president of
the w. c. T. L. and Caroline Buell. for cir
culating false and defammatory state.
ments against the complainant concerning
the management Of the National Woman's 5
Temperance Hospital.
Emperor William had high old
time in Constautinoplc. As he was leay
ing he telegraphed Bismarck as follows
After my stay in Constautinoplc, which
seems like dream, and which the magnifi-
cent hospitality of.the Sultan rendered par
adisical, l am now passing the Darie
nelles" +"
The council of Quapaw Indians met
Saturday and decided to sell their reserva-
tion, consisting of 5000 acres in South
eastern Kansas, TO the Government on
terms proposed TO the Indian Commission.
Tne Quapaws are n portion of the Usage
tribe, and the Governments plan was to
settle them on Lamar's Reservation.
John Armbruster. who killed him
self in Grafton, West Virginia. las, Sun
day by jumping off four-story house, was
bound to die. He first broke into n drug
store and swallowed poison. The doctors
saved him, but he followed this up with
three attempts TO hang himself. Failing
TO leave the world by that route he cut his
throat with razor, and with the blood
streaming from his wound he went to the
roof and sprang of, While the body was
being prepared for burial twelve wounds
made with pair of scissors We're found
on his body. He was "a years old.
Miss Kate Drexel. the second daugh
ter of the late f. A. Drcxel, the well known
Philadelphia banker, and hciress to about
S,ooO.oOo took the white veil OF the noviti-
ate ut the convent of the Sisters of Mercy
in Pittsburg, Thursday morning. The
ceremony, which was conducted by Arch
bishop Resau, Of Philadelphia, and Rt.
Rev. Bishop Phelan, of Pittsburs, was
very Impressive and particularly exclusive,
none but the nearest and dearest relatives
and friends of the pcstulant being per
mittcd to enter within the sacred walls,
A dispath from Chicago says it is
understood that the observance Of the an
nivorsary of tho anarchists execution here
will be very sensational. John Most is to