The Delta independent., 1889-10-15
BY TELEGRAPH.
Congressman Randall is seriously

to form trust.
Indianapolis has elected a Demo-
cratic Mayor.
A large brewery at Sheridan, Wyo.,
burned on the sth.
The prohibitory amendment has
been defeated in Connecticut.
The Emperor of Germany intends
soon to visit Constantinople.
A very destructive storm swept over
England and Ireland Tuesday.
The old soldiers are having big re-
! union this week at McCook, Neb.
M. Eiffel says it is perfectly feasible
| to construct tower 1000 feet high.
Mississippi Republicans have placed
| ticket in the field-the first for severa
years.
The net earnings of the Western
Union Telegraph Co., last year were &c.,
2ls,04I.
Dakota's wheat crop this year will
reach the magnificent total of 44,O09, 900
bushels.
General Le-Bron is dead. He be-
came famous during the Franco-Prussian
war OF 1870.
The great amphitheater of the School
! of Medicine in Paris was destroyed by fire
on the sth.
NJ. Eiffel is expected in Quebec soon
to build s5, ooo, 600 bridge across the St.
Lawrence, it is reported.
The $500, 600 residence of MIR. Stu
debaker at South Bend, Ind, was burned
to the ground few days ago.
The son of the venerable DR.. Rob-
inson, ex president of Brown University
has been found guilty OF crnbezzlement.
A steam threshing machine exploded
the other day near ST Thomas, Dakota,
killing three men and iniuring several
others.
According to the latest estimate the
new French Chamber of Deputies will
have s65 Republican and eli Opposition
| members
The finance committee of the Worlds
Fair in Chicago announce that 500, 900 has
been actually subscribed and 500, COO more
in sight up to date.
Frances Hodgson Burno t, the au-
thorcss, is seriously i'll in LONDON. She is
suffering from: n shock caused by the over
turning Of her cart while out riding Sum
day.
Bishop Vaile, of the diocese of Kan
sas, died Sunday morning, after two
| weeks illness. He WAS one Of the best
known and most respected men of the
State.
A terrible cyclone has visited the
island of Sardinia. One hundred persons
| were buried in the debris Of buildings
shattered by thc-storm aud 80 persons were
killedr
Mr.. Beecher spent $3.50, 900 on his
beautiful Peekskill estate Boscobel The
executors OF Mr.. Beecher's estate will sell
1t for one third Of that figure. Mr.. Beecher
used to say his potatoes cost him one dol.
lar apiece.
Andrew Carnegie's mills were all
stopped the other day. it is said a, a cost
Of 81, 600, in order that his II 900 employees
might attend the funeral of Superinten-
dent Jones. who was burned to death by
molten metal.
A bill before the Georgia Legisla-
ture, introduced at the instance of Com
mercial Travellers Association. requires
railroad companies to equip each sleeping
car with safe in which passengers may
deposit their valuables.
Governor Warren has issued an
election proclamation directing that an
election be held throughout Wyoming on
Tuesday, Nov. 5, for the adoption or rejeo-
tion Of the Constitution proposed by the
Constitutional Convention for the State of
Wyoming. The prospects for the adoption
of the Constitution by large majority are
favorable.
As the result OF the Flack divorce
case, the Judges of the Supreme Court of
New York City have come out against Sc.
cret divorce proceedings. At meeting
which was attended by every judge of the
bench 1t was resolved that henccforth there
will be no references in actions for abso-
Lutte divorce and they will be tried in open
court at the April term.
A convention OF authors and artists
at Kansas City reveals to the world that
the literary movement throughout the
West is growing painfully intense. One
of the cmbarrassments: :of travel in that
section now, says the Chicago Nc,cs, is tho
uncertainty which prevails in the mind Of
the stranger when he is met by commit.
tee OF citizens as to whether he is the
hands Of a Browning society or of sher-
ifY's posse.
General NJ. c.. Meigs, OF Washing
ton, has issued q pamphlet treating Of the
growth of population in tho United States
in 400 years, based upon tho facts that the
population of this country has doubled
every twenty-five years, and that the cen.
sus Of 1890 is expected to show popula-
ton of 6S,a4o,oOO, Hc finds that in 1870
there ought 70 be In this country ], 800, ,4Oc,-
600 white and $685., 900 negroes, making
Sas persons to the square mile.
The leading Roman Catholic clergy
men In Brooklyn have taken up the fight
against tho saloon In politics and arc max
ing quiet but most effective struggle.
They have organized society known us .
the League of tho Cross and $50 members
live In ono parish, that of Father Joseph
Eransiolli. While tho Roman Catholic
s,lnvsvN, ~ QvonHlyu dts~lnivV havtn- r,,,