The Delta independent., 1889-02-26
THE WORLD.


In the last twenty years there have
been 1928, ,716 divorces granted.
Louis James and his wife, Marie
Wainwright, have separated.
1t is rumored that Boulanger's cam
paign expenses are paid by Russia
Stanley has been killed again ac-
cording to reports received at Paris.
O'Brien has been sentenced to six
months Imprisonment at hard labor.
Governor Rusk, of Wisconsin, is
supposed to be the future Secretary Of
War.
James c. Flood, one of the bonanza
kings of California, died in Germany last
| week.
+ is said that immigrants are going
into the Texas Panhandle at the rate Of q
thousand a month.
President Cleveland has vetoed the
bill for the relief of settlers upon the Des
Moines River Lands.
There are over two and half mil
/ lion incandescent electric lights used in this
country at the present time.
1t is reported that the French are
| acting in the Society Islands in the same
way the Germans are at Samoa
twenty-five dead bodies have been
taken from the ruins of the hotel which
burned in Hartford the other day.
| 9 1t is reported that President Harri-
son will come out strongly in favor Of the
one-tern idea in his inaugural address.
Two children returning home from
school in a sparsely settled portinn of Min
wolves.
A bill has passed the New Mexico
Legislature creating Eddy and Roosevelt
counties out of the eastern half of Lincoln
| County.
\ report comes from Germany that
! Bismarck will ask this country to punish
Klein for the part he took in the Samoan
troubles
Twenty thousand soldiers and four
teen thousand civilians are expected to be
in the procession at Washington on Inau-
Guration Day.
San Jose, the capital of the Central
American republic of Costa Rica, was de-
stroyed by an earthquake on the evening Of
Dec. % and 200 lives were lost
\ letter from the Pope was read in
the Catholic churches In New York last
Sunday in which he urges the faithful no,
to send their children to the Goddess public
schools.
A Conservative member of the Cam
adian Parliament will shortly introduce q
resolution authorizing the government to
| purchase the Eastern states of the Ameri-
can Union.
The bill admitting the two Dakotas,
Montana and Washington into the Union
has passed both branches of Congress, and
| only wants the Presidents signature to
| become u law.
Judge Griffey. aged ~ years, Of
school teacher last fall, has been sued for o
breach of promise by maiden of so who
claims 0.ooO damage to her affections.
The clerk of the House of Repre-
sentatives now figures that the Republicans
will have l64 members of the next House
and the Democrats lS9, not counting West
Virginia members. The admission of the
two Dazotas, Montana and Washington
will increase the majority.
Miss Hattie P. Stephenson, daughter
of prominent citizen of Wellsville, Ohio,
has pleaded guilty to robbing the mails of
amounts aggregating 500 ut the Wellsville
postoffice, where she was chief clerk. She
| bore spotless record before the discov-
cry.
The Rev. Mr.. Baxter, an English
clergyman, announces that the end of this
world is surely coming in 1901. He claims
that his calculations have been made with
the greatest care and that there is no pos
sibility of failure. The above is important
il true.
1t is reported that at the coming
session of the British Parliament the Gov
ornment will propose defense loan of
sloo, ,oeo, 900, the proceeds to be devoted to
the coustructio:. of 20 men-of war, so crlis-
ers and for increasing the number of tor
pedo boats.
Mr.. Butterworth intends introduc-
ing n resolution in Congress inviting the
members of the Canadian Parliament and
other Dominion officials to visit the United
States next spring as our guests, and ap-
propriating $4,000 to pay the expenses of
their entertainments
\ Leavenworth special says: In the
past two days nearly forty cases against
persons for violating the prohibition law
have been disposed of in tho district court.
In most of them perpetual iniunctions
were granted. Proprietors of the National
and Delmonico hotels were each sentenced
to thirty days Imprisonment and to pay a
fine of Sloo
One of the most sweeping cuts in
expenses ever made in the Gould interest
has Just been accomplished. The method
Of economizinG applies to the Missouri
Pacific, Cotton Belt and Iron Mountain
Roads Instead Of having local trains TO