The Delta independent., 1889-08-13
TELEGRAPHIC BREVIHZES

leading attorney of the Union Pacific Rail
road.
William T. Harris, of Massachusetts,,
has been appointed Commissioner of Edu-
cation.
There is great rejoicing throughout
Dakota over the opening of the Sioux Res
crvation.
A prohibition amendment is to be
submitted to the vote of the people of
Washington Territory.
An Arkansas Republican who has
been dead several months has Just received
| federal appointment.
The Egyptian forces had a desperate
| fight with the Dervishes last week in
which 500 of the latter were killed.
The gross earnings of the Atchison,
| Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad for June were
2,O9f, 199, an increase over June of 1SSS of
s54, SOS.
Mr.. Parncll's health is broken and
his physicians have advised him to go to
| the south of France and remain there until
next summer.
The young Emperor of Germany has
bestowed on his respectable grandmother,
| the Queen of England, a commission as
| colonel of dragons.
The Cincinnati saloon keepers who
were arrested for selling liquor on Sunday
| have promised to obey the law hereafter
and the prosecution has been dropped.
The sorghum Sugar works at To-
| peka, Kas. were burned Tuesday morning.
| The loss is $4,000 Hundred of acres of
sorghum in the vicinity are nearly ready
| for grinding.
Mrs. Harriet Beocher Stowe amuses
herself greatly with five pets, of which she
is particularly fond. These are two pugs,
and three cats. Bosco, big tortoise-shell
tabby, being her special favorite.
The New York postofiice has inau-
gurated the special delivery of letters on
| Sunday, and hereafter all letters bearing
| special delivery stamp will be delivered to
their addresses every day in the week.
An attempt is being made at several
places on the coast Of Sweden to acclima-
tise Connecticut oysters. Thus far the en-
tcrprise has met with success, the young
oysters thriving well in their new home.
The National Electric Light Associ-
alton in session at Niagara Falls have
| passed resolutions calling upon the Gov
ernor TO repeal the law for the execution
of murderers by electricity. The conven-
ticn is opposed to the method
The people of Green County. Wis,
are greatly excited over number of pearls
which have been found in the clans that
| inhabit Sugar River. a number have been
found worth from $50 to 500 and the river
is staked of in claims for miles.
Washington Territory has been suf-
| fering lately from q remarkable number of
very destructive fires. The latest occurred
at Spokane Falls last Sunday when prop
| erty variously estimated at from six to
| fourteen millions of dollars was destroyed.
The big strike in the Connellsville
| coke region has been made general and
every one of the seventy six coke plants
and over 1900 ovens are idle. As the
situation appears the probabilities are that
the strike will end soon and favorably to
| the men.
General Wanamakcr has
replied to the letter of DR.. Green in which
the latter protested against the telegraph
rates the former desired to establish. MIR
Wanamakcr shows that for a long time the
company has been ovcr-charEing the Gov
| crnment and he thinks il time for the lat
| tsr to have an inning.
The Gentle population Of Salt Lake
City is greatly excited over the result Of a
| recent election. The vote gave them a
majority of forty one in the city, and ill.,
sures n Gentle city government next Feb
| ruary. Six Centilcs were elected to the
| House of Representatives and two to the
Council, giving them eight out of thirty
| six members.
Tho Japan Gazette says one hun
drcd persons were drowned, 1900 houses
washed away and > 500 acres OF cultivated
land seriously damaged in four of the seven
cantons which suffered the most from the
overlooking of the River ChiSugo. in Flu.
| kcokakcn, by tho recent heavy rains. Re.
| lief funds have been started in various
parts of the Empire.
The Mayor of Boston has received a
letter purporting to come from the Mayor
! of Tacoma, in which the writer, in behalf
| of the unmarried men of the State of Wash
ington, proposes marriage to the supcrflu-
Gus females of Massachusetts in bulk.
| This is believed TO be the NEST gigantic
matrimonial transaction on record since
\ tho Romans helped themselves TO wives
| from among the Sabine womcn.
An electric motor was exhibited at
Baltimore the other day which attained n
| speed on circular track of ten miles in
| five minutes. This equals three miles n
| minute on a straight track. The company
will build at once a five mile circular track
on Long Island to den,onstratc tho practi-
cability of tho electric system and auto.
matte system. 1t is intended only for light
express packages, mail and newspapers.
Clause Spreckels, the great sugar
| manufacturer, whose mammoth refinery
on the Delaware is now one OF the land
marks of Philadelphia, has decided to dup
licatc the plant. Claus Sprcckels, who is
associated with his father, has notified tho
contractor for tho construction of tho