The Delta independent., 1889-07-09
THE WORLD.
Mr.. Ruskin is seriously i'll.

VIC VI Vic UlS 3sAli"duhCS oiC"SiiOS
was destroyed by fire on the 4th.
Ex-President Cleveland was tipped
out Of carriage the other day.
An extensive bed Of petrified clans
has been found in Montana.
The Pope is thinking seriously Of
making his headquarters at valenta in
Spain.
During the year ending June so.
the public debt was decreased over sss,-
600, 600.
Stage robbers recently held up the
coach running from Lander, Wyoming, to
Rawlins.
President Harrison and family will
Maryland.
DR.. Woolsey, ex-president OF Yale
College, died on Monday of this week aged
IS years.
Two hundred coal miners were killed
by an explosion in a mine in France few
days ago.
At New York wedding the other
day the bride received q, 900, 900 worth of
presents.
The newly elected principal OF
Mount Holyoke Seminary was killed in a
railroad accident last week.
The business portion of HALEY,
Idaho Territory, was destroyed by fire the
other day. Loss nearly 81 ,0oo. 900.
An American in Liberia writes that
missionary and SC, 600 cases of liquor landed
on the African Coast.
Fifteen thousand workmen have
struck al Brunn. including the bakers of
the city. The detachment Of military or
dered thither has arrived.
The Conemaugh River in Pennsyl-
vsnia got on another rampage last week
and considerable damage was done in the
ncighborhood of Johnstown
Montana, Washington Territory and
the two Dakotas are holding tneir constr
tutional conventions preparatory to their
admission as full-aedged States.
The Pacific mail steamer .Granada"
has been wrecked on the rocks at Punta
Teiohan and totally destroyed The steamer
was valued at q, 500, coo and the cargo ut
$500, 600
Cardinal Gibbons has received a
beautiful present from Pope Leo XIII. 1t
Is . large golden cross, richly !ewelled and
was sent TO the Cardinal as q souvenir of
the Pope's jubilee.
Ralph Graves, professor of mathe-
matics at the North Carolina State Univers-
fly, attempted to commit suicide the
other night by cutting his throat, on ac-
count OF i'll health. His woun ds are not
believed to be fatal.
1t is reported that Parliament will
be asked to grant Princess Louise, daugh-
ter of the Prince of Wales and fiancee of
the Earl Of Fife, an allowance of &, 600
until she Is married, and after marriage an
allowance Of f1o,ooo.
Advices from West Africa confirm
previous reports of the shocking privations
to which Stanley has been subjected. 1ti
stated that his hair has turned snow white,
that his clothes are rags and that he is
without shoes, being Obliged to use skins
to cover his feet
The graduating class of female stud
ents At Franklin College, Ind, decided
that every one Of the nine girls must get
IN equal chance and deliver an oration
The faculty vetoed this arrangement and
the class revolted solidly. Then the faculty
bad to back down.
There was heavy rainfall Monday
at Washington, and the large silver vaul,
in the court yard Of the Treasury building,
in which over so 000, 600 silver dollars are
stored, was flooded with two inches of
water. Considerable damage was done to
boxes and bags containing silver, but the
latter was uniniurcd.
Three hundred students are attend
ing the Moody conference Of college stu
dents which will last until July 10. Ser.
vices will be held morning nnd evening,
the afternoon being devoted to athletics
under the direction Of A. A. Stagg, the
Yale pitcher. Rev. d. d. Driver, D. D.,
Of Portland, Oregon, is the leading speaker.
An alarming condition of the Hi
nois corn crop is reported to tho State
Board Of Agriculture. A special bulletin
issued to-day announces that II 10 impossi.
BILE to estimate the damage done to the
corn crop by continuous rains during the
past six weeks, and the overfiowing of
thousands Of acres Of river bottom lands in
the central and southern parts of the State
The Worlds Sunday School Con-
vention opened It's sessions In London on
tho Cd. Nine hundred foreign delegates
were present including over 800 from th,,
United States. Lord Kinnaird delivered
tho address Of welcome. Count Bern
storf, Of Berlin, and Rev. Cuyler, of Brook
lyn, responded in behalf Of tho delegates
from the European and American CONT
ncnts.
Specifications have just been issued
by the Postmaster General for the guild.
ance Of bidders under tho next contracts
Tor postage stamps advertised under date.
sf Juno II, 1889. They provide for bids for
two series Of stamps Of differcut sixes, ono
ef them being the siso now in use and other
one-third smaller. In speaking OF the pro
posed changes Postmaster General wana
uaker said to-day that he believed