The Delta independent., 1889-09-10
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES
Ogden is to have 100000 hotel

resigned.
Rains have finally extinguished the
Montana forest fires
The public debt increased $6,O76,-
692 during August.
Labor Day was very generally cele-
brated throughout the country
New York is excited over the dis
charge by Vanderbilt of his $40, 900 cook.
A vestibule train on Pennsylvania
railroad caught fire from friction the other
day.
A Kentucky negro was burned at
the stake last week as punishment for a
rape.
1t is reported that Empress Augusta
Victoria of Germany has Joined the Catho-
lie Church.
New York Prohibitionists have nom
mated a State ticket and will make Wig
orous campaign.
Yarmouth. Massachusetts, cele-
brated the a5Oth anniversary Of its settle
ment last Tuesday with appropriate exer-
c;ses-
Light frost is reported from points
in the northern parts Of Kansas and Mis-
souri,. No damage to the corn crop Is re.
ported.
The War Department has ordered
the abandonment Of the military posts at
Fort Laramie, Wy. T, Fort Hayes, Kas,
and Fort Lyon, Col.
Two children of David Esay of Blue
Springs, Neb., while playing with matches
in the barn Of Rev. Andrews, set it on fire
and were burned to death in 1t.
The circulation OF Saturdays issue
the Paris Figaro was suppressed
throughout Germany on account of an ar
ticie insulting TO Emperor William.
There is a break in the London
strike, several of the employers having ac
ceded TO the demands OF their men. This
is believed to be the beginning of the end.
The American Association for the
Advancement OF Science completed an in
teresting session Tuesday at Toronto. The
next meeting will be held at indianapolis.
The italian military authorities have
been experimenting with smokeless pow
der. In target practice with the new pow
der double the usual number Of hits were
made.
King Malietoa, who was exiled from
the Samoan Islands by the German Gov
crnment, has been returned to his home
His reception is said to have been very al.
fecting.
The largest bar OF gold ever cast in
the world was turned out at the United
States assay ofiice at Helena the other day.
II weighed 500 pounds and is worth n little
over siOo, 900.
The Northwestern conference OF the
African Methodist Church held in Mil.
waukee last week adopted an elaborate
report advising general exodus of me-
groes from the South to the Northwest
The ex-Confederate and Federal SOL
diers of Texas have been having a grand
e-union at Fort Worth. Among the at
fractions was barbecue at which twenty
six beeycs, fifty-two sheep and number
OF hogs Were roasted.
"a HthANl'h W zen
thousand rah way brakeman has been sent
TO the interstate commerce commissioners
asking them to take steps TO secure the
adoption of automatic brakes and couplers
on tho railways of the country.
John NJ. Langston of Virginia,
well-known negro. who is a contestant for
n seat in Congress, and who has heretofore
opposed Malone, declares that he will sup.
port the Republican nominee in the coming
campaign in the Old Dominion.
A special from Tifiln. Ohio, says:
Mrs. George Coons of Little Sandusky, a
village fifteen miles south of here, has died
of what the doctors pronounce genuine
Asiatic cholera. People there are greatly
excited and many are leaving the VILLAGE
A dispatch from Victoria, British
Columbia, announces the arrival. there of
the scalcrs Venice, ,Penalope and Ada from
Bchring straits. They had together over
$500 sealskins aboard and report that they
saw nothing of tho United States revenue
cutter Rush.
An interesting quarrel has sprung
up between Corporal Tanner and New
York Congressman, of whom he said that
''if his (the Congrcssman's) brains could
bc blown through tho bill of snipo into
the eye Of u mosquito, II would not mako
tho mosquito wink
A statement issued by the Treasury
department on the 1st, complied from the
latest returns received from the several
assay officers of the United States, and
national bank dcpositaries. shows the total
assets OF the Treasury to be s125, SIC, ,O16 Is;
total liabilities, s6s', 200, l6l, ,oe; balance,
sSs, ,5a0, 1878.
In tho United States Circuit Court
at St. Louis last week Judge Thayer ren.
dorcd n decision to tho effect that the
counte-feiting of the union label used on
cigars cannot he prevented or punished.
Tho ruling will effect cirgarmaker's organ.
ixations in the United States and Canada,
1t is claimed, very seriously, as II practi.
cally decides that their label is Of no value
whatever.
Samuel G. Showalter, OF DAYTON.
Ohio, aged GO, who voluntarily submitted
TO an injection Of tho elixir Of lifc three
weeks ago, hoping for relief from rhouma.
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