The Delta independent., 1889-08-20
TBLEGRAPHIC BREVZPZES

A crisis is looked for in Hayti very
soon.
The Emperor of Austria is visiting
q Berlin.
Truckee, California, had a $4,000
fire Monday.
A monument to John Brown is to
be erected at Harper's Ferry.
Four more bodies were found in the
debris at Johnstown the other day.
General Boulanger has been found
guilty of conspiracy by the French Senate.
The petition for the pardon of Mrs.
Maybrick has received 1000 signatures
in Liverpool.
A Chinese syndicate with a capital
stock Of 6O,OOo, 900 taels will construct a
railroad from Hankow to Pekin.
Several workmen were buried under
the falling walls of a builing in Chicago
Wednesday. Two of them were killed.
A threshing machine boiler exploded
| in New Hope Township, Dakota, Wednes-
day, instantly killing three men and iniur-
| ing another
The gross earnings on the Atchison,
| Topeka & Santa Fe for July were sl.s7s,-
399, a decrease from the same month of last
year of sl7o,7s
| 1t is now thought that the entire
loss by the recent Spokane fire will not
exceed 100000. Rebuilding is going on
with great rapidity.
Senator William NJ. Evarts is suf-
fering from serious affection of the eyes.
He is preparing to so to Europe to consult
leading specialists.
| President Green. OF the Western
Union Telegraph Company, has written an
other letter TO the Postmaster General re-
garding telegraph rates.
| Mr.. Lincoln. United States Minister,
and many members of the American col
ony in London, have signed petition for
the reprieve Of Mrs. Maybricll.
California is not mourning to any
great extent over the death of Judge Ter
ry. His cold-blooded shooting of Senator
Frederick 80 years ago is still remembered.
The president has returned to
Washington. His time at Bar Harbor
was so taken up by visitors that he really
comes back To the White House more
tired than when he left
The comptroller of the currency has
authorized the following named banks to
begin business: American National Bank
OF Omaha, capital 500, 900; First National
| Bank of Ainsworth, Nebraska, capital
| $4,000.
james ID. Leary, the ship builder of
| New York, will soon build a timber raft
in British Columbia and tow it to San
Francisco. He was the builder of two
logging RATS, one of which broke up on
the way to New York from Nova Scotia.
AT Unity Station OF the Wisconsin
! Central Railroad bear carried of the lit
tie girl Of woodmau named Kleinert. The
[ father pursued the bear and killed it. The
child escaped serious injury The bear
weighed $50 pounds.
Governor Humphreys has issued a
proclamation calling deep water conven-
ton ut Topeka, October /, at the request
of Ex-Governor Adams, of Colorado, chair
|
includes all States west OF the Mississippi
River.
| a cable dispatch announces the ar
| rival at Quecntown of the steamship City
of Paris, which passed Sandy Hook at G ;O5
| p. m, Wednesday last Her time-5 days
% hours and 10 minutes beats her pre-.
vious record and is the best eastern record
by ~ minutes.
| The Secretary of State of Illinois
has licensed the Worlds Fair of 1892 at
| Chicago to commemorate the io0th ami
versary of the discovery of America. The
capital is 81 10000 and the incorporators
are Dewitt c. CreCier, Mayor of Chi
cago; George Schneider, Anthony Zeber-
ger, William c. Seipp, John Il. Walsh and
f. Nelson Blade,
Houghton, Peck * Co. of Kansas
| City, manufacturers and wholesale deal
crs in mems furnishing goods, have made
| a general assignment in favor of creditors
Tho liabilities are placed by the firm at
Sloo,ooo and the assets at $4,000. The Ma
tional Bank Of Commerce of that city is the
largest creditor. The next heaviest credi
/ a
| City. The firm owes it $500
| The directors of the Northern Pa
cifc Railroad at their regular meeting last
week received the proposition from Henry
| Willard to issue consolidated MORTGAGE Of
| SiGo, ,0oo, 600, but on account of lack of time
| consideration was postponed until Wednes
day next The plan provided not only Tor
| tho rcfunding of the present bonded debt
1 at a low rate of interest, but will also wipe
|, out tho floating debt and provide funds for
now equipment and improvements.
The State Department has received
copies of the official announcement of the
zealand and South Seas Exhibition, to be
held at the city of Dunedin, which is the
center of the railway system of the south
ern and most populous island of the col
onies. Tho exhibition is intended to cclo-
brute tho fiftic,h anniversary of tho foun-
dation of the colony of New Zealand The
exhibition will be opened November and
ciosc the middle Of April, 1890.
The sentence imposed on Boulan-