The Delta independent., 1890-01-21
BY TELEGRAPH.

yoke, Mass.
James P. Campbell was inaugurated
Governor Of Ohio last Monday.
Calvin Brice has been elected to the
United States Senate from Ohio.
A Fort Worth woman. gave birth to
four healthy girl babies last week.
There is deadlock in the Iowa
Legislature over the election of United
States Senator.
A tornado demolished fifty-four
houses and killed eleven people at Clinton,
KY, last week.
A number of bills have been intro
duced into Congress tending to cripple the
Louisiana lottery.
The Stewart will case has at last
been settled. Judge Hilton retains the
lions share Of the estate.
The office of the Wells-Fargo Ex-
press Company at Dallas, Texas, was
robbed of slI 200 the other day.
4The passage of the first bill by the
South Dakota Legislature, was celebrated
by that body, with prayer by the chaplain.
John Fl. Shoenberger's will be-
queaths nearly 100000 to establish a
hospital in Pittsburg as memorial TO his
wife.
1t is reported that the Cars broth
er, Grand Duke Sergius, will shortly be
banished from the capital for meddling
with politics
The northern States have been suf-
fering from very cold weather, and storms
on the Atlantic have caused considerable
damage 10 commerce.
The monarch distillery at Peoria,
illinois, said to be the largest in the world,
burned last Sunday, together with 100000
gallons of uniaxed spirits.
An extensive robbery of Turkish
priority bonds and Mexican National bank
shares has occurred. The securities were
stolen in transit from Paris TO London.
President Harrison gave a reception
to the diplomatic corps Tuesday night
which was attended by high officials and
delegates to the Pan-Americsu conference.
One OF the Vanderbilts OF New York
has purchased from the Earl of Dudley the
famous picture '.The Grand Canal of Ven
ice" The price paid for the painting was
go, 900. ..-
The terms conceded to the striking
miners in Belgium by the mine owners in
Charleroi district are a reduction of work
ing hours 10 nine per day and an increase
of 10 per cent in wages.
John kunze. one of the men con-
victed of the Cronin Murder, has been
granted new trial, and the others have
gone to the penitentiary. Their case will
be carried to the supreme court.
Colonel Madison has been convicted
OF publishing in the Allahabad india,
Post u libel against Mr. Herbert Glad
stone, son of Hon. William f. Gladstone,
and has been ordered to pay 81 900 dam
ages.
The British bark Monarch. with ten
tons OF dynamite on board, caught fire in
mid ocean. The crew escaped and wit
messed the terrible explosion that followed
from a distance. They were picked up
later.
The Legislature Of West Virginia
hns met in special session for the deter
mination Of the contested election case Of
A. b. Fleming against Nathan Con, and
for the consideration of other business
specified by the governor.
The Secretary OF the Treasury has
transmitted to the House letters recon.
mcnding an increase of the limit of tho
eost of public buildings as follows Los
Angeles $50, 600; Sacramento $l5O,OOo;
Carson City, New, $4,000.
The general officers OF the W. C. r.
U.have issued circular extending greeting
to the non-seccding white ribboners of the
Iowa w. C. T. u, inviting all who are
with the National in is policy Of mo sec.
tarianism in religion, no sectionalism in
politics, no sex in citizenship, but each and
all for prohibition by constitutional amend
mends, National and State, 4" to hold meet.
ings locally and pass resolutions 10 this
effect. e
A meeting of the Johnstown Flood
HSumkuiobtou WhS ueiu t0C OtnCr
day. The secretary's report shows the es.
timated number drowned in the Conc
mauSh Valley TO be 2,aso persons; tho
number of bodies recovered, 1878, identi-
fied, l,oal: unidentified, 664; missing, COS.
The relief fund, received from various
sources, amounted to e, eos, ,oa3 After all
expenditures for relief have been paid the
commission have on hand an unexpended
balance Of go,63l. tl t'.
The most phenomenal yield of corn
ever produced in America has been
awarded prize of $500, offered by the
American Agricultural Association for
the largest crop OF shelled corn grown on
one acre-i in 1854 The crop was within a
fraction of 255 bushels green weight, which
shrunk to $50 bushels when kiln dried, and
when chemically dried contained ai7 bush.
ella. The South Carolina Board Of Arri
culture doubled the prize, making tho re-
ward q, 900 in all. This crop was grown
by z. \. Drake Of Marlboro County.
South Carolina. 1t is nearly twice rs large
A. tho grcstcst authenticated crop ever
before reported.
An lola, Kan, special says: Six
farmers OF more or less prominence were
arrested thcro tho other day for tho MUIR