The Delta independent., 1890-10-21
BY TELEGRAPH.

Grand Duke Nicholas OF Russia has
become insane.
The marshal OF New Orleans has
been assssinatcd by Italians.
The population oI Kansas is given
as l, ,4o3, ass, an increase OF 4a7 7,3s9.
The people of Dallas, Texas. have
strnck artesian water, with big flow.
Joseph Pulitzer has retired from the
active management Of the New York
World.
President Ezeta of Salvador is said
to be very mild in his treatment of politi-
cal enemies.
Judge Ryland. OF Lexington, Mis-
souri,, charged the grand jury to look after
progressive euchre parties.
Information has reached Cheyenne
that five-foot vein of asbestos has been
discovered near Casper, Wyoming.
The Governor OF Ohio has called a
special session Of the legislature to pro
vide better government for Cincinnati.
President Harrison has returned to
Washington after his Western tour during
which he was received with the greatest
cordially.
The family OF General Barrundia
claim 100000 from this government for
the killing of the general on q United
States vessel.
In Il trotting race at Lexington,
Kentucky, last week, horse dropped dead
at the half-mile post caused by the burst
ing Of blood vessel
The Indians of North Dakota are
charged with firing the prairies to assist
in killing game, and the farmers and stock
men complain OF their losses.
Upon invitation of the Brotherhood
OF Locomotive Engineers, Chauncey Depew
delivered notable address before that
body At its Pittsburg session las. week.
A carrier-pigeon returned to its
home in New Jersey last week after an
absence Of fifteen months. 1t had been
released on the Atlantic, 100 miles from
land.
General W. W. Belkuap, secretary
OF war during President Grants frs,
term, was found dead IN bed in Washing
ton last Monday morning. He died Of ap'
poplexy.
IL. &. Angel, a saddlsr OF Weather
ford Texas, died Monday night at his resi-
dence. He stated to his wife Sunday las,
fhEf ha x,o,,ll ;rk,
day he put in the day at the shop as usual.
He had his will written and ali of his bus
mess matters arranged during the day
yesterday, and on going home, dressed in
his best suit of clothes, laid down and
died as formerly predicted.
A dispatch from Prague, Austria.
says: Another frightful calamity visited
the city Monday morning when the wall
OF the karist bridge, which was partly
destroyed during the last great flood, col.
;lpscd and forty laborcrs were thrown into
the river. Twenty three OF them were
drowned and though the rest were rescued
many Of them were badly hurt and Cap
tain Rauch, the superintendent of the
works, lost both legs.
The November number of Subjects
Of the Day, an English publication, con-
tains an appeal from Mr.. Gladstone to the
Tory house-holders, in which he expresse.
a strong desire that the Tory party under.
take TO pass home rule bill, because, he
says, that party can do it more easily aud
more rapidly than can the Liberals. He
asks why they should continue 10 deny 10
ireland the one and only thing she seeks
from them, namely, self government =
central, in that it should be carried on in
Dublin, local in that its powers should be
confined to purely Irish affairs, and its
action to those. All other legislatures in
the empire would be subject to the suprem.
acy Of the Imperial Parliament
Mrs. +. p. Morse. OF Batavia, New
York, while walking in that village Satur
day, was set upon by two huge dogs owned
in the neighborhood. The dogs, bull and
mongrel, seized her by the throat and
breast and dragged her to tho ground,
Her cries brought help. When the dogs
were beaten OF Mrs. Morse was bleeding
from dozen ugly bites, and tainted from
the loss Of blood and the excitement She
was carried home and physician was
summoned. Her throat is torn open and
she is otherwise badly la,erated. The
physicians say she may recover but the
chances arc against it The little daugh-
ter of Joseph Hyde was afterwards at
tackled by the same dogs and was severely
bitten. The dogs will be shot
An Ontario magistrate recently
made novel departure in Furnishing ten.
year-old boy who was brought before him
for stabbing companion. The magistrate
felt that to send him TO prison, a lad of his
tender age, would simply confirm him in
crime. Under all circumstances his homo,
thought TINT tho best thing that could be
done was to give the boy u severe fiogginy
He said that II young Smiths father would
give tho boy twenty lashos on the bare
back with birch cad, and iuiiict tho pun
ishmcnt conscicntously and TO the sa,isfac
tion Of tho court that he would not send
the boy to the reformatory. The fa,hc,
readily accepted the magistrates auRges
tiou, and tho boy was severely whippcS,
and kept in tho county Jail for two weeks,
The new Supreme Court Justices O,
Wyoming have drawn lots for their terms
Of oficc, with tho result that vaudevanter
rot four years, OF the short torn, thus