The Delta independent., 1890-01-28
BY TELEGRAPH.

ohow continues to fall in the olefras.
The Omaha postoffice was robbed OF
u, 100 the other day.
The Prince and Princess OF Wales
intend visiting this country next spring.
The reports Of the intended abdi-
cation Of the Emperor Of Austria are Old
cially denied.
Adam Forepaugh, the great show
man, died in Philadelphia last Thursday
of pneumonia.
A sardine trust is being formed in
London and the price of sardines has al
ready advanced.
Miss Frances Willard has written TO
the ePan-American delegates advising them
to try prohibition.
The Pan-American Congress, at its
last meeting, adopted suitable resolutions
on the death 9i Walker BlsileAA.
The well-known mining = achinery
house Of Frazer, Chalmers & Co., has
been gobbled up by an English syndicate
A round million of prairie chickens
are m arketed in Chicago every year and
they are not all killed inside the city
limits either
The Secretary of the Treasury will
do nothing further regarding the proposed
new lease Of the Alaskan fur-seal islands
until Feb. 81.
The New York newspapers are max
ing strenuous efforts TO raise enough
money to complete the much-talked-of
Grant monument.
Nellie Bly,, the New York Worlds
correspondent reached San Francisco
Tuesday, sixty eight days from the time
she left New York.
Rumors are in circulation that Sec
retary Blaine contemplates resigninR from
the Cabinet as a result Of the grief felt q
the death Of his son.
The Santa Fe special hearing Nellie
Bly,, made the distance between Albu-
querque and Kansas City, distance Of 9ls
miles, in twenty-five hours.
A man charged with being a Pitts
burg alderman has been found guilty in
that city and been sentenced 70 the peni-
tentiary for year and half.
A St Louis burglar went to sleep
the other night while plundering the resi-
dence of a citizen aud awoke some time
later to find himself q captive.
The engineering party that is max
ing railroad survey through the Colorado
Canon have been heard from. As late as
Christmas everyone was well and in good
spirits.
Sidney Dillon, nephew Of the Hon.
Sidney Dillon of New York. aocidently
shot and killed himself while out hunting
last week.
The deepest SHOWS ever known fell
in the Sierra Mountains within the past
two weeks. Railroad travel has been al
most suspended and the loss of live stock
has been enormous.
Miss Caroline j. Cammerer, the
Philadelphia music teacher who sued
Clemens Mueller of New York City for
sloo, 600 for breach Of promise OF marriage,
has obtained verdict for 81, 900.
The Senate Committee on Territor-
les has ordered reports recommending the
passage Of the bills to make state of Wy
oming and to organize u territorial form
of government for Oklahoma.
James G. Blaine. Jr., has been .ap-
pointed TO be clerk OF the Committee on
Foreign Affairs of the House by Congress-
man Hit, of Illinois, chairman Of the com
mittee. The salary is &, 100 a year.
The steamer Nedcrland from Ant
wcrp reports having passed an iceberg 100
feet high and from 900 to COO feet long on
January ls, in latitude 4s degrees, is min
utes; longitude IS degrees, .0a minutes.
The New Orleans city council by
the enactment of recent ordinance hns
prohibited smoking in street cars. As the
custom has been in vogue there from time
immemorial, the councils action il looked
upon as n novel innovation in the way of
municipal legislation.
The State Asylum for the Insane at
Worcester, Mass, was seriously damaged
by fire Saturday evening. All the inmates
were removed in safety, though amid much
excitement The fro was caused by the
carelcssness of an attendant in throwing
burning paper into closet.
The State Bank OF Irving, Kansas.
has suspended on an application made by
Mr.. Dedrick. one Of its Stockholders, for a
receiver, who alleges that great irregular
itics exist in the banks business. The
assets Of the bank amount nominslly to
q, $4,000. Its liabilities are unknown.
Secretary Noble has decided that a
married woman can mako timber land On
tries, or purchase such lands In the Ststes
Of California, Oregon, Nevada and wa,h.
ington, provided it is conclusively showu
that tho entry Is made for her own use and
benefit, and not for tho benefit of hersslf
aud husband jointly.
William l.. Byrd, Governor Of the
Chickasaw Nation, In . communication 70.
day laid before the Senate protests against
the establishment OF territorial form of
government In Oklahoma as violatiou of
tho treaty Of 1880. He says such chang,
would tend to humiliation Of the Indian
tribo in tho Indian Territory.
The New York San publishes seu-
sational article purporting to give The de-
tails OF q gigantic counterfoitinv bu.ir.,.