The Delta independent., 1890-12-02
BY TELEGRAPH.
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chored at New York and their officers are
being feted.
The South Dakota Farmers Alliance
will contest the election of Republicans to
State Offices.
A Chicago miser worth several
hundred thousand dollars was sent to Jail
for begging the other day.
The English Liberals are deter
mined to compel Parnell to relinqussh the
leadership Of the Nationalist.
August Belmont, ex-congressman.
banker and patron of the turf. died Of
pneumonia at New York on the 2ith.
A Brooklyn woman while tempor-
arily insane jumped from a window in the
sixth floor of hotel, and was instantly
killed.
The Gould men who have displaced
Adams in the management Of the Union
Pacific charge their predecessors with all
sorts of incompetency.
The prime minister OF Belgium has
surprised and pleased the worklugmen Of
that country by taking a stand in favor of
extending the suffrage.
There have been serious disagree.
ments between the two boards managing
the Worlds Fair. 1t is quite likely that
there will be more trouble.
Buffalo Bill has gone TO see Sitting
Bull and 1t is TO be hoped tnat he will be
able to influence tha: willy old Indian TO
keep OF the war path and behave himself.
Sunday night twenty -four cars on a
Northwestern train were precipitated into
the Boraboo river in Wisconsin by the
collapse Of the middle span of q bridge.
Loss So. 200
1t is charged by army officers that
the sons OF high officers, who are too in
competent to get through West Point
enlist as privates and are favored by
rapid promotion.
Much excitement was caused in
Olneyville, New York, by the holding Of g
C!an-na-Gael mseting in a house in which
there was scarlet fever, as the disease is
already epidemic in the town.
The Farmers Alliance are TO have
q national convention at Ocaia, Florida,
Dec. 3rd. II is thought tnat the meeting
will be u very important one, and another
national political party may be born.
The Wyoming legislature is con-
sidering the propriety Of passing law
giving them authority TO elect governor
to succeed Senator Warren. They think
that the expense of an election by the peo-
pie would be too great
Secretary Window has forwarded
seven gold life-saving medals Of the first
class to Hon. George Adams. NJ. c. Of
Illinois, for presentation TO Mr.. Lawrence
o. Lawton, keeper of the Evanston, ILL.,,
life-saving station and the members Of his
crew.
The steamboat I. p. Leathers. Cap
tain Lamb, bound from Lakcport, Missis-
sippi, was destroyed by fire on Thanks
giving Day, near Fort Adams, Mississippi.
The boat and cargo are q total loss. The
chambermaid and four roustabouts, all
colored, were lost
The French government will not
allow the Importation into France of
Professor Koch's lymph on the ground
that the importation Of medicines. the
composition OF which is not known, is lille.
gal, law prohibiting such importations
being In existence.
The people of Baird, Texas. met at
the church the other night TO attend a
wedding but were badly disappointed.
The bride to-be was the daughter Of a
prominent citizen and the groom new
conner, but he proved to be an adventurer
and skipped town at the last minute leay-
ing great many debts.
The San Francisco chief OF detec-
tives has secured confession from Julius
X. Dillman, ono of the cleverest young
forgcrs on the coast, who victimizcd stores
and banks in various California towns for
many thousands Of dollars. He is young,
polished in manners anu dressed finely.
His plan was to walk hastily into store,
bareheaded, with pen behind his ear, 80 to
cashiers desk and ask TO have check
cashed which usually bore the forged sig.
nature of o firm in the vicinity.
At meeting in Boston on the Goth
Of the directors Of the Union Pacific Rail-
way Company, President Charles Francis
Adams submitted his resignation in an
address to the meeting. Following Mr..
Adams, address, Directors F. L. Ames, +.
G. Dexter and Government Director Bul.
lock made briet addresses appreciative Of
Mr.. Adams' service, and Messrs. Ames
and Bullock were appointed committee
to draft appropriate resolutions. Tho res
ignations Of Messrs. Charles Francis
Adams, John p. Spaulding, James A.
Bumrill and Samuel Carr, Jr., were ac.
cepted, and Mcssrs. Jay Gould. Russell
Sage, II. II. Hyde and A. E. Orr were
elected directors, and took their seats at
the board. Mr.. Sidney Dillon, already q
director, was elected president 1t is un.
dcrstood MIR. Orr represents the David
Dow estate and MIR. Hyde, tho Equitable
Life Insurance Company, which is large
holder Of tho company's securities.
Wyoming's legislators are having u
hard time. Saturday night last Senator
J. N. Tisdalc and Representative Davis,
both Of johnson County, werc chloro-
formed and robbed at their room vt swell