The Delta independent., 1890-06-17
BY TELEGRAPH.

4Black diptheria is raging at Ponca,
Nebraska.
Fifteen smuggled Cinnamon were
sent back to China on the 9th.
There is tremendous excitement at
Paris, Texas, on account of the Cook mur-
der trial.
The next General Conference Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church will be held
in Omaha.
Miss Phillips Fawcett carried of
the highest honors at Cambridge Univer.
sity this year.
Ex-State Treasurer Hemingway OF
Mississippi has been indicted for embez-
cling eal5,0OO.
Indiana White Caps are reported to
be committing terrible outrages on inof-
fensive farmers.
The Postmaster General wants
some one to invent q convenient mail box
TO be fastened to front doors.
Emperor William has called his
brother, Prince Charles, from his position
in the navy to assist him at Court.
1t required 2O7 ballots to nominate
successor to Congressman Carlisle. w.
w. Dickerson was the fortunate man.
The officers on several Atlantic
steamships have been detected smuggling
goods Of various kinds into this country.
Eight young men went fishing near
Boston last Sunday and their boat was
upset by a squall. Seven of them were
drowned.
The political gossip mongers are
arranging to have Blaine placed at the
head Of the great Pan-American bank
which is to be organized.
A street car strike at Columbus,
Ohio, is OF so serious q nature that the
omcers contemplate calling on the Cover
nor for militia TO protect property.
Judge Wallace has dismissed the
writ Of habeas corpus in Kemmler's case
and has remanded him TO the custody Of
the warden Of Auburn prison TO be ex-
ecuted by electricity.
A Texas census enumerator has
found house in which lives family of
colored people with q great variety Of
ages. They represent five generations,
the oldest being los years old.
A Texas train was thrown from the
track near Texarcana, by robbers, who
proceeded TO go through the express car.
The AFFAIR WAS scientifically arranged and
executed, but very little money was OBJ
tanned.
A notable fact in connection with
the commencement exercises Of the union
college of law at Chicago was that the
member Of the graduating class who got
highest scholarship and who delivered the
valedictory was . colored man. His
name is Franklin A Dennison, Of Texas.
What is to be known as The Tax
Payers Association" has been organized
in Chicago. Its purpose Is TO unite the
taxpayers Of the county, SO that they may
prevent unjust taxation and tax-eatiur
schemes which arc gotten up by unprinci-
pied politicians. No ONCE holders will b
admitted.
Two Texas cowboys, Jose Corrasco
and Manuels Bosco, had Q singular and
fatal duel recently. They quarreled over
the possession Of . COW, and as neither
had gun, they drew their only weapons,
lariats. After q severe battle Carra.co
finally lassoed his opponent, dragged him
saaJlo
Bosco's neck was broken.
In letters received from Major
wissman, the German explorer, the opin-
ion is expressed that mere patrollinr of
the African coast by cruisers will no, be
eficctusl in supprcssiLg the slave trade.
Major Wissman declares that the estab-
lishmcnt Of garrisons along the coast line
is an imperative condition to making
possible the destruction Of this infamou.
tratic.
Advices from Siberia state there
has been revolt in the Russian mines Of
Basile and Bartshof. Tho miners, who
wcre Roadcd to rebellion by starvation
wages and material, killed the superinten.
dents, named Riseno6 and BastrikofY. and
dcmolishcda q large number Of bu,ldinss,
A troop Of Cossacks were beaten OF by the
men, aud two regiments have been or.
dercd TO tho scene.
The President has vetoed. the hill
for the erection of public buildings n,
Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Tho President in
his veto message says: '1n the preseu,
uncertain state of the public revenue and
expenditures, resulting from pending and
probable legislation, there IL, to my mind.
An absolute necessity that the expeudi-
lures for public buildings should be limited
TO cases whore public needs are very evi-
dent and very imperative. 1t 10 clear that
this II not such . case"
Collector Phelps Of San Francisco
has sdvices that his men watching for
Chinese coming into the United stats.
from Mexico had intercepted body of $50
In . camp near tho border, sixty mile,
wost Of Nogales. They nnd themselves In
an unpleasant predicamsnt II they cross
they will be captured. They cannot no
south or east because Of Apaches, and In
tho west and northwest lies tho great
dcscrt Their countrymen 1T Guaymss
arc hostile 70 them, and what will become
OF them Collector Phslps cannot say.
A decided rumpus was created in