The Delta independent., 1890-05-13
BY TELEGRAPH.

|. Another bridge across the Missis-
sippi at st. Louis has been completed.
The Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation is in session at Nashville, Tenn.
Portugal has consented to submit
the Delagoa Bay question to arbitration.
The Laramie Boomerang, Bill Nye's
old paper, has been sold to G. L. Rannar.
1t is estimated that 10000 men
Joined in the labor parade in London last
Sunday.
The city council at Spokane Falls.
Washington, recently expelled one of its
members for attempted bribery.
Parts of the great Singer Sewing
Machine factory at Elizabeth, N. j., were
burned on the 9Th, causing immense loss.
A new torpedo boat, the Gushing"
is said to be very fast, having broken the
record between Newport and New York.
A Minnesota mail thief who pleaded
insanity and was sent to an asylum has
concluded that he prefers to be sane and
stand trial.
A general strike, involving $4,000
coke workers in Connellsville region, Scot
land, is threatened unless the Frick Com
panv resumes operations at the Valley
works.
The tariff debate opened in the
House Wednesday. Mr.. Mckinley led in
the discussion, and Mr.. Mills followed,
severely criticising the bill and ridiculing
the Republicans.
Grave peculations have been dis
covered in the customs department of the
Argentine Republic. The revenue lost
by the Government by entertainments is
estimated at $40, ,oOo, 900 annually.
A contract has been signed for
building 1850 miles of the Mexican Inter
national railway from Deming, New Mex
ico, to Topolobampo Bay on the Pacific
Coast. The amount involved is 81 $50, coo.
As freight train on the Santa Fe
road was crossing bridge near Yelling
ton, Kansas, the engine exploded, and
Engineer Mack was scalded to death and
the fireman fatally injured. The force of
the explosion destroyed the bridge and
sixteen cars of cattle were precipitated
into the creek.
Premier Crispi, in a confidential
note to King Humbert on the May
demonstrations, states tnat sixty foreign
agitators were expelled from Italy, 500
Italians who were distributing revolution
ary pamphlets were arrested, 5000 sus
poets were punished or warned and 500 sol
diers possessing manifestoes were pun
ished.
Orders have been issued at Wash
| ington for the squadron of evolution to
proceed to Brazil for duty on the South
Atlantic station. While no explanation of
the transfer is given it is generally ac-
cepted to mean . desire on the part of the
administration to foster and cement
friendly relations with the South Ameri-
can republics.
A dispatch from Willis Point, Tex
as, says that hurricane struck that
town on the Srd. Two persons were killed
outright and several injured, one fatally,
The Methodist church and public school
building were completely demolished,
while q number of stores and residences
| were blown down and nearly all business
houses were unroofed.
The arrival of the first car load of
pigs allowed to enter Saxony through es-
| pecial permission of Chancellor Caprivi
was made quite u fete by the pork hungry
citizens at Dresden. The car was re
ceived at the station by officials and the
| pigs were driven to tho slaughter house
thousands of citizens.
Attorney General Watson of Ohio
has brought suit to take from the Stand
ard Oil Company its charter, for a viola
ton Of tho laws in various ways. The
petition refers to the general State laws
against monopolies, and cites facts to
show that the Standard Oil Company had
forfeited its right by going into the Stand.
ard Oil Trust of Ne " York
The connection of the Arizona and
California wings of the great cantilcver
bridge at the Needles, Arizona, was made
on the 9th. The bridge is said to have the
longest unsupported span Of any cantilcver
bridge in the world, being 400 feet. The
total length of the bridge is go feet
Nearly 40, ,ooO, 900 pounds Of steel and iron
| were used in its construction and thre,
men killed and twenty five injured during
the work.
The Santa Fe and Fort Worth rail-
roads have their hands full Just now NOV
ing stock from Texas and the Indian Ter
ritory to wendovor, Wyo. From that
point they are driven to Montana. All the
cattlc shipped come through Denver.
There were 10000 head handled at the
local stock yards last spring, and this
years shipment will exceed that number
There are now u, 900 head on the trail be-
ing driven through.
The President has made the follow
ing appointments for Oklahoma: George
| w. Steele, Of Indiana, to be Governor;
Robert Martin, of Oklahoma, to be Score
tary. Supreme Court otficials Edward b.
Green, of Illinois, to be Chief Justice; A..
]. Seay, of Missouri, and John G. Clark. of
Wisconsin, to DO Associate Justices. War.
rem T. Lurty, Of Virginia, to be United
States Marshal; Horace Speed, Of Okla
homa, to be United States Attorney.
T),a irriCatiOn cnmmitto., 81 ., .