The Delta independent., 1890-02-18
BY TELEGRAPH.
The Sultan of Zanzibar is dead.

Nellie Bly, took in 81, 400 at her first
lecture in New York.
Roads running west from Chicago
are cutting freight rates.
The oystermen in Chesapeake Bay
have been suffering from storms.
The National Electrical Association
has been in session at Kansas City.
DR.. Daniel Dorchester has been con-
firmed as superintendent Of Indian schools.
English bankers are opposing the
plan Of the government to issue silver
notes.
The Senate Committee on Terrific
ries has reported favorably the bill to
admit Idaho.
Four of the men indicted for at
tempting to bribe the Cronin Jury have
pleaded guilty.
A tow boat on the Mississippi, near
Memphis, struck bridge pier and sank.
Seven men were drowned.
The Chicago boodlers have been
sued for s2OO, 900 which it is claimed the
County lost by their misdoings.
The Due d'Orleans has been SEN
fenced to two years Imprisonment for re =
turning to Paris contrary to law.
The Parnellite members Of Parlia-
ment have reelected Parneu chairman
and adopted . vote Of confidence in him
A man seventy-fve years old living
in Winnipeg, shot and killed his SON and
daughter-in-law, both over fifty years old
Advices from Shanghai report that
Goodmor Formosa has been captured and
beheaded, with the remaining rebel chiefs.
Osborne's library, in Paris, contain
destroyed by fire on the llth. Loss, s40o,-
900.
A collision occurred upon an Ala
bama railroad recently, between an accom-
train. An engineer was killed and others
hurt.
There was a noisy row in the Can
adian Parliament last Wednesday, due to
charges being made that the government
had made no effort to suppress q religious
riot at Hull.
A thief recently entered St. Paul's
Church in New York and prepared lot of
curtains and altar fixtures of great his
toric value TO carry away but the police
caught him.
At the request of Mr.. Hirsch, Amer
ican Minister at Constantinople, the porte
has imprisoned In his palace Moussa Bey,
the Kurdish chief. charged with robbing
and outraging Christians in Armenia
A Montreal club has created some
excitement by passing resolutions favoring
the establishment of an independent ma
tionality in the vast domain of British
North America, free from all European at.
tachments.n
A Russian decree, Just promul-
gated, authorizes the issue of further re
demption loan of &c, ,ooo, 900 roubles at per
cent. Count Wslonien, formerly minister
Of the interior, is dead.
A bill has been introduced in Con.
gress which provides for the establish
| ment Of correspondence bureau, from
which answers shall be sent out to the let
ters addressed to congressman asking for
| information Of various kinds
The commission which has been
trying Parnell and other leading Irish
members of Parliament, have reported
They find the main charges against
Mr. Parnell not proven, but censure him
and others, particularly Mr.. Davitt, for
encouraging the Irish people TO resistance
Of oticers and the encouragement OF boy
cotting.
The Interstate Cattlemen's Conven.
ton has been called by the representa-
tives Of the different associations through.
out the Southwest to meet with the North.
west Cattle Growers Association at Fort
Worth on March II, 1890, to inquire into
the causes which have led to the low
prices of beef to the producer without any
corresponding benefit to the consumer.
In the dispatch sent by Lord Sails
bury to the Portuguese government on Jan
aary ssth, he said the Portuguese had in
saded the disputed territory in Africa
in.ulted the British flag and killed Eng
lands allies before asking for mediation
according 70 the terms of the Berlin treaty
Portugal, the dispatch said, had no righ
aow to claim such mediation.
The other day MI. Ingalls, mail con.
tanned small pink-wrapped box. Or
being opened the box was found to contain
q cartridge with the following in blacl
ink: ELECTION pills for old Cur or fol
Ingalls,, from jackson, Mississippi. Com,
to sec US, old Ingalls," MIR. Ingalls, wa,
not alarmed at the contents, but both h,
and the secretary thought 1t prudent to la,
the cartridge carefully away rs it was pos
siblc that It might he more dcstructiv,
than an ordinary cartridge. On examina
ton, however, II proved to be bucksho
cartridge containing nine large bucksho,
and charge Of powder. Even this, it wa
thought, was not particularly u pleasan
present, and the Joke may turn out to be
sorry one for the pcrpetrator, as it is
violation OF tho postal law to send explos
lvcs through tho mails.
The birthday OF Abraham Lincoll
was celebrated In Chicago on the 1ath b.
An immense gathering Of people. John NJ
Thurs,on ~ Nahrnska delivcrt,5, th