The Delta independent., 1890-07-01
BY TELEGRAPH.


Chauncey Depew has declined
nomination as president Of the Worlds
Fair.
Ex-President Hayes made aspeech
to the veterans at Ottawa, Kansas, on the
eth.
A prisoner in the Arkansas peniten-
tiary was whipped to death by keeper
short time ago.
Two rival lottery concerns are
making big bids to the Louisiana legisla-
ture for franchise.
The total number of cases OF cholera
at Valencia, Spain, up to June 26, WAS 1876,
OF which lib were fatal.
great number of deaths from SUM-
stroke at St Louis and other points in the
Mississippi Valley were reported on tho
26,h.
The young Indians at the Haskell
Institute at Lawrence, Kansas, have asked
for the removal of the superintendent of
the Institute.
The New York Court of Appeals
has rendered decision in support of tho
decisions in lower courts dissolving the
sugar trust
1t is reported that a company with
:, large capital is to go into business in
| Wyoming and raise horses to sell TO Great
Britain for he- cavalry service.
| Vessels from Spain are ouarantincd
1t nearly all European ports on account Of
the prevalence of cholera in Spain. 1t is
spreading and there is reason to fear q
terrible epidemic.
| The Australian subsidy to the San
| Francisco mail line will cease after No
vember next unless the American govern
ment subscribes toward the expense OF
continuing the service.
Lord Salisbury has backed down
from his proposals as to refunding the
| license money of saloon keepers who are
| legislated out Of business. The pressure
OF temperance sentiment was too strong
for him.
A foot-bridge leading from steam
er to the landing stage at St. Jean, France,
collapsed last Wednesday. Hundreds
\ were thrown iaso the sea. Seven bodies
have been recovered. Many persons arc
still missing.
The International Sunday School
annual convention met in Pittsburg on the
24th. Twelve hundred delegates were
present from all states and Territories
and the provinces Of Canada, including all
tho Evangelical denominations.
The petrified remains of man ave
been found on lack Creek, Wyoming The
body Is that of man seven feet in height,
and OF proportionate build. The find will
be unearthed and brought to Rawlins, and
will finally be sent to the Smithsonian In
susrtion-
A st. Louis man is lodging the
ooieerx for an unusual reason. He has
Two attractive daughters who have had q
number of callers during the past winter,
! and the old man made practice of steal
ing the young mems overcoats and pawn
ing them.
man with his wife and child
passed through Laramie, Wyoming, last
Thursda2, walking from Omaha to Wash
ington. The only conveyance they had
was . wheelbarrow, on which was piled a
few effects, and on which the man occas-
ion ally hauled his wife or child.
An immense sensation was created
in railroad circles at Omaha last Monday
when 1t had become known that suit had
been begun by the Union Pacific against
c. II. McIiibben, late general purchasing
ngent of the road for the recovery of SJo,-
900 Of which he Is said to have defrauded
the company through contracts which he
let at q high figure, dividing the differ
encc with the contractors. The Union Pa
ciic authorities claim that the company
has lost ssoo, 900 in this way.
The excitement among French mer-
chants arising from the difficulties caused
by the now regulations concerning the
Importation of goods into the United
States 10 spreading to the Chamber of
Deputies and TO the newspapers. A few
excitable people talk about retaliation.
Government officials and the artistic com,
munity are both startled by the news that
the finance committee of tho American
Senate has stricken out the clause In the
tariff bill putting works of art on the free
list, There is great outcry over the
action.
RatclifYo, the train robber, who
died at Texarcana on the alst, left = wife
and three children. In. his dying moments
he said II was too late for him to talk. but
that his wife would make n statement for
him. She made q detailed statement of
the whole affair as far US she know, to
which sho will tostify In court. Tho
poor woman had besought her husband TO
avoid the company that brought him to his
ruin, and when he came home wounded
she felt sure that retribution had visited
him. Her statement a. taken down be-
fore notary, Govern fifteen pages, and
clears up many Of tho mysteries that sur
sounded tho robbery. She states that the
persons now In Jail, Detective Williams,
Napoleon Mcdaniel and John Browlcy.
with her husband, committed the robbery
There is q strike on the Illinois Cen.
trail railroad. 1t was inauguratsd o. tho
a4th because Superintendent Russsll di,-
charged . trainnaster and his asaistants
The strike 10 for Ruseeli's diechnrve and