The Delta independent., 1890-02-11
BY TELEGRAPH.

DR.. Tslmage has reached home.
The Senate has ratified the Somoan
treaty.
China proposes to introduce silver
coinage. &,
The dead lock in the Iowa legisla-
ture continues.
Mr.. Powderly has sued Edward CAL
laghan for libel.
Great damage has been done in
Oregon by floods.
Missouri Prohibitionists held State
convention this week.
The National debt was decreased
over III, ,ooo, 900 in january.
The eldest daughter of Secretary
blaine died few days ago.
The Queen has sent message Of
condolences to Secretary Tracy.
The window-glass trust has again
advanced the price Of their product
The French government is negotiat-
ing for loan of s5o, 900, 900 francs.
The Blair educational bill will oc-
cupy most of the week in the Senate.
In colliery explosion in England
the other day $50 miners lost their lives.
Rumors that England is about to
partially remonetize silver are again cur
rent.
1t begins to seem doubtful whether
worlds fair will be held anywhere in
1892.
henosha, Wisconsin, had serious
fre Sunday. Loss sl25.OOO. Insurance
sl0O, ,0O0.
The German Emperor has all at
once shown great interest in the welfare
Of workingmen.
Influenza is prevailing to an alarm
ing extent in Mexico where it is Of a most
deadly character.
Mrs. Lucas, sister of John Bright.
and an agitator and speaker in the cause
OF temperance, is dead.
BY boiler explosion at the Edison
electric light building, Philadelphia, Tues
day, hve men were badly scalded-
Two persons were killed in snow
slide near Loganville, a little town high up
In the Sierras, on the 10th Of January.
A great rush of settlers to the Sioux
reservation has commenced. 1t bids fair to
equal the Oklahoma boom Of year ago.
The wife and daughter of Secretary
Tracy and . servant lost their lives in
fire in the Secretary's home Monday morn
ing.
Chinese newspapers from Hong
Kong state that there is a widespread be-
lief that the Corean dynasty is drawing to
q close.
MIR. Carlisle has issued an address
to the country explaining the course of the
Democratic party in the late Congressional
wrangle.
An ice gorge which thl eatened
great damage to property, was formed in
the Missouri River, just above Atchison
the other day.
A natural gas explosion Monday
night at the Duquesne steel works, Pitts
burg, fatally injured two men and badly
burned several others
The editor OF the Cologne Gazette
has been sentenced to one months impris-
onment for publishing calumnies against
the Emperor's mother.
The suit for libel brought by Mr..
ParneE against the London Times has
been dropped, the Times agreeing to paw
the Irish leader s5,0oo
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe has
much improved in health and strength.
She Is neither insane nor imbecile. as has
been stated, but has reached the stage of
second childhood.
Reports from the ranges in western
Wyoming show that the losses of stock by
the recent storm will not be so great Is at
first reported. The per eentase of loss for
tho winter will not exceed per cent.
Fifty laborers in. a mine at Palmer,
Michigan, have struck for higher wages,
and refuse to allow new men to go to work.
The sheriff Is on the ground, and blood.
shed may follow il the new men ATTEMPT
to work.
DIR. Bokai. a professor at Klausen-
berry University, claims to have discovered
an absolutely certain antiseptic remedy
for hydrophobis, destroying the virus a,
the seat of the bite. 1t consists of a solu-
tion Of chlorine, bromine, sulphuric acid
and permanganate Of potash with oil of
eucalyptus.
A Kansas justice Of the peace has
decided that corn is fuel. A thousand
bushels Of corn, belonging to . farmer
named steadman, had been attached.
Steadman said he was using corn for fuel
and that thousand bushels was not suf
ficient to last year, and the Justice ruled
that under the law exempting years fuel
the attachment could not hold.
Good fortune has again come to Col
orado College. Hon. Warren Currier Of
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