The Delta independent., 1890-07-29
BY TELEGRAPH.

A regiment of British soldiers at
London are striking for more and better
rations.
A band of counterfeiters has Just
been broken up in Indian Territory. They
made a good counterfeit and were doing a
rushing business.
The freight steamer Egypt was
burned at sea southwest of Ireland recent
ly. 1t was loaded with cattle. The crew
escaped in small boats.
The American squadron which has
been cruising in the Mediterranean has
been ordered to Central America to pro-
tect citizens of the United States.
President Harrison has been criti-
cised for accepting the Cape May cottage
from his friends as present. 1t now
transpires that he paid $4,000 for it.
The proprietors of three newspapers
published on the Island of Malta. have
been excommunicated for printing articles
abusing the pope and the bishop OF Malta.
An old tenement house burned in
Cincinnati last Tuesday and four people
were burned in the death trap. A large
number Of others were rescued with difi-
Guilty.
A night force of counters are en-
ployed at the census office in Washington,
and will be continued until tine count Of
the entire country is completed and YER
ifed- From this time it is expected that
the daily count will average 2,OOO, 900.
The report of battle between the
armies of Guatemala and San Salvador is
confirmed The Gautemalans crossed the
frontier without awaiting declaration of
war, but General Ezeta was ready for
them, and they were driven out with a
small loss.
The cloakmakers of New York are
on a strike, and are very boisterous. They
are thought to be In league with anarch-
lists, and make such dire threats against
the peace of the city that the police re-
serves are held under arms to suppress 9
riot.
Mr.. Chaplin, the English minister
of agriculture, delivering an address at
Lincoln agricultural hall, said that the
recent rise in the prices Of agricultural
products was due TO the advance in the
price of silver, consequent on the passage
of the silver bill by the United States
Congress
A company of gendarmes had a
fatal encounter with gang of smugglers
at Thorapia, Turkey, recently. The gen
darmes were seizing coutraband tobacco
near the British embassy when they were
set upon by the smugglers and badly de-
feated- Two officers were killed and a
number Of others were wounded.
1t is now reported that the list Of
Republican senators opposed to the fed
eral election bill as it passed the House
are ten in number, embracing such gentle
men Of prominence as Edmunds Of Yer
mont, Paddock of Nebraska, Teller and
Wolcott of Colorado, Washburn and Davis
Of Minnesota, Jones and Stewart of Ne
vada, Hale OF Maine, and Plumb Of Kan
sas.
The fast passenger train No. 9
struck q broken switch rail at Picheon
three miles east of Carbon, wyo, and was
wrecked at 30 this morning. The train
was heavily loaded and going down a
heavy grade at full speed Some of the
cars left their trucks and plowed their
way for two lengths out into the prairie
Fortunately there was no embankment
and it was one of those cases ont of !.
thousand where 10 one was killed or in.
iured
A dispatch from Pembroke. eighty
six miles above Ottawa, on the upper OF
tawa river, says that two days ago some
mescreant :cut the rope holding a raft of
logs to the bank where twenty-five RATS
men were sleeping over night. The raft
with all asleep on board drifted ou, into
the river and into the rapids mile below,
and before those on board were awakened
they were tossed about among the rocks
of the rapids. OF the twenty-five aboard
only two got to shore. No trace of the
bodies of the twenty has been found.
A dispatch from Tihis says that the
Armenian bishop of Erreroum was among
those killed in the riot on June 20, and that
his death has reused the Armeniaus TO III,
highest pitch of excitement The whole
country is in state Of Gnarrhy. Business
is at a standstill and travelling is i'm
practicable. Half starved Turkish sol
diers and Kurds. under the pretense of
maintaining order patrol the country.
plundering wherever thev go. The Per-
sian consul at Erzeroum offer the Ar
mcnians an asylum in Persia.
The Allen line steamer Hibernian
on her last trip from Glasgow had a mar
row escape from destruction. At S o'clocl,
in the evening of July sth an iceberg was
sighted at u distance OF about fifty Yards.
The engines We're reversed and the man
at the wheel had succeeded In slightly
changing the course OF the vessel 40 that
the berg was struck at n slant. The iron
plates grated along the side Of tho huge
pile and the vessel careened until her rail
touched the water There was great ex-
eitcment among the fifty passengers on
board. Ono passenger, y woman, was
thrown from . high bunk and alightly in
iured. Tho borg appeared 70 be about
fifty feet above tho water and was very
long.
= The Secretary OF the Interior has
received = telegram from Captain Bou
tollc, the superintendent Of the Yellow
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