The Delta independent., 1890-06-03
BY TELEGRAPH.
Bishop O'Connor died at Omaha last

Tuesday.
Railroad rates will probably be re-
stored on June 10th.
Sixteen thousand London police
man threaten to strike.
A number of scientists have started
for Alaska to examine its glaciers and
climb its mountains.
The Apache Indians ambushed two
men in the Chiricahua mountains last
week, and one Of them was killed.
The town Of Sefron, Morocco. is in
undated. The whole place is in ruins.
Fifty threeJews and many Moors perished.
A Spanish farm hand murdered his
employer and four other persons because
he was refused permission TO attend bull
fight.
Judge Collins of Chicago has de-
clared the gas trust of that city unconsti-
tutional, and he will appoint a receiver for
the concern.
A boat containing several persons
capsized on Watuppa Lake near Fall River,
Massachusetts, and seven people were
drowned.
The wife oi the Shah of Persia has
had her sight fully restored by the recent
operation at Vienna and will start home
at the end Of this week
The committee examining the city
treasury of Kansas City has found a
shortage Of $l9, ,0a6, but has not yet deter
mined who is responsible.
George Francis Train completed his
tour around the world at Tacoma, Wash
ington, May 25th. The time from start to
finish WAS 81 days, 10 hours.
Four surveyors belonging to Bur-
lington & Missouri River outfit have been
lost for three days in the bad lands in
Eastern johnson County, Wyo. A force
OF men are out hunting for them.
An attempt was recently made to
blow up the Haymarket monument in Chi
cago, which marks the place of the an
archist riot three years ago. A large tube
OF dynamite was found at the base of the
monument which had been prevented from
exploding by rain.
The village OF .Rapahie, Armenia,
has been destroyed by an earthquake.
Mineral springs spouted from the crevices
made in the earth and adjacent fields are
flooded. The earthquake was preceded by
rumblings which caused the inhabitants to
fee. No lives were lost.
In response to Il circular, represent
tatives of the rubber Industry of the
United States met at New York on the 27th
In regard to the recent advance in rubber
It was resolved to advance the price of
betting, packing hose and mechanical
goods, generally from 20 to % per cent
AT the annual meeting of the Amer
ican Peace Society at Boston, the follow
ing delegates were chosen to the Universal
Peace Congress in London in July: David
Dudley Field, New York; DIR. John Mutt
and Otis Magaw Howard, Chicago; Phillip
c. Barrett, Philadelphia, and eight others.
1t is stated that at Secretary Blaiue's
suggestion England and the United States
have made proposal to Portugal for the
settlement Of the Delagoa Bay railroad
question. The proposal is that Portugal
appoint an arbitrator, England aud the.
United States select another and Switzer-.
land an umpire.
Major Powell of the irrigation sur
vey, says that there is movement on foot
by powerful capitalists and land speculat-
ors to gobble up the lands which he has
found to be irrigable. This they will at
tempt to accomplish by securing the re.
peal of the act withdrawing such lands
from the operation of the desert land, tim
ber culture and pre-emption acts.
As the ocean racer, City of Rome,
left Queenstown, a stabbing ARRAY oc-
currsd in the steerage between some cat
tlemen and fremen. One of them may
die. According to the statements of the.
passenger a reign of terror prevailed in
the steerage during the entire trip. Re-
volvers were flourished and free fights in
dulged in whicn resulted in several men
being injured.
A special to the Salt Lake Tribune.
from Boise says: L. d. Hopson and Frank
Moore of the geological surveying party
"ShC oVhSu ~ ASae 10 AheNh ou lue ElpTn-
ing of May n, while sounding the river.
The body of Hopson was recovered and
will be forwarded to his relatives in COL
umbia, S. c. Moore's body was not re-
covered at last accounts.
A special dispatch from the City of
Mexico to the New York Herald SAYS:
Many merchants and bankers here believe
that should the silver bill pass, silver, ow-
ing to the moneyed strength of the United
States and the consumption OF this metal
by 1t, would gradually assume greater
value until It would nearly reach the value
Of gold aud force European nations to ac-
cept It at prices dictated by the North and
South American countries.
A two-pound aerolite recently fell
in Texas. 1t was red hot at the time. Its
shape Is irregular and presents many sur
faces, but all the angles arc rounded of.
evidently from friction through the atmos.
pherc. Tho color Of Its interior Is almost
white, with blush tinge, and its entire
composition is strcakcd with numerous
veins and spots Of bright vermiliion red.
In the center, where 1t was broken, pro-
lects round and very hard substance the