The Delta independent., 1890-05-20
BY TELEGRAPH.
Railroad rates are going lower.

Is bcSSlOu ~ OaTaNSd.
During high wind part of the
roof of the Missouri State house was blown
on.
A Nebraska man had row with his
neighbor and shot his neighbor's wife to
get even.
Margaret Blaine who is soon to be
married is receiving some magnificent
presents.
Geo. w. Crane, of Topeka, who runs
the largest printing establishment west OF
Chicago, has assigned.
The louisiana Lottery offer 81 ,OOO,-
600 year for the right to conduct their
business in that State.
At Boise City, Idaho, an artesian well
has been sunk from which flows 20, 600
gallons Of water per day.
The gamblers of Laramie have ap-
piled for a mandamus to compel the city
council to permit them to continue bus
mess.
Burglars entered the barracks of a
military post in the Northwest Territory
and carried away the safe containing
81, 900.
Marquis de Leuville authorizes the
statement that he and Mrs. Frank Leslie
are engaged, and that the marriage will
take place next month.
The temperance question is attract
ing great deal of attention in the English
parliament, and there seems to be a strong
sentiment in favor of restriction.
A quantity of balastite explosive ex-
ploded the other day at Avigliana, Italy,
and fourteen persons were instantly killed
and many others injured, some fatally.
A young man was caught and bur-
led by dirt falling from an embankment at
Rock Springs, Wyoming, some time ago,
and his body was discovered accidentally.
Silversmiths are at work upon the
solid silver cup to be presented to Blaine
by the Latin-American delegates to the
Pan-American congress to be presented in
Washington on May II.
Superintendent Porter of the census
says that enumerators must not receive
payments from city or county authorities.
He fears that they may be tempted to aid
some western '.booms."
A rising OF the people against the
government took place Tuesday at Port
Algre, Brazil. A portion of the troops
fraternized with the people The outbreak
was suppressed by police and the troops
who remained loyal. Anumber of persons
were wounded.
Stanley in an interview regarding
German movements in Africa said that he
was wearied by England's apathy and
pliancy in regard to operations by the
Germans, and that if England continued
inactive, the Germans would secure para
mount influence in Africa
Bismarck has been so busy in re-
ceiving and weighing flattering offers from
nearly every publishing house in the civil
lized world to put his memoirs in book form
that he has had little time for anything
else. Not magazine but has made him
princely offers for an article from his pen.
The plague of locusts is devastating
Trans Caucasia Over SC, eco acres of az
ricultural land at Tifis and Baku have
been ravaged. Three hundred thousand
men are occupied in the destruction of
locusts and still they swarm over every
thing.
A report has reached Oklahoma
City Of a battle between two opposing
forces of cowboys in Little River country,
twenty five miles south. The difficulty is
reported to have arisen over different con
structions of the "herd'' law. Five men
are reported killed, three fatally injured.
and four slightly wounded.
One hundred and twenty-five per-
sons have been arrested on the charge of
plundering vessels stranded near Hela, a
town on the Baltic nineteen miles north
east of Dantzic. The trial has Just ended
and resulted in the conviction of seventy
one weeks imprisonment
A band of White Caps who have
been numerically beating parties in the
ncighborhood of Meriden, Miss. visited
Sunday night. Upon the negro's refusal
to come out they fired into the house. An.
derson then ran out and fired into the
crowd, killing Louis Land and woundinc
two others. Anderson escaped.
The contract between the German
Government and the East Africa Steam
ship Company provides for the payment of
a subsidy of 200, 900 marks annually. The
company undertakes to maintain for ten
years main line of steamers from Ham
burg to DelaSoa Bay. None of these
steamers arc to be below 3,aOo tons and
their speed shall be ten and one-half knots.
Fort Worth's Spring Palace was
opencd last Saturday. Ex-Governor Adams
Of Colorado was the orator of the occasion,
and 6,0Oo people were in attendance. The
palace prcsents picture of surprising
beauty within and without. 1t is designed
TO show the world what Texas really is.
There arc gathered within its walls fair
samples Of the fruits Of the earth, the
wealth of the mines, streams and forests
Of the State.
j. w. Robinson. n travelling sales
man for Wholesale iewelry house of Chi
cago, left his two sample trunks OF jewelry
at the depot at Dubuque over night. Some
time between II o'clock and morning the
dcpot was entered by burglars and ono
.,,,ul ,y,cp r~3 and rnl,hai of tho y,,ost x.oi