The Delta independent., 1890-04-01
BY TELEGRAPH.
tally is suffering from floods.

Italy Is suHerlug from nooos.
General Robert C. Schenck died at
Washington on the 23d
Johnstowu, Pa, has been threat
ened with another inundation.
The National Teachers Association
will meet in st. Paul next July.
Mrs. Harrison and a party have
been taking tour in the South.
There is a factory in New York
which turns out sausages made Of horse
meat.
A monument to the memory OF La
fayette is to be erected in Washington THIS
spring.
A New York clergyman has OBJ
tained a verdict Of $4,000 against one OF
his leading members for libel.
The British treaty has beea amend
ed SO that after April 4th our counterfeit
ers can be brought back from Canada.
An entire passenger train was
wrecked and burned up on the Northern
Pacific last week. Strangely, but one man
was killed.
The torpedo boat Cushing made
successful trial at Newport, making tne
required twenty-five knots per hour ior .
three-hour run.
p The citizens of Cheyenne last Thurs
day night held an impromptu celeb shon
of the passage of the Wyoming adm ission
bill by the House.
A special train bearing an opera
troupe recently made a run Of thirty-tnree
miles in twenty-six minutes on the Union
Pacific in Wyoming.
In organization of men has been
discovered in Indiana which regularly sells
the votes Of its members to the highest
bidder at election time.
The British steamer Vincent was
abandoned at sea. The captain and eight
of the crew landed at Ferrol. The mate
and fourteen men were lost.
Henry Ives testified before New
York investigating committee that while
in jail he paid the iailers sl47 900 for liberty
to go and come as he pleased.
A Pennsylvania farmer had fight
with an eagle which was trying to steal .
pig. The eagle, which was killed, meas =
ured eight feet from tip to tip.
In Washington, the first OF q series
of American concerts has just been given,
in which none but American composition
were rendered and by American mus
icians.
A cowboy named John West, who
has been working near Clayton. N. M,
tried to kill two fellow workmen last week,
but failed to do SO as their wounds were
slight
Aterrifc cyclone swept down the
Mississippi Valley last Thursday, and
caused much loss Of life: and damage to
property. Louisville, Ky, suffered very
severely.
A meat famine is impending at
Paris. Wholesale butchers threaten TO
close the abattoirs II their demands con.
cerning the importation Of foreign cattle
| are not granted.
The members of the Episcopal
church at Pit,sburg have paid their rector
| 6. 600 to resign, as according to the rules Of
| the church they could not get rid Of him in
any other way.
Two men have been arrested in
Chicago for advertising. to help young
bachelors Of the west to wives, and re-
| ceiving advance fees without furnishing
| the wives promptly.
Advices by steamer City of Pekin
are to tho effect that on Feb eth about
l,soo bodies were destroyed by fire in
Toxic, Japan, and q number Of people in
jured. Another fire March 5th destroyed
500 buildings.
The conscience fund was enlarged
by $500 received from n w. York the
| other day. the sender stating that it is the
last payment with twenty five per cent
over and above the amount he defrauded
the government years aso.
The agitation among Russian stu
dents has extended to the universities at
Moscow, Kieff and Charkof. Altogether
seven hundred students have been arrest
ed. II 10 probable that the St. Petersburg
University will be closed.
A thief snatched a pocket book from
the hands Of an old man who was riding on
a train near Kansas City the other day. but
before he could get out Of the car the vic
TINS wife caught him and choked him
while her husband regained his property
The New York Indepcndent publishes
an elaborate statement Of tho comparative
cost of electric lighting In cities and towns
of the country. Boston pays q company
slso per lamp per year, but some other
towns, which own their own works, ex-
pend less than 40 for the same service.
A Washington special says that on
tho strength Of the intimation from the
representatives Of South American States
in the Pan-Amcrican congress looking to
such end, tho representatives Of this coun,-
try are authorized in the name of tho Sec
retary Of atate TO mako propositions Of
absolute reciprocity 70 the representatives
Of the South American countries.
A Rome special says alarge section
of cardinals are advocating the idea Of tho
future pope, to be elected to succeed Leo