The Delta independent., 1890-10-14
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cutting rates.
Ruhe Burrows, the noted southern
express robber and outlaw, has been cap
tured.
The population of Indiana is given
as 2, 1se ,o8O; Michigan, 2,oss, 1872; Califor-
mia, 1,ao5, ,ooa.
The German Emperor is having
good time chamois hunting with the EN-
peror Of Austria. -
The English Tories, led by Mr..
Balfour, deny that there will be famine
in Ireland next winter
The courts have decided that the
vestibule cars are the patent of George
Pullman, and that other makers are in
fringing.
A farmer neat Ennis, Texas died
Sunday from the effects of carbolic acid
which he drank by mistake, supposing it
to be whiskey.
A company of English soldiers who
have recently been moved from London to
the Bermudas are dying of fever, due to
the unaccustomed heat
Jack the Ripper" warns the Lon
don police that he is about to commence
operations again, and the police force has
been increased as a result
A child was born to lady on board
train in Texas the other day. A drum
mer who had studied medicine oficiated
in the absence of regular physician.
g. b. Henderson. foreman of the
Seventy-one Cattle Company, was shot
and killed last week by discharged en-
ploye known as ..Six- shooter Smith
At a recent session of the confer
ence Of the Mormon church, it was voted
that no more polygamous marriages should
be entered into by members of the church.
President Harrison and Secretary
Tracy of the navy department are making
a visit to the West this week. They visit
Indiana, Iowa and Kansas fairs and re-
unions.
A young man named Dougherty,
asylum for prosecuting Mary Anderson,
shot the superintendent of the asylum the
other day.
The Brule Indians in South Dakota ;.
are moving their tepees to the land adjoin-
ing the agency buildings, in order to re-
ceive their winter rations without having
to travel any great distance. The Indians
believe the coming winter will be long and
severe, and are taking every precaution to
avoid suffering during the winter.
Governor Prince OF New Mexico, in
his annual report, says that the output of
minerals from that Territory last year
was as follows: Gold, 81, 1856. go; silver,
81, sei, los; lead, ss5i, ,ss6; COPPER, sd6l .4ao.
Total product s,oas, ,6ao The total pop
ulation of the territory is IA, ,sea, an in
crease during ten years of 25, 297, or 2l.6
per cent.
A robber entered the store of Will
liam Mann ut Rosedds, Mo-, when the
store was full Of customers, drew his re-
volver, and leveling it at the proprietor's
head, ordered him to hand over the money
in the cash drawer and safe. Mann was
paralyzed by fear and the customers by
surprise. The proprietor was forced to
hand over the cash, $3.50 in all.
In the inquest at Cheyenue.' upon
the body of Baker, the murdered soldier,
it was developed that he with several
other soldiers had entered into an agree
msnt to rob several officers houses. steal
horses and take to the mountains as out
laws. One of this party named Parkinson
is supposed to have weakened, and being
afraid Of being punished by Baker, shot
him.
Herr Most had. liberally adver-
tised in German to address socialist
meetings at Newark last Sunday afternoon.
A small audience of frcwsy foreigners,
mostly Russians and German Poles, were
found assembled At Court hall to hear him,
drinking beer and loudly talking. As
Most mounted the platform to address tho
meeting the audience excitedly applauded
him, and then the police escorted him
from the hall. They gave him half an
hour to get out of the city under threat of
Arrest Most then left the city.
The Transcontinental Freight Asso-
station has recognized some new reduc-
lions in freight AT the suggestion of the
Missouri Pacific the rate on flour from
Colorado to Missouri River points will
stand at 30 cents. Tin plate in. cars can be
hereafter shipped to Colorado from Chi
cago for IS cents, from the Mississippi
River for 80 cents and the Missouri River
for 81 cents, The charges on unwrought
granite coming west have been estab-
lished rs follows. From Chicago, 80
cents; from the Mississippi River, as
cents from the Missouri River, 70 cents.
The Missouri Pacific has made some re-
ductions on rates for lead shipments. The
charge to Denver. for Chicago will be 9a,s
cents and for the Missouri River sss
cents. ;,
Lyman +. Knapp, Governor OF Alas
ka, In his report says that: the law against
the sale Of whisky Is not enforced at all.
The work Of the government schools, of
which there are fourteen, the Governor
says, are mcasurablS satisfactory, though
the attendance was nos large, the children
prefcrring to hunt and hsh, and the
parents Indifferent About l00, 900 full.
sized sealskins were taken by the Alaska
Commercial Company during the yeaS un-
acr THAR contract nth th~ sn,v>v~->-s