The Delta independent., 1890-07-15
BY TELEGRAPH.

passed the Senate.
The Louisiana House Of Represen-
tatives has passed the lottery bill over the
Governors veto.
A line of steamers has been started
on the Missouri River, to run between
Kansas City and St. Louis.
Three American war vessels have
been ordered to South America to protect
Americans in case Of disturbances there.
The town of Voluntown, Connecti-
cut, is overrun with mad dogs, and the
citizens are shooting everything that
barks.
About 10, 900 school teachers met in
St Paul on the sth, in attendance upon
the National Educational Association con-
vention.
A rumor is current that Prince
Ferdinand of Bulgaria has notified Prince
Minister Stambulofr of his intention to
abdicate
The new minister from China to the
United States says that his government
will retaliate upon US by excluding all
Americans.
The Central American States are
reported to be ordering large quantities Of
arms and ammunition, with which to fight
each other.
A Union Pacific brakeman in Wyom-
ing was thrown from the cars by a tramp
with whom he was fighting and the train
ran over him.
A New York paper claims that
great frauds have been committed in fur
ishing coal to the government at the Mare
island ship yard.
1t is claimed that Nebraska cow
boys amuse themselves by shooting at
telegraph wires with such skill that they
cut them in two.
Emin Pasha in letter to DR.. Hart
laub, who Is preparing Emin's geological
collection, says: "If return in safety, ]
Will not tempt God by further explora-
tions'
The electric street car lines of Fort
Worth are tied up by strike The com.
pany will onl y hire one man to each car,
and the employees think that a conductor
is needed.
II is expected that the Belgian car
dinal will propose an immediate advance
OF 81 200 ooo to the Congo State and an nd
vance of 500, 900 annually for ten years,
the Congo State to be mortgaged to Bel
gium.
The first election for the House OF
Peers under the new Japanese coustitu.
ton took place June IS, scme forty four
members being returned. Twenty-Five OF
these are farmers by occupation, fifteen
arc merchants, and one noble.
A man named Joseph Tribble was
arrested at Wathena, Kansas, last week
for murder which he committed a, tha,
place in 1851. Tribble went South aud
served in the Confederate army, and has
lived in the Southern States ever since.
A fatal race riot occurred at Starts
Mills Pond in Fayettc County. Georgia,
Inst week. Four negroes were killed, six
wounSed, two OF them are reported dying.
Eight whites were shot, but it is thought
only one of them fatally, making eighteen
IN all u LED and wounded.
II has been decided to hold the
formal statehood celebration in Cheyenne
on July -. Committees will at once be
set actively TO work 10 make the occasion
n grand success. There will be an impos
ing street parade in the day, balloon as
cension and big oaIl ut the capitol in the
evening.
A son OF James G. Blaine. who is a
clerk for one of the committees of the
House of Representatives was elected
from the floor of the House by order OF
Speaker Reed few days since. He had
no right to be in the House, and was max
ing a disturbance while member wa.
speaking.
On the Fourth OF July. Joel Smith.
living at Point Hope, Ontario, hoisted the
stars and stripes over his residence in
honor of the Fourth. A deputat,on OF
neighboring farmers requested its remov.
al, but he declined, whereupon the FLAG
was riddlcd with bullets and divided
among the crowd. A second flag raised
by Smith met a similar fate.
An attempt was made to rob the
Wells Fargo express car while the train
was standing Mt Goshen, Gala, July srd.
The door OF the car was opened TO deliver
express matter, when man reached into
tho car and seized n package and attempted
to make of with it. The messenger
jumped from the car, drew u pistol and
compelled tho thief to get into tho car.
The messenger then sent for the conductor
and had the thief put under arres, and
sent to prison.
There is great deal OF dissatisfac.
tion existing among the policemen OF
London, and there is danger Of a strike by
the whole force. A large number OF men
have quit and tho lawless classes arc pre-.
pared to take advantage Of an opportunity
to plunder There 10 much unessincs.
among the merchants on tho Strand and
other West End strccts. Tradosmeu arr
guarding their shops, and in tho banks the
clerks will remain all night to protect he
property Of their employers.
The German rife meeting begar
last Sunday with 4 great parade which
was headed by tho American delegation.
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Miss Flossie Cobb. tho daughter O
John Cobb Of Windsor. died at that plac,