The Delta independent., 1890-12-16
BY TELEGRAPH.

shipped to New York from Europe this
week.
General Sherman is strongly of the
opinion that the Indians should work or
starve.
Soldiers in Dakota are experiencing
some very cold weather while chasing
| Indians.
| Messrs: O'Brien and Gill will go 10
France Immediately TO consult with the
Irish representatives.
A negro killed n German near
Greenwood, Mississippi, and was promptly
hanged by the neighbors.
Burglars took $4,000 worth Of
watches from iewelry store at Waxa-
hachie, Toxas, the other night
A large counterfeiting outfit was
captured at Dearborn. Missouri, on the
oth. Three men were arrested.
Daniel B. Fairweather OF New York
has died leaving g, 800, Oo0t to different COL
!cges and $4,000 to hospitals.
The National Board of Trade has
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the financial interests of the country.
| The big French steamer Champagne
col!ided with a freight steamer at Sandy
HOOK, Saturday night No one was hurt
Thomas iyan. United States minis
ter to Mexico, is on his way TO Washington.
whittier he has been summoned by Secre-
tary Blaine.
Burglars, Tuesday night, blew open
the safe of the Armourdale, Kansas, post
ofhce with gunpowder, and stole $1,000 in
stamps and money.
Edgar Wilson, n life convict in the
Saltwater penitentiary, died recently and
wiIled TO Walter Williams. q former fellow
convict fortune OF $4,000.
4 sale was held at Philadelphia on
the llth OF a large collection OF relics Of
George Washington. They consisted Of
letters and great variety of little me.
meutocs.
Two hundred armed farmers are
hunting a large panther that has been
killing sheep and shoats by wholesale in
Sugar Creek Township four miles west OF
indianapolis.
1t is reported that King Kalukuua
has come TO the United States for the pur.
pose OF negotiating sale Of the Sandwich
Islands to our government he fears an
other rebellion.
| The work of the Crow commission
has been successfully concluded at the
Crow agency, the Indians selling the gov
erument nearly two million acres o: the
west side of the reservation, consideration
s9i0, 200. The Crows are quiet and take
no interest in the Messiah craze.
The directors of the Atchison, To-
pcka and Santa Fe railroad report as fol-
lows for last year: The total operated
mileage is 200, the gross earnings, $751;
ooi,857 increase, S,f3l,l5S; operating,
sso,9ao,3S6; increase, sll9,eos; net earn
ings, sio,oss,osl; increase, ss,3iI, $50.
In the Chicago City Council an or.
dinance was introduced TO grant pcrmis-
sion to lay pneumatic tubes in the streets
Of the city .or the purpose Of conveying
packages from point TO point, the tubes &c
be twelve inches in diameter and the
charge for the package to be 10 cents.
The soldiers from Camp Merritt
captured party OF hunters from ST. Louis
and Chicago who were hunting in the
| Cherokee Strip, and con;iscated theii
arms and game, consisting of avo guns, 3
300 fowling piece, several revolvers, col
quail, 100 prairie chickens and seven deer.
Captain C. II. Conrad in ropor,
received by General Miles, says that the
100 Indians ut the Yankton Sioux agcnc,
nrc receiving rations enough 70 barely las,
two days out of seven, AMI are starving.
On ration day the poor devils, many O,
them old and dccrcpit OF both sexes. ur,
so famished thnt they cannot resist catins
at once practically all that they. receive
Notwithstanding another supply Of food /.
not due for week.
The following is summary OF Irish
opinion as expressed by resolutions adop,-
/ cd by officials and organizations up to date.
Boards OF town commissioners, for Par.
nell 10, against Parnoll s; boards of poo,
| law 's' - -NutlODsl
League branches and registration socie.
ties, for Is, against a.; trade and iabo,
societies, for II, against none: other or
| ganized bodies, for 80, against 8; public
meetings, for 81, agaii st 25.
The gambling den OF George yiney
at Wichita, Kansas, was raided the othc,
night by Mrs. George Dacey and a lady
friend. Mrs. Dacoy wapted Sjoa the
amount her husband lost there TUESDAY
night. Vinoy told her that her hus baud
had lost no money there and invited her ,o
leave. He said he would throw her on,
and attempted TO catch her. when she fired
ut him, tho ball grazing his head. He
| thought ho was shot and killed aud rolled
| In agony on tho floor, Tho women stood
there coolly, but tho few gamblers In the
| den were scared. viney finally discovered
| he had not been killed aud ho was again
invited to hand over tho money He COM
| piled with the demand, when tho ladic,
thanked him and left.
Justin Mccarthy and tho other
Irish members OF Parliament who have
rovolted from Parncll's leadership ure
kccnly alive to tho disadvantage OF the
leading Nationalist papers siding with
Parnell and tho whole machinery of the
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