The Delta independent., 1891-05-07
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Owing to u failure OF crops the gov
ernment of Venezuela will admit all grain
free Of duty.
Forest fires have caused loss OF
si25, ,OO) TO standing timber and logs In
northern Michigan.
Thomas Callahan, aged 80, while
violently insane, fatally shot his wife IN
ST. LOUIS Thursday.
A new express company will oegin
running from the East to Chicago anu
Milwaukee on May l.
The aggregate number OF wiie-
murderers by drunken husbands In the
United States since January l, lsss, Is
1904.
Sara Bernhard nearly mobbed the
entire force of employees at the theater IN
San Francisco because they abused her
Turkish servant.
Railroads west of the Mississippi
refuse 10 grant the Farmers Allance
reduced rates to the third party conven-
tion at Cincinnati.
b. P. Hutchinson. the millionaire
grain speculator, of Chicago, has disap-
peared. 1t is believed that he is inso!vent
as he has lost heavily of late.
The Ninth National Bank OF New
York is said to have lost 5000 through
the defalcation of its president John L.
Hill, who died short time ago.
The first steamer on the new Can
sdian Pacific line has made the voyage
from Yokohama to Victoria in ten days
and four hours, beating all records.
Two colored tramps il the Monroe
(lich.) Jail were fatally shot the other
day by turnkey whom they ATTACKED
with view TO making their escape. Both
will die.
As a result OF the killing OF six
postal clerks in the railroad collision at
Kipton. Ohio, q number Of other clerks
have resigned their positions as being too
dangerous.
The new pipe line of the Standard
Oil Company is being laid from Lima, O.,
TO Chicago on private property. Right OF
way had TO be purchased the entire dis
tance al enormous expense.
A company at Detroit has decided
to tunnel under the Detroit River TO
Windsor, Canada. The tunnel will be q
double track railroad, 5000 feet long. 1t
Is TO be completed in two years and
half.
A small iron safe containing about
tl2, 900 worth Of diamonds and other
precious stones, was dredged up from the
bottom OF the bay 6; San Francisco the
other day. The settings o. the ieweiry
are in the sixteenth century style.
A dispatch from Wilkowitz, n vii
lage Of Bohemia, says that the manager
and six men employed in the iron works
belon rinS to the Rothschilds at that place,
have been killed by an explosion. Many
other employees were seriously injured.
The Chinese government has re-
quested this government not TO send Ex-
Senator Blair Of New Hampshire as min
lister TO that country. Their objections are
due to speeches made by MIR. Blair in
Congress opposing Chinese immigration.
Governor Hogg of Texas has pre-
vailed upon Senator Reagan to resign his
seat in Congress and accept the chairman
ship Of the Texas Railway Commission.
| The governor considered this q position OF
much greater importance than any other.
Rev. Father Patrick Strain, of Lynn,
| Mass, has been invested with the robes
| Of domestic prelate and member of the
household of Pope Leo. This is the first
time in the history Of the church that a
New England Catholic clergyman has been
thus honored.
Commodore Folger Of the navy has
about completed = preliminary arrange
mcnt with tie Duponts for the erection OF
. gun cotton plant at Newport Rhode
Island. The plant will be erected and
owned by the arm, and will supply the
government by contract
The forest fires in the South Noun
| taius, east Of womelsdorf, Pennsylvania,
nave been subdued. Nearly 200 persons
| were fighting tho fire during day and
| night. Hundreds Of acres of timber land
were burned. The burned area covers
twenty miles. The damage is estimated
at high figures and will amount up in the
thousands.
The sixty sixth anniversary of the
American Tract Society was celebrated on
the e6th Ut Washington. Justice William
Strong, the venerable president of the
society, presided and delivered an address,
recounting the great and good work of the
society. Stirring addresses were also
made by the Rev. DR.. Newman and Asso-
cia,c Justice Brewer of the United State.
Supreme Court
A special states that the opera
house in Troy, Alabama, fell In wednes
day afternoon, while party OF young
people were rchearsing an amateur per-
formance. About twenty pcrsors were
buried In tho ruins. Two ladies were
killed. Tho accident resulted from the
| spreading of the roof, which was intended
TO be self supporting, but WIS faulty In
| construction.
A dispatch from New Mexico says:
"undcr the tcrns Of the new LIQUOR Law
| parties arc required 10 pay so much fol
the privilege Of selling aud are plscei