The Delta independent., 1891-07-08
By TELEGRAPH.

Professor lie Baron Russell has sue
ceeded Professor Clement L. Smith as
dean Of Harvard College.
President B. Ballentine, formerly
Of Rutgers College, has been installed as
president OF Oberlin College.
Twenty million dollars has been
added to the assessment rolls in Montana
BY taxing railroad mortgages.
At Chagrln Falls. near Columbus.
Ohio, eighteen persons have been poisoned
by eating fresh cut cheese.
The Manhattan Air Ship Company
has been Incorporated with a capital OF
$4,000, 20 build balloons and air snlps.
A nnn who robbed a jewelry store
in Missouri repented after four years and
returned the !ewelry that he had not dis
posed OF.
The New York Central Railroad
Company is discharRing all the men who
in any way participated in the strike last
August
1t Is claimed that the Standard Oil
Company has obtained control of the oil
business of Germany TO such An extent as
to run it 10 suit itself
The Michigan legislature. after q
long fight passed the senatorial and legis-
lative gerry mander bill, and it has been
signed by the governor.
Governor Boies OF Iowa has ap-
pesled to tie people OF that State 10 aid
the destitute citizens OF Cherokee who
have .osi tuelE properly by hoods.
Nr. Gladstone's health has become
visibly feeble since his attack Of influenza.
His physician, Sir Andrew Clarke, urges
him TO make L sea Trip 10 have un5roken
rest
Mark W. Har rington. editor OF the
American Meteorological Journal and .
professor at Ann Arbor, Michigan, has
been appointed chief OF the weather bu-
reau.
Recent discoveries OF bauxite, the
basis of aluminium. in Arkansas. will lead
TO the cheap manufacture and genera! use
Of that metal, so q census bulletin an
noupces.
Seven hundred coal miners in JEFF
fersou County, Ouio, along the line of the
Wheeling * Lake Er.e railroad have
STRUCK Tor the nine hour day. There has
Srcn no disturbance.
The wheat yield OF the territory
tributary 10 the Rock Island roads in
Kansas is estimated at l,2ou,2i acres nj
~ bushels per acre, u total Of 2S,2ls,-lj
bushels in fifty counties.
The fire in the mountains near San
Rafael, acr,ss the bay north from San
Francisco, is spreading and causing grea,
destruction OF property. Assistance has
been sen; out from San Francisco.
In Chicago, the longshoremen on a
blockade Of freight is being created; 5o1
cars OF grain on one line stand idle. A
general freight blockade is anticipated. .
In an interview at Washington
Director Lcech of the min, said ,ha, the
increase Of circulation medium during the
mex, few months, as the result of tue coin
age policy now pursued, would Be Sll4,-
euu,OuO.
The standing OF the National
League ball clubs in percentages on the
SDth was AS follows: New York tOI
Chicago coo, Boston a5a, Philadelphis SO,
Cleveland iS3, Brooklyn 4tS, PittsburG,
4U., Cincinnati $40.
In Pi,tsburg the strike OF carpen.
ters and builders OF more than two months
duration is about to terminate. A COM
promise has been agreed upon-the men
to accept half holiday each week ;ns,ead
Of eight hour day.
4 x-Alderman Duffy, one of <t>
"boodlcrs" Of 1854 in New York, and vhs
informed on his associates aud turned
estates evidence" announces . new con.
fcssion. He says he will implicate some
leading bankers and politicians.
There was fight last Sunday a,
coal mines in Washington. A large nun
Der Of colored miners had been brought In
20 take the places of white strikers and
toe latter attacked them. Several men
were hurt, two fatally. The militia hsy.
bccn called out
Two men fought at picnic near
Lebanon, Tennessee, on Sunday, and Car,
stabbed aud killed his antagonist. Prem
dee. While Carr was on trial in Lebun "
Monday, two witnesses disputed in tho
court room. They drew rcvolvers aut
,hot at each other until both fell dead
They cmptied the court room.
A dispatch from Kinsfsher, Okla
homa, says: Captain Halls troop Of IN,
Fifth cavalry, reinforcsd by q COMPANY n
Cheyenne Indian scouts. has been o,deret
into the Cherokee strip for the purpo,e n
e,ecting trospassing cattlemen and thai
herds. Several hundred thousand ha.,
oi cattle are being Era.ed on the Chsrose,
strip, the Chey enus and Arspahos an,
other Indian reservations.
The officers of the steamship O'Sem,
which hs. arrived from tho wess rns,,
Islands say that Legiunae, ax.prs,idsnt a
Hayti, who was driven from that copntr,
two years ago BY Hypolise, The pr,een
ruler, loft Kingssoa, Jsmsics. 90 tho sand
Tor Turks Island. He had . large follow
Ing. end his objective poins i prob.h,
Aayti, whore he will DO doubt snske ua,
upon Hypolits. As there is great dis.,oa
a. ,ha t>lS S,y- MI, ;s