The Delta independent., 1891-06-17
BY TELEGRAPH.


in Boston on the eth.
Harvard College receives $4,000
by the decision OF an old suit over the
Charles L. Hancock estate.
The synod OF the Reformed Presby-
terian Church has expelled five young
ministers because they insist upon the
right to vote.
The Kansas Alliance men are to
send large number OF speakers into
Iowa next fall and intend to carry the
election if possible.
The Michigan legislature has re-
pealed the special charter OF the Michigan
Southern railroad. This will compel the
railroad compuny to pay 500 more taxes
annually.
Duties will hereafter be collected
on shoes or other small articles of wear
ing apparel purchased in Mexico and
brought into the United States at Brown
vile, Texas.
The eruption OF Vesuvius continues.
The eruption is nild as yet but the direc-
tor Of the observatory on Vesuvius antici-
pates that it will become violent at an
early date.
The corner stone of the new city
hall in ST. Louis was laid last Saturday,
with imposing ceremonies, u salute of
artillery and general holiday. 1t will
cost 81, ,vOp.OOJ.
Two New York medical students
upon leaving their rooms were obliged to
leave their trunk behind to pay their
rent Later On it was found TO contain a
headless body.
The jewellers of Chicago have been
notified of prosecution as counterfeiters
bangles. Many of these nickels have beea
passed as gold coins.
Judge Phillips of the United States
Circuit Gour, In Kansas City has decided
tina, death from sunstroke is a disease,
not an accident This disposes of an
accident insurance suit
The government has issued an
order to the North American Company to
stop killing seals in Behring Sea wnen it
has taken 100. the number agreed upon
with the British government
+ A Kansas man sunk shaft on his
farm the other day, and going down 100
feet, it is said, struck two hve-foot veins
Of mineral paint, ten-foot stratum of
brick clay, q twenty inch vein Of coal and
q fvc-foot stratum of marble.
A mob at wicklifTe, Kentucky.
across the river from Cairo, on Sunday
night took from Jail Evan E. Sheeby and
hung him. He murdered Miss Sallie
Moore in lSs.. and had been sentenced for
for life He fought desperately.
With the permission OF the Col
umbian government the Esmerslda is
receiving 40 tons Of coal, supplied by the
Panama railroad, to enable her 10 proceed
to africa The Esmeralda will probably
leave Panama about the 10th of June.
Professor S. W. Wiiliston, professor
Of geology in the kansfs University, has
secured the skeleton OF a pterodactyl IN
Cove county, Kansas, whose skull meas
uTSs ASSk Al iShShi- ~ - lAc oSSt
specimen Of the flying lizard yet discov-
cred.
The second centennial anniversary
Of ST. Johns Episcopal church, Rich mond
Virginia, was celebrated on the llth. The
Virginia convention of 1115. presided over
by Patrick Henry, was held in this church
Just before the declaration of InIepen-
dencc.
The appraisers appointed 10 in
veutory the estate of the late p. T. Bar
mum have completed their work and filed
the result with the probate court Fol-
lowing is the total: Personal property,
81, aas3, 59e; real estate, s2,I939S3; grand
total, s4,279,Ssa
A delegation OF about seventy per-
sons, representing all the Southern States
called upon President Harrison the other
duv and invited him to attend the exposi-
ton at Raleigh, North Carolina, in Octo-
Der and November next The Presiden,
doubts his ability to go.
Terrible outrages upon French
missionarie. at Shanghai arc reported.
AuS iSASh uuu -hhSaASah nave
demanded imperial protection for Euro.
pean and American residents in Cnina.
The French squadron has threatened TO
lombard Shanghai unless the sufferers BY
the recent riots are Unidentified.
The whaling steamer Kite, with
Lieutenant r. E. Parry and company,
comprising tho North Greenland explor-
ing expedition on board, sailed on the 9th.
The vessel will proceed directly to Sidney
and thence to Whale Sound, where tho
party will leave the ship. Tho departure
of the Kite was witnessed by large
crowd.
The remains of the late Sir John
Macdonald were committed to their last
resting place on the ilth in Cataraqu,
cemetery, Kingston. Tho entire morning
was spent in viewing tho remains in city
hall. Twenty thousand persons passed
tho bier. Tho procession was the grand
est ever seen in Kingston. 1t was over
two miles long, and occupied over forty
minutes In passing given point.
A special to the Globe Democrat
from Ogdcn, Utah, says; Tho committee
appointed by the NJ. Z. conference, which
has Just closed, to audit the accounts of
Sam Small n connection with thA nivar