The Delta independent., 1891-07-01
BY TELEGRAPH.

1t is said that Mr.. Parnell will
visit America this year.
The Michigan senate has killed the
bill repeating the local option law.
The government inspectors at
Chicago have discovered trichina in a
number Of hogs killed.
Five people rowing on the Ohio
river near Cincinnati, the other evening"
were run down and drowned.
The wheat harvest in Oklahoma is
almost completed. The yield is estimated
at not less than twenty-five bushels per
acre.
The Democrats of Iowa met on the
2ith and nominated Governor Boies for
re election. They also Endorsed him for
President.
Prisoners in a convict camp at Cole
City, Georgia, attempted TO escape few
days ago. Two guards and two convicts
were killed.
At meeting OF the officers OF the
New York State Farmers League the
third party movement was unanimously
denounced.
The total value OF exports from the
United States, for the year ending May 81,
1881, was t>e9, ,sqi, aud the imports were
ssi6, s77,03a
The Topeka packing house of DON
ling & Whiting is in the hands of re-
ceiver. The liabilities are s6so, 900 and as
sets about the same.
The shortage in the National City
Bank in Marshall, Michigan, is said to be
100000. A receiver will be appointed 70
wind up the business.
Italians have made war on other
laborers working on the grade of the
| is danger Of bloodshed.
Government officials are engaged
in expanding 5000 appropriated by con-
sress for the purpose Of exploding dyna-
mite in balloons to produce rainfall.
The German East Africa Company
have deciced to build a railway from
Tanga to Corrogwe, in order to develop
the country, at q cost of about $ia, $40, go
On Tuesday the New York Central
made the fastest time on record between
New York and Buffalo. The trip wa.
made in eight hours and fifty-six minutes
with q passenger train.
Senator Mcdonald OF Illinois died
at II :35 Sunday night He passed away
very peacefully, without q struggle, sur
rounded by his family, who were all in
attendance At the bedside.
Secretary Mohler OF the Kansas
State Board of Agriculture at Topeka
says there is no foundation for the reports
OF damage to crops in Kansas. The crops
are In hrst-class condition.
The new anti pool room law of Mis-
souri, has gone into effect and all the pool
rooms of St Louis have closed except one,
and that one will be used TO test the con-
stilutionaiity Of the new law.
A band OF armed Kurds are holding
an English girl named Katie Greenfield,
aged II years, who was abducted Ut the
Turkish consulate in Souiobalk, Persia,
in defiance of the English consul.
Acting Secretary Spald' has di.
rectcd that three Cinnamon, who were
arrested at Detroit for entering this
country in violation OF law, be sent tc
San francisco for deportation to China.
Julia Adams, aged Is, in Redfeld,
Maine, has eaten no food and has taken
only one drink of water for twenty days
past She says she is neither faint nor
hungry. She had Inflammation of the
/ bowels,
The German-Jewish emigration
committee declines to undertake to send
Jewish exiles to Pales tine instead OF
America, on the ground that TO undertake
to palliate will rot solve tho jewish
| problem.
Enormous timber frauds have been
discovered by the Wisconsin state land
commissioners. The robbery OF state tim
| Der land has been going on for twelve
wears. The loss to tho State has been
many millions of dollars.
A plot among l,400 convicts in
San Quentin penitentiary to escape by
operpowcring the guards has been dis
covered. A large lot of arms and stones
were found among the prisoners. Strin,
gent precautions have been taken tc
thwart the plot.
Reports from Northwestern Iowa
represent that section as being devastated
by terrible cloudburst on the aith.
Bridges, railway tracks and houses were
swept away. Telegraph lines arc down sc
that IL will be some time before definite
nows Of the disaster can be obtained.
A dispatch from Omaha says: The
law passed by the recent Alliance lesisls.
turc ~ its recent session declaring all
grain elevators in Nebraska public ware
houses goes into effect this week through,
out the State. Alliance organizations
havo purchased and built many elevators
Instead Of tho enormous crop 70 be har-
rested shortly being placed on the market,
Alliance grain men assert Il will 70 TO the
elevators and not DO placed on the marke,
an,il prices have materially advanced.
A dispatch from Cherokee. Iowa,
l.,-d ~, alsh rrha hn,~.-.