The Delta independent., 1891-01-13
BY TELEGRAPH.

wldS OF Alaska by Frank Leslie have not
been heard from for some time and there
is much anxiety on their account.
a dispatch from Palermo states that
an unknown vessel, wheat laden, has
foundered on the Sici.ian coast and that
twenty-four persons aboard were drowned.
Agent Roger, who had charge OF
the Indians at Pine Ridge at the time OF
the recent outbreak, has been dismissed
and an army officer appointed in his place
The embezzlers OF the United States
had rich harvest last year. They got
away with ss,62!,956 of other peoples
money, and about 1909 Of them went to
jail.
The number OF emigrants who sailed
from German points for America during
November last was higher than the emf
grafton statistics show for the same month
in five years past.
Emma Abbott, the popular opera
singer, died at Salt Lake City on the 9Th,
Of pneumonia. She was possessed OF
financial as well as histrionic ability and
is said to have left very large fortune.
Judge Bergman of Cheyenne, who
tried TO kill himself rather than surrender
his Office, has concluded TO acquiesce to
the inevitable and comply with the law
He is blind as result Of his effort at self
destruction.
4 confidential circular has been
sent out by the Russian minister of jus
tice to the Judges and imperial procurators
iDstructing them 10 refuse permission TO
Hebrews TO enroll as barristers. Those
already practiciag are TO receive notices
Of expulsion.
Quite a sensation has been created
among Alliance men in Kansas by the
publication OF letter signed by E. ].
Turner, their representative in Congress-
in which he offers to pay 5000 If elected
United States Senator. Mr.. Turner says
it is a forgery.
The receiver of an iron blast filled
with molten metal exploded at Chicago
last Saturday and three men were badly
burned. The explosion was caused by the
accidental dropping of some snow into the
furnace by an employe who was cleaning
the roof, causing fearful explosion.
The legislature Of Nontana, which
did scarcely any work last year on account
Of the fight between the two parties, is
likely TO repeat the record. Two houses
have been organized by Democrats and
Republicans respectively, and there will
probably be lively war. The Senate is
Democratic.
The severe cold weather is causing
severe distress in London among the poor
classes. Seventy deaths from exposure
are reported since the cold snap set in
General trade is generally suspended and
the immense expansion OF the ranks of the
unemployed is leading 20 corresponding
Increase of begging ami theft in the streets.
Mr.. Balfour wires the papers apol-
ogizing for his inability 10 acknowledge
separately the many sums received in re
sponse to the appeal for funds in aid Of
the people OF the famine-tarcatenel dis
| tricts OF Ireland. He will shortly, how
ever, publish the first of a series of lists
giving the na,ncs OF all contributors and
the amounts received from them.
On last Friday Sioux runner went
TO the Coeur d'Alone Indian reservation
and endeavored TO induce the Indians to
Join the hostiles. Chief Salt Tee, learn
ing of his mission, ordered his arrest and
confinement in the guard house, and on
Saturday had him whipped, after which
he was taken to the limits of the reserva-
ton and dismissed with warning not to
return
United States Marshal Furay, OF
Helena, has been notified of another dis
covery in connection with the counterfeit
ing den recently rsided. a railroad en-
ploye discovered huge safe under pile
of rocks near Gray Cliff, not far from the
cabin where Ellis was recently arrested
and the counterfeiters' tools contiscated.
The safe contained lot of spurious silver
dollars and halves, as well as dies and
tools used in tho manufacture of the same.
Colonel Forsythe, the commander
in the fight at Wounded Knee, has been
relieved from command pending an inves-
tigation of the battle. Major Whitesides
says the affair was an accident; that q few
moments before the fighting begun the
squaws were merrily pelting the search
ing party with bundles of rags. The ac.
ceptca reason for Colonel Forsythe's re.
lief is the manner in which his troous
were placed in the fight
Further Information from the Caro-
limo islands, where the natives are on the
war path says that in their revolt against
the Spaniaris the natives have killed 500
foreigners, including lpo Spanish soldiers.
They have looted and burned the houses
of all missionaries at Ponape. Rev. Mr..
Rand lost his library, worth 81 zoo, and all
his personal and household effects, Mis-
sionaries have now been transferred to
neighborlng islands for safety, but the
natives OF the whole group are excited
and more massacres are feared.
II Is learned on good authority that
nineteen of the leading glass tableware
manufacturers Of Ohio, Pennsylvania and
West Virginia have formed combine
with the object of avoiding waste of money
during dull seasons. II at any time bus
mess should DO dull at one OF the factor
les, that plant win close down and trans
fer its order to the other factories. Should