The Delta independent., 1891-03-24
BY TELEGRAPH.

A telephone line has been laid from
London to Paris.
boy is reported TO have been
scalpcd by Indians in Nebraska.
Another California stage was robbed
the other duy by lone highwayman.
The London Times editorially justi-
Orleans.
The railroad managers have about
decided to do away with unlimited tickets
and thus shut of sca!pers
A law has been passed in Arizona
which exempts all railroads built inside
of three years from taxation for twenty
years.
Two men at New Orleans connected
with the Hennessey trial fought a duel on
the street. One Is dead and the other
dying.
Genera. Manager Clarke OF the
Union Pacific has rcscindcd his order that
the tc.egraphers must withdraw from the
railway operators order.
Postmaster General Wanamaker
has removed four letter carriers and sus-
pended fourteen others id Washington
because of general inefiiciency..
II is reported that Denver man
has discovered tho long sought Breyfogle
mine near Death Valley. California, where
gold can be picked out of u bank in chunks.
Syracuse, New York, was visited
by greot fire on the morning of the l4th
1t destroyed property to the value of u
million dollars, and one or two lives were
los,.
SO great is the excitement in Italy
because Of the killing OF the Italians in
New Orleans that many Americans deem
II wiss to leave that country for the south
of France.
The buildings OF Alfred Benjamin
x Go. wholesale clo,hiers Of New York
Were destroyed by fire the other day. The
.oss was 81 ,Oo0, 900 and $50 employees are
out OF work.
a saloon keeper of Marseilles named
Mouutc; has been arrested on the charge
OF poisoning with arsenic his wife, mother
in,law, grandmother. infant and fricud
who had lent him money.
ovcriures recently made by tho
government OF Canada 10 the governmen,
OF British Guinea for n reciprocity treaty
were rejected by the latter on the ground
that ao arrangement of this kind with the
United States is preferred.
A terrible disaster occurred Monday
a' tho arsenal of omdarrnan, Egypt
From tho reports received 1t appears that
about 100 dcrvishcs were killed by an sx
piosion there which destroyed immense
stores OF ammunition aud shattered the
arsenal building and everything In tho
immediate vicinity.
The British steamship Ardancorrah.
CAPTAIN Anderson, from Mobile, February
Z for Liverpool, nm arrived ut Queens
town. Her bows arc stove IN and her
forc-hold is full OF water On February
"a, In latitude ~ north and longitude IS
west, she ran into an iceberg and was SO
seriously crippled tina, she had a narrow
escape from laundering.
At meeting OF the English Insti-
tute OF Naval Architects MIR Bills, a NON
bcr'of the council, warmly praised the
latest American naval constructions. say
ing that they quite oQual!cd and some
times surpassed the European cons,ruc-
tions Of like nature, MIR. Bills added tha,
the latest American vessel was worth
careful study upon tho part OF English
constructors.
In answer TO "A note from tho Worlds
Fair Auxiliary Association rendering him
an honorary membership aud suggesting
that a song from his pen. to be sung at
the opening OF tho lair, would be apprc-
ciatcd, Lord Alfred Tcnnysoa said: ~
accept your offer Of honorary membership
not without gratitude. But ms for u song
Il nm an old man, vorging on So, and |
cannot promise"
An American lady has bought in a
which wns presented to tho then Empress
Eugcnic OF France by the Khedivc Ismail
pasha of Egypt on tho occasion OF the
opening OF the Sucz canal. The necklace
which Is worth over sioo, 900, was sold at
public auction somo years ngo, together
with the remainder OF tho towels OF the
French crown. The American lady paid
SIS, 900 for the necklace.
Fire in building four miles from
O,tawa, Canada, in which there were
1900 pounds OF dauline $50 pounds Of
. nitro -glycerinc and 800 OF nitrc soda,
caused an explosion which completely
destroyed three other buildings In tho
ncighborhood. Three men who were
working in tho building escaped. Tho
shock was fclt for thirty miles and many
windows in tho city were demolished. The
loss will amount TO 1000.
A dispatch from Madrid says that
tho Spanish cabinets project for reciproc
ity with tho United States contcmpates
admitting into the Spanish Antilles United
States industrial and agricultural products
MT lower rates than those of any other
nation In exchange for the admittancc
into tho United States FREQ OF duty Of
sugnr and molasses from tho Antilles. A
lower tariff on tobacco imported from tho
same islands imported into tho United
States In also usked for in return for the
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