The Delta independent., 1891-02-24
BY TELEGRAPH.

uoib Sentrhl Wreck on nlohuay nlSnt.
President Andrew Winchell is ut
the point of death at Ann Arbor, Mich.
A little boy was run over by the
cars at San Marcial tho other day before
his mothers eyes.
John d. Knox G. Co.. private bank
ers Of Topeka, have closed their doors.
Too much real estate.
1t is reported that England and the
United States will ask King Humbert of
Italy to arbitrate on the Behring Sea
controversy.
An explosion Of gas on River ave-
nue., Allegheny, Penn, Tuesday, blew ou
tho front Of brick building and injured
six persons.
There are great floods in the Ohio
and Mississippi valleys. which have caused
much loss. Fears arc expressed for the
levees on the Mississippi
A german paper says that Professor
Liebrich has discovered q substance which
IL moro cfficacious than Professor Koch's
lymph in the treatment OF tuberculosis.
A band of Mexican raiders are
devastating the country on the American
aldo Of the Rio Grande. White people are
moving away. Several have been killed.
Tho Worlds Fair directory has
created the position OF solicitor general
and assigned General Ben Butterworth,
congressman from Cincinnati, TO the posi-
uon.
The Kansas legislature, by n unnn-
imous vote, has removed the political dis
abilities from all ex- -Confederatcs. This
restores civil and politica! rights to cx-
Confederate soldiers.
AT Grinnell, Iowa. the county clerk
confesscs to shortage OF s55,eoo. Tho
ex-auditor is 6 900 short, and other county
officers are found to have ovordrawn their
accounts about $1,000.
Justin Mccarthy has announced
that he has received FROM Reagan = deed
OF the transfer for his shares In United
Ireland, and lhat this deed will empower
him tAicCarthy) with legal control of the
paper.
The Missouri Legislature has passed
law requiring all corporations other
than railroads TO pay their employees
weekly. This docs away with tho time
check and company store system among
miners.
Mnstcr Workman Powderly fell
PROSTATE on Morday night Just after fu-
ishing q lecture in Representative hall,
Topeka. He was attacked with On acute
spoil OF heart disease. He recovered SO
that hc walked TO his hotel.
Edward Spellman, the Peoria dis
tillcr, yesterday captured his fugitive
son and delivered him TO the sheriff. The
son IL charged with robbery aud recently
escaped whiic on train from ST. Paul to
Chicago.
Tho Chicago e. Northwestern COM
pany has contracted for cotton lot OF
Bargeon compound railroad icon, to be
taken from California to Chicago This is
tho frat known shipment of iron from the
Pacific coast
Tho Pennsylvania Company has
answered the demand made by their en-
ployes carly In January for m advance in
wages and pay for overtime. They refuse
ply with any of tho articles presented by
tho grievance committee.
A 16.year old child named Maud
Davis, who was stolen from her home in
Gresham, Wisconsin, ak years ago. has
been found In Chicago. She was stolen
by dissolutc man and woman and taken
TO Milwaukee and compelled to beg for
them. They abandoned the child, who
was picked up by Mrs. Alico Campbell, of
Chicago, with whom sho now resides. Her
mother has claimed hor.
Adviccs received from Yokohama
arc to the effect that on the night OF Janu-
ary Is, firc broke out in the center OF the
Japanese diet and, after destroying tho
house OF representatives, spread to the
house OF peers, which also burned to the
ground. II was rumorcd that tho firc was
incondiary, but II Is also said to have
originated from tho electric lights with
which tho houses arc furnished. Tho loss
was e237 900.
The other day the court house jaui-
tor at Kaufman, Texas, and another negro
named Miller got into scuflic. Miller put
tho 1nnitor In tho sherifrh vault, which has
never boon used, and thcn turned tho
combination. Tho lay TO the combination
had been misplaced and before It could bc
found someone knocked tho combination
on Moro than hundred mon came to
the rescue, which was effected by digging
through tho walls.
Tho Italian bark Nicotine, from
Cctte, France reports having picked up
on the 3oth Of January, In latitude 100
degrees 40 minutes north, longitude de-
grscs 81 minutes west, six men in charge
Of the British bark Caribou. Sho was
bound from Brazil for Client with cargo
OF phospato OF limo, abandoned January
81 In sinking condition. Tho captain
and six men who loft tho ship In iifc-
boat have not boon heard from.
A . result Of the controversy be.
tween the South Omaha 1.-Two Stock Ex-
change and catticmcn Of Nebraska, Kan
sas, Colorado and tho Dakotas concerning
tho smount % be charged for selling
stock, all the packing house managers Of
Omaha announced thoir withdrawal from
The exchange. This ineana tho complete