The Delta independent., 1891-05-27
BY TELEGRAPH.


Japan is about to build a magnifi-
cent new navy, the work to be done in
Japan.
The Charleston has sailed south
from Acapulco in pursuit of the 1tata She
may catch her at Panama.
The Massachusetts Legislature has
passed a resolution appropriating S'oo,ooo
for the Worlds Fair exhibit.
The New Haven railroad directors
will now have to stand trial on indictment
for keeping stoves in their cars.
Secretary Rusk has made ruling
that sheep and swine imported from
Canada must be quarantined for fifteen
days.
In Nashville. Brown county, Ohio,
on Sunday, during a game Of baseball,
Philip Harden. aged IS, completed run,
then said tally one for me-" and fell over
| dead.
Italians met in mass meeting in
Boston on Sunday and resolved to present
$4,000 monument Of Columbus to the
city, and 81, 900 was subscribed at the
meeting.
The Michigan Senate, by two.
thirds vote, has passed the House bill ap-
propriating $50, 900 TO entertain the G.. A
r at Detroit. The governor has announced
that he will veto the bill.
The steamer Berne has arrived at
Marseilles, France, with 100 destitute i'm
migrants from Brazil. The Italians are
leaving South America by wholesale
owing to hard times, sickness and i'll
| usage.
A despe rate convict named Clayton
Lloyd was shot and killed by the peniten-
tiary guards al Birmingham. Alabama, on
Tuesday night He was shot in the act of
setting fire TO the prison in which are 400
| prisoners.
The frs. official act OF +. W.
McLaughrey, the new Chicago chief of
police, was to dismiss 400 policemen in
order to keep the expenditures of the de-
partment within the appropriation for it
for the current fiscal year.
TIE Furst Bismarck, new steamer
Of the Hamburg Packet Company, has
| beaten the maiden record OF any new
steamer in crossing the Atlantic. Her
time from Southampton to New York was
| 4 days. "a hours and 10 minutes.
The commissioners appointed to
arpitrate the dispute between the Mis-
souri, Pacific railroad company and the
| Merchants Bridge Terminal company Of
ST. Louis have filed their report They
depot at 100000.
| Yale students have been notified
that Harvard faculty has voted to discon-
tinue athletic contests with other colleges
and confine athletic sports TO inter-class
contests. This puts an end to boat and
football contests with Yale.
President Harrison has commuted
from hanging to life Imprisonment the
sentence of the Nuvassa Island rioters,
George S. Key, Henry S. Jones and Ed
ward Smith. He finds tina; contract labor
ers at Navassa are cruelty aud inhumanly
treated, hence the riot was not without
| provocation.
a Paris paper announces that n
contract signed carly during the present
month between the Russian government
and the Chatelleraut arms factory by
which the plant Of the factory and its en-
ployes are at the absolute disposal of
Russia, who has given an order for 5000, =
| 900 rifles.
| The New York grand jury has in
dicted Ameer Ben Ali, alias .Frenchy,n ~
for the murder of old Carrie Brown, alias
"Shakespeare," at the East River hotel on
| April "a, charging murder in the first de-
| gree. There are four counts in the indict-
nent, each one of which is sufficiently
strong to hold him.
Fifty-six days ago Anna Meadows,
the la-year-old daughter of Asa Meadows
of Independence, Missouri, went into a
sort of cataleptic trance. Since that time
she has neither eaten nor moved, until last
| Tuesday, when the physicians succeeded
| in rousing her with an electric battery.
| The next day she was given some nourisn.
ment and appeared to be enlivened. Her
case is considered one of the most remark.
able on record.
| The Vesuvius returned to Fortress
Monroe after two days trial OF her pneu.
ma,ic guns, everything having worked
smoothly. Six shots were fired from u
| gun tested Yesterday at ranges of mile
and less, three Of them while the vessel
was stationary and three while at full
speed. One struck the bulls eye, and all
fell within tho space occupied by an
ordinary vessel.
So many Jews are going from Russia
TO England that the English arc getting
excited about II. II is estimated that 500
appeals are made each week 70 the differ.
ent newspapers by individuals urging
that the authorities should legislate to
exclude destitute aliens similar to the
immigration law recently adopted by the
Unitod States. 1t is claimed, however,
| that most Of them so from London 70 tho
United Statcs or the British colonies.
Many thousand dollars worth o
crops were annihilated by heavy hail
storm Monday night which fell 70 depth
Of from six 70 eighteen inchss In narrow
helt Of territory crossirg northern Texas.
In the vicinity Of Gsinsville, whore wheat
averaging thirty bushels por acre was