The Delta independent., 1894-08-01

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Price county, Wisconsin, is being swept by
forest fires Several towns arc in danger
The coke strikers at Scottdale, Pennsyl-
vania, have surrendered their firearms to the
sheriff.
The annual convention Of the Baptist
Young Peoples Union was held Mt Toronto
last week.
An effort is to be made to cut down the
wages of Santa Fc employees aud II big strike
may result.
Eight bundled Union Pacific employees in
Wyoming have lost their Jobs as n result OF
the late strike.
A party of Hawaiian royalists is on its way
to Washington with some important com
munication from the ex-queen.
Carl Browne and seventy commonwealcrs
have left Washington for New York. They
will interview the Wall Street magnates.
The executors of the late President Carnot
find that he had very little property and that
Mrs. Carnot's income will be only 81 900 per
year.
The stables Of the Knox Transfer Company
at Washington were burned on the 25th. Six
iremen lost their lives, being crushed by "
falling wall.
Debs aul his fellow prisoners have given
bail and been released from Jail. They were
led to do this By the fact that their trial has
been postponed until September 9th.
The commonwealcrs at Washington have
appealed to Congress for aid in getting back
TO the West. They state that their leaders,
Coxey, Kelly and Frye had deserted them.
The Senate committee on territories has
ordered favorable reports on the bills ad-
hitting New Mexico and Arizona to state
Lood. These bills have passed the House.
An attempt was made after midnight FRI
day night to wreck Burlington engine by
exploding q dynamite bomb under the wheels
OF the locomotive. Two men were seriously
injured.
Dispatches from Nagasaki, Japan, on the
24th stated that Corcan troops had attacked
japanese fort and had been rcpulscd.
japanese cruiser had also sunk Chinese
transport.
Eight hundred and twenty men went to
work in the shops at Sacramento Monday and
LOCO applications were received. The boiler
and mouldcr shops were opened for the first
time since the strike
The king of Corea is prisoner In his pal
ace at Seoul where he is guarded by Japanese
soldiers. Reports of fights at sea have been
received. Both China and Japon are making
hasty preparations for war.
A Kentucky man who has just returned
from japan says that "l1oncst Dick" Tate,
the abscondinS state treasurer, is living in
Japan He is in bad health His shortage
has bs Ell paid by his bondsmen.
b, ring, Magoun g. Co. shipped to Europe
$50 c, ,09O In gold last Monday. This, with the
81. LOCO taken from the gold reserve last
i Iiuay reduces It to the lowest point In its
! istory, something over $40, 800 600.
The troubles ut Enid and Pond Creek,
Oklahoma, are now probably over, as the
build depots there and give train service
which for 60 long they have denied the pco-
pic.
Mrs Warren Springer, the wife OF the
Chicago millionaire. has been held to the
grand jury in bonds OF $4,000 on charge OF
t,,r Irtl, hr. St,ri Ia gal nj a
tempting TO bride two jurors, through their
families, in condemnation suit In which
her husband Vas interested.
Internal revenue officers have seized an a.
legged Illicit distl!lery at Nos. 400 and 3O2
East Sixty-third Street, New York. The bus
iness ostensib'y conducted was the manufac-
ture Of yeast and vinegar, and was owned by
a company calling itself the New York Com.
pressed Yeast Company. The capacity OF
the still was 1,5O0 gallons day.
The A. r. U. Of West Oakland, California,
have declared the strike Off A resolution to
that end was passed on the 9Th after i9Sg
and heated debate, the vote standing 1S7
for and l46 against. The meeting lasted un-
til midnight and was very stormy In chnrac-
ter. Both sides battled with energy and de-
termination, and as q result some ill feeling
was aroused.
The trouble with mutnous convicts at
Tracey City, Tennessee, ended by the con-
yicJs surrenderng and coming out OF the
mines. They were conducted To the stockade
where all the convicts are now safely guarded
The free miners did not interfere in any way
In the affair. Pete Hamilton, the convict
who was killed Friday, planned the mutiny.
as well rs one a year ago. When he was shot
the backbone Of the mutiny WAS broken
Debe and the other officers of the American
Railway Union met a decided reverse in theif
fight against the prosecution FOR contempt IN
the United States court The court decided
- tha IaI hv h. iafPu hants Ia
q sufficient reply to the charge OF contempt,
and the motion of their attorneys that they
be discharged was overrulcd. The court will
now hear the evidence OF the government tc
sustain the contempt charge aud the defend
ants will be given the opportunity TO produce
evidence in their defense.
Dispatches received on the 29th state that
on the Chinese transport that was sunk by
Japanese cruiser there were 1000 Chinese
soldiers. Nearly all Of them were drow ned.
The Japanese have also captured Chinese
war vessel. The army and navy reserves OF
Japan have been called out for service. Chi
nese are leaving Japan. A large body OF
Chinese troops crossed the boundary into
Corca on the 25th. Corea Is said to be In
condition bordering on anarchy. China is
buying war materials as rapidly as possible.
A prominent steamship agent says ''the ex-
odus to Europe which began in the carly
spring still continues and increases. Nothing
like it has been known before. 1t Is not con-
fined to steerage passengers. Inc Increase
In cabin passage is in full proportion TO the
eteerage business. Every line will be taxed
to it's utmost during the present summer.
When you come to telling how many people
are going abroad, IL Is not easy to do so. For
a rough calculation would say there were
10 lines, each carrying 800 siccrage passcn-
gers. From that at II mere guess ] would say
that there were 10000 or 10000 steerasc pas
,engers leaving this country every month.
As to the character of these passengers, they
are the best class Of mechanics and working
people,"
The President has appointed John ID. Kcr.
nan of New York and Nicholas T.. Worthing
ton of Peoria, Illinois, to act with Labor
Commissioner Carroll d. Wright in the pres
idential commission to investigate the Ch!ca-
go strike. Mr.. Herman is 4 well-known law
yer in Utica, New York, and son Of cx-Unitcd
States Senator Herman. lie has been a par
ticular and thorough student of labor dues-
tions and has written several important con-
tributions to the literature on this subject.
He WAS chosen because OF his undonbtcd