The Delta independent., 1894-06-27

The South Dakota Populists have endorsed
woman suffrage.
The national prison congress will be held
In Denver next year.
The contract has at last been let for re-
building the Union depot at Denver.
Erastus Wiman has been sentenced to Sing
Sing for five years and six months.
Bishop w. Perkins, ex-senator from Kansas
died on the 10th of cholera morbus.
The grand lodge of Elks has split. Two
organizations will probably result.
Four men lost their lives In n burning mine
at Birmingham, Alabama, on the 2Oth.
The British minister at Berlin has resigned
because Of rupture with the emperor.
Bill Dalton, the noted outlaw, is reported
killed by posse in the Indian Territory.
Judge Ross at Los Angeles has sentenced
10 commonwealcrs to Jail for train stealing.
The Nebraska institution for the blind is in
trouble, as the teachers have struck because
of a reduction in salary.
The banks Of New York have agreed to
furnish all the gold needed for export. This
will relieve the treasury.
A comany has been formed at st. Joseph to
build the Williams sleeping cars. They will
compete with the Pullmans.
The annual meeting of Sangerfcst societies
opened at New York on the 22rd. A series of
fine concerts will be given
ed to have struck an iceberg and sunk.
Twelve men were drowned.
The boat winch party OF harvesters
were going from ireland to Scotland was cap
sized and thirty of them were drowned.
Striking Huns at Walston, Pennsylvania,
are arming, and an attempt to start work In
the coke works is sure to result in bloodshed.
The Atchison road has withdrawn from
the summer excursion agreement rs 1t
charges that the other roads are violating 1t.
The Santa Fe road has been oblig ID to
abandon its track between Atchison and st.
Joseph on account of encroachments by the
Missouri river.
The only Gun Wa-otherwise w. H. Hale
is under arrest at New York and will be
brought to Denver for trial for fraudulent use
OF the mails. q,
The largest and most costly organ in the
United States, If not in the world, the gift of
Edward +. Searles 10 Grace Episcopal church.
San Francisco. was dedicated last week.
The American Railway Union delegates
defeated the proposition to admit negroes to
the organization by a vote of 113 to l02
rresaen' den ho De6s lbs. was minority Chi
Louisville, New Albany and JeGersonvlIe
have quarantined against "General' kclly's
ARMY of industrials. As soon the ''gen-
eral' is sighted he will be notified that he
must give Louisville wide berth.
Bad floods are reported from Hungary Sew
eral lives were lost. The damage amounts to
many millions of forins The rivers are full
of carcasses Of cattle and household property
of every description is floating down stream.
The Sanders army was convicted of having
obstructed the malls. They will be confined
at jails in several towns in Eastern Kansas.
When the news was received by the army the
men made a break for liberty and forty cs-
capped.
big convention of silver Democrats was
held at Omaha or the 21st, attended Ey 1909
delegates. Congressman Bryan voiced the
sentiment OF the convention In a speech urg
ing the free coinage Of silver regardless Of
what other countries might do.
The Sons of the American Revoluti on are
trying to persuade Postmaster General Bissell
to put picture of the United States flag upon
the two-cent postage stamps. They even
threaten to go to Congress and have a law
passed to make that permanent design.
There have been indications OF serious
the threats made by striking Huns and Poles.
They were arming and driving Enslish-speak-
ing men from the town. The militia was
sent to the place and the Huns became more
peaceable.
: mob at Round Pond, Oklahoma. blew up
the bridge of the Rock Island with dynamite,
Just outside the corporate limits The sheriff
is powerless. When the train passed the city
a short time before without stopping, accord
Ing to ordinance, the engineer was shot at
twice.
Later dispatches from Hong Kong and Can
ton confirm former reports of the terrible ef-
fects of the black plague now raging there.
Hundreds of Chinese die daily and the at
tempts OF the authorities to stamp out the dis
ease are opposed by the ignorant natives. The
sanitary condition OF the cities is terrible and
the results OF the plague are certain TO be ap-
palling.
At the prison congress last Tuesday the
committee on criminal law reform reported.
1t strongly criticised the sentence of prison
ers to fixed terms as vndictive and barbarous,
a relic of the dark ages, and recommended
sentences to depend on good conduct In
corrigibles should be con fined for life re-
gardless of the degree of crimes. Prison
discipline should be therapeutic and not vim
dIctive. The old prison system has failed to
repress crime. The new prison science is
the hope of the future.
The commonwealers who were incarcerated
at Fort Sidney, Nebraska, attempted TO cs-
cape on the 10TH According to prearranged
plan deputies sent among the prisoners to get
the cooking utensils were overpowered and n
rush made for the DOORS but Marshal Lid
diard ana Captain Cormack had their men on
the spot In moment and the CoXeyites were
subdued. Several were badly dubbed. The
ringleaders were placed in the guard house.
Another sensational witness was before the
Lexow Police Investigating committee at New
York Tuesday. Frank Clark, bunco steerer
and gambler, told how the faro banks paid
500 week regularly for the privilege of
running, and how the exclusive right to work
bunco In the Fourth ward was given to Ed
Parmley on condition that an equal division
Of the proceeds be made with the police.
Clarks story explicit and straightfor-
ward. He mentioned Police Justice Patrick
DIVERS saloon as the place where money
payments were made every week by bunco
men.
The Cree sun dance has just been conclud-
ed at Havre, Montana, after going on for
three days. Three braves were hung up by
thongs thrust into slits in their breasts, and
slashcd by Little Eggs, the chief All tainted
before the ordeal was over. A young buck
had slts cut In his shoulders, and to the in
serted thongs were tied four buffalo skulls,
which he dragged after him. Eighty pieces
of flesh were cut from his arms to be kept as
tokens. Every sheriff in the state has been
instructed TO prevent the dance in future.
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