The Delta independent., 1895-05-22
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIES.
Gail Hamilton, the writer, Is i'll.

j uue Otn.
The coast defense vessel Monterey ar
rived at Panama Tuesday from Aca-
pulco, Mexico.
Vegetable gardens near Grand Rap
ids, Michigan, were damaged Saturday
night by frost.
In the cloudburst near Emporia, Kan
sas, yesterday one life was lost ana
much damage done to crops.
Twenty-Five families rendered home
less by last Wednesdays cyclone IN
Kansas, are badly in need of help.
Governor Turney of Tennessee was
burned in effigy at town in the east
ern part of the state few days ago.
Ex-President Seely of Amherst col
lege died at his home in Amherst on the
18th, of palsy. He had been Ill over
year.
Billy Sunday, formerly a favorite
league baseball player, is holding mar
velous revival meetings In Ottumwa'
Iowa.
Saturday nights frost killed strawber-
ries and grapes in La Crosse, Wlscon-
sin, and did much damage to Minnesota
crops.
AS the result of a feud between the
Gilley and Day families In virginia,
three men were killed and one fatally
wounded.
Tuesdays statement Of the condition
of the treasury shows: Available cash
balance, $179, 190.69S; gold reserve
sol ,6SO.97G.
1t is likely that Governor Watson Of
Delaware will appoint United States
senator, the Legislature having failed
to elect anyone.
England is now wrought up over the
question whether member of the
House Of Commons may retain his seat
after having become lord.
Theodore Durrant's attorneys believe
that they can establish an aliDl for
their client so far as the murder OF
Minnie Williams is concerned.
1t is reported that the American pc
troleum ring has entered into a private
understanding with the Russian union
recently established for four years.
Three men and eleven race horses
were killed In a wreck of an Erie
freight train, near Hornellsville, New
York.
New Foundland despairs of con-
federation. England declines to assume
one third of the debt of the railway
and Canada refuses to assume the
whole.
Pressure is being brought to bear on
the Canadian government to prevent II
possible, the construction of canal by
Americans from Lake Michigan to the
Ohio river.
A terrible accident occurred on the
new river steamer Unique, in Lake St
Clair, which caused the death Of two
= IL ,tuI vU-nG G
to a burst in the boiler.
Because railroads refuse to establish
satisfactory rates five Of the largest
coal mining companies in northern H.
linois have combined in a fight for
business against their competitors In
other sections.
Ex-President Harrison says regard
ing the report that he has permanently
retired from law practice, that it Is
mistake. He will not engage In any
more jury trials away from home and
will confine mainly his practice to ar
guments before the courts.
The fact of the japanese govern
ment yielding to the representations
of Russia, France and Germany in re-
gard to the Lao Tung peninsula and
agreeing to restore that territory to
China mas greatly excited and intensely
disappointed the japanese nation.
Two hundred men in the Delaware
Iron works were taken by surprise last
week when they found 10 per cent in
crease in wages in their envelopes. They
were informed that the improvement In
the iron trade made the Improvement in
of typewriter legal cap.
wages possible.
There is disnay among the 1000 or
more men engaged in the fishing indus
try at Chicago over the remarkable
disappearance of the finny tribe from
the waters of Lake Michigan. What
has become of the fish Is mystery to
the local fishermen, though various
theories are advanced to account for
their disappearance.
A test case brought by the Southern
Pacific to determine the ownership Of
thousands of acres in the central cOun-
ties of California has been decided by
Judge Ross in the United States district
court against the railroad. The land
was claimed by the Southern Pacific rs
part of the indemnity grant of the At
lantic & Pacific railroad.
A San Francisco paper says that the
United States contract labor laws are
broken every few weeks by the arrival
of large numbers of japanese who pour
into the country by every steamer un-
der contract to farmers in the interior
valleys of California. During the past
year 1t is said that 10000 japanese have
secured ranch employment to the ex-
clusion of white laborers.
Advices to bullion brokers In New
York from London state that the con-
tracts for future delivery of 3,5OS,OOO
ounces of silver bullion were made there
in April, which is equal In amount to
the sales made during the period OF ac-
tivity caused by the first negotiations
for peace In the East. This goes to
prove that the London dealers are conf
dent OF material increase in the de-
mand for the white metal.
Ex-Governor John P. st. John writes
the Kansas City Star from New York
denying that he is to drop prohibition
and advocate free silver: ~ have not
laid aside prohibition, and don't intend
to. Nor have I discouraged the noml-
nation Of prohibition ticket and
have not even thought of doing any
such thing. Nor am big enough fool
to advocate free silver as the only
remedy for the ills which affiict the
country"
A Nebraska statute imposes a penalty
Of $50 for each failure Of railway COM
pany to have its locomotives whistle at