The Delta independent., 1895-05-01
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the amphitheater collapsed, killing six
men.
The noted outlaw, Bill Cook. has
been taken to Albany for imprison-
ment.
The village of Perly, Wisconsin, was
nearly wiped out by fire Thursday
afternoon.
Colonel Franklin Fairbanks, the
great scales man is dead at St johns
burg, Vt.
Mrs. Della Parnell, who was at
tackled on the street, is in a dangerous
condition.
Evictions of Pullman tenants will be
gin May 4. Two hundred notices have
been served.
Mgr. Satolli Sunday laid the corner
stone of new school in Pottsvllle
Pennsylvania.
General Ballington Booth of the Sal
walton army, is going to become an
American citizen.
Stringent license laws are closing sa-
looms and reducing the sales or cigar
cites in Indiana.
The hearing of evidence in the Car
son mint shortage case continues De
hind closed doors.
c. p. Huntington. president of the
Southern Pacific railroad has Deen AT
rested for issuing pass.
EX-County Treasurer NJ. w. Stewart
of Wyandotte county, Missouri, IS salu
to be $2S,275 short in his accounts.
Methodist Episcopal bishops OF the
whole world are now in session at Car
Isle, Pa. Their conferences are secret
Madeline Pollard. of Breckenridge
Pollard fame, is going to Europe as Il
travelling companion to wealthy lau!'
The Hearst School for Girls at Wash
ington City, for which Mrs. Phoebe
Hearst donated S115,0OO. will begin 10
be erected this summer.
The New Foundland Legislature has
voted its disapproval of the terms on
which Canada will allow that countr!
to enter the federation.
Henry Piper of San Francisco has
been arrested on a charge of stealing
gold and silver from the Carson mint.
st. Marks church. New York city,
Sunday celebrated the Tooth anniver-
sary of the laying of the cornerstone
The doings of "Messiah' George
Jacob Schweinfurth, are being investl-
gated by the grand jury at Rockford,
Ill.
The attorney general has decided
that nominations of naval cadets made
by Congress after noon of March 4, are
void.
At Falls of Schuylkill. Pa, the carpet
and plush mills of James Dobson have
shut down because the employees de-
manded an increase of wages.
The bill to remove the police magis-
trates of New York city has been
passed by the Senate, yeas 90, nays II.
The bill now goes to the Assembly FOR
concurrence in the amendments.
The body recently found in Cuba,
thought to be that of General Maceo,
the insurgent leader. turns out to have
been that of his brother. subordinate
officer The Spanish still claim it to be
the general himself.
The Russian government has issued
an ukasc forbidding Nine. Modjeska
to appear in the Russian theaterS on
account of a speech which she deliver
ed at the Worlds Fair, attacking the
government on its attitude toward
Poland.
The Dime Savings bank at Whitman
| tic, Connecticut, closed on the 23rd.
| The last bank commissioners report of
| this state shows that the savings bank
ldtl vi otlDbEi H. -,''' ''pD''NoA''
SG2G, ,391 on deposit and a surplus of
| about $4,000.
The first bimctallic league has been
| formed in Cincinnati, to be indepen-
dent of any political party. its princi-
| pal object being to secure the free and
unlimited coinage of gold and silver
without waiting for the action of any
other government.
A dispatch to the Times from Kobe
saws that on April 13 and IA fifty-eight
| transports left Ejinina for Talien Wan
with 10000 Japanese troops. 1t is be-
| lieved that these troops are destined to
make descent upon 'faku and Shan
| hi-Wan directly the armistice shall ex-
| pire.
John L. Waller. formerly American
consul at Tamatave. was brought to
MarseilleS on the steamer Diemmah,
after having been tried by n French
court martial and sentenced to twenty
years imprisonment on the charge of
| having been a spy in the interest of
| the Hoyas.
The government of Japan has issued
statement denying that it has con-
Guided an offensive and defensive al
lance with China and declaring that
the commercial advantages secured by
| JuDui tlt i'l VI lIit lltuly
| will be enjoyed by. the other powers
under the most favored nation
| treaty.
A dispatch from Montreal says: The
town of st. Jerome, about forty miles
| from this city. is completely flooded.
the worst damage being done in the vi
cinity Of the big paper mills. The flood
| was caused by the overflow Of the river
ADcZ, owing to an immense ice gorge.
There is fully five feet of water in the
main street. Communication is pos
sible only in boats.
| Two thousand tailors on ready-made
| work went on strike at New York in
obedience TO an order of the Tailors'
| Progressive union. The strike is for
an increase of 10 to 10 per cent. over
| last year. 1t is possible if the contract
| Ors do not agree to the new terms, the
entire tailoring trade of the city, num-
| bering in all about 5000 men, may be
| called out.
| A scientific expedition in the in
| tprestS of the Academy of Natural
| Sciences will start ut once for Alaska
to be absent four or five months. DR..
| Benjamin Sharp and John NJ. Justice
| make up the party. They viii leave
| on the United States revenue cutter
| Vicar. which is the flagship of the
| American fleet in Arctic waters. The