The Delta independent., 1895-04-17
IalexrAnhlo BraYitlae.

The publisher or the Chicago Record
has offered $4,000 for prize stories, to
be run in that paper.
There are 1000 cigarmakers who
struck fifteen weeks ago, still idle in
New York.
Four tramps were killed by tn"
wrecking of a freight train near Alton
Illinois, last Friday. Several Others
were injured.
In the pursuit of the Rock island
train robbers one of them was killed
and it is believed that the others will
soon be taken.
Rev. DR.. Lansing. who said tina
Cleveland was addicted to too much
liquor. has apologizcd-because a.
can't prove it.
Patrick Benson. an Oakland land
attorney, has received information thai
he has fallen heir to an estate of SSI'.
600 in Scotland.
The new city council of Chicago. at
Its first session, passed ordinances re
pealing the Cosmopolitan electric and
Ogden gas ordinances.
Senator Palmer of Illinois says that
he will fight tie silver Democrats of
his state TO a finish on the proposition
| to endorse the free coinage of silver.
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United States steamer Albatross, esti-
mates that it costs the government SO
per skin to protect the seal fisheries.
At WetZcl. Illinois, Thomas Coleman.
aged 16. hung himself in the barn be
cause his mother sent him on an errand
at time when he desired to test new
plow.
The secret of the probable collaps"
| - tt, -f..ttI
Pennsylvania is now given out to har,
been wholesale starvation In the ranks
OF the strikers.
| Government officials have Just discor
cred that n gang of crooks at Chicag'
are turning out large quantities "'
bogus two-cent stamps. The men haN,'
not been arrested.
A movement has been started by
merchants doing business on the Bow
cry, New York, to have the name of
that notorious thoroughfare changed
1t hurts their trade.
Representatives OF over 100000 men
and women engaged in the various
branches Of the shoe industry, assem-
| bled In Boston Thursday to form a
grand union OF sboemakers.
1t Is said that Guzman Blanco. cN
| president of Venezuela. who now lives
in Paris, has corner on the world :
coffee market. having recently bought
81 100000 worth OF spot coffee.
Albert ii. Horton. chief justice Of tn"
Supreme court of Kansas, has resigned.
| The resignation Is accepted. and Gov.
ernor Morrill, appointed Judge David
Martin OF Atchison to be the new chief
Justice.
A receiver has been appointed for the
clothing firm of Barbe, Benedict n
Goldman of Chicago. Liabilities are
put at 100000 and assets at SlJ0.OOo
Dissenslons In the firm brought on the
trouble.
Cholera has appeared at Port Arthur
thirty-eight soldiers having been at
tackled. Twenty-one persons Were
seized with the same disease on March
II. but no additional cases have since
been reported.
Queen LiliuokalanI has been given
permission to walk anywhere In the
ten-acre park surrounding the govern
ment buildings after four o'clock in the
afternoon. She was not In good health
| and needed exercise.
The grand jury. in session at Fort
Smith, Arkansas. has returned indIct
ments against n number OF persons for
| anu ll'Iil Nlt StN'I
society ladies, accused OF playing pro
grcsslve cuchre.
The state department OF Bolivia IL
economlzing. The governor has cut
down his own salary. has reduced III,
pay of nineteen state officers, and has
dispensed with thirteen officers. there
by saving over thirteen salaries
Recent articles printed In ncwspap
crs. telling of profitable fields In Guut
emala for American cmigrants. induced
| the formation OF an indianapolis col
ony. whose purpose II was to cmIgrats
70 that country. This colony was tC
consist OF 40 men
Fifty well known Spanish officials. IN
| Cuba. have been put in jail on suspic
ion OF sympathizing with the Cuban
rcyolutionists. Rifles and cartridges
belonging to the Spanish government
have been secretly removed from IIa
vana and turned over to the Insurgents
The governor OF Nebraska vetoed thy
| bill passed by the Legislature permit
| ting miscegcnation. The governor
| based his action on the absence Of pub
| lie demand made for this change. The
| bill was passed through the efforts OF
| NJ. o. Ricketts,. Omaha's cOlOrcd Rep
resentative.
A dispatch from Vienna says tho,
serious floods are prevailing In Hun
gary. In Pecska, $40 houses are food
ed and many of them have collapsed
In Szcrbboka two hundred houses ar.
flooded and 100 people are homeless
The town OF Cftsa Is submerged. Hun
dreds OF villages are threatened with
destruction.
The five experts from Washington
who have been counting the money a
the Boston sub-treasury, have fin
ished. They find but 20 cents difference
between the amount in the vaults AMI
that on the books on April /. The d.l
ference Is In favor OF ex-Sub Treasurer
NJ. =. Kcnnard. The total amount on
hand IL S12,1O9. 1924.
President CrcspO OF Venezuela has
sent special message to the Congress
OF Venezuela concerning the attitude
of the United States on the British
Venezuelan question. Immediately
following the receipt OF the PRESIDENT
message, the Congress passed rcsoIu
tions heartily thanking the United
States for Its sympathy and support.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt appears To
be opposed to the nude In art, for she
has ordered sweeping changes In the
character OF the interior decoration of
her S2,OOO,OOO villa at Newport. The
decorations showed many undraDcd f,y.