The Delta independent., 1895-05-08

| other letter denOuncing silver. II was
addressed to Governor Stone Of Mis-
sissippi
| Henry Willard, ex-Northern Pacific
roirOad magnate, bought $4,000 worth
of property from the Tacoma Land
! company.
A congress of the women Of the Mis-
sissippi valley was held at st. Louis
last week to discuss various subjects
of interest.
wednesdays statement Of the condi-
ton OF the treasury shows: Available
cash balances. $1S2, AGO, Cos; gold re-
serve. $01.2S9, ,104.
In the Flat Top coal region. Virginia.
10000 miners have gone out on strike
Oh account Of n twenty per cent. re-
duction in their wages.
| Captain Beck has abandoned his In
tcntion of cvicting tenants from the
Omaha Indian reservation. until the
courts settle the matter.
Six hundred coal miners employed by
the Laurel Coal association. Kentucky.
struck yesterday for 20 cents ton In
| stead of 30 cents ton.
Two thousand miners In the iorkville
and Wheeling and Lake Erie mines.
| Ohio. struck yesterday, pending the
signing of scale Of wages.
| During Il severe storm Friday night,
| Rudolph Schwerdefeger was killed by
lightning near Sutherland, Iowa. Peter
Stirmrr. farmer near Lnurens, was
also killed in his house by lightning.
| At Tacoma. Wash, the sale Of land In
! the Puyallup Indian reservation was
begun yesterday despite protests from
the Indians, who threaten to make
/ trouble IL any Of the purchasers take
; possession.
The Chickamauga Park commission
has completed the purchase of Gener II
Sherman's battle ground at the north
end of Missionary Ridge. Chattanooga,
and 1t now becomes part of the ma
tional military park.
The official report OF the Investigation
concerning the alleged forgeries Of
, Chinese certificates issued at Boise
City, declares that an organized money
making conspiracy has existed for sev-
eral years.
Norton Reed lies In the morgue at
Hartford as result OF the "Trilby"
craze. having committed suicide by mr.
senic while harbOring the hallucinatiOn
that he was under the hypnotic infiu-
ence OF Svengali, the bad man OF Du
Mauriers novel.
A dispatch to the Standard from Ber-
lin says that Germany has concluded
contracts with leading German ship
ping companies for ten steamers to act
as cruisers In time OF war. Among the
vessels there are the best line OF steam
ers running to New York.
There was a contest before Commits
sioncr Seymour Friday as to the owner.
ship of patent for cigarette-maklng
machine that Is warranted to make tive
90. Il s..l
co Is run out In an endless rope and fit
ted into an endless roll Of paper and Is
then cut into the proper lengths.
John Hun. who is said to have fallen
heir to S1,5OO.OOO by the death OF Chas
Easthor. n wealthy Californian, In
1893, has died at Matawan, New Jer.
sey Hun nursed EastOfr twenty
years ago through an attack Of ty-
phOid fever when no one else would
20 near him. and the entire estate has
been his reward.
News has been received from Kodiak
Island, Alaska, on steamer Alki, that
the steamer George Il. White OF Sc
attic was wrecked In gale on April
II. Seventeen OF the crew were either
drowned or frozen to death. Eight
reached shore and still survive. The
schooner Kodiak was also wrecked In
inc same Slle UeuT lue sitIle piuce, Dut
no lives were lost.
A dispatch to the Times from Pekin
says: No decision has yet been reached
In regard to he ratification OF the treaty
of peace. Ii Hung Chang, the senior
Chinese peace envoy, has arrived In
Pckin and been given nm audience by
the emperor, but what action was
; agreed upon, II any, Is court secret
No adict has yet been published con
corning the result Of the deliberations
1t Is officially announced In London
that the British government has agreed
If the Nicaraguan government ad-
dresses note to Rear Admiral Ste.
plenson. accepting the terms of the
British ultImatum and undertaking un-
der the guarantee Of the republic Of Sal
vador that the Indemnity be paid In
London within n fortnight. that the
British squadron will be withdrawn
from Nicaraguan waters.
Night express No. 3, on the Chicago
& Alton railroad, northbound, was at-
tackled about twelve o'clock about two
| miles from Carlinvllle, by three masked
men who had climbed up on the plat
form Of the blind baggage car. SUD.
posedly at Carlinville. The men climbed
over the tender and ordered Engineer
Frank Holmes to stop the train, and
Immediately began firing. Holmes was
killed at the first fire. Fireman Frank
Tuggle escaping. The assaIlants, after
shooting the engineer, jumped on tho
train and escaped. Fireman TuggIc
, then ran the train back to Carlinville.
Forest fires are raging In Pennsyl.
vania. Between Kettlcr and Rassies
along the line Of the Erie road, the
woods are mass of flames. In that
vicinity there are millions of feet Of
hcmlock logs and large quantities OF
timber. Near Crawford Junction
fire Is burning hercely and threatens
destruction OF oil property. Another
fire Is raging between McAmbley's
and Mount Jewctt and In the Vicinity Of