The Delta independent., 1902-11-21
SHORT TElEGRAMS.

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President Roosevelt has gone on q
bear hunt in Mississippi.
Illinois congressman are booming
MIR. Cannon for speaker Of the House.
Owners of steamers on the Great
Lakes are said to have organized
trust.
Omcials of the Navy Department say
that there is an insufficient number of
naval officers.
Lady Henry Somerset, who is visit
ing this country, called upon President
Roosevelt the other day.
The railroad connecting Havana and
Santiago, Cuba, has been completed
by United States capital.
The directors of the Calumet & Hec-
Ia Mining Company have just declared
a dividend of s. per share.
Cholera is reported to have practi-
cally disappeared from Egypt and to
be decreasing in Palestine.
United States Senator o. H. Platt Of
Connecticut has declared againTt pro
positions for tariff revision.
The German government proposes
to establish a cruiser squadron on the
western coast of the Americas.
Five captains of police of Cleveland,
Ohio. have been forced to resign for
not closing saloons election day.
Governor Dole OF Hawaii has just
dismissed the third territorial officer
charged with embezzlement of funds.
Forty-one persons are reported lost
by the wrecking OF the steamer Elinga-
mite near Sydney, New South Wales.
Mount Quemado. near the coast Of
southern Mexico is in eruption, accom-
panied by severe earthquake upheav-
ais.
Owing to pronounced opposition,
French will not be made the official
language Of the international arbitra-
ton court.
The whole of Bolivia has been de
clared in state of siege because of
reverses in Acre an. threatened inva-
sion by Peru.
The Supreme Court of New Jersey
has sustained the ordinance of Hobo
ken prohibiting saloon keepers from
having barmaids.
President Roosevelt's book. THE
Strenuous Life" has just been pub
lished in French and is attracting much
attention al Paris.
The Bishop of London has refused to
visit any church whose clergymen SOL
emEize the marriage Of people who
have been divorced
Three masked bandits held up three
men in the offices of the Cabra Min
ing Company at Cananea, Arizona, and
got away with $1,000.
John Mitchell. president Of the Unit
ed Mine Workers, has refused to be a
candidate FOR president of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor.
The British newspapers still con-
tinue to regard the visit of the kaiser
of Germany as intended to secure
deals with Great Britain.
No trace has yet been found of
Superintendent Egan of the Great
Northern railroad. lost last week in
the mountains Of Montana.
Hoonah Indians in Alaska are re-
ported to have tortured to death one
of their tribe who was supposed to
have been possessed of a devil.
The Lehigh Coal and Navigation
Company employees in Pennsylvania
threaten to strike unless all of the 2lS
officials of the local unions be rein
stated.
The Marconi Wireless Telegraph
Company is planning to establish a
co pete system for sending messages
between the Atlantic and Pacific across
Canada.
A specia. dispatch received from CAL
cutta says that the Indian government
has refused the Standard Oil Company
perm ission to prospect in the oil fields
of Burn a.
American citizens OF the Isle Of
Pines, now belonging to Cuba, COM
plain that they have no government
whatever. and want our government to
help them.
Rear Admiral Bradford recommends
government control of all wireless
telegraph stations along the coasts.
The United States system has not yet
been selected.
The British secretary for India re
ports increasing prosperity in spite of
the famine's ravages. The govern
ment will grant S7.500,O0o for drouth
and famine relief.
J. B. Charleson of the Canadian Pub
lie Works Department. who built the
Yukon telegraph line, says the gold
ou. put in the Yukon this year will az
g:egate $12 200. 900.
Certain wealthy men of New York
city are considering the plan of erect
ing large Temple of Labor. centrally
located, and abundantly equipped for
meeting rooms of labor organizations.
Gen. A. r. Chaffee. Vice Gov. Wright
of the Philippines, and their party.
reached San Francisco on the 10th.
Gen. Chaffee reports rapid progress in
civilizing the Filipinos and says that
the chief troubles of the Americans are
from the a.cient legends and supersu
tions of the islanders. which are very
hard to overcome.
The Chamber of Mines at Johannes
burg has agreed to the proposal that
higher wages be paid to natives EN-
ployed in the mines. the average being
fixed at $3.50 a month. This probably
will improve the chances of recruiting
native labor. but it is to be feared that
the scarcity will not be entirely over
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