The Delta independent., 1902-12-19
SHORT TELEGRAMs,

Cornelius Vanderbilt is i'll of typhoid
fever at his home in New York City.
He was taken sick December 1st.
The old Ethan Allen farm in Yer.
mont viii be transformed into public
park and presented to the city of Bur.
lington.
Fifty Japanese laborers recently ar
rived at Lincoln to enter the service OF
the burlington railroad on it's lines in
Nebraska as section hands.
Finley Peter Dunno, the Mr.. Doo-
ley OF comic literature, was married
in New York on the 9th instant to
Miss Margaret Abbott, formerly OF
Chicago.
The official vote of California Cd
governor, as announced by Secretary
Of State Curry, is: Pardee, Rep, 146,.
1856; Lane. Dem, 1873; Pardee's plu.
rality. 1858.
On the 9th instant the Board of Ed
ucation of Philadelphia ordered the
temporary closing of four school
houses on account of the coal supply
becoming exhausted.
A resolution offered at the meeting
OF the Spanish-American War Nurses
Association in Washington declaring
ludt DOuN 10 De III laNOT OIL lUt army
canteen was voted down.
A New Englander who does not
wish his name to be known has given
Oberlin college $50 900 to form a part
Of the new 100000 fund for the en-.
dowment and equipment of the college.
Nebraska City, Neb.. is having a
good deal of trouble owing to the Mis-
souri, river changing its channel and
cutting off the water supply Of the
town. Pipes will be run to the new
channel
A Berlin court has awarded Fraulein
Crete Meyer. of the Lessing theater.
$25 damages from Herr Strecker,
critic, who described her movements
on the stage as being "as graceful as
those of hippopotamus."
Senator Foraker has introduced
bill directing the secretary OF war to
mark with marble slabs the graves of
Confederate soldiers who died in
northern prisons or hospitals during
the Civil War The bill appropriates
500, 900
The Delaware, Lackawanna & West
ern Railroad Company purposes sub
stantial increase of pay to employees in
the various departments notwithstand-
ing the rates paid by this road since
1885 have not been exceeded by any
road in the East.
The secretary of agriculture has sent
instructions to DR.. Salmon of the bu-
reau OF animal industry, who is per-
sonally experimenting the work of
fighting the foot and mouth disease
epidemic in New England, to destroy
all animals infected.
She steamship Sierra, which recent
ly arrived at San Francisco from Aus
tralia. on November ith. struck a
whale and nearly cut the leviathan in
two. The dead body became wedged
on the bow of the vessel, which had to
be slowed up in order to get free.
The lord mayor of Belfast recently
announced that the Earl of Dudley had
informed him that King Edward
would probably visit Ireland in 1908.
This intimation. coming through the
lord lieutenant of Ireland. is regarded
as practically an official announce
ment of his majesty's decision.
As result of the paciication of the
Isthmus of Panama, President Zelaya
Of Nicaragua has sent a special envoy
to San Salvador with proposal for a
defensive alliance should Colombia de-
mand an explanation of Nicaragua S
action in rendering active assistance
to the Colombian revolutionists.
From the Guatemala coast the
steamer City of Sydney brings the
news that the deaths resulting from
the recent eruption of the Santa Maria
volcano number about 5000. This es-
innate is based upon the latest in
formation received at San Jose. Guate-
mala- previous to the Sydney's de-
parture-
Governor Nash of Ohio has refused
TO grant several pardons recommended
by the state board for the release of
prisoners convicted under the habitual
act and sentenced to life imprison-
ment. The governor holds that the
repeal OF the habitual criminal law
does not effect men sentenced previous
to the repeal
Berlin dispatch says Siemens and
Halske. after extensive experiments
with Prof. Pupin's long-distance tele-
phone invention. have acquired his
patents for Europe, and intend to con-
meet all the great centers. The eNper-
iments have shown that with the Pu-
pin wire a message is plainly audible
to person standing over ten yards
from an ordinary receiver.
A statement prepared by Assistant
Commissioner Richards of the general
land once shows that 6.109.039 acres
of land were disposed of by the gov
ernment during the first quarter of the
current fiscal year. the receipts there
from aggregating $2.6l5.OS9. an in
crease Of 600.S97 acres in area ana
$l.lS4.S10 In receipts over the first
quarter OF the last fiscal year.
With the government appraisement
of the lands In the Chickasaw and
ChoctAw nations completed. every
thing Is practically arranged for al
Iotment of 9,00o.0O acres of land to the
Indiana Under the law. each Indian
Is entitled to the value of 3so acres of
average allotable land. The value of
each allotment Is about $1,000. Divis-
ion OF this vast Indian esfasa will cnp,