The Delta independent., 1902-07-11
SHORT TELEGRAMS.

united on fusion ticket in South Da
kota.
The mounted police will be with
drawn from Dawson and local force
substituted.
The degre of LID. has been con-
ferred on General Leonard Wood by
Williams College.
The pension list for the fiscal year
ending June 3Oth shows n decrease OF
$95O,OOO from that of the previous
year.
1t is reported that all the big coal
mines of Missouri are to be absorbed
by Il syndicate controlled by J. Pier.
| pont Morgan
About 1900 Canadian troops sailed
from Durham for home June 9th. Two
thousand additional Canadians will
start for home July II.
A contract for the building of a sugar
mill by the state of Arkansas has been
| signed and ratified by the state penl-
| Tertiary board and the governor.
The permanent census act, operative
| July 1st, leaves a census force of $50
| clerks. Twenty, who have been en-
| gagged on special work, are dropped.
Robinson Crusoe's island, Juan Fer.
| nandeZ, lying 600 miles west of Val
| paraiso is to be given civil govern.
| ment by Chilli on account Of its lobster
canning industry.
Pneumatic postal tubes We're ordered
put in service again July 1st in New
| York, Brooklyn, Boston and Philadel-
phia. Their construction is authorized
in six other cities.
1t is said in st. Petersburg that the
Russian troops have already been
withdrawn from Moukden, Manchuria.
The Manchurian railroad guards will
number 10000 men.
The Missouri Republican State Con-
yention strongly endorsed President
Roosevelt, whom Congressman Joy
designated as the Little Rough Rider
of the White House."
The Minnesota Democratic conven-
tion nominated L. A. ROsing for gov
ernor and passed resolutions approving
the Kansas City platform and eulogiz-
ing William j. Bryan.
For the third time in twenty years
Ex-Governor Robert Pattison of Phila-
delphia was nominated for governor OF
Pennsylvania by the recent Demo-
cratic State Convention.
The Canadian government has appro-
priated $4,000 to build barbed wire
fence along the boundary between
Montana and the Dominion, extending
from st. Marys Lake to the Sweet
Grass Hills.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt has de-
clined the peerage offered him by King
Edward. He says that after thirty
four years spent in the House Of Com
mons, he is reluctant to change his
sphere of work.
Three Victoria crosses, ten distin-
guished service medals, two promo
tions to commissioned rank and four
mentions in dispatches have fallen to
the lot of reform school lads in South
Africa, says Lord Leigh.
1t is announced that the Ozark and
Cherokee Central, now building from
Fayetteville. Ark, through Indian Ter
ritory, has decided to secure coast con-
nection by constructing the line to
Guthrie thence west to Denver line.
Advices from Ads Abeda, capital of
Abyssinia. announce the safe arrival
there of FitZhugh Whitehouse of New
port, Rhode Island, and Lord Hindlip,
who started from England, February
1st, on an exploring trip to the upper
Nile.
The International Sunday School
Convention, which closed its session in
Denver June 3Oth, voted to recommend
Jerusalem as the place for the next
Worlds Sunday School Convention in
| 1904. The International meets next at
Toronto in 1905.
J. G. w. Cowles OF Cleveland has
| been elected chairman Of the board Of
trustees of Oberlin College. The cleo
| ton means that Mr.. Cowles will be
president Of Oberlin College until
| permanent successor to the late Presi-
dent Barrows Is made.
The net earnings of the United States
Steel Corporation for the quarter end
| ing June 3Oth amounted to S37 ,691 ,6a6,
as against S26,362. 900 for the same
period last year. This statement
shows an increase of net earnings for
! the quarter of $11 ,329, ,G96.
The idea prevails in London that MI
chael Henry Herbert will not long oc-
cupy the post of British ambassador
to the United States, but that he will
be transferred to Paris when Sir Ed
mund j. Monson, the present British
ambassador there retres.
| Lord Warwick, in proposing a vote
of sympathy for the king before the
Warwick town council, said that he
was authoritatively Informed that his
majesty's first words on recovering
| consciousness after the operation were:
'.Will my people ever forgive me"
! Hundreds of INDECENT Americans
now in Cuba are petitiOning the min
lister for aid. This prompted Minister
SQuires to call n meeting Of the Ameri-
cans In the legation, when liberal sub
| scriptions were made to send the
needy Americans to the United States.
On the marriage of Miss Jeanne
Langtry, daughter of Mrs. Languy.
the actress, to Ian Malcolm. member
of Parliament, a few days ago, King
! Edward sent the bride present,
with a note in his own handwriting.
The Prince of Wales also sent gift.