The Delta independent., 1902-08-29
SHORT TELEGRAMS.

100000.
Seventy-eight profit-sharing schemes,
affecting 53,526 work people. were in
operation last year in this country.
Prof Alexander Agassiz, the natural
ist, has been appointed member OF
the civil division of the Order Pour lie
Merite.
The Assumption Day collection of
Peters pence in all the churches in
Rome aggregated only 5000, much
less than had been expected.
According to the Brussels CORE
spondent of the London Standard
France has rejected Russia's proposal
for fresh sugac conference.
Cholera continues to spread in Man
churia and isolated cases have been re-
ported In Siberia outside of Blagovet-
chensk, where it has firm hold.
Dr. Whitman Cross Of the United
States geological survey will spend
portion of the year Investigating the
volcanic phenomena of the Hawaiian
islands.
President Palma has appointed Cen
eral Maxine Gomez and General Maya
Rodriguez, formerly mayor of Hava-
ma, a commission to revise the Cuban
army lists.
The office of the chief dispatcher Of
the Colorado division of the Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific road has been
transferred from Goodland, Kansas, to
Colorado Springs.
A company, entitled the Austro-Mex-
lean Commercial Association. has been
organized at Trieste, with the object
of the extension of commerce between
the two countries.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to do
nate S1JO,00O for the esta blishment of
free libraries in the borough of Mary
lebone on condition that the borough
provide for their maintenance.
A plan is on foot TO form combina-
ton of the outside distillers in Ken
lucky and the outside spirit distillers
in Ohio. Illinois and Indiana. to be
known as the "Distilling Company Of
America"
Successful tests have just been made
of the turf or bog of the New Jersey
lands around West New York to ascer-
tain whether it can be used as a sub
stitute fuel in place of coal or coke for
the winter season.
The postmaster general of England
reports that fresh experiments with
motor cars showed that they cannot be
relied upon to carry heavy loads of
mail matter with the same regularity
as wagons drawn by horses.
A rainfall at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on
the night of August 10Th of l.I9 inches
did damage estimated at from 100000
to 100000. washing out street railway
tracks, lawns. bridges and sidewalks
and flooding Easements and cellars.
The Federal Council of Switzerland
has dec. eed the active enforcement of
an article of the constitution forbid
ding the establishment of new con-
vents by religious orders or the re-es-
tablishment of suppressed congresa-
uons-
Non-execution by the Turkish govern
ment OF agreements reached long ago
oa several questions affecting the in
tea -sts of American citizens, has led to
somewhat strained relate between
the United States legation and the
porte.
A leading German professor Of po-
litical economy advises an agreement
between Germany. Austria. SwitZer-
land. Belgium and Holland and the
erection Of a common tariff barrier
against the United States and Great
Britain
The planet Eros. which disappeared
May l. 1901 and was rediscovered on
August =, 1902, by Professor Ling at
the Chamberlin observatory in Den
yer. has also been seen and photo
graphed at the Harvard station in Are
Qulpa, Peru.
A Missouri brewing company has
been awarded $3.50 damages for the
destruction of Joint fixtures and liQ-
uors owned by them at Norcatur, Kan
sas. The citizens who were defendants
in the case have appealed TO the Su-
preme Court.
A hospital for the treatment of
emergency cases will be established
on the grounds of each of the twenty
two plants of the American Steel ana
Wire Company AT a total cost TO the
company for buildings and equipment
of nearly 100000.
NJ. Victor Klotz, the well-known
head Of the Parfumerie Ed. Pinaud.
Paris, has been raised to the dignity OF
Office of the Legion of Honor by the
French government. This high dis
tinction is very seldom obtained by
business men in France.
The will of the late John W. Mackay
has been filed by his widow and son at
Virginia. Nevada. In the will Mr..
Mackcy declares that all the property
he left belonged equally to himself and
wife. He leaves all of his share to
his son, Clarence II. Mackey.
4 dispatch from St, Petersburg to
the London Daily Express says: Dur
ing the maneuvers near here a squad
ron OF cavalry was ordered suddenly
to charge. 1t galloped into a river and
fifty men are reported 10 have been
drowned. Details OF the affair are diff
ticult to obtain.
Official and other reports from In
dia declare the famine situation
there is becoming more serious, owing
to the lack of rains throughout almost
the entire country. and especially in
the Bombay presidency. There has
been great increase in the number
of natives 10 receive relief