The Delta independent., 1902-06-13
SHORT TELEGRAMS.

Fifty persons committed suicide in
Chicago during the month of May.
President John Henry Barrows of
Oberlin College died at Oberlin, Ohio,
June 3d.
1t is stated that steel magnates will
build the most magnificent hotel in the
world in New York City. 1t will cost
S1O,OOO,OOO.
Arrangements are reported to have
been made for the Introduction of vau-
deville entertainments on some of the
ocean liners:
Discontented Englishmen complain
that the government announces peace
with honor" England has the peace
and the Beers all the honor.
Governor Sylvester Pennoyer of Ore
gon died suddenly on Memorial Day
of heart failure. He would have been
seventy-one years old in July next.
1t is reported that the Great North
ern Steamship Company has decided
to build three more ships for the Orien-
tai trade, between Seattle and China.
General Louis Botha telegraphed to
his wife, who is at Brussels, that he
has signed the peace agreement and
would start for Europe next month.
Presbyterian Church at Pittsburg de-
clared for total abstinence for the in
dividual and prohibition for the state"
An official bulletin from Loo castle
says that Queen Wilhelmina will pass
her period of convalescence at castle
ScLaumberg, in the valley of the Lain.
Experts of the imperial health office
Of Berlin claim that borax is injurious
H. I.,,,,, ".E~r-
made upon two men for the period of
four years.
Rev. James L. Rodgers, prominent in
Baptist circles in California. has, af-
ter much study and correspondence
with learned Moslems, embraced Mo-
hammedanism.
Immediately after the signing of the
peace agreement a number of Boer
leaders started out to roundup" the
Boer commanders in the field and
bring them in.
The Second Baptist Church at Lit
tie Rock, Arkansas, has voted to with
draw fellowship from Gov. Jeff Davis
upon charges of unbecoming conduct
filed some time ago.
Congressman Amos ]. Cummings
will, which has just been filed for
probate. makes Mrs. Cummings sole
beneficiary. He left only $500 OF
personally and no real estate.
While inspecting the Charleston navy
yard. near Boston. Major Berthelot of
the Rochambeau mission slipped on
the smoothly waXed floor at the COM
mandant's house and fell, breaking his
left leg.
The British mule camp. which has
been maintained here since May,
1901, during which time 10000 horses
and mules for use in South Africa have
been handled. is being moved to
Toronto, Canada.
Justice Scott in the criminal branch
of the New York Supreme Court has
set September 22d as the date for the
beginning of the second trial of Roland
B. MolineauN, accused of the murder
of Mrs. Kate Adams.
There was great rejoicing in all the
concentration camps of the Transvaal
upon the naws that peace had been
concluded. The occupants assembled
in the open spaces. chanted psalms, the
women weeping with joy.
New York University has conferred
the degree of master of letters upon
Miss Helen Miller Gould. Miss Emily
ogden Butler and Mrs. Henry Dra-
per, who have served as president Of
the woman's advisory committee.
The Chinese government proposes TO
bestow a decoration on John Good
now. the United States consul general
at Shanghai. in recognition OF his SER
vices in maintaining peace in the GEN.
trail provinces of China in 1900.
In passing on the case of the Han
over National Bank, New York. yer-
sus Max Moyses. the United States Su-
prcme Court, in an opinion delivered
by Chief Justice Fuller. decided the
national bankruptcy law to be consti-
tutional.
Under the decision Of the Supreme
Court, in the case OF Capt. Peter c.
Demiug Secretary Root has directed
that twenty-scveu eN-members of the
volunteer organization now serving
sentence shall be released from CON
iinement.
Mrs Netrie o. Craven has aban-
doned her fight for recognition as the
widow of the late Senator James Il.
Fair. She has been paid $4,000 for
Withdrawing from the various law
suits against the estate Of the deceased
millionaire.
Wheat cutting began June 2d
throughout oklahoma. the earliest date
since 1896. when cutting began on May
25th. The yield this year is estimated
at two-JhirdS of a crop, occasioned by
the long continued drouth during the
winter months.
1t is said that Circuit Judge Humph-
rryS of the First Circuit Court OF
Hawaii may be a candidate for dele.
gate to Congress in the election next
November. The present delegate. X
W. Wilcox. will probably make a fight.
for another nomination.
According TO the provisions OF his
will. the body OF Justice George L. An
drcwS of the Supreme Court of New
Nnrk hns hrnn crnmnInn In his will