The Delta independent., 1902-05-16
SHORT TELEGRAMS.

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library, the building costing $4,000,
was formally opened May LIST.
Property valued at between $500, 900
| and SGOO,OOO was destroyed by fire at
New Milford, Connecticut, May 9th.
During the past three months more
than 1,UOO,0OO tons of steel rails have
gone into Mexico via Galveston,
Texas.
| A strike of oil has been made at
| Waters station, Il few miles from Aus
tin, Texas. The oil was found ut nine
ty feet
An official estimate of the total cost
! of the South African war to March
| 81, 1902, places the amount ut nearly
I,115,OOO,OGO.
Rumors are in circulation at Constan-
unople that a plot against the Sultan
has been discovered. The second en-
much has been bunished.
Canada has offered thirty-eight
square miles of land to the Welsh col
ony in Patagonia, which has been un-
able to eke out existence there.
The Independent Order of Foresters,
at their meeting in San Francisco, re-
elected Supreme Chief Ranger DR..
OrOnhyateka by acclamation.
1t is understood at Ottawa that
bill will be introduced this session CIV
ing parliamentary representation to
the Yukon in the Dominion Parlia-
ment.
Tornadoes in Iowa May 1st did great
damage at Bayard, in Guthrie county,
and Van Meter, in Decatur county,
Lohrville, AdaZa, Farnhamville and
Hiteman.
European mails just received are
said to have brought from Richard
Croker letters to Tammany leaders
stating that he will return to New
York late in August.
A cablegram from Calcutta, India,
says all the mission houses occupied
by the Kansas missionaries there We're
destroyed by the recent storm. The
Kansas missionaries escaped.
Dr. Thomas Wilson, curator of pre-
historic archaeology in the Smithso-
nian Institution and the national mu-
scum for years, died at Washington
May 4th in his seventieth years.
Robert L. Lindsay, who acquired no.
toriety as the claimant of extensive
lands under a Spanish grant, has been
indicted in Kansas City for using the
mails in operating scheme to de-
fraud.
The mountain, at Gouffol, near
Mines, France, which some time ago
attracted much attention by having
shifted its position, has now blocked
up the only road which connected with
TrescOl.
Cardinal Martinelli, apostolic dele
gate to the United States, says he has
been recalled to Rome by Pope Leo
Kill, and will sail for Rome as soon
as he can adjust the affairs Of the
papal delegation.
Another alcohol exhibition will be
held in Paris this month. The first
sections will be fixed and portable mo-
tors and carburatOrs; second, automo-
biles and boats; third, devices fo- light
ingv and heating.
George j. Gould has chartered the
British built steam yacht Taurus.
formerly the Eros. The vessel has
commenced to fit out at Southamp-
ton, England, and will sail for New
York about May 20th.
On May 4th Augusta Zevero, another
Brazilian aerOnaut, made successful
trial in his airship La Paix" In Paris.
1t was held by rope, but moved and
steered readily. In appearance 1t is
much like Santos-Dumonts airshtps.
First Lieut. Alphonso Strebler of the
Philippine scouts, who commanded the
small detachment of soldiers who cap
tured Lukban, the noted Filipino in
surgent leader, is to be appointed
second lieutenant in the regular army.
Gov. Jefferson Davis of Arkansas
has pardoned Andrew Thompson, a ne
gro convicted of assault, on condition
that Thompson 20 to Massachusetts
within the next thirty days with the
intention Of becoming Il citizen Of that
state
Two hundred and fifty fishermen are
reported to have been drowned in
gale which has made havoc of the her
ring fishing fleet on the west coast of
Japan. The Japanese cruiser Musashi
was driven ashore, but her crew was
saved.
The Amsterdam, New York, Central
Labor Union, composed of twenty-five
subordinate unions with a total mem
bership of 5000, has adopted a resolu.
ton to abstain from the use of meat
handled by the so-called meat trust
for the next thirty days.
Hughes LeRoux, the French lecturer,
in dispatch to the Associated Press,
denies that while in Chicago few
days since he stated that Captain
Dreyfus had confessed his guilt. Mr..
LeRoux says that he did not make
any reference to Dreyfus.
1t is said in Berlin that John d.
Rockefeller IL backing ali American
company that Is trying to get control
of The German potash fields. The prin-
cipal obstacle in the way seems to be
ihe large potash properties belonging
to the Prussian treasury.
Lorth Strothcona, in a statement re-
garding the Forthcoming conference of
colonial premiers, said that the issues
will be important and will go far
toward the realization of the colonial.
dream of an imperial federation, ca
bles u London correspondent.