The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1903-03-27
SHORT TELEGRAMS.

i ne SleFtlaHu DeluOCTdllC City Soh
vention renominated Tom l.. johnson
for mayor by reclamation on the 18th
inst.
The Kansas Legislature adjourned
sine die March 18th. 1t had been in
session ten days over the constitutional
limit
SalIie Harris, aged 107 years. died
at Bartlett, Ohio, March 18th. She was
born in West Virginia, and was never
sick in her life.
At Nicola lake in British Columbia
the temperature fell to % degrees be
low zero on March 18th and at Quill
chena it was 80 below.
Prize fighting is effectually barred In
New York and Illinois, all measures for
its federation having failed in the Leg
islatures of those states.
On March 18th the Arizona Legisla-
tive Council passed the equal suffrage
bill. reported from the House. by a
two-thirds majority vote.
The British Geographical Society
has awarded the Gill memorial medal
to Ellsworth Huntington, the Ameri-
can explorer of the Euphrates region.
All Finland appears to be feting and
heaping honors upon the four govern
ors that have been dismissed for treat
ing the Russian military edict as lille
gal.
Two earthquake shocks were felt at
Helena and neighboring points in Mon
tana March 18th. Buildings were
shaken but not SO severely as to do any
harm.
The new steamship service between
Trieste. Australia, and Mexico began
March 1lth With the sailing Of the
steamer Anna for Vera Cruz by way OF
Tampico. Mexico.
On March 18th Princess Bernard of
Saxe-Weimar. while out driving with
her husband near Hanover. was seized
with commissions and soon after e1-
pired in a cottage by the wayside.
In Switzerland a national plebiscite
has resulted in the addition of the new
protectionist customs tariff by vote
OF 239. 600 to 10000. The new tariff
will increase the cost Of living and
compel hotels to raise their prices to
tourists.
The court-martial which tried Ern-
est Wortran at Pensacola on charges
growing out of the explosion of the
eight-inch gun on the battleship Mas
sachusetts, by which nine men lost
their lives, found the accused not
guilty.
Fifteen freshmen at Purdue Univer-
sity, Lafayette. Indiana, have been
fined in the police court for disorderly
conduct in a class rush and the sopho-
mores and freshmen have been re-
Quired to pay $3.50 for damages done to
the hall.
Roy Bean. known as The Law West
OF the Pecos'' died March 18th at Lang
try, Texas. Squire" Bean was one of
the most noted characters in the Unit
ed States and for years has been the
subject of innumerable anecdotes and
newspaper sketches.
Police Sergeant John Noonan of the
| fourth district of st. Louis, in which
vice and corruption disclosures were
recently made by the grand jury, COM
mitted suicide on the 10th inst. by
cutting his throat and shooting himself
in the abdomen. He had been suffer
ing from nervous prostration.
In the District Court at Council
Bluffs, Iowa, on the 18th inst, Leon
Lozier and Ed Moore were convicted
of conspiring to defraud Charles Greg
ory and William Barker of nearly $io,-
900 in connection with the sensational
alleged fake foot race in Webb City.
Missouri. in January. 1902.
After laughing his new yacht Sir
Thomas Upton said: My third and
perhaps my last attempt at lifting the
Americas cup will be the most serious
and. | think. the most hopeful of my
efforts. The Reliance may beat us, but
It will not be because l have not got
the best boat British brains and work
men can produce"
The royal commission recommends
that the Royal University of Ireland be
reconstructed as a federal university,
having as constituent colleges the eN-
listing Queens colleges at Belfast, Cork
and Galway. and the new college for
Roman Catholics to be established in
Dublin and endowed and equipped as
a college of the first rank.
Additional news has been received
in regard to the typhocn and tidal
wave at the Pearl island group, in the
middle of January. The French gov
ernment has Investigated the disaster
and found that between 500 and 600
islanders perished during the storm.
After the wind had subsidized and the
waters had receded bodies of drowned
native ss were found tied to the trees
about the place.
The National Rifle Association has
decided to offer marksmen badges for
the best shooting OF the year in all
parts of the country. The association
held sessions in New York City and
has been in consultation with officers
OF the war department concerning the
plan proposed. The national association
will send the terms of the shoot, to-
gether with official blanks to every
rifle club IN the country.
Colonial Secretary Chamberlain's re-
entry into the House of Commons on
his return from South Africa was sig
nalized by an unusually cordial recep-
ton from the Conservatives and Union
lists, while the Liberals and National
lists maintained significant silence.
In reply to n question he said he was
afraid 1t would be difficult to collect
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