The Delta independent., 1907-02-15
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made an appropriation of $500 900 ta
cover the expense of Representatives
of the army and navy who will par.
ticipate in the exposition at James
town. Va.
The damage to shipping in buffalo
harbor alone is $1,500.000. Five great
lake steamers aground tell that part
of the story. Thirteen others make.
ing brave attempts to ride out the
storm may add to 1t.
The epidemic Of dIphtherla and
scarlet fever has become SO violent
in Chicago that the health commits
sioner has requested the citizens to
cancel all social engagements for the
present.
The Mississippi river at Memphis.
Tenn. reached stage of 402 being
the highest ever recorded. the .ormer
high mark being 40.1 in 1905
The mayor OF Cananea, Mex. and 40
American have been jailed at llermo-
sillo for gambling at Cananea after the
governor had ordered it closed
Dispatches to the state depa tment
declare that 100000 persons are in
a starving condition In the famine
stricken district Of China. Fcars are
entertained OF the outbreak OF an epi-
demic.
Three hundred guests ATTENDED the
annual banquet OF the Kansas Day
club at the Topeka Auditoriu!u s.
H. Brandon. of Butler count was
elected president for the ensuing
year.
The suit of the receiver Of the Bay
State Gas company of Delaware
against II. H. Rogers in connection
with the ownership of the Boston Gas
inent of Mr.. Rogers to pay the re-
ceivers s1,5OO.0O0.
| The Mexican government has been
formally requested by the United
States to aid in preventing undesirable
| immigrants from crossing the border
from Mexico into the United States.
] Motion to quash the indictments
against John d. Rockefeller and as
| sociates have been filed at Findlay.
Ohio.
| Secretary Shaw was the guest OF
honor at the annual banquet of the
Missouri society in New YORK He
spoke on Pending Financial Legisla-
ton"
twelve men has been secured to try
Harry X. Thaw for the murder Of
Stanford White in New York.
President Roosevelt has written a
letter to the navy department COM
mending Rear Admiral Davis for his
action at Kingston. Jamaica at the
| time of the great earthquake disaster.
Eight buildings in the center of the
business district of HARRISBURG, Pa,
were recently destroyed by fire caus-
ing loss of nearly 100000.
The flood in the lower Mis- iissippi
| Is becoming serious. a levce at Mem
| phis has broken causing a PORTION of
the city to be flooded. Damage was
| reported from various points in Mis-
sissipi, Arkansas and Missouri.
The Oklahoma constitut cnal con-
| vention, by a vote of So to - adopted
an amendment providing for separate
, submission OF the prohibition question
at the time the constitutIOu is voted
on.
For more than 40 days tn" thermom.
eter has not registered as hgI as zero
| in the northwest and the obstruction
of range cattle Is considcrri complete.
While a freight train on he NJ, X.
e. 7. railroad was crossiag a bridge
near Decrfield, Mo, the strIcture col
lapsed precipitaing II car into the
! stream. boy named linton. OF
Pilot Grove, Mo. was killed..
An anti-pass bill has latsed both
houses Of the South DaI,yta legisla-
turc, which PERMITS the change of
newspaper advertising fUr ransporta-
tion.
The thermometer registered 40 de-
grees below zero at Scpcior, Wis.
recently.
Lieut. Ralph w. Drury 1ud Private
John Dowd, Of the Ninth Uuited States
| infantry, were acquitted Ol a charge
Of murder, at Pittsburg, Pa, for the
killfVg of w. n. Crowley.
The president has appros,d the first
800 bids for land in the "Lg pasture"
the average price being nyrr $12 per
acre.
In statement ~.dde at The White
House it is emphatically dnnied that
William J. Oliver Is to be- given the
contract for construction Of the 18TH
mian canal
The recent meeting Of he Kansas
state Bar association at topeka was
addressed by Attorney General Hadley
of Missouri, on the yubiect of