The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-04-07
TELEGRAPHlC SUMMARY.

A break fifty feet wide is reported il
the Milliken Bend Levee, a few miles
above Vicksburg.
Sir Henry Holford has formally re.
signed the captaincy ofthe British Ma.
tional Rifle Team.
The striking colliers OF the Shen.
andoah region have returned to work
at reduction of wages.
There was small gold failure in
New York Tuesday, and Sl25 900 were
sold out under the rule.
The Turks in Sundays fighting In
Bosnia, lost large quantity of guns,
provisions, horses and oxen.
Forty-two japanese youths passed
over the Fort Wayne Railroad en-
route to Philadelphia, where they are
to attend school.
The st. Louis municipal election re.
suited Ia majority for the Democrats
and Independent candidates.
Bob Wheeler, the colored bootblack
who murdered Ben Blumenstein In
Memphis about nickel, few weeks
since, has been captured and Jailed.
A box was picked up Wednesday IN
the Hudson River at Stuyvesant Land
ing, and, on being opened, was found
TO contain the remains of woman cut
into small pieces.
The schooner Helen J. Holway went
ashore, Wednesday night, eight miles
east of Fire island. The Captain and
five men were drowned. Only one Of
the crew was saved.
The Albany, New York, Court of
Appeals has affirmed the judgment OF
courts below in case of Dolan, con-
victed of the murder Of Noe; 80 the ex-
ecution will take place.
A dispatch from Tucson, Arizona,
says war In Sonora is virtually ended,
the revolutionists and federal forces
having joined hands, while Pesquira,
commanding State troops, has fled.
The Little Rock city election passed
OIL with considerable excitement. The
Democrats elect the City Treasurer
without opposition, and three out of
six nominees for aldermen.
A resolution censuring the Govern
ment for not pressing on the con
struction Of the Pacific railway
with more rapidly, was carried by a
vote of "a to "a in the Canadian SEN
ate.
The Mississippi river at Memphis is
within nine inches of the highest
water known, and one inch above the
flood Of 1874, and ten inches above
that of last August, with the lakes,
bayous, lagoons, as well as all triou-
turtles below, bank full.
A special to the New York World
says that Secretary Cameron and the
President are too strong for Bristow,
and hence the Pittsburgh Custom
House frauds will remain uninvesti-
gated.
Four prisoners,jin charge OF the Dep
uty Sheriff of Grayson county, Ell
route to Huntsville, jumped from the
train, when within two miles OF En-
mis- and escaped. Parties are in pur-
suit.
A printer named William Stewart
was seized with an apoplectic fit while
at work in the Chicago Tribune COM
posing room, and died in few min-
utes. He was we'll known in the ira
fernity. lE
Hostilities having ceased In Abys-
sinia and negotiations for peace WIN
the envoy of King Kassa being III
progress, Prince Hassan commanding
Egyptian forces has received orders TO
return to Egypt
Omaha,s municipal election resulted
in the choice OF four Democrats and
two Republicans for aldermen. The
board Of education is pretty equally d.
vided, though no special effort was
made by either party, people generally
voting for the best men.
La Republique Franchise says ma
iority of the assembly intend, to pu
an end to clerical agitation and con
fine the priest to his proper sphere, hi
church, and will infexibly repres
any encroacbments whether open O
10 disguise.
The assistant postmaster at harsons
Kansas, T. ninsmore, Is under arres
for abstracting money from registered
letters. He owns to having takeI