The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-08-15
TELEGRAPHIC TICKS.

strongest letter.
The yellow fever continues undated
in the infected districts.
The Turks claim to have the moral
support of France and Italy.
The Egyptians have taken up posi-
tons threatening the Suez canal.
The police of New York have made
a descent on a Chinese opium den.
The town of GrinneIl, Iowa, is rap
idly recovering from the recent disaster.
Two boys near New York city were
drowned on the 18th inst. whilst bath
ing.
The English government is %sanguine
that tbere will not be a prolonged wal
in Egypt.
Twelve business houses were de
stroyed by FIRE in Grant City, Mo-, Sat
urday night.
1t is rumored- Arab Pasha is sending
laborers away to avoid the necessity of
feeding them.
Five degraded women tried to poison
themselves at Des Moines, Iowa, and
one succeeded.
Almost the entire business portion of
the town of Mantato, Kan, has been
destroyed by fire.
Lord Charles B~eresford, narrowly es-
capped Being cut off by a party of Be-
douins, Saturday.
Elijah Franklin was hanged at Silver
Cliff, N. M, Friday, for his murder of
the deputy sheriff.
The county insane asylum near Lam
caster, Pa, Saturday. All the inmates,
ia in number, were saved.
1t has been stated in commons
that the Irish constabulary have closed
their agitation Internationally.
By the accidental explosion of a bar
rel of gunpowder near a school house in
Russia, a large number of children,
Jews, were killed.
The condition of Ireland is improv-
ing. A constable named Brown was
shot and killed in county of L.outh, Ire
land, on Saturday.
The fenians at Philadelphia are de-
termined to assist Arab in every possi-
BILE way. Their action has been de-
nounced by Parnell.
Opinion is gaining ground at Taylors-
vile, ILL.,, that the men mobbed last
week are o guilty Of the crime with
which they are charged.
George Eden, a saloon keeper, near
Louisville, was shot and killed, Satur-
day night, by some one unknown. Poll
tics is believed to be at the bottom of it.
For the twenty-four hours ending at
8 p. m. Saturday, at Brownsville, there
we're % new cases of yellow fever and
M death. At Matamoras, % cases
8 deaths.
Cetewayo is the lion of London, and
some of the leading journals are getting
disguised. He had hardly landed when
a young lady presented him with a val
liable locket.
The republicans OF the 9th congress
sional district convention, Texas, ad-
journed without makingsa nomination,
and recommended the suppression of
the independent movement.
A Turkish official statement drawn
up by Lebib Efendi says there are en-
tirely too many foreign officers, particu-
larry English and French, who draw sI-
trsvagant salaries, and did no work.
Fully forty thousand English troops
are either on their way OF in Egypt, a
far more complete and efficient force
than vas dispatched to the Crimea or
when Wellington commanded at Water
loo.
Two children aged about nine years
old, left alone in a house by their father,
who was detained away all night, were
found smothered to death on his return
next morning They had blown out the
gas. The affair occurred near Chicago
A Milwaukee dispatch says: By the
diligence of the Chicago & Northwest
ern railway officials, VIM. johnson,
who has tried twice lately to wreck pas
senger trains near that city, wa caught
Sunday night while making a fresh at
tempt and jailed.
A prize fight occurred on Saturday
between Charles Schaltenbach and
Robert Turnbull, at Harry Hills, at a
place on Long Island. After the
twelfth round the former was uncon-
scious and lost the fight. No arrests
we've made.
At Evansville, Ind, a German saloon
keeper, his wife and son seven years old
were brutally murdered in bed on the
18th inst. An infant, six months old,
was found in its cradle unframed.
Great excitement prevails in the place
and a suspicious character has been ar
rested.
AS an indication OF the spirit which
animates the porte in sending troops to
Egypt, it is stated that twenty Christian
medical men appointed to accompany
the Egyptian expedition, and who had
received pay and made every prepare
ton for departure, were stopped at the
last m and their places supplied
by mussulmen.
A New York Worlds London cable
says Whatever difference of opinion
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