The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-08-23
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TELEeRAPHlc NEWS IN BRIEF.


New York eats 100000 watermel-
ons a month.
The President has gone to Newport
from New York.
American securities are still in de-
mand In London.
Arab Pasha is erecting fresh works
and strengthening his position.
Fire in the London flour mills of
Louisville yesterday did S30,0O0 dam
age.
At Brownsville, Tex, were reported
thirty-flve new cases tf yellow fever and
one death yesterday.
The majority of the French papers
criticize adversely the English occupa-
tion of the Suez canal.
DeLesseps t~elegraphs that the regular
traffac on the Suez canal is proceeding.
He will return to Paris shortly.
Bradford q. Vaughan's vitriol works,
of Troy, N. Y, were burned yesterday;
loss $4,000. Insured for $4,000.
Delegates to the New York state re-
publican convention, elected yesterday,
are understood to be anti. Cornell.
A number of white horses that were
being trained for use at the Cars cor
onation have been killed by nihilists.
Prince Montenegro Will start for st.
Petersburg on Thursday. The princess
will take the regency during his stay.
At San Antonio. Charles Ward, a
negro, was hanged at moor yesterday,
for ravishing a German girl a year ago:
The Indian continent is furnishing
largely troops for the English occupa-
ton of Egypt. The 63rd battery Of ar
tiIlery has sailed for the troubled Nile.
Conductor Sheppard and Ed. Christ
inc, a boy, were killed by a collision on
the Delaware, Lackawanna and West
ern railroad on Monday. Three other
persons were injured.
Surgeon General Hamilton, at Wash
ington, yesterday received a telegram
from Brownsville, Texas, dated Aug.
81, as follows : Thirty two new cases
Of fever three Deaths"
At a cabinet council at Madrid, on
Tuesday, it was resolved to instruct the
commanders of Spanish vessels in
Egyptian waters to follow the example
of the ships of other nations.
The Indian Bureau has receive a com,
m%unication from Mescalero Agency,
stating that n of Victoria's principal
warriors, whe left the agency in 1879
with Victoria, has been captured.
George O'Rourke, of New York,
challenges Wilson or Sullivan to a fight
for from 50, 500 to So. 900 a side within
five hundred miles of New Orleans, in
October or November. He expresses
great contempt for their pugilistic abil-
ity.
VIM. E. Fitzpatrick, of Milwaukee,
claiming to be heir to the throne OF
ireland, nas been writing Gladstone Dc
urge his royal sister Victoria to re.
nounce her title to his country. He
does not appear to be a crank.
A London dispatch from Melbourne
says Archbishop Goold, OF the Roman
Catholic diocese here, was shot at and
slightly wounded. His assistant named
O'Fenell was arrested. He is a broth
er of the man who attempted to assassi.
nate the Duke of Edinburgh at Sidney,
March, 1868.
Grandma Garfield, Gen. Garfeld's
Oldest son, and a sister OF Mrs. Lucretia
Garfield, passed through Kalamazoo,
Mich, yesterday, on the Lake Shore &
Michigan Southern Railroad. Mrs.
Garfield is on the way to visit her son
at jamestown, Mich. Grandma bears
the journey remarkably well.
Nearly 1000 of the Cumberland Md.
strikers coneregated at L%onaconaing
by daylight on Tuesday to prevent the
Georges creek and New Central Com
pahy's old miners from going to work.
There vas no demonstration. Those
who expected to resume work, realizing
their position, remained away.
Crop reports for Wisconsin are uni
VERBALLY favorable except from James
vile, which reports the berry Of spring
wheat so shrunken as to make the crop
a failure. One farmer has burned As
acres in the shock. Other farmers will
do the same; but this condition of af-
fairs is confined to a narrow belt.
AS threshing progresses in the central
part of Kansas, where most Of the wheat
of the state is located, a larger yield is
shown than was anticipated by the
State Board of Agriculture. Twenty
four reports received In Kansas City
from farmers in Clay, Saline, jefferson,
Ellsworth, Rice, Russell, Barton, Ellis,
Riley and Sheridan counties, run from
10 10 46 bushels per acre, showing an
average of %. The general average of
the eastern part of the state is estimated
at % bushels, and some few counties
will run to %, as was the case in 1873.
Knights Of Pythias.
Detroit, August 22.-The Supreme
Lodge of the World, Knights of Pythi-
as. convened here to-day. There is a