The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-08-22
sTsLEeRAPHIc NEWS IN BRIEF.
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was expected.
The mIner's strike at Pittsburg is ac-
knowledged to be a failure.
sir Woodbine Psnsh, Of England,
diplomatist and scientist is dead.
A general engagement between VOL
seley and Arab is expected daily.
The British fleet is making mysteri-
Gus movements on the Egyptian coast.
1t is reported that Arab has said he
will make his position another Plevna.
More or less diminishing has been
going on between the English and the
Egyptians.
II has been discovered that Arabi's
position is very strong both naturally
and a%rtifcially.
Cetewayo will leave for his kingdom
in about three weeks and be clothed
with a restricted power.
One of the K~hedive's officers, a IA
natic of the worst stamp, has escaped
to the enemy with 100 soldiers.
Over 200 cases of yellow fever are I'M
der treatment at Brownsville. Eleven
deaths occurred ut Matamoras on Bat
urday.
Some excitement has been caused in
London by the announcement OF the
Prince of Wales departure for the con-
tinent.
John Steward and W. Sieger were
killed Saturday night, near Catasauqua,
Pa, by a train running into q wagon In
which they were riding.
The Cumberland (Md.) miners have
driven off a lot Of imported workmen
intended for the mines. Firearms were
freely used on both sides.
1t is said that ex-congressman Ack-
len, of unsavory reputation, is the au-
thor of a new election law in Louisiana,
intended tn take the place of BULLDOG
ing.
Engineer Melville, the d%iscoyerer Of
Belongs body, is expected in New
York in about three weeks. A recep-
ton will be given by naval officers at
New York.
A party of drunken soldiers near Fort
Omaha, whilst engaged in stopping
teams for sport, got into serious trouble.
Private Scbade, Co. X, 7th infantry,
was shot and killed by a farmer.
A passenger train on the Manitoba
road at Awka, Mimi, on Saturday,
struck a carriage containing VIM.
Hackett, Jasper Cole, Miss Florence
Parker and Miss Lille Dawson, killing
them all and the horses.
Senator Hill was buried at Atlanta,
Saturday afternoon, with an escort OF
the Atlanta bar and Congressional Com
mittee, including a long line Of carria'
ges. Fully $4,000 people assembled Oh
the streets to look at the procession.
apprehended outbreak at Pine Ridge
agency were on the eve Of being arrest.
ed on Saturday. This will be done at
the request of Agent Nc Gillicuddv.
Sullivan has had.an interesting spar
ring match with Goss, at North Adams,
Mass. AT the fifth round Sullivan came
out with a closed eye but Goss was Sc
verely punished. There was much *
element during the match.
A reporter investigating the Old
Lady's Home at Chicago, Saturday, dis
covered the mother Of Guiteau's first
wife (now living in Leadville) who gave
a most uncomplimentary account Of the
assassin, his early life, character and
misdeeds.
A letter from the Pope to the Irish
Bishops expresses profound regret that
tranquility has not been restored in Ire
land. He counsels obedience to the pre-
lates, abstinence from secret societies
and imitation of the character Of Saint
Augustine.
Hart and George, alias "Plug," Mar
tin, a couple of local middle weights of
considerable science, fought at Chicago
at daylight, Sunday morning. The set
to lasted forty minutes and was won by
Hart in the tenth round. Martin wa
badly punished.
Coup's circus met with a fearful acct
dent about fifty miles north of Cairo on
Sunday morning. The engine of the
second section ran into a passenger
coach or the rear of the first train, com
pletely demolishing the coach, killing
three persons and wounding about 25 or
30 others.
At Ashland, ILL.,, Saturday, a party of
burglars entered the house of a farmer
named Cox, and held revolvers to the
heads of the inmates. They then hung
Cox up three times, put his hands and
feet in the fire and beat him ~frightfully
TO make him tell where his money was.
Fortunately he had deposited 1t in bank
and they got only $50. The robbers es-
capped.
The heaviest rain yer known at Dial
las, Texas, has occurred there, lasting
three days. Much damage hes been
done to the railroads. Several water
spouts occurred in the districts covered
by the rain and the whole country, ex-
tending from the Brazos to the Pecos
rivers is described as being a mass of
water. Thousands of pararie dogs have