Delta chief., 1883-08-22
BY TELEGRAPH.
A Summary Of Important Dispatches,
Domestic and F0reim,

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Two striking linemen have been ar
rested at Jersey City, charged with wire cut
tine
A Government manufactory of gun
cotton is to be established at Newport, Rhode
Island.
Many members of the British Parlia-
ment will visit America during the coming
recess.
A disease resembling cholera is kill
ing the hogs in the vicinity of Reading, Penn
sylvania.
The United States Rolling Stock Car
works at Chicago burned on the 18TH Loss,
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A rigid press censorship has been es.
tablished in Spain upon news touching the in
surrection.
The centennial of the Incorporation
of Charleston, South Carolina, was celebrated
on the 18th.
The business failures of last week
were 40, which is 12 less than those of the pre-
ceding week.
A virulent foot and mouth disease
prevails among the cattle taken to England
from Canada.
Much alarm prevails on the Island of
Ischia, on account of the prcmonitory signs OF
another earthquake.
The Dutch Government has received
a telegram from Atchien announcing the chol-
era as epidemic there.
For the six months ending August l,
100 persons were killed and 4Ol injured on the
railroads OF New York.
Heavy losses of cattle for want of
water are reported from the range in Southern
and Southeastern Texas
The Vienna Electrical Exhibition was
opened on the 10th with due ceremony by the
crown prince Rudolph.
Sixty st. Louis shoe lasters have
struck for higher wages, throwing 800 other
workmen out of employment.
A convention of the friends of the
National Labor League is called for September
2l, % and o, at Milwaukee.
Hon. Jeremiah S. Black, ex.Attorney
General OF the United States, is seriously III at
his home in York, Pennsylvania
The Michigan Prohibition convention
adopted a characteristic platform aad agreed
to raise 100000 as campaign fund.
The loss by the burning of the Kim
ball House, at Atlanta, Ga, is estimated at
s725 600 on which there was ssO. 600 Insurance.
Capt. j. ID. Rhodes, who talked Of
swimming the Niagara whirlpool, took a good
look at It, and concluded that he didn't want
to attempt it.
1t was announced in the House of
Commons as a fact that the foot and mouth
disease in cattle had been carried from En-
gland to America.
The st. Louis saloon keepers appear
to be weakening I'm their opposition to the
Sunday law. Last Sundays violations were
comparatively few.
Salmi Morse has assigned his lease Of
the theater which he secured for the srcscntn-
tion OF the Passion Play, to George S. Roberts
and Albert d. Eames
Returns so far from the elections in
France show a net republican gain Of 100 seats
The republican triumph is the most notable In
districts heretofore reactionary.
On Wednesday, August %, and each
Wednesday thereafter, the Treasury will re-
deem s5O0,OOO Of the bond. embraced In the
12lstcall, without rebate OF interest.
The mayor of New York has been
notified that the Western Union Telegraph
company will hold the city responsible for nll
losses sustained by wire cutting in that city.
The firm of f. G. Stcdman & Co., Of
New York, consisting of Edmund c. stedman,
the celebrated poet, and his son, has suspend
ad. 1t is thought that their suspension will he
temporary.
On the night of the 18th the wife of
Senator W. b. Allison, Of Iowa, committed SUI
icidc by drowning herself in the MISSISSIPPI
river at Dubuque. Her mind had been affected
for two or three years.
The anniversary of the establishment
OF the Frccdmen's Aid society Of the Methodist
Episcopal church was held Mt Ocean Grove, n.
j.. on the 18th. The receipts Of the society the
past year were sf7s,OOO. large increase over
the previous year.
The Society of the United States Mill
tary Telegraph Corps has fixed upon the 10Th Of
September for Its annual reunion, to take place
At Chicago. The Old Timers have theirs on the
2Oth, and members of both organizations will
Join on the 10Th in their social entertainment.
The new postal notes for sums less
than S5 will be ready for circulation on Sep