Delta chief., 1883-08-01
BY TELEGRAPH.
A Summary Of Important Dispatches,
Domestic and Foreign.

Z H. Teed, farmer near Delphos,
Kas., aged SO, committed suicide by shooting,
on the 2Sth.
A ferryman crossed the British Chan
mel from Dover to Calais, on the Goth, upon a
floating tricycle..
The cholera deaths at Cairo on Mon
day, are reported at GOO, and the epidemic con-
tinues to spread.
The telephone line between Washing
ton and Baltimore was opened on the oath, and
worked admirably.
The Bell telephone operators in Phil
adelphia, to the number of 2S, struck on the
27th and quit work.
Hon. Montgomery Blair, formerly a
member of Lincoln's Cabinet, died on the 27th,
at the age of seventy years.
Heavy rains are reported from near
| ly all parts of Kansas, which will, in most
cases insure good crop of corn.
Nine of the fourteen prisoners in the
Berrien Mich, county jail, escaped on the
2Sth through a tunnel under the cells.
The Ohio Liquor Dealers Associa-
tion will meet at Toledo, August 9, to organ
iZe for an aggressive political campaign next
fall.
st. Louis is threatened with water
famine, and has stopped all street sprnkling,
washing of sidewalks, and the use Of street
hose.
Daniel B. Phillips, the well-known
Evangelist, who has been troubled some time
from the effect of sunstroke, hanged himself at
Boston on the 26th.
Mr.. Gladstone says the English gov
ernment has intention to ask for further
legislation upon cattle importation, unless the
existing laws are found inadequate.
The Montreal Board of Trade passed
a resolution denouncing the telegrapher's
| strike, at the dictation of the Brotherhood,
in defiance of the law, and against public in
| terest.
The colored voters of Lincoln, Neb,,
elected delegates to the Republican State con-
vention, on the 26th, and passed resolution
that the Liberia emigration scheme is iniprac-
ticable.
Sadie Hall, the wife of Coal Oil
Johnny" who killed him last week at Terra
Haute, Ind, had preliminary trial, and was
discharged by the magistrate on the ground of
insanity.
Governor Crittenden, of Missouri,
has written the St. Louis Police Commission
ers sharp letter in regard to their enforce
ment Of the Sunday law, which he says must
and shall be executed
A later dispatch from Grand Rapids,
Mich, states that the jam Of logs which broke
down three bridges was stopped and is still held
by the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern
bridge, four miles below the city.
Reports have been received at Detroit
that the little village of Onpndaga, in the south
eastern part Of Ingham county, Mich, was al
most entirely swept away by cyclone, accom-
panied by very heavy rain, on the 23d
General f. o. c. Ord, of the United
States army, who took passage on the steamer
City Of Washington at Vera Cruz for New
York was taken by yellow fever at Havana,
and died in private hospital on the 22nd.
Ten miles southwest of Eaton Rap
ids, Michigan, Eugene Hendy's house was
demolished by tornado. Mr.. Hendy was
probably fatally injured, three Of his children
were killed and his wife was seriously hurt.
4 After an investigation the officers Of
st. Luke's Methodist Episcopal church at New
ark, New Jersey, have found their pastor,
Rev. DIR. George r. Bristoc, guilty Of immoral
and indecent practices, and he has resigned.
In view of the disastrous effects of
the telegrapher's strike upon the crude oil
trade, the Titusville Herald suggests General
Grant, Charles Francis Adams and Henry
Ward Beecher as arbitrators to settle the 1if-
fercnces.
The jury in the case Of ex-Treasurer
Polk, of Tennessee, brought In verdict Of
guilty Of embezzlement, fixing the penalty at
imprisonment in the penitcntiary for twenty
years and imposing fine to the full amount Of
the embezzlcment.
Chamberlain, President of the local
Government Board, stated in the House OF
Commons that the Board had made orders In
regard to Egyptian rags, but that the orders
rags were sent to America.
The deaths from cholera at Cairo on
the 28th numbered 81. A British Lieutenant
and eight soldiers succumbcd TO the disease.
Fifty-six deaths occurred at GhIzeh, forty-eight
at Chihen, twenty at Mchella, thirty at Tantah,
twelve at Mansurah, and twenty-five at Kafrcl
Hamza
Second Assistant Postmaster General