Delta chief., 1884-12-24
TBLBGRAPHlC BREVIr[ES.

Nine. Columbier is enjoying two
weeks imprisonment for authorship of
"Sarah Barnum."
Louise Michel, the anarchist agitator,
who is now in French. prison, will pc par
donsd January 1.
Sullivan and Greenfield, who were on
trial in New York for prize fighting, were ac-
quilted by the jury.
Laconia, New Hampshire, reports the
heaviest earthquake shock that was ever expe-
rienced in that locality.
Bismarck favors the abdication of the
Khedive and the resignation Of Nubar Pasha
Prime Minister to Egypt.
An Albany dispatch names Hon.
Thomas F. Bayard, of Delaware, as Cleveland's
Secretary Of the Treasury.
General Hazen has preferred charges
against Lieutenant Darlington in connection
with the Proteus expedition.
The Coreans are in state of revolt,
and two America vessels have gone there to
protect American interests.
The municipal authorities of London
offer 1000 reward for the discovery Of the
authors of the bridge explosion.
The Lake Superior IRON men protest
against the ratification Of thUSpanish treaty,
because It admits Cuban ore free.
The Swiss have fined and imprisoned
two Mormon apostles and forbidden them to
enter their country for three years.
Eight stores burned at s.. Marys,
Kapss. One man is missing. The property
losses aggregate $4,000; partially insured.
Orth Stein has been arrested at Chi
cago and taken TO Kansas City, where be for
A consignment of 2O0 pounds Of dyn-
amite was seized at Dover by the English po-
lice Il had just arrived from the Continent.
The Chicago Board Of Trade has sus-
pended Peter McGeoch, because Of his plea,
IN Milwaukee, that bis contracts were not
legal.
Rev. H. d. Jardine. has brought suit
against the Kansas City Tlass, claiming t2S,-
600 damages for certain publications in their
paper.
The incoming Atlantic steamers at
New York report the toughest weather that
they ever experienced. Several steamers are
overdue.
Rich placers arc reported for 1000
mile along the Yukon river in Alaska, by
Lieutenant Abercrombie, who explored that
stream for 9, 100 miles.
A raiding party in the interest Of the
internal Revenue Bureau was attacked near
Gainesville, Georgia, by moopshiners, and two
Of the latter were killed.
The London Times declares that tho
treaty between Nicaragua and tho United
States, for . canal across the isthmus, IL ip
violation Of the Ciayton-Bulwer treaty.
In the investigation Of the Cincinnati
elections one Of the witnesses testified 70 ar
resting Eve Chicago repesters, who stated that
they intended to vote the Democratic ticket.
Reinsdorf, one Of tho Anarchist pris-
oners who are on trial at Leipzig for an At
tempt on thelife Of the German Emperor, con-
fessed in court that he planned the attempt.
Samuel Easel. Of GreenvilIe. Texas,
attempted te win his wife back after he had
eloped with . negro woman, and when she re-
fused he Killed their little daughter and him.
self
The Chester Block at Johnston. Ohio,
containing three stores and the Masonic and
Odd Fellows Hall, burned. One man was
burned TO death. Loss, $1,000; partially In
sured.
Bonito Durana, sheep herder, near
Cheyenne, fell in love with Mrs. Adella Ssn-
chez, and because she would not elope with
him he shot her and then killed himself. The
woman IA dead.
Six convicts while working in the
coal mines at Coal Creek, Tennessee, made .
dash for liberty. Two were killed, two were
mortally wounded, and the remaining two
were recsptured.
A tramp invaded the house of Mrs.
Sally sprague at Rockville Center, on Long
Island, and demanded her money. 6he got
her pocket book and as she gave II TO him with
one hand she shot him with . revolver.
Captain Dudley and Mate Stephens.
boy Parker to sustain their own lives when
they were castaways, have had their sentences
commuted to six months imprisonment.
Some Of the people at Horse Cave,
Kentucky, notified P. J, slocum, school
teacher, to leave or he would be "waited on"
His visitors came on Saturday night, and |
Slocum killed one and wounded several others. !
He stil holds the fort
On charge Of illegal voting at tho