Delta chief., 1884-12-31
TELEGRAPHIC BREVlYIES.

B. Platt Carpenter of New York has
been confirmed as Governor of Montana.
The new pension building at Wash.
ton has been secured for the Inauguration ball
Mr.. Evarts announces that he is 9
candidate for the United States Senate from
New York.
The Cleveland Rolling Mill company
have closed five department Of their work.
until further notice.
General Hazen, of the SIGNAL Service,
will publish book, in March, entitled: "a
Personal Narrative of Battles"
The old Liberty bell goes from Phila'
delphia to New Orleans, guarded by joint
Committee Of the City Council.
In fire near Mansfield, Pennsylva-
mia, Thomas Bell, who lived alone and could
not be aroused, was burned to death.
The French Minister has been order.
ed to inform China that further negotiations
will be useless and war must follow.
The Indiana Democrats in Washing.
aid should have place in the Cabinet.
Fifteen Chicago men have been in.
dicted for land frauds in Nebraska, and the
United States Marshal is looking them up.
A sleigh containing nine persons was
struck by an engine at St. Paul, Minnesota,
killing two and severely injuring the others.
John w. Mcconnell, the Oldest dry
goods house in Lincoln, ,Nebrsska, has assigned.
Liabilities, ssl, 600; nominal assets, s75,ooo.
"A hurricane accompanied by thunder
and lightning, did immense damage on the
French coast between Brest and Cherbourg.
Some uneasiness has been felt at
Washington over the physical condition of
Chief Justice Waite, but his health 70 improv-
ing.
The opening of the Bennett Mackey
cables for business has compelled the old cable
companies to make . material reduction in
prices.
General Sherman addressed the Mill
tary Service Institute 1t Governors Island on
1.-THE Military Nee essities of the United
States"
The Medical Department Of the Co
lumbar University lat Warrington now ad-
mits women to all privileges Of the medical
school.
John B. Thompson, Superintendent
Of the Railway Mail Service, viii succeed Henry
NJ. Lyman Is Second Assistant Postmaster
General.
A pound of powder shattered . safe
door in Dayton, Ohio, behind which the bur-
glars found sixty cents. They took every
nickle Of It.
The steamer Oliveto from Shields.
England, for New York, is ashore on Long
Island and will probably be = total wreck. No
lives were lost.
An Anti-Mormon meeting was held
at Chicago, and resolutions were adopted,
asking congress to pass senatorCullom's anti
Mormon bill.
Walt Henry, an Akron, Ohio. saloon
keeper, got drunk, and because his wife OBJ
jected, he beat her so severely that she died.
He is in custody.
The grievances of the engineers on
the Gould system Of roads have been adjusted
by the authorities, and all danger Of a strike
has been averted.
The National Tube Works at Nc
Keesport, Pennsylvania, have closed down for
an indefinite period for want Of orders. They
employ 1900 men.
Miles Ogle, a noted counterfeiter, was
captured at Memphis, Tennessee, with 5000
in counterfeit notes on the Third National
Bank Of Cincinnati.
An aeronaut named MacNeal made
an ascension at West Point, Alabama, and was
drowned by his balloon descending into the
Chattahoochie River.
Two explosions and a subsequent fire
destroyed Pratt's astral oil works at Williams
burg, New York. The loss is estimated at
$500, 900 to 100000.
The Japanese Government has re-
mitted the indemnity OF 10000 which was
payable by Corea for the attack on the Japan
ese legation in 1889.
Two petrifed human bodies were
brought into Santa Maria, California, by two
miners who claimed to have found them while
prospecting near there.
A report from Fall River, Massachu-
setts, states that the feeling amongst the mills
there indicates that the worst has passed, aud
that trade is improving.
James Collins, ticket agent OF the
Pan Handle road at Cadiz Junction, Ohio,
gathered $4,000 from the company and his
friends and disappeared.
Some Spanish bandits who failed to
find wealth in the possessions Of priest at