Delta chief., 1884-09-24
TBLEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Nihilist engineers are said to be max
ing bombs in London.
Robert Hoe, the celebrated printing
press manufacturer, is dead
England is to loan Egypt $4,000, 900.
to pay its floating debt and construct irrigat-
ing works.
A collision between freight trains on
the Reading railroad wrecked two engines and
forty-fye cars.
The four-year-old son of Mrs. Jennie
King, of Pueblo, was drowned in the city mill
ditch on the 10th.
Peters & Co., wholesale dealers in
dry goods at Syracuse, New York, have failed
Liabilities, s1a5,O
N. C. Thompson's bank at Rockford,
Illinois, has suspended. The liabilities are cs-
timated at soO0,0OO.
w. II. Payne's -four mill on One
Hundred and Twenty-ninth street, New York,
burned. Loss, 100000.
The President has designated Assist
ant Secretary Coon to act as Secretary OF the
Treasury for ten days.
The Italian Consul at Baltimore has
been missing for two weeks. He owes $50,
600 in borrowed money.
After visiting the Agricultural Fair
Worcester, Massachusetts,, MF. Blaine Will
visit Ohio and Indiana.
China offers to submit her case to
any friendly power. France refuses to accept
the mediation of America
Two green glass bottle houses at
Pittsburg have started their furnaces after
three months suspension.
General Gordon complains of the
slowness of the British authorities In moving
for the relief Of Khartoum.
England is said to be inqniring into
the future intentions Of Admiral Courbet, es
| pecially in reference to Shanghai.
The imports of specie at New York
since January 1, are sl3, 7o3,el3, against sio-
932 s55 for the same time In 1888.
The Gear has pardoned forty-two Nj
hilists who were in Siberia and committed the
sentences Of seventy-three Others.
The vitriol works Of james Irwin &
Co., at Pittsburg, Penn, burned on the 18th.
Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000
The disorders in Brussels over the
Educational bill continue. A crowd In front
OF the Royal Palace hootcd the King.
The Copyright Congress at Berne has
prepared the draft OF an international treaty
which will be submitted to the powers.
L., or rna1
supplies to British runboat which Is stationed
at the cable landing near Foo Chow.
Rindkoff Brothers & Co., clothiers, of
New York and Cincinnati. have assigned.
Liabilities, $500, GOO; Assess, 81, 100, 900.
Admiral Courbet claims that he dam
aged the Chinese at Foo Chow and along the
Min river to the extent Of ti0, 100000.
Frank Jones who terrified the people
at Wellington, Kansas, and wounded one man
was hanged by body OF armed men.
Judge Gresham. the Postmaster-G Cen
ersl is now named the successor OF Judge
Drummond on the Circuit Court bench.
E,J Forsells' Sons of New Orleans
have suspended. They represented Barring
Brother1 Of London for over fifty years.
The Commission to visit Mexico and
Central and South America will leave Wash
ington for the City Of Mexico on October 10.
The Garfield Committee for the State
OF New York have collected t9,629.2 22, which
they will forward to the National Committee.
Queen Victoria has sent message Of
coincidence to Queen Margherita Of Italy in
view OF the virulence Of the cholera at Naples
The English Government will attempt
to open a passage up the Nile with dynamite
Sixteen thousand pounds have been shipped to
Egypt.
A fight occurred on the Min River
between 1000 French troops and the Chinese
in which the latter were defeated with heavy
loss.
Hon. Walter Evans, Commissioner
OF Internal Revenue, is mentioned among the
probable candidates for the Treasury port
folio. -
Port Huron, Michigan, is seriously
threatened d by the forest fires in that vicinity.
Huronia Beach has been deserted by It's inhabi-
tants.
The Cambria Iron Works, at Johns
town, Pennsylvanis, have notified their 5000
workmen that wages will be reduced on Octo-
Der l..
A fight Of. four hours duration oc-