Delta chief., 1884-08-20

Three escaped. Several were wounded on
both sides.
The records and relics of the Greedy
expedition have been sent to the Chief Signal
Officer. They will be used in preparing the
official reports of Lieutenant Greely and the
Chief Signal Officer.
Eli George and Buck Gehrehart
fought twenty-seven rounds at Pittsburg with
bare knuckles, and George was so badly pun
ished that he was unable to leave the room in
which the fight occurred.
A party of Montana cowboys have
band of horse thieves surrounded near the
mouth Of the Musel Shell, but the band is too
large to be attacked. Reinforcements have
been sent to the cowboys.
A dispatch from Shanghai to Reuters
agency, dated August 9, states that five French
vessels and squadron under Admiral Lcspes
have bombarded and captured the town OF ke-
lung, on the island of Formosa.
The last layer of stone was placed on
the Washington monument August 9th 1t is
now 500 feet high. Workmen will Immediate
ly begin erecting the framework for the roof.
which will be ffty-fve feet high.
An earthquake shock was felt Sun
day along the Atlantic Coast from bo on to
Houses and inhabitants received lively shak
ing up, but no damage was done.
On the l4th Mr.. Blaine brought suit
for $4,000 against the Indianapolis Sentinel
for publishing story which he characterizcs
as untrue in every particular in regard to his
relations to his wife before marriage.
Charles A. Dana declines the Chair
manship Of the Butler meeting in New York,
August 30, but he says any citizen who Is In
terested in the promotion of Democratic prn'
! ciples might be proud to preside over it.
A fire in the Eastern portion of Gin
cinnati, along the river front, which originated
| in Henlon s. Coles lumber yard, burned the
lockwood pottery and ten dwellings. The
| loss to the lumber yard owners was 10000.
| At Collula, Texas, on the 18th,
Green Mccullough wiped out an old score by
| shooting Charles A. Bragg, when the lattcr's
back WAS turned towards him. The people
completed the business by lynching McCul.
| Tough.
jKatie Mitchell, aged II years. resid-
| ing near Sycamore, Illinois, was left alone by
her parents on the 14th, while they went to
| town. During their absence, Louis Taylor, a
farm hand, murdered her. He was pursued,
and killed himself to escape capture.
Three children on farm near South
Ferry, Ohio, named Robert Wood, Louise d.
Wood and Kate Shaw, all Of whom were under
| 10 years OF age, were burned to death In a
barn on the 12th, having gone there to smoke,
and in so doing set the building on fire.
A duel was fought at Emory Gap. on
the Cincinnati Southern Railway on the l4th,
between William II. Rogerson and a cripple,
named Staples, and both were killed. Staples
had made some derogatory remarks about
Rogcrson, who consequently challenged him.
A delegation of Comanche, Kiowa
and Wichita Indians visited the Interior De-
partment on the 18th, to ascertain the proper
| course to be pursued in leasing their lands.
They desire to lease between 100000 and 81
O0O, 900 acres in the Indian Territory to the
cattlcmen.
ne steamer btdCdulIc, lIom Shi-
cutta, arrived recently at st. Lucia, Cubs, with
| emigrants. After the steamer left Calcutta
thirty cases of cholera appeared and twen'
| ty patients died. No new cases have appeared
on the vessel for twenty-ninc days The
steamer was placed in quarantine at Havana.
Of the $4,000 postmasters in the
United States there are 1000 whose salaries
are below $40, thirty-four whose salaries did
not last year amount to the sum Of 81 each,
| fifteen whose salaries were less than so cents,
and onc-H. II. Forest, of Redalia, Pitt coun'
| ty, N. C.-whose earnings for the year were
cents.
According to an ''inspired' article
in Lloyd's Weekly, the chief organ Of the work
Ing classes Of England, the Prince OF Wales Is
free-tradcr from principle, is opposed TO az
| gression, and is believer in monarchical
| form Of government, because It keeps In
check individual ambition, extravaganza and
jobbery.
The New York Times of the 18th
nublIshes n horrible story to the effect that