Delta chief., 1884-11-05
TELEGRAPHIC BREVlTIES.

The loss by the Chapman fire at Mil
waukee will aggregate $soo,OOo.
McCaffrey declines to fight Mitchell
until after he has met John Sullivan.
The Supreme Court of Ohio has de-
clared the Scott liquor lay t. be unconstitu-
tional.
Tho congress of the Association for
the Advancement of Women is in session at
Baltimore.
The London Times now. urges the
| Conservatives to pass the Franchise bill with
out delay.
The liabilities of Arthur w. Bowman,
the San Francisco capitalist, are s771 900 and
his assets s553,OOO.
The families of the victims of the
Youngstown, Pa. mine disaster are being cared
for by the Coal company.
Only about 5000 acres in the Chero-
kee strip have been burned over, and plenty
of grass remains for the herds.
A memorial statue to the memory of
the late President Garfield has been unveiled
at Tower Grove Park, st. Louis.
The coal miners along the Mononga-
hela River who have been on . strike are re-
suming work at reduced wages.
Near St. Helena, Nebraska, Dane
who resisted arrest and killed the Sheriff was
afterwards lynched by the people.
One hundred thousand people united
in demonstration in Hyde Park In favor Of
the abolition of the House Of Lords.
Michal Graham, age7 years, was run
over by q street-car in Baltimore, and his head
was completely severed from his body.
1t is rumored that DIR. Busch, who
has written much about Bismarck, is to be sent
as the German Minister to Copenhagen.
The Treasury Department has pur-
chased 29o, 900 ounces Of silver for delivery at
the New Orleans and Philadelphia mints.
People of all classes thronged to the
funeral Of Mr.. Wormley at Warrington. The
pall-bearers were both white and colored.
The Women's Home Missionary So
ciety Of the Methodist Episcopal Church has
elected Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes as President.
The cholera deaths at Genoa from
September "a to date numbered 1917. Seven
ty-fve per cent of those who were attacked
died.
The mounted police in the Northwest
territory are being maseed at Prince Albert to
prevent an outbreak Of the half breeds under
Ricl.
George McVeetey is under arrest at
Jersey City on the charge of pouring coal oil
on his wife and setting fire to her, causing her
death.
The Governor Of Idaho claims pop
ulation for that Territory Of s., 900, which he
thinks should entitle It to be admitted to the
Union.
Griffin Halstead. the father Of Murat
Halstead was killed at Paddy's Run, Ohio, by
falling over an embankment and breaking bis
neck.
The explosion Of a freight engine at
Locust Point, near Baltimore, killed the en-
gineer aud fireman, Joshua Dixon and David
Burke.
Bob Cross, who killed Deputy Sheriff
Hollister near Hunneville, Kansas, has been
Jailed at El Dorado TO save him from being
lynched.
Fred W. Duvernois, a private bank
er Of Detroit, is missing. He left his debts
behind him, variously estimated from sS5 900
to 200.
The building occupied by A.G. Spald-
Ing & Brother, dealers in base ball goods. ETC.,
at Chicago, was partly burned. spslding's
loss, $4,000.
A domestic difficulty between William
Hall and his son Lincoln at Delphus, Kansas,
ended in the death Of the father, and the son
10 under arrest.
Yellow fever, in the most malignant
form is raging ON the west cost Of Mexico. It
rsges At Colima, 145o feet above the sea level. !
and At Manzanillo
Lapatin. . Nihilist, for whom the
Russian police have been looking for four
years, has been CAPTURED BY them In the street
at st. Petersburg.
Rhineland. who shot the lawyer John
Drake, in New York June 10, has been pro-
nounced sane and held FOR trial Drake recoy-
cred from his wound.
In the Police Court at Detroit ex-Gov-
ernor Moses Of South Csrolina pleaded guilty
Of swindling, and was sent TO the House of
Correction for three months.
At Fort Fettermsn, Wyoming. in .
dispute, Tom Diamond fired point blank At