Delta chief., 1884-10-29
TELEGRAPHIC BREVlTIES.

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landed at Coney Island.
The cattle quarantine in New Mexico
will be raised November 1.
The Tichborne claimant has been re-
leased from his Imprisonment
The loss by the Chapman fire at Mil
waukee will aggregate $500 900.
McCaffrey declines to fight Mitchell
until after he has met John Sullivan.
The North Carolina Prohibitionists
have nominated full electoral ticket.
Carthage, New York, was almost
annihilated by destructive fire on the 10th.
Forty-one horses burned to death IN
Rosenbaum's stable at Meridian, Mississippi.
Three butchers, at Golden New Mex
leo, are under arrest on the charge Of stealing
cattle.
The London Times now urges the
Conservatives to pass the Franchise bill with
out delay.
Benton Nichols & Co., folding box
factory, at New haven, Connecticut, burned.
Loss, $4,000.
Five business houses at St. Mary's
Kansas, burned on the 10th. Loss, $4,000;
insurance, $4,000.
The Union Pacific has acquired con-
trolling interest in the Oregon Railway & Nav
igation Company.
The cotton mills at Augusta, Georgia,
are resuming work on full time with wages re-
duced 25 per cent.
The liabilities Of Arthur w. Bowman,
the San Francisco capitalist, are e77l, 600 and
his assets $5ss,Ooo.
Chapman's mammoth dry goods
house at Milwaukee burned on the 23d. Total
loss about $500, 900.
The grand stand and some Of the
stables Of the St. Louis Jockey Club track
burned. Loss $4,000.
1t is rumored that German mediation
is to be employed to bring about peace be-
tween France and China.
Forty idle ocean steamers are lying
at the doc s in Sutherland and ship building
on the Tyne is paralyzed.
The issue of silver dollars last week
was s594 996 against f579,997 for the cores
ponding period in Ia year.
Only about $1,000 acres in the Chero-
kee strip have been burned over, and plenty
Of grass remains for the herds.
General Hazen asks Congress to
make an inquiry Into the Greely Expedition
and the Efforts for the rescue.
The French merchants Of Alexandria
urge the Immediate payment OF the AleIau-
dria indemnity, to save them from ruin.
The Khedive has agreed to make re-
ductions in his army and among the civil Of
hcers, and thereby reduce bis expenses.
People of all classes thronged 10 the
funeral Of Mr.. Wormley at Washington. The
pail bearers were both white and colored.
The cholera deaths at Genoa from
September "a to date numbered 1917. Seven
ty-tive per cent Of those who were attacked
died.
The mounted police In the Northwest
territory are being msssed at Prince Albert 10
prevent an outbreak Of the hall. breeds under
Ricl.
Boone, who assailed Governor Cleve-
land, has been discharged from custody at the
request Of the Governor, who declined to pros
ecute
MIR. w. II. Vanderbilt has donated
$50, 900 to the Trustees Of the College Of Ply
sciaus and Surgeons In New York Is build
Ing fund.
Bob Cross, who killed Deputy Sheriff
HollIster near Hunnevillc, Kansas, has been
Jailed at Ell Dorado to save him from being
lynched.
The jury at Salt Lake in the trial Of
the Polygamist Clawson, failed to agree, and
Judge Zane ordered second .iial TO begin I'm
mediately.
A domestic difficulty between William
Hall and his son Lincoln at Delphus, Kausas,
ended In the death Of the father, and the son
10 under arrest.
A train on the Cincinnati & Eastern
Narrow Gauge road fell through bridge al
East Fork, killing the engineer and fteman
and injuring eight others.
A. w. Bowman, the San Francisco
real estate broker who lately failed, has been
placed under arrest. There Is suspicion OF
crookedncss in his Affairs.
Matt Smith. colored resident OF
West Kansas City, hsd bis head severed In
twain hy Jennie Smith, With whom be hss
been living. He died instantly,
In the fight at Tamsin the French