Delta chief., 1884-10-22
STATE NEWS.

changed hands.
Boulder has shipped 80, 900 pounds of
grapes this season.
The range is reported in excellent
condition for winter.
Frank Hatton has been appointed
Postmaster General.
John Paul, of Boulder, has been con-
victed Of manslaLghter.
The Treasury Department purchased
200 ounces of silver this week.
The steamship Elder brought $780,
900 in gold to New York on the 18th.
In last Tuesdays election Ohio went
Republican by about 1900 majority.
West Virginia went strongly Demo-
cratic in her election for State officers last
week.
Another attempt to wreck train on
the Santa Fe road was made near Florence last
Sunday.
A bronze statue of John Harvard, the
founder Of Harvard College, has been unveiled
at Boston.
A file at Liberty. Virginia, on the
18th, burned tw enty lone business houses. Loss,
$15OO00.
The United States Government will
be asked to send representative to the Con-
go Conference.
Admiral Courbet announces that he
expects to resume offensive operations in For
mosa next week.
A syndicate of German merchants
has been formed for promoting German trade
on the west coast Of Africa.
Sheriff Graham, of Arapahoe County,
has sued the Rev. DR.. Hays for libel, claiming
damages In the sum Of $4,000.
The attempt of Maud s. at Charter
Oak Park, to lower her record Of 2.o9sf was
failure owing to the strong wind.
Further details from the cyclone in
Sicily increase the extent Of the disaster. Full
ly 1900 dwellings we're destroyed.
The latest reports from Toledo indi-
cate that Frank Hurd, the Free Trader, is
beaten for Congress by 800 votes.
During the past ten years, 400 sugar
estates on the Island of Cuba have been either
destroyed or abandoned by their owners.
The steamer Farady with the New
York end of tho Bennett-Mackey cable has
made landing with It at Manhattan Beach.
Rev. J. NJ. Robinson, ,of,, Indianapolis,
was found dead in berth in Wabash sleep.
ing car. The cause Of his death is unknown.
One man was killed and ten we're
wounded in the ARRAYS in Cincinnati on cleo
ton day. Five of the wounded will probably
die.
In the glove fight at Madison Square
Garden, on the 18th, between Mitchell and
McCanrey, the latter was declared to be the
winner.
Thirty.one mills at Fall River have
agreed to shut down for one week. This will
stop 1000, 900 spindles and turn loose 10000
employees
The Denver Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union is asking the city council to re-
member that there is a law called the. Minors
Ordnance"
A supposed dynamite explosion at
the new and incomplete Parliament building
destroyed some Of the masonry and shattered
the windows.
Richard Simpson, cashier in Jones &
Fishers bank at La JuAta, has left for parts
unknown, taking several thousand dollars in
cash with him.
The tobacco factory Of A, C.Jackson
a Co at Petersburp Virginia burned I,oss
$40, 1000; insurance, 100000. The works en-
ployed 400 hands.
Carelessness on the part Of the cattle
inspector at Dona Ana county, New Mexico,
has admitted the Texas fever and many cattle
are dead and dying.
Fire engines from Columbus, Logan
and Lancaster, Ohio, arc at the burning coal
mines in the Hooking Valley endeavorIpg to
extinguish the flames.
Many of the coal mines in the Hook
ing Valley region Of Ohio have been fired by
incendiarits. No disturbance has occurred
among the striking miners.
An enthusiastic temperance mass
meeting, in the Opera House at Trinidad, re-
Gently took the place Of the usual services in
the churches on Sunday night.
The London Times thinks that when
the election in the United States has been de-
cided, free trade will become the dominant and
dividing question in America.
Four masked robbers compelled
Nicholas Helfrick, in Cambria County, Penn
syivanis, TO tell where he had bis money Sc