Delta chief., 1885-08-19
TBIEGRAPHIC BREVlTBS.

On Sunday 4,711 new cholera cases
were reported in Spain, and 1,51l deaths.
Ninety young ladies took the veil at
the convent at Wilkesbarre, PeDnsylvania.
Over $4,000 has been subscribed in
Chicago towards the Grant Monument fund.
BY a fire in Manchester, N. H.. on
Saturday, six person were burned to death.
A fire in the lumber district of Cleve-
land, Ohio, caused $4,000 loss. Insurance,
s5s,OOO.
Sir Charles Dixie denies the truth OF
the allegations brought against him by Mr..
Crawford.
The volcano of Cotopaxi is in active
| eruption. The lava has des royed one hun
dred houses.
The President has issued proclama-
tion commanding the removal Of the fences on
the public domain.
The cholera in Spain is increasing
rapidly. There were 1882 new cases on Satur-
day and 1859 deaths.
The Oklahoma colony, which has
been in camp near Caldwell, Kantas, for some
months, is dIssolving.
The strike at East Saginaw. Michi-
gan, which has lasted nearly five weeks, has
ended in q compromise.
The French newspapers comment on
the great number of German spies who appear
to be over-running France.
The Acting Commissioner of the Cen
eral Land Of1ce refuses to issue any more pat
srts to the Northern Pacific road.
The Board of Health Of Montreal an
nounce that an epidemic Of smallpox exists in
that city. The hospitals are crowded.
The Sultan of Zanzibar has yielded
| to the demands Of the German Admiral con-
cerning German claims in his territory.
A horse-thief named Partridge who
was captured near Fort Fetterman, was
lynched by the people near Laramie, Wyom-
| ing.
The latest report from the Agricul-
tural Bureau notes An Improvement in the
winter wheat crop and better outlook for
corn.
Seventy-five families were driven into
the streets In their night clothes in Jersey City
by the burning of . number Of tenement
houses.
The troops at Suakim are reported to
be dying like ,nies, and the officials are sup
pressing information relative TO the awful
mortality.
When the Emperor of Austria starts
for Kremsier to meet the Gear, guards will be
posted along the railway within 6fty PAGES of
each other.
The steamer Zealandia has arrived at
San Francisco bringing Maxwell, the alleged
murderer of Preller in St. Lna>as enc Of the
passengers.
A lookout is being kept at Baltimore
and at the Delaware Breakwater for three YES
sells which left Genoa, Italy, wlthou. clean
bills Of health.
A broken embankment in the prov
ince of Canton, China, caused food which
drowned 1000 people and swept away q vast
amount Of property.
According to the records Of the Land
Once at Washington, the cattlemen OF Colo.
rado have .. .645, $40 acres OF tie public domain
inside their fences.
There was hardly city or hamlet
throughout the whole country that did not
observe the day Of General Grants funeral by
appropriate exerciEes.
A cloudburst is reported from Green
Vile Township, Berks county, Pennsylvania,
which washed out the fields aud caused q food
in the schuylkill river.
The Union Pacific has reduced the
working hours In the Omaha shops from ten
to eight daily. Similar reductions will proba-
bly, follow at other points.
An officer Of the Marine Hospital SER
vice has been ordered to visit TampIco and
Bagdad, Mexico, to ascertain whether the yel.
low fever exists in those cities.
Judge James Garland, who served
seven.y-three years on the bench and had but
two decisions reversed, died At Lynchburg,
Va, in the 95th year Of his age.
A terrible condition OF affairs is re-
ported from Grenada Spain. All the doctors
have fed, and the dead bodies OF the cholera
victims lie unburied in the streets.
David Marheles, Of Coloma, Missouri,
who was jealous Of any attention to his d.
vorced wife, shot her dead "a she was leaving
church, and afterward killed himself.
A meeting is to occur shortly between
the Gar and the Emperors Of Germany and
Austria The Russian army Is being mobil-
lied to protect the Gar from Nihilists.
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