Delta chief., 1885-04-15
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIBS.

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have assured the safety of the grain crop.
Richard Grant White, the eminent
writer upon literary and art matters, is dead.
Surveys have been made at Sioux
City with view to bridging the river at that
point.
General Lehman, Prussian officer.
has been placed in command of the Chinese
artillery.
The movement from Suakim towards
Berber has beeL abandoned on account of the
heat and lack Of water.
Owing to General Grants physical
condition, the President has postponed the
White House receptions.
A strike of the employees at the Nc
Cormick reaper works in Cecago throws 1,6C0
men out of employment.
Russian troops continue to pour into
the Afghan frontier The present force is now
estimated at G., 900 men.
Mr.. Frelinghuysen, late Secretary of
State, is very III at his home in New Jersey,
and his death is imminent.
The surplus earnings of the Union
Pacific for February were $780, 900 against
s26s, 900 for February, 1884,
An officer of the United States Army
goes to Winnipeg to instruct the Dominion
forces in the use Of Calling guns.
The sacking of Colon has rendered
10000 people homeless and caused a loss of
property amounting to 100000.
Dan Kelley and Pat Sullivan were
k illed by pre- mature explosion in the Eureka
mine at Silver City, Utah, on the 9th.
During storm on Wednesday at
Washington the great monument was struck
three times by lightning, without injury.
The Mormon leaders are in hiding,
and the United States Deputy Marsbals are
searching for them, with warrants for their
arrest.
The levee of the Prince and Princess
of Wales at Dublin Castle was larger than any
affair of the kind since the visit Of the Queen
in 1S49.
Captain Couch is to 60 to Washing
ton, to lay the case of the Boomers before the
President, and they remain in camp to await
the result.
The annual Conference of the Nor
mon Church Is In session at Logan, Utah.
There is notable absence OF the leaders of
the church.
The Kimberly rolling mills at Green
vile, Penn, which shut down last fall on ac-
count Of financial troubles, have resumed
operations.
Three persons have been arrested in
Ch'csgo In connection with the ballot-box
theft in the Third Ward, and warrants are out
for others.
The Paris papers express the opinion
that war between England and Russia is GER
tain uuless Bismarck uses his persuasive pow
ers to preyent 1t.
1t is reported in Paris that an armis-
tice has been agreed upon between France and
China, and that China has agreed to eyacuate
Tonquin within month.
The effect of the war news in Europe
added over 5000, 600 to the value OF the wheat
in California. Should prices fall again Cali
fornia will feel the poorer.
Louis Derry, member of the City
Council at Poplar Bluff, Missouri, killed his
wife and himself after accusing her Of undue
intimacy with another man.
Another detachment of marines and
sailors sailed for Central America on the
steamer Acapulco on the 7th. They have n
battery Of six guns with them.
The Commissioner of the General
Land Office believes that fraudulent entries ex-
ist among the cattle ranges Of the West, and
he is on q still hunt for somcbody.l
The Dominion officials near tho seat
of war call for 800 renforcements immediate.
ly They state that Indians from lthc United
States are committing depredations.
Corrigan, who was convicted of frauds
on the medical department OF the Navy, at
Washington, has given the names OF his con
federatcs, and will appear against them.
Richard Bascombe and wife, an aged
coublc residing near North Platte, Ncb., were
murdered, and their house was burned to con-
ceal the crime. The motive is unknown.
John l.. Cummings, a clerk in the
First National Bank at Cincinnati was shot
dead in street car by Mr.. Mcmillan, who
claims that Cummings ruined his daughter.
The Prince and Princess of Wales
with their eldest son, Prince Albert Victor,
reached Dublin on the yacht Osborne on the
sth. There was q lack of popular enthusiasm.