Delta chief., 1885-11-18
TEIEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.
Ex-senator Sharon is dead.

buell. pension agent at LOUISVILLE.
Ex-Governor Click, of Kansas, has
been appointed pension agent at Topeka
War has been formally declared be-
tween Burmah and the Indian Government.
Eight young men of Ottawa, Canada,
were sentenced to life imprisonment for rape.
Riel has been respited until Novem-
Der 16. His execution had been fixed for the
10th.
William Hyde of the St. Louis Re
publican has been appointed postmaster at St.
Louis.
It is semi iicially stated that Riel
will be hanged on Monday morning, at s
o'clock.
Horace B. Claflin. the millionaire dry
goods merchant, died Saturday Of apoplery,
aged "A years.
Charles Edward Lewis, M. p, was
mobbed by factory girls and treated in q
shameful manner.
The Free Trade League, in meeting
at Chicago, passed resolutions in favor Of hay
ing no tariff at ALL
Servia has declared war on Bulgaria,
and in frontier skirmish eight serv,aus and
one Bulgarian were killed.
Great destitution is reported among
the sbip-builders on the Clyde owing TO the
suspension OF work there.
MIR. Stead is in prison garb in the
Cold Bath Fields prison. He Is required to
pick one pound Of oakum daily.
The receipts of the Post Office De-
psriment for the fiscal year were Is, 400, 900
less than the cost Of the service.
eMr. Stead is to be treated as First
class misdemesnant' by the prison authori-
ties, by order Of the Government.
1t is expected that the sufferers by
the burning OF AspinwAll last spring will call
on the United States TO foot the bill.
By the fall Of a scaffold at tho iron
bridge near Kei.hsburg, Illinois, four men
were killed and two others were badly injured.
The remains of MIR. Yeater and his
wife, who were killed by the ApAches near
Deming, have been sent TO sedalia, Missouri,
10. burial.
The soldiers in the barracks at Linn
erick made furious attack upon the residents
Of their regh borhood. -Four persons were Sc
verely wounded.
A revised list shows that forty-five
persons were lost By the wreck OF the Canadian
steamer Algoma on Lake Superior, and four
teen were taved.
The business nj the leading clearing
houses OF the country last week Indicates n
most encouraging revival OF trade at all Of the
principal centers.
A destructive storm passed through
Alabama last week washing away bridges, de-
stroyipg the growing CT ops and lcveling forests
and houses for miles.
John Foley, n theatre attache at
Butte, Montana, fatally shot Alice Fleck, wisa
whom he had been li;ing, wounded one Yates,
her escort, and thcr killed himself.
Nearly 5000 coal miners in southern
Ohio are on a strike and all OF the iron fur.
naces except two have closed. The coal roads
are cutting down their force in const quence.
Ex-Judge .Viuccnt attributes his re-
mova to the act OF criminal who is related
- Fishbsck OF indianapolis, through whom the
adverse information was sent to Washington.
The London Standard says OF tho
war in Bulgaria: "We see the beginning, bu,
no human intelligence can pretend to set the
limits to the area or the intensity Of the fire."
John Yeater and wife, from Pike
County, Missouri, were mui dercd by the
Apaches while on their way TO the Missouri
Florida Company ranch in southwestern New
Mexico.
Charles Crocker, Vice President of
the Southern Pacific company, has donated
$3l 600 to the Boy and Girls Aid Society OF
san Francisco, for the construction OF their
building.
Sidney Dillon has given 81 900 to tho
Grant Monument fund, and he suggests that
the other members of the New York Asso
citation hand In their checks for a similar
amount.
Four seats in the next House OF Rep.
resentatives are TO be contested, aud the Clerk
has also received protest from the citizens Of
bis district against the seating OF Mr.. Henly.
| OF California.
The Piegnps are off their reservation,
and on thieving tour in Wyoming The
military will round them up and force them
back, II possible, before they have sccomp.
lshed any thing serious.
james Young, who is serving long
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