Delta chief., 1885-07-08
TELEGRAPHIC BREVlTIES.

For Sunday the Spanish authorities
report 943 new cholera cases and 54 deaths.
John Mccullough, the actor, has
been finally placed in Bloomington Asylum by
his friends.
Ohio Prohibitionists have nominated
Rev. A. B. Leonard, D. D., Of Springfield, for
Governor.
Terrific storms are reported from
the French provinces with enormous destruc-
tion to property.
The jury in the case Of Mrs: Dudley.
the shooter of Rosa, acquitted her on the
ground Of insanity.
It is now stated that the disease is
nearing the jugular vein and that Gen. Grant
cannot live many days.
Two gambling houses were found IN
full blast in Chicago, regardless OF Mayor Har-
rison's order, and the police made ffty-seven
arrests.
Captain Crawford reports that he
overlook renegade Apsches on Mexican soil,
killed one buck and captured fifteen women
and children.
Mr.. Elkins has sont letter to Com
missioner Sparks informing him that he Gel
kins) has no interest whatever in the Maxwell
land grant.
The dead body Of Eliza Sage was
found in the brush near Allegan, Michigan, by
Circuit Judge Arnold. She had been outraged
and murdered.
Mrs. Dudley goes to the asylum at
Middletown, New York, by order of the court,
and the public will not hear from her again
for some time.
The report Of the defeat Of the Mexi-
cans by the Ysqui Indians, and the death Of
Gen. Garcia, is confirmed. -Four hundred SOL
diers were killed.
James b. Klmball, Of Pennsylvania,
has been appointed Director of the Mint, vice
Horatio G. Burchard, suspended. The change
takes place July 1.
Lieutenant Hanna with his Apache
prisoners, has reached Fort Bowie. He reports
the capture of large quantity Of ammunition
in the fight at Opulo.
Earl Spencer held reception at
Dublin Castle prior TO his departure for Eng
lAnQ. nc pOlce Wtfe prebcut III hiBe NUM-
bers to prevent catastrophe.
The South American Commission
found little to encourage trade between the
United States and Chill. The trade of that
country is in English hands.
A revolt, backed by the Russians, has
broken out in Northern Afghanistsn, eastward
from the location Of the recent Russian acqui-
sitions, and threatening Csbul.
A Dallas dispatch says that S. P.
Samuel of Mesquite, has sold to Samuel 8.
Brother, Of Silver City, New Mexico, bis Plato
Hermaso silver mine for t5,000OO0.
James McDaniels. . mail robber and
desperado, was shot in the neighborhood Of
San Geronimo, Texas, twhile resisting arrest.
He had recently escaoed from jail.
Lightning struck powder magazine
near Cheyenne exploding three tons Of pow
der. woman was painfully hurt by the n.y.
ing debris and two horses were killed.
Russia is reported to be pushing
work on the Trans Caspian railway with all
possible vigor. A foundry has been estab-
lished at Herat for casting heavy guns.
Brigham Young, Jr., and Bishop
Snow, Of the Mormon hierarchy, have gone to
Mexico, 1t is supposed, to negotiate for the
purchase Of land for Mormon colonists.
An unrelenting war is being waged
on the border between Texas and the Indian
Territory against the horse thieves, and they
are hanged as fast as they are captured.
The Commissioner Of Pensions has
decided TO dismiss between fifty and sixty Of
the special examiners who were appointed un-
der the act Of Congress which was passed in
1884.
Tho steamer Gallia, OF tho Cunard
line, is en- route to Queenstown with broken
shaft. Roscoe Conkling, q. 8. Cox, and eI-
Attorney General Brewster are among the
passengers
Reports from Southern Kansas are to
the effect that ten inches Of rain fell in twen-
ty-four hours. All railroads suffered from
washouts. The streams are higher than for
many years.
Melissa Steepleton, school teacher
at ellison, Illinois, took arsenic because Ed
ward southerland could not afford to marry
her, and when he heard Of her death he killed
himself with rife.
Reports from the Arkansas Valley, in
Kansas, regarding the wheat, are TO the effect
that the yield is much better than had been
expected. It is now thought that the
yield in Kansas will be about one-half Of last
vesrs' crop.