Delta chief., 1885-04-22

stager, of Chicago, has been admitted to pro-
bate. The estate Is valued at $S5O, 900, and is
divided between his three daughters.
A hitch has occurred in the peace
cause China asks some concessions which the
French representative refuses to grant.
Permission has been granted to
Agent McGinicuddy of the Pine Ridge Agency
to go to Washington to reply to the charges
which were made against him by Red Cloud.
Senator Sherman says the country
will have to go through the same struggle to
make silver dollar equal in value to gold
dollar, that 1t did to resume specie payments.
The building occupied by the Buffalo
Morning Express, Edward Hoffman, litho-
grapher, and Matthews, Northrup & Com
pany, burned. Total loss, 100000; partly
insured.
Phe President has issued his procla-
nation declaring that President Arthur's
proclamation opening the Winneb'go reserva
vation to settlement is inoueratlve and II
legal.
John A. O'Neill, formerly the Demo-
cratic Mayor Of Hoboken, New Jersey, has
been appointed Superintendent of the Bureau
of Engraving and Printing, to succeed George
W. Caslear.
General Grant recently received
remittance Of g. 900 besides the interest for
several years. 1t came from man who bor-
rowed the money and whom the General sup.
posed was dead.
A boat containing several ladies,
among them the wife of Admiral Reynolds,
was upset near tbe beach; at Old Point Com
fort, Virginia, and Mrs. Reynolds subsequent
ly died from exhaustion.
The Civil Service Commission an
nounces that the applicants for examination
are in excess of the needs Of the service, and
the applicants must not expect sweeping
changes on partisan grounds.
Eight houses on Eleventh Avenue in
New York have been condemned by the build
ing department and ordered TO be taken down.
They were built by the same contractor who
constructed the recently wrecked tenements.
A party of tramps was driven from
Senator Standfords place at Red Cliff, Cal,
and early on the following morning his
stables were burned. They contained 115
horses and mules, and only four were res
cued.
The Sixty-fifth Regiment from Mon
treal, is at Colgarry, and the men refuse to go
further, claiming that they need equipments.
AS they are Frenchmep, It 10 thought that they
are unwilling to be led against the French half
breeds.
The statement is made that the Rus
sian Minister at Washington desires to secure
the sugar steamers which ply between San
Francisco and the Sandwich Islands, for ser
vice in Japanese and Indian waters in the
event Of war.
The dead body of young English
man was found in a room at the Southern
Hotel at St. Louis, In trunk aud partially de
composed. 1t is supposed that he was mur-
dered by companion April 5. The police are
working at 1t.
A fire in the Saltwater Hotel in
Cleveland on the 11th, caused an aggregate
loss Of s6s, 900. The building was eight stories
high and supposed to be absolutely hre-
proof.n The damsge was confined to the
three upper stories.
William Clark, a farmer Of Holt
county, Mo-, who had q family, seduced
young girl Of that neighborhood, and when
partial reparation was demanded he killed the
girls mother, wounded her younger brother
and the girl and then committed suicide.