Delta chief., 1885-08-05
TELEGRAPHIC BREVl4IES.

n Destructive forest fires are raging IN
New Jersey.
Maud S. trotted mile in 2:l1 in
Cleveland last Saturday.
The Virginia Democrats have nomi-
mated Gen. Fitzhugh Lee for Governor.
The Dean of Westminster has grant
ed the use of the Abbey for Grant memorial
services.
Chicago has already raised $4,000
for an equestrian statue of General Grant in
that city.
There were 1904 deaths in New
York last week, which is the greatest mortali-
ty since 1872.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany has subscribed IS, ,OCO to the Grant Monu-
ment fund.
The remains of Sir Moses Montefiore
were buried at Ramsgate beside those Of his
deceased wife.
Stanley Huntley, author OF the
"spoopendyke papers," died at his residence
in New York.
At Fargo, Dakota, during storm, an
iron electric light tower i6o feet high was to-
tally wrecked.
The latest London scandal duplicates
Sir Charles Dixie. The lady's husband insists
upon q divorce.
Within an hour after the marriage Of
church of its decorations.
After the funeral of General Grant,
President Cleveland will visit the Adirondacks
for brief season Of rest
A committee of business men from
Kansas City are to visit Washington on behalf
Of the expelled cattlemen.
The ca.tlemen on the Cheyenne and
and Arapahoe Reservations ask for An exten-
sion of time for twelve months.
A plaster cast was taken of General
Grants face Immediately after his death which
is said to be considered perfect.
The followers of the late Mahdi are
continually quarrelirg among themselves, and
they threaten to annihilate each other
There were 2,616 new cholera cases
in Spain on Thursday and ,G39 deaths. Vlo-
lent storms have increased the mortality.
The American steamship lines have
refused to accept the terms Of the Post
master Gen eral for carrying the foreign mails.
John A. Benson. civil engineer and
contractor at San Francisco, has failed. LA
b:lities, s4so,ooO assets, nominally about the
same.
Two of the members of the South
American Commission have returned to Wash
ipgton. They were shipwrecked on the Brazil
Ian coast.
The firemen and sailors on the At
lsntic steamers at Liverpool have struck
against reduction Of ten shillings per month
in their wages.
Extensive frauds have been discov-
cred in connection with the failure Of the
Munster bank. One Of the managers has fed
with s35o,C0o.
The committee which was appointed
to examine into the Irish industries reports
that all branches are depressed, excepting the
linen industries.
The Mexican editors took offense at
some editorials In the st. Louis papers, and de-
clined to accept the hospitaiities Of that city
on their return.
Geronimo and his band are reported
to have crossed the railroad track near VII
COX, Arizona, and he is supposed to be making
for Arivapa Canon.
The petition to the House OF Com
mons in favor Of the Criminal act amendment
was one mile and q half long Half million
names were attached to 1t.
A trestle on the Georgia Pacific road
near Muscadine, Georgia, broke while train
was crossing It, seriously injuring six persons.
Two passengers are missing.
Eighty-seven horses belonging to the
Payne Avenue Street Railroad In Cleveland,
Ohio, were poisoned with Croton oil. The
striking employees are inspected.
The barbed wire men propose to
form 3 gigantic corporation to control the
manufacture in the United States OF their
goods and to regulate the prices.
President John Taylor and George Q.
Cannon, Of the Mormon Church, published in
the Church organ lengthy address, in which
they defantly set forth the Mormon claims.
A delegation from St. Louis will ac-
company the Kansas City cattlemen to Wash
ington to seek q modification Of the Presidents
order In regard to the cattle In the Indian Ter
ri,ory.