Delta chief., 1885-09-23
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Riel expects Divine interposition to
save him from hanging.
The Genesta won the Douglas Cup
after beautiful rsce on the 18th.
Henry Ward Beecher endorses high
license as more effective than prohibition.
Within twenty-eight days sixty post
| offices have been burned or robbed by burg
| lars.
Eva NJ. Hollinger has been appoint
ed to the postofice at Las Vegas Hot Springs,
Nm.
The Free Thinkers of New York met
in convention at Albany and adopted series
resolutions.
Senator Evarts positively declines to
be the Republican candidate for Governor OF
New York.
Reports from the great corn growing
sections OF this country show a certainty Of an
enormous crop.
Spain is reported to be endeavoring
to purchase two iron-clads in England which
were built for China.
Germany is disposed to insist upon
arbitration to establish the proprietorship OF
the Caroline Islands.
A great revival in the iron trade is
reported in Gloucester, England. The demand
is chiefly from America
Japan proposes to hold a grand Ash
attic Exposition in 1890. The Government has
approved of the project.
Three negroes are under arrest at
Las Vegas charged with arson. Feeling is
very bitter against them.
The Indiana school bonds fraud has
caused the failure OF the Bank OF Harrison,O.,
Cook & Scoville, proprietors.
Rush e. Sprague's immense Touring
mill at Leavenworth, Kansas, burned. Loss,
slO0, 900; insurance, 10000.
The Irish-Americans of Cincinnati
have subscribed 800 to the Parliamentary
fund, and Is, 900 more is pledged.
The Government funds in the sub
Trea. ury at San Francisco have been counted,
and everything was found correct
A cargo of 24O Mormon converts,
fresh from the slums of Europe, passed through
Laramie last week, en- route to Utah.
The coal miners strike in Western
Pennsylvania is gaining strength. They de-
mand three cents bushel for mining.
The officials of the Treasury Depart
ment estimste the value OF silver dollar sc-
eording to their gold standard, at 20 7 cents-
The Apaches are reported to have
killed SIX persons since they re-entered New
Mexico without receiving a scratch them
selves.
The Cincinnati Price Current estiT-
stes the corn crop of 1885 at l,396, 600
bushels, an increase Of l95, 600 600 bushels over
last year.
The raiding Apaches killed two men
near Georgetown, in Grant county, and passed
on. The country is full Iof troops, but they
fall to kill any Indians
TIE deums were generally sung in
the churches throughout Spain Sunday. The
official number Of deaths reported for that day
for the whole Of Spain was only 3S7.
Mrs. Lane, widow, was assaulted
in her residence at Nashville, Tenn, BY an IN
known negro. A blow on the back part Of
her head crushed her skull, and she will die.
A nest of young robbers has been
found at Celina, Ohio. The boys are members
OF wealthy families. One Of them Is the son OF
the Speaker Of the Ohio House Of Represents
tives.
The Chinese officials pronounce the
proceedings at Rock Springs to indict the riot
ers as farcical, and demand will be made up
on the United Ststes Government for rigid
measures.
The Philadelphia courts convicted
Captain Nathaniel Percy Of the ship Standard
OF cruelty to his men, and sentenced him to a
fine and imprisonment, but the President par
doned him.
Three men are under arrest for
causing the dynamite explosion in front OF
Garry Brothers store in New York in February
last. The detectives believe they have a strong
case against them.
At tenement house fro in New
York, Mrs Reuttinger male her way to the
roof with her children, and then fell sixty feet
down an air shaft with baby in her arms.
They were instantly killed.
The recent decision in the United
States Court to the effect that the Southern
Kansas railway wrongfully held "a, 900 acres Of
the public domain, has sent n throng Of people
thither who are taking up the land
rChn T rnIa, Cyna,IprS 40 G~,;,,