Delta chief., 1883-11-21
NEWS SUMMARY.
4 Condensation Of Important Dispatches
Domestic and Foreign.

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Ex-Governor Matt Head, of New
Hampshire, died on the 12th.
The cotton crop of this year falls IA
per cent lower than that of 1882.
Maybee & Schaffer, jewellers, Albu
querque, failed for 81 900, on the 14th
Admiral Crichton, U. S. Navy, died
of heart disease in New Jersey on the 18th
The Newcastle, Pennsylvania paper
mills were burned on the 10th. Loss $4,000.
The passenger rate from Kansas City
to Chicago has been reduced from Sl4.SO tc
SO.
The American terminus of Ben.
nett's transatlantic cable will be at Rockport
Mass.
H. c. Tillinghast & Co., dealers in
furs, Chicago, have failed. Liabilities $500,
900.
/ Haverly will build two magnificent
theatres, one in New York and one in Phia
delphia.
Stemmers Bros oil works at Norris
town, Penn, were burned on the 18th. Loss,
s75,OO0.
John Smith, colored murderer of JOSH
ah Hardin, was hanged at Oakland, Missouri,
on the 10Th.
Collery & Co s tannery in Pittsburgh
was burned on the 10th. Loss, s125, 600; insur-
ance, s75 OO0.
A fire at Muskegon, Michigan, on
fo,t - na,- ia
Brothers mills.
Booth and Osgood, school furniture
dealers, Chicago, confessed Judgement on the
10th, for 5000.
the Summit House on Mount Kearsarge,
Maine, on the 12th.
The rag and paper warehouse of T. f.
c. Wheeler, at Peoria, Ills, WAS burned on the
10th. Loss, $4,000.
James Truxtill was lynched on the
10th at Somerset. Kentucky, for an outrage up
on married woman.
High winds in Maine have caused
damage to the extent of s15O,ooO In Franklin
and Oxford counties.
The west side of the public square at
Rusk, Texas, burned On the 18th. Loss $50,
coo; insuran2 $4,000.
One hundred thousand dollars
worth Of lumber was destroyed by fire at Osh-
kosh, Wis, on the 18th.
Harriet Hawkins and child, colorcd.
were found in bed, starved to death, at Lox-
w Ia,
Morris Brown, postmaster at Browns
vile, Pennsylvania, WIS arrested on the 18th
on charge of opening letters.
The Louisville Exposition closed on
the 10th. The season was 102 days, and the
attendance aggregated 10000.
A quarrel at foot race, at Wilkes
barre, Penn, resulted in Alfred Jones being
fatally shot by William sturters.
A general Unitarian headquarters are
to be established in Boston, and 800, 600 has
been subscribed for that purpose.
Mary Russell, eighteen years old,
suicided at Pittsburgh on the 18th, on account
OF cruel treatment by her brother.
b. F. Bigelow, formerly cashier of the
National Bank Of the Republic, Washington,
has been found guilty Of embezzlemcnt.
The bark Burnham sank, twenty miles
from Galveston, on the 18th. The loss Is $40,
600. She was owned by Boston parties.
The commander of the French troops
at Tonquin states that no operations can be
starteI until February, with the present force.
The Toronto judiciary sentenced n
faro player to n fine Of ESQ or take ten days in
jail, on statute over two hundred years old.
Springfield, Missouri, on the 9th was
visited by tornado which destroyed or dam
aged one hundred houses with great loss OF
life.
A train on the Mexican National rail
way was wrecked by train robbers and a num-
| ber of men we're killed and wounded OH the
| 14th.
o. M. Chase, superintendent Of the
| Michigan fish hntchcries, with ak companions,
| were drowned by boat capsizing at Petoskcy,
Michigan.
Buildings Mt the East Liberty Stock
Yards and the Eastern Exchange Hotel, Pitts
burgh, were damaged 81, 200 worth by fire on
the 10th.
The Grand jury at Pittsburgh, on the
10th, found Indictments against four lottery
agents for using the mails in furtherance OF
their schemes.
The jury in the case of Poole, tried
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