Delta chief., 1883-09-12


court on the LIST. Appealed to the Supreme
Court of the United States.
Lieut.. Robertson, of the First u. s..
cavalry, charged with duplicating pay accounts,
pleaded guilty but disclaimed any fraudulent
intention. Robertson was stationed at Van
couver, Washington Territory.
Prof. Lewis Swift, director of the
Rochester (N. W observatory, discovered a
new comet on the night of the 4th. The comet
is round and faint, making toward the west,
and without a caudal appendage.
A dispatch from London says that the
police are in possession Of facts which show a
revival of Fenian activity in that city. All the
rendezvous Of prominent Irish agitators are
again placed under police surveillance.
1t is reported that vast field of
crystalline granular limestone of the fines quail
fly has been discovered near Socorro New
Mexico, and that the Atchison, Topeka X San
ia Fe company is negotiating for its purchase.
Rag and paper warehouse of Henry
brennan d Co., Cincinnati, burned on the ID.
The flames communicated to the Times Std,,
building, and the three upper stories, including
the composing room, destroyed. Several lives
lost.
Detectives are still hunting for Miss
Mary Churchill. No important clues have been
discovered. The mother has formed the con-
cluson that Mary has elopcd with some fasc-
mating young man, or, perhaps, drowned her
self
On the Sd. at Smithiield. Utah. man
boarded train at a late hour, and covering
eight passengers and two train men with re
volver, robbed them Of their watches and
money, and then made his escape In the dark
ness.
Another suit has been instituted in
Chicago with the view OF testing the right of
the Eastern trunk line pool to divert freight
from the road to which II has been specially
consigned. The court has granted II ternpora-
ry injunction.
Madden and Mitchell were in Kansas
City on the 5th and tclcgrnphed Rice, manager
for slade, that unless reply agreeing TO fight
in Mexico vas promptly agreed TO the mill
would be declared of and the parties would re-
turn to New York.
About Lancaster, Pa. the disease
known as splcnic fever has attacked the cattle
and is raging with great violence A large
number OF cases have proven fatal and the
disease Is apparently Increasing, to the great
alarm OF stock owners.
The Governor of the Dutch East In
dies telegraphs that the town OF Telok was
probably totally destroyed by the recent vol
canic cruptions. Reports OF the destruction Of
Tjiringine by tidal wave, and the drowning OF
ten thousand people are confirmed.
Forty thousand strangers attended the
inaugural ceremonies Of the Northern Pacific
railroad at St Paul on the Sd. President Ar
thur was present and loudly cheered. Grant,
Sheridan and Lincoln we're received with great
demonstrations OF popular feeling.
Judge Hoadly, Democratic candidate
for Governor of Ohio, left Cincinnati on the
2d for Philadelphia To place himself under the
treatment of n former family physician. He Is
suffering from a combination of disorders grow
ing out OF his arduous labors in the political
campaign.
The hackers Of Slade and Mitchell
have accepted the invitation of the citizens cf
FL Paso, Mexico, and the great prize fight VIII
probably take place In that town. The princi-
pals will have a conference on the subject and
will In all probability acccde TO the arrange
ments made. ....
On the 9TH religious meeting con-
Quoted by two Mormon elders In Coweta coun.
ty, Georgia, was broken up by mob The
elders escaped from the church but were chased
into the swamps by blood hounds. The dis
tressed missionaries managed, however, to
eludc capture.
Late in the afternoon of the 9th fire
In the Wabash division of the Union Stock
Yards OF Chicago threatened to destroy the en-
tire establishment but was fortunately sup,
Fifteen sheds, covering two and half acres
were destroyed. The loss is about $4,000
Lord Chief Justice Coleridgc, of Eng
land visited Boston on the 7th and became the
guest of Governor Butler, who invited him to
the State House where Chief Justice Morton
and other Justices Of the Supreme Court with
many distinguished men had assembled TO
meet him. They subsequently visited Harvard
College.
Reports received Mt Green River, wy
omng, on the End say there is great excite
meet there and fears are expressed that there
will be an outbreak among the Bannock Indi-
ans. II seems the latter found the bodies OF
two squaws and papoosc, supposed to have
been murdered by white men, Hence the
threatened disturbance.