Delta chief., 1883-12-05

Chicago shot his wife in fit OF jealous rage,
and then killed himself. The woman will
probably die.
On the night of the 23d, at Feodor,
Texas, robbers entered Mr.. Keuffers store,
murdered him and his clerk and obtained only
fifteen dollars.
The Chicago letter carriers will
memorialize Congress to pass bill granting
an annual vacation of thirty days to each man
In the service.
Public opinion in Berlin is unanimous
that the English troops must remain in Egypt,
and England must avenge the murder Of the
Europeans
The French forces at Haid Quong
were attacked by 3, 900 Chinese, November 18th,
and the Chinese were repulsed after seven
hours fighting.
The State Normal University building
at Carbondale, ILL.,, was burned on the 26th.
The loss which included fine museum amount
ed to s25O,OOO.
Havana had thirty deaths from yell
low fever during the week ending with the
cath, including Signor sala, tenor Of the Ital-
ian Opera troupe.
Hotel Clifton, Boston. was burned on
the Goth. 1t was owned by George B. Taylor,
who lost $4,000. The occupants barely es-
capped with their lives.
The socialist Wolff. who was arrested
in London for his alleged plot upon the Ger
man Embassy, appears to have been in colusion
with the London police.
The body of Phpbe Paulin, aged II,
was found in field near Orange, New Jersey,
on the 18th, with her throat cut in two places.
She had been outraged.
A Chinese interpreter for the Port
with death by his countrymes because he II
faithful In translations
William Smith and John Cosgroye,
the conductor and driver Of Cincinnati street
car, were killed BY . drunken passenger named
Henry Shsiier on the 30th.
A Frenchman named Bondurand is
under arrest in London for criminal conspirs-
cy, charged with being implicated in the plo, TO
blow up the German Embassy.
On the 2sth. obstructions were placed
on q railway track near Wolverhamton, Eng
land, for the purpose Of wrecking train on
which Gladstone was expected,
The Windsor theatre, New York City,
WAS burned on the 29th. It belonged to steph-
ems 4 Murphy. Loss eS0o, 900. The theater
WAS formerly known - the stsdt.
At Minneapolis the building occupied
by the Lyman d Eliel Drug Company burned
30, n. .,l
cupants, $50 900: insurance $4,000,
Carson Mosier and his family were
seriously poisoned at Mount Gilead, Ohio, on
the osth, by eating cabbage which had cen
doctored for worms with Paris green.
The Rev. William Mitchell, the new
ly installed pastor Of the Westboro, Mass,
| Congregational church, was arrested on the
oath on the charge Of stealing books.
Eleven business houses at Wellington.
Kansas including the Adams and Wells, Far
go Il Co.'s express offices and the telegraph Of
flee, burned on the a6th. Loss $4,000.
On Thanksgiving religious services
were held in the American chapel at Berlin,
and the customary turkey graced the banquet
table OF the American Minister to Germany.
The unfortifcd town of Vohamar,
on the north coast OF Madagascar, was bonn
bardcd by the French on the 25th, without no
iifcation. Five British subjects were killed.
1t was reported on the 26th that En-
| glands offer to mediate between France and
China had been accepted by France, and that
England advised France to pursue conciliato-
ry policy.
Rev. Warren II. Cudworth. pastor of
the church OF our Savior, Unitarian In East
Boston, dropped dead, while taking part at the
union services in Maverick church Thanksgiv-
ing Day.
Pete Jones. n negro. wns found dead
In the jail at Springfield, Tenn, on the 27th.
He was supposed to have been murdered by
the only other occupant, Ernest Worthington
white man.
On the 27th Bigclow, President Of
the National College Of Pharmacy, at Wash
ington and thirty-eight students left that In
stitution in consequence OF the admission Of a
colored man.
On the 26th Cincinnati undertaken
left poisonous mixture to be applied to the
face Of James Haggerty's child, which he had
embalmcd. and another child drank some Of II,
dying soon after.
The trial Of the Howard county. Ar