Delta chief., 1884-11-19
The Surface Railroad Company has

The Surface Railroad Company has
been granted permission by the New York al
derman to lay track in Broadway from the
Battery to Fifteenth street.
Eighty-two judgments of 5000 each
were entered against the Corrigan Consolidat-
ed Street Railway Company in Kansas City,for
its failure to pave the tracks.
Judge Brewer, in the United States
Court at Omaha, decided in effect that Govern
ment lands cannot be fenced by the. cattle
companies for herding purposes.
The total receipts for internal reve-
nue. taxation for the fiscal year ending June so,
1884, were tl2l, ,590,o39, as compared with
$l44, 553, ,344 for the previous year.
1t is understood in Washington that
the points raised by General Swain with re-
gard to the legality of the court martial in his
case have been decided adversely to him.
Two saw-mills, 100000 feet Of
lumber, four dwellings, one store, and some
lesser building at Duluth, Minnesota, burned
on the 10Th. Loss, s2oO, 600; insurance, $780,
900.
Doctor T. II. Allison. Of Lougview,
Texas, was assassinated, by Jim Fetterly, a
disrcputsblc character, who is now being pur-
sued by the officers, with a pack OF blood
hounds.
The charters of 72l National banks.
with an sggr gate capital Of sls9, ,0oO, 900, will
expire during the year 1885. This is more than
one-third of the entire number OF banks In the
country.
Four mangled bodies have been
washed ashore at Wing Point, Prince Edward
Island, and identified as the captain, mate,
cook and one seaman Of the schooner Charles
Valentine.
Joseph Wright. Jr., of Babylon,
Long Island, locked his father in the house on
election day and prevented him from voting,
and now he Is threatened with arrest for In
timidating n voter.
Arthur d. January. Deputy State
Treasurer of California, Is under arrest for
apprepriating $4,000, which had been deposit
ed with the State Treasurer. He says he lost
It in gambling.
A severe earthquake shock and a
tie rifle explosive report occurred at Clitheroe.
in Lancashire. Horses were thrown down in
the streets and great CONSERVATION and eI-
citement IVES caused among the people.
A collision on the Delaware. Mary
land & Virginia railroad, between Berlin and
shelbyville, Delaware, killed J. II. Russell and
severely injured l.. Smith, the engineer. VIII
liam Long, passenger, had leg broken.
While searching for Jacob Mohr's
body at Honman's Ferry, near schuectady,
New York, the explosion OF = dynamite car
fridge in the Mohawk River brought up the
body Of Alfred Chapman, Who has been missing
since October 10.
At an attempt by the Democrats Of
Selma, Indiana, to hold = jollifcaiion meet
ing, at which many Republicans were present,
some one hurrshcd for JciY Dsvis, and bal.
tie followed, in which q number Of people
were badly hurt.
General Sheridan in his annual re-
port speaks highly Of the targe. prsc-
fences, mentions the dangers from mobs in
the great cities, and recommends the encour-
agement Of the militia by national appropna-
tions.
During a Democratic celebration at
Wellington, Ksnsss, Mrs. John Schrau wns
struck In the eye by n sky rocket and instantly
killed. The night clerk at the Phillips House
was struck in the mouth by another rocket,
which came out behind his ear. lie may die.
guest at the house was also seriously In
jured.
In the hearing Of the Storey will
case on the 1lth, Judge Trumbull, the counsel
for Mrs. Storey, at the request of the Court
produced will Antedating the present ore,
by which the entire estate, including the
Tin,es, was bequcathed to the widow, but the
provision that she was not to marry again was
not made clause Of the will as in the case of
the latest will.