Delta chief., 1884-05-07
NEWS SUMMARY.
A Condensation Of Important DISPATCHES,
Domestic and Foreign.

The Senate has passed the pleuro-
pneumonia bill.
The decrease of the public debt for
April is s5,e5o,OOO.
The gold shipments to Europe were
81, ,T5s 200, on the a6th,
Rugg, the murderer of the Maybee
family on, Long Island, will be hanged on
June 6.
During April the mints coined S4,-
4O2, 4lO, of which $29O,c00 was in standard
dollars
The New York assembly voted down
a prohibition amendment to the constitution
of the State.
The case of William Pitt Kellogg
| began in the criminal court at Washington,
on the Goth.
Matt Connolly, in nine rounds,
knocked ::out George Hickey, at Rockaway
Beach, for 1880.
The King of Siam has announced his
intention of sending an exhibit to the New Or
leans Exposition.
On the 1st, a fire destroyed Barclay
& Curtis ship building establishment, a:
Glasgow. Loss, 100000.
An invasion of caterpillers is report
| ed in Western Texas, are destroy
ing all kinds. of vegetation.
Charles Dull, miner, was clubbed
to death in a drunken quarrel, near Bradford,
Pennsylvania, on the e7th.
The total amount of the appropria-
tions in River and Harbor bill will be between
$40 ooO, 900 and sl3,oOo,ooo.
Thomas Wolf, notorious horse
thief. who has eluded the officers for four
years, is now in the Dallas jail.
The members ofthe Utah commission
recently had conference with the President
to discuss the Mormon problem.
Two-thirds of jamestown. Greene
county, Ohio, was demolished by tornado, on
the e7th. Six persons were killed.
On the 2Sth, DIR. f. J. Barker. who
was consideeed the father Of the Canadian
press, died a. Kingston, aged s. years.
The decrease in the public debt dur
ing the month of April was u, ,2s2, ,OI5: de
crease since June 30, 1888, $50, 14O,4.4.
On the 9th, Dick Putnam, a jealous
hus sband, killed his wife and himself at Jor-
dan, New York, while riding in = buggy.
The cavalry barracks in process Of
erection at Portsmouth, England, fell on the
sSth, burying thirty convict workmen in the
ruins.
A Havana dispatch says: "Varenas
band Of insurgents was defeated. One man
was killed, and twelve men and horses cap
tured."
Two grain elevators at Pckin, Illi-
nois, belonging to Smith, Heppen Il Co, and
Hudnut x lCo., burned on the 27th. Loss,
$4,000,
Seventy FIVE delegates were present
at the recent inter state conference Of colored
men, at Pittsburgh. Frederick Douglas pre-
sided.
The Western Union Telegraph COM
pany has made sweeping reduction in rates
for night messages to all points where any OPT
position exists.
The Union Pacific railway general
management nded its order cutting down
salaries as sson as the strike Of employees be
came general.
Frank Hatton has retired from the
editorial control OF the Washington Ndtionn
Rep.blieds, and Clinton A. snowden assumes
the management.
Leonard Isela, shoe manufacturer
Of Jersey City, had his skull fractured and was
robbed BY footpads in Hudson street, New
York, on the eth.
A counterfeiter who gives the name
of Arlington was arrested at Bonneville, Mo-,
and a large amount Of spurious gold coin was
captured. on the 3Bth.
At FL Paso, Texas, William Allen
set a spring gun for sneak thieves and killed
Mrs. Charles Gilmore, neghbcr, who sought
his hydrant for water.
The colored convention at Louisville
protested against ''the disposition OF the Re-
publican party to make them hewers OF wood
and drawers OF water.n
Henry w, Cannon, of Minnesota,
has been selected successor to Comtro Ter
Knox, and James Connolly, OF Illinois, to be
Solicitor OF the Treasury.
DeBrazza has signed treaty with
the most powerful sovereign in Western
Africa, who has placed all his states In Congo
under French protection.
The Treasurer Of the United States