Delta chief., 1884-01-02
NEWS SUMMARY.
A Condensation Of Important Dispatches,
Domestic and Foreign

Mass, burned on the 2Sth. Loss, S200,0O0
500 bail. His new trial is set for January 16.
For the week ending with the 22nd
he issue of silver dollars amounted to 4l5-
900.
The wife of General Rosecrans died
at Washington on the Goth, after long i'll,
ness.
The Cambridge horse car railway
stables in Boston, burned on the 22nd Loss
s35, 900.
Two earthquake shocks occurred at
Lisbon on the 22nd, one of them lasting
twelve seconds.
Emanuel Bolisch, a wealthy farmer,
mel, Pa, on the 25th.
Joseph F. Tucker, general traffic
manager OF the Illinois Central railroad, has
rendered his resignation.
Five of the Glasgow dynamiters re-
ceived life sentences and five were sentenced
to five years imprisonment.
Several buildings in a business block
at Fargo, Dakota, burned on the 27th. Loss,
s36 1000; insurance, S1S,6O0.
A supposed internal machine explo-
sion at Birkenhead, England, broke many win
dows, but no person was injured.
Ex-senator Spencer desires an in
vestigatlon of the star-routc trials by congress.
He thinks that IT might prove interesting.
On the 25th fire at Red Wing, Min
nesota, burned Buckhurtz, Miller d Holders
building Loss, $4,000; insurance, 5000
Rowell, Fitzgerald and others will
have n ak days go-as-you-please walking match
in New York during the last week in Febru-
ary.
A Jewish school and synagogue in
one of the suburbs Of Constantinople burned
on the 22nd, and fifteen students lost their
lives.
The Lafayette mill. IA warehouse and
other buildings at Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin.
burned on the 25th Loss, s35 GOO: insurance,
10000.
General Srhofeld has command Of
zie's health causes grave apprehension among
his friends.
Bob Younger, one of Jesse James
companions, has been captured at Warrior,
Alabama, on a requistion from the Governor
of Missouri.
A single highwayman robbed the
mail six miles south of Cisco, Texas, on the
18TH The sane coach was similarly robbed
few months ago.
General Grant was severely injured
in New York by fall on the ice, on the 27th.
1t is thought he win we unable to be abou, for
several weeks.
On the 26th John Walton, who was
accused of the seduction Of Henry Seekers
wife, at Beardstown, Illinois, killed the latter
by shooting him.
There were three hundred and forty
three failures in New York since January I,
1888 The liabilities aggrcgating go, ,s57, ,s43;
assets, %, ,374,47l.
William Fox was hanged Mt Nevada,
Missouri, on the 2sth, for the murder Of Tom
Howard in May last. Ten thousand people
witnessed his execution.
Daniel P. Reynolds fatally shot
James p. Budd, at Boston. on the 2sth. Com
plications in family and financial affairs was
thought 10 be the cause.
Burglars entered the house Of Peter
Jones, at Bloomfield, Ontario, on the 2lst,
and Peter Laxier, an inmate, In attempting TO
capture them was shot dead.
Red Sample and Texas Willis, two
Of the Bisbee murderer and supposed Gage
Station train robbers, have reached Tomb
stone in charge Of the sherin.
A member Of the British parliament
10 In Buenos Ayres, and II 10 thought that his
visit 10 with the object Of introducing Irish
colonization into that country.
A. j. Jennings. book keeper for
william p. Howard 4 Co., Of 81. Louis, is
charged with embeasling $500 from that
6rm. He ssys he can explain II.
A mob attacked an Orange procession
AZ Harbor grace, Newfoundland on the 9th,
and In the ensuing riot three men were killed
and several were mortally wounded.
The internal revenue collections for
the past nve months In the present fiscal year
were e5l, ,29, ,4ss, being Oil ,s4s 79l less than in
the corresr ondiug period o: last year.
II is rumored that the Pullman COM
many are negotiating for one Of the Willimatic
company's mills, which they will At up for an
eastern branch Of the Pullman works.n
The business failures in the United