Delta chief., 1884-08-27
NEWS SUMMARY.
4 Condensation Of Important DISPATCHES,
Domestic and FOREIGN.

The Louisville exposition was opened
| by Gov. Knott on the 10Th.
DR.. Woodward, one of President
GarIeld's physicians, is dead.
John King, Jr., has accepted the
Presidency of the Erie railway.
The Missouri Prohibitionists have
placed State ticket in the field.
Forty-two buildings at Pomeroy
Ohio, burned on the 18th. Loss $4,000.
Warner & Merritt, fruit importers of
Philadelphia, have assigned. Liabilities, $500, :
900.
lForty persons have been arrested in
Mexico, charged with conspiracy against the
Government
Mr.. Bonner, of the Ledger, is said to
have purchased Mau1S. The price paid is not
announced.
1t is reported that the Emperors OF
Germany and Austria and the Gar will soon
have meeting.
The cholera at Toulon has assumed
more virulent form and death speedily fol
bss an attack.
The value of California's expol.s for
1854 is placed at s5S OoO,C }, of which 500 J.
{ , is from wheat
The Governor of Tepuessc offers
8, 900 reward for the s,.l It OF the murderers
Of the Mormon elders.
A fire at Grenada, Miss, on the 10th
destroyed seventy-eight buildings and their
contents. Loss s3oo, 900.
Frank James t1.al for the Otter ,ille
train robbeiy has been postponed until Nc
vember. He gave 500 bail.
"a permanent station in connection
with the Government geological work is TO be
5tablished at Parsons, Kansas.
The presence of pleuro-pheumonia
in Illinois has been established by the officials
Of the Department of Agriculture.
Louis A. Knott, who was under a
death sentence, was taken from the Corax,
Washington Territory, jail and lynched-
Max Morganthau, proprietor of the
Mission soap and candle works at San Francis:
CO, has assigned. Liabilities 10000
The city of Anoka, Minnesota, was
almost entirely destroyed by fire on the 10th.
The loss is estimated at over 81 10000
Alsop and Graves, the ring-leaders
in the recent revolt in the Frankfort peniten-
tiary, were killed while resisting capture.
The First National Bank of Albion,
New York. has suspended. The President is
absent aud its Affairs are being investigated.
The proprieters and editor of Thomp-
sons banknote Reporter have been arrested on
the charge of blackmsiling the Nassau Bank.
rhe French forces in China have
been directed to occupy the Foochow Arsenal
II the French demands are not complied with. ]
Governor Knott, of Kentucky, has
pardoned the two prisoners who stood by their
guards in the recent outbreak in the peniten-
tiary.
Frank James is at Boonville, Mis-
souri,, where his trial for the OttervilIe train
robbery on the Mis- ssouri Pacific road is TO oc
cur.
ION the Pueblo, OF New Mexico are on their
way to the Indian school at Carlisle, Pennsyl-
yauia.
A boiler explosion at Memphis, Ten
nessee, on the Government launch Daphne
killed Paymaster 'iodden, and scalded four
Others
An Indian, inspired by a cheap pub
lication, attempted to kill Agent McGillicud-
dy Of the Pine Ridge Agency. The culprit is
under arrest.
At Central City. Mublenberg county,
Kentucky, the people are objecting to the use
Of convict labor In the coal mines and trouble
is threatened.
Eighty tramps captured the town of
Casselton, Dakota, on the 10Th, and committed
many excesses. -Four were arrested and the
remainder fed.
A company of militia from Muscatine.
iowa, has been sent to the Keokuk coal mines,
where trouble Is threatened between the white
and black miners.
One hundred men are hunting for
David Avery near Vienna, Illinois, who burn
ed his wheat stacks to prevent constabl,'s
levy and shot his neighbor.
In a collision between two freight
trains at Columbia, on the Pennsylvania rail-
road, the cars caugh. fire and upward of 500
sheep were burned TO death.
Gen. L. p. Walker, the first Secretary
of War in JEFF Davis Cabinet, and who gave
the order to fire on Fort Sumpter, died at
Huntsville, Ala, on the 22d.