Delta chief., 1884-08-13
NEWS SUMMARY.
4 Condensation Of Important DISPATCHES,
Domestic and Foreign.


Viborg in Finland.
The Steamer America brought $780,
900 in gold bars on the 7th.
The Sultan of Zanzibar has invited
General Gordon to his country.
Nineteen lepers were sent to China
by the authorities of San Francisco.
The Kansas Prohibition party will
hold its State convention on September 2.
During July the mints coined 81 1921.
ooo, Of which 8, ,325, 900 was in silver dollars.
Richard X. Fox offers purse Of
Eye See.
Fire in Roach's ship yard, at Chester,
Penn sylvania on the sth destroyed property
valued at s5oo,Ooo.
The expenses of the Post Office De-
partment for the last fiscal year exceed the
receipts by s3,OO0,OOO
The Cholera Convention, which was
to have been held in Washington Thursday,
has been postponed.
General Butler says that he is wait
ing for Cleveland's letter of acceptance before
publishing his own.
Two thousand persons of both sexes
have been expelled from Germany for conspir-
ing against the Gar.
The town of Laporte, California, with
the exception of two buildings, was destroyed
by fire. Loss $4,000.
A fire at Portland, Oregon, on the
9Th burned twenty-nine buildings. Total loss
ST, ,00O insurance $4,000.
Twelve distitute emigrants who ar
rived on the City of Rome on the 4tb, were
not allowed to land in New York.
The New York Board of Health has
sent a meat inspector to Chicago to investigate
the cattle disease in all its phases.
The machine and tool shops ef the
Baldwin Locomotive Works at Philadelphia
burned on the 5th. Loss sl50,000.
Governor Hale, of Wyoming has Is
ued his proclamation against the Introduction
Of Texas cattle into that Territory.
The crop report of the National Cot
ton Exchange reports a slight improvement
in the appearances Of the cotton crop.
The reception TO Mr.. Blaine by the
business men Of Portland, Maine, on the 9th
was brilliant and non-partisan event.
Two more Anarchists have been ar
rested in connection with the recent discovery
OF dynamite bomb mandatory in Paris.
Maud S trotted a mile at the Cleve-
land, Ohio, track on the I'd without a skip, and
without the urging of a runner, in 209%.
At Omaha on the 1st, John Field,
colored, shot his wife and killed himself after
failing to secure reconciliation with her.
Gov. Sheldon, of New Mexico, has
issued proclan alton putting a strict quaran-
tine on all cattle importation after August II.
The Pope has directed all Cardinals
and Bishops visiting Rome to return to their
dioceses and prepare for the visitation Of cho
lera.
Extensive defensive preparations are
making at Canton by means Of torpcdoes and
distractions in the river against the French
fleet.
General Hatch is prepared to strike
decisive blow at the Oklahoma boomers. There
tory.
Twenty-three occupants OF New
York tenement narrowly escaped death by fire
on the 4th. Nearly all Of them were slightly
burned.
The cornerstone of the pedestal for
Bartholdis statue was laid with due ceremony
at Bedloe's Island on the 9Th, In the midst OF
a drenching rain.
The owner of Jay Eye See will trot
his horse against the late record Of Maud s. at
Belmont Park on August IA. Phallas will also
attempt to beat 2.13Z.
Miss Hill has brought suit for $50,-
600 against the Alta Cali HJornia, OF San Fran
cisco, for publishing Nelson's statement ac-
cusing her Of forgery.
Efforts to form whisky pool have
proved failure. A few OF the Cincinna.
II listllers against it, claiming that It will
result in ovcrproduction.
Lieutenant Greely has declined pro-
motion to Captaincy, except through the or
dinary course of service. Other members OF
the party will be promoted.
The German Government demands
speedy satisfaction from England for the rob
berry OF provision cutter in the North Sea by
four English fishing smacks.
Eighteen steam yachts sailed from
Long Branch Point for New London on the
7th, in a race OF seventy-fivc miles, and Jay