Delta chief., 1884-05-07
1t is stated that one-half the cattle

1t is stated that one-half the cattle
on the range in southern Utah, have died
from starvation and exposure because OF such
deep SHOWS during the winter.
Hussein Pasha telegraphs to Cairo |
that he is still a, Berber and it is too late to
retreat. The town is completely surrounded
ard the garrison utterly demoralized.
Several dynamite cartridges, with
wire and fuse attached, were found under
wing of the Parliament building at Toronto.
The discovery created intense excitement.
On the 26th, at Wakefield station,
Kansas, Richards store was burglarized and
fired. Loss from fire, $4,000; insurance,
5000. Two hundred dollars were stolen.
On the 2Sth, six buildings, including
one Touring mill, burned at Fillmore. Ale
gan county, Michigan. One woman WIS
burned to death while rescuing her children.
Hiram Jellison, farmer sixty-five
years OF age, was taken from bed at his home,
near Audibone, loAa, and hanged, on the 21th
A son and son-in-law were arrested on sus-
picior.
Martha Pier and B. F. Levering have
commenced suits against the New York, Lake
Erie & Western railway, for s25 900 and 800
600 respectively, for injuries sustained in
collision.
1.-Two white men, two Indians and
one negro, who have been convicted Of muir
der, and one negro who was convicted OF rape,
have been sentenced to hang at Fort Smith,
Arkansas, July II.
The marriage Of Princess Victoria.
of Hesse, to Prince Louis, of Battcnburg, took
place April Both, at Darms,adt, with imposing
ceremonies. Queen Victoria and the Prince of
Wales were present.
Sadie Reight. who sometime ago
killed Patrick Kingsley, the head waiter OF the
Briggs House, Chicago, for defaming her
character, has been sentenced to eighteen
months imprisonment.
AT Easton, Pennsylvania, on the goth,
Mrs. Amclis BLrnctte cut the threats Of her
two children, one aged three years and the
other five months, and after calling the neigh
bors she cut her own throat.
In the court at Cincinnati recently.
six criminals received sentences agxrcgAting
tifty-cight years TO the peuitentiary, and rang
ing from Eve to fifteen years each, but no
murdcrcrs have been convicted.
On the 9th. at the Long Branch
school house, in Gusdaloupe county, Texas,
after the Sabbath school exercises, Houston
Gcary was killed by Gus Scrutchens, who also
shot Wiley Watson, a would-bc peace maker.
The British House of Commons re-
jectcd by one hundred and forty-nine to sew
enty-nine, the bill licensing crematories. The
government opposed the bill on the ground
that the public feeling was against crema-
ton.
Late advices from Indian Territory
say that Captain Carroll and Licutenants Ste
vcns and DAILY, Of the Ninth cavalry, have
arrested some fifty Oklahoma boomers during
the past week, and that arrests will be made
until Oklahoma il cleared OF the intrudcrs
Four desperadoes attempted TO rob
the Medicine Valley bank, at Medicine Lodge,
Kansas. April eoth. They killed the cashier
and fatally wounded the president OF the bank.
but were driven of without having secured
any plunder. A posse Of citizens are In pur-
suit, and If they are caught they will probably
stretch hemp
1t is alleged that a great many sol
diers are being swindlcd by attorneys who in
duce them TO file claims for bounty, etc, un-
der alleged new laws, and of cyursc charge
them fee. The Treasury Department, will
take steps to stop the practice and advises all
soldiers 10 send their claims direct TO the De
partment.
On the 27th a terrible cyclone struck
Jamestown and destroyed two-thirds Of the
town. The following were killed. Miss Stella
Jones, aged fifteen, Of Esculnpln Springs, Ky;
Mrs. ANNA Carpenter, Lizzie Jenkins, daugh-
ter Of G. X. Jenkins; Miss Kate Boettcr, Mrs. |
Stewart, eolorcd woman, and son Of James
Paulis. Several were badly wounded Hun
dreds OF people were turned out Of their
houses.