Delta chief., 1884-01-30
NEWS SUMMARY.
A Condensation Of Important Dispatches,
Domestic and Foreigp.

On the 22nd, Sam Brown, muir
derer, was lynched at Lockhart, Texas.
Fires at ST. Paul. Minnesota, on
the 22nd. caused an aggregate loss of $4,000.
The publication of the Evening
7Ymes at Columbus Ohio, has been susl end
ed.
The Lawrence Sugar Refinery. 'at
Montreal, burned on the 22nd. Loss, $780,
OOO
1t is denied in Paris that the United
States will mediate In the Chinese ques-
ton.
Commodore Hunt, of the United
Navy, is dead. He was seventeenth years of
age. ..
f. S. Peck, cashier of n wrecked bank
at Patchogue, Long ISLAND, Eshot himself on
the 2lst
Thirteen stores at Mireola, Texas.
burned on the 2lst Loss, s41 90; insurance,
$as,0OO.
The transportation of arms and am
munition to Ireland through the mails bas been
prohibited
The Senate Committee onMihtary af-
fairs has acted favorably on the Fitz-John
Porter hill
The st. Charles hotel, at Paducah,
Kentucky burned on the Goth. The house
cost 5000
A fire at Lowell, Michigan. burned
twenty-one buildings. Loss, $4,000, with
small insurance.
A rumor from Russia says sImulta-
neous attack is advised upon the Gar and the
German Emperor.
AT the animal banquet in London of
the Society in the Aid Of Distressed Foreigners,
el6,0O0 were subscribed.
Arizona highwaymen robbed the
Wickcnhurg sta an rined the contents of
the mail bags. on the 22ud.
A hotel and block. containing
about dozen stores, burned at Cornwall, On
tario, on the a2nd. Loss. $4,000.
Imposing memorial services were
held on the ODD at O'Donnell's birthplace In
Donegal, and mock funeral followed.
The English government has forbid
den the Orangcmen and Nationalists from
holding meetings at Park, county Tyrone.
Eight Egyptian officials were hanged
at Fl Obeid on the sth, and their heads were
placed upon poles I'm front Of Ef Mahdrs dwell
ling.
Two persons. Frenchman and
Portuguese, who arc suspected Of murderous de-
signs upon the King, are under arrest in Mad
rid.
A fire at Dalles, Oregon, burned
on the 25th, u quarter of block OF bust
ness houses. Loss, about $50 900; insurance,
$4,000.
The Chicago city council has re-
duccd the rental to the Exposition people
to $500, and the building will not be torn
down.
Almost an entire block Of buildings
on the public square at Fayette, Missouri,
burned on the 18th. Loss, s75,O00; insurance,
$4,000.
Seventeen prisoners have been re-
moved from the indianapolis jail to the pest
house with smallpox. Other cases are appre-
hcnded.
Sim Coates, an engineer on the
Louisville, New Orleans & Texas railroad, was
killed by his engine falling through bridge on
the 10Th.
A family fcud which commenced six
teen years ago caused the death at Auburn,
Kentucky, ef George Harrison and and Harry
Bronson.
Fred Douglass was married in Wash
ington on the Ath TO Miss Pitts, white wo-
man. He is scventy-thrcc years Of age and she
is thirty
At Wyandotte, Kansas. Mrs. Jacob
Hartman, aged sixty seven, was assaulted and
robbed while alone In her house. Her injuries
proved fatal
p. J. Meany. n race-course pool sell
er and treasurer Of the Iron Moulders' Union
Of New York, has disappeared. He is said TO
be 10000 short
Bushrod w. Mahon, = wealthy bro
ker Of Mount Carmell Illinois, was murdered
near his own dwelling in the public thorough
fare, on the oath
Joel Fowler, the notorious New Mex
lean murderer, was taken from Jail at Socorro
on the night Of the 22nd, by lynchcrs, and
hanged to tree.
George A. Wheeler, who murdered
his wife's sister in San Francisco, by choking
her to death October 20, 1880, was hanged in
that city on the 23rd.