Delta chief., 1884-03-26
NEWS SUMMARY.
4 Condensation Of Important DisatchE,
Domestic and rureiQ.

There were 112 lives lost in the PocA-
hontas, Virginia. mine explosion.
A bill abolishing convict labor ia the
Ohio penitentiary has become Law.
The Mitchell Furniture Co. S factory.
st. Louis, burned on the 18Th. Loss, ssS,-
900.
George Fuller.a prominent landscape
and portrait painter of Boston, died on the
21st.
Madame Anna Bishop. formerly a
noted vocalist, died suddenly in New YORK on
the 10Th.
Bishop kavanagh, of the Methodist
Episcopal church. died in Massachusetts, 90
the 10th.
John B. Griffin. the Rawlings. New
York, dynamite murderer, win Be hanged 90
May oh.
Longs tobacco warehouse, Man.
helm, Pennsylvania, burned on the soth-
Loss, sss,oo.
On the 18th scloud-burst at Florence,
Arizona, destroyed several adobe houses and
flooded others
A box of powder. with = fuse At
6ce, on the 17th-
1t is proposed to form the state Of
Tacoma out of wsshincton TERRITORY and
portion of Idaho
Colonel Mapleson melted over sli.-
co In premiums for seats for his extra week
OF opera in San Frapcisco
The Rebels along the Nile. beyond
Berber, are becoming no-e .es;re- oz The issh
they fred upon = steamer
On the 18th fire damaged A Col
burn & CO.. spice mills q; Fh1s3eiphis- Loss
SIS 900. insurance, tsaon
Hints that more explosions were to
occur in London were made 4; the s. Pat
rick's dav banque, IN Paris
News of the death of 1t Col. God
frey weitzel, of the E S. Engineer corps, Vas
received at Washington on the 10Th
The Canadian Government has con-
tracted with the Pullman company for Pull
man cars upon the Government roads-
Weston finished his Eve thousand
mile walk in England on the 18th. He accom-
plished the task in one hundred days
On the 18th w. H. Henne, locally
known As the Emperor of Chill, vas found
dead In his bed At Albuquerque, New Mexico.
A violent earthquake shock was felt
at number Of places in Nevfoundl,nd on the
18th. The disturbance lasted fifteen minutes
1t is stated that Colonel David S.
Stanley. Tventy-.econd Infantry viii sue
ceed General Mackenzie - Brie.GSer-Geperal-
James Robinson was sentenced at
Bloomington fndian., o. The l5;h. to ,senty
one years imprisonment, for kf1irx hss three
year-oid step~cn-
An exploding still in the Merriam &
Morgan on works, 4: C<r.sxnA O. the l<A.
caused the loes Of three fsresL Tsek.s 70 7-u-
perty was ei5.0n
The Treasury department hN adric>s
that Al effort VII soc1 t~ Es5e 20 s1e.s he
west aid south ufth cnz..<-fsz- tvsrrr-sosEa-
silver certificates
A match has been arranged between
Sullivan AID TSpCfeoc- sa,e CleTe4sss Ea--
<~AsSsN 80 - . e-~S-- ~ c1'sS@ -
rithtn three E.oashsL
J. Parker and Joe Baker. between
whom fesi existed res n; Gr-enrfIl<- Tex
aA-on the IT;h- Parfe-, after b<4rg fatally
wounded, sho. Baker Dad
On the 18th. four children Of G. ID.
Alscp. living near LostsrIle, Kensrcky. .ere
given opium by their usother instead Of pow
aered rhuh<rh Tuo dsed-
Pop Whitaker. the well known
sporting character. sued The Harlem railrosd
COMPANY for sl5mo for the loss Of an xrrn,
and got = verdict for slo, go
J. F. Sanders. the book-keeper for d.
W. Van Ho1ten. ST. Louis coDrnis.on rner-
chant Is = cefsaiter 10 the amount Of about
si5o.m. Lost Il speculation
On the 18th. FIRE At Moberly. Mis-
.ouri. burned sozen stores and tuildinss in
Guiding the possofbce- Loes- tA.np- One
man was killed by falling ~aIl
Aa Embree plantation Texas on the
18th Tom warrrn- haif--isted negro. cause
,e<.iy shos and killed Cab Brorn- colored.
and fatally wounded Browns .ife-
The people of Lynchburg. Virginia
hare subscribed g. 500 for the sufferers BY the
Pceahortxs mine e1yso<sos, and shipyed
Quantity of suYpssez TO shena-