Delta chief., 1884-04-30
NEWS SUMMARY.
4 Condensation Of Important DISPATCHES,
Domestic and FOREIGN.

The LOretto convent at London, On
tario, bur ued on the oath.
The Louisville Exposition opens Aug.
16 and closes October &c, 1884.
Parnell lately sued tenant for back
rent and got verdict in his favor.
Maria Taglioni, the famous dancer,
died Marseilles, France, on the 4th.
Three hundred and eighteen Mormon
emigrants arrived at New York on the 9Oth.
At Arkansas City many houses are
submerged by water from the Mississippi river
The Globe lstore, at Alton, Illinois.
burned on the 2lst. Loss, $50, 900; Insurance.
$1,000.
The Office of the Socorro San Is in
closure.
Francis I. Smith, ex.city treasurer
of Boyonne, New Jersey, Is short in his ac-
counts s41,OOo.
On the e2nd, John Coyle was hanged
at Gettysburg, Penn, for the murder of Emily
Myers, May 80, 1881.
At Canisteo, Minnesota, on the 21st,
William Lafalmaker shot his wife and himself
while temporarily insane.
On the 22nd, Belmont Castle, near
Dundee, Scotland, burned. Many valuable
paintings were destroyed.
Mr.. J. w. Blethen, general manager
Of the Kansas City Journal, has sold his inter
est in that paper for $4,000.
r. u. Silver. of Lincoln, Nebraska,
is the contractor for the new penitentiary TO
be built at Cerillos, New Mexico.
DR.. H. B. Barley, of Raidersburg,
Montana, was murdered near Townsend by
some unknown party, on the 23rd.
On the slst, the Egyptian rebels
captured Shendy, and butchered 9, 1000 women
and children, beside: the garrison.
A deficit of S12, 900 has been discov-
covered in the Massachusetts, state prison,
which is attributed to bad bookkeeping
Tho cotton mills at Fitchville, Con-
nectieut, owned by the Providence Company,
burned on the 23rd. Loss, over $l0O,OOO
James Nicholson, murdered his wife
in Boston, by shooting her, on the a2nd. They
had not lived together for two or three weeks.
The Washington Flannel mill, at
South Coventry, Connecticut, burned on the
23rd. Loss not reported. Insurance, sl35,-
900.
Frank DeWalt was taken before the
United States Commissioner at Cleveland,
Ohio, where he waived an examination on the
23rd.
On the 21st, seven brick dwellings in
whitesboro, Texas, burned. Total loss, $780,
900. Among the losers was Briggs Goodrich,
of Denver.
On the 22nd, William Shay, a motor
ious young man of Newport, Rhode Island,
fatally shot Policeman Barker, who attempted
to arrest him.
Jimmy kerwin, of Long Island City,
and Cox Walsh, Of Greenpont, Long Island,
fought six rounds on the 2Srd; Walsh was ter
ribly punished.
The planning mill, stables; sheds and
several lumber piles Of Baur & Desterling, at
Millvale, Pennsylvania, burned on the e2nd.
Loss, S250oO0.
Two colored girls, Angie Smith and
Carrie Jones, were drowned by the capsizing
of boat on Lake Edwards, near Cairo, III
nois, on the 18th.
At Atlanta, Georgia, on the 23rd,
Jesse Green killed his father, Willis Green.
The latter was w1dower and loved lady
whom hfs son married
DeBrazza has signed treaty with
the most powerful sovereign in Western
Africa, who has placed all his states in Congo
under French protection.
Charles, Fricke, an enfeebled old
German Of Wauhegan, Illinoic, on the 22nd,
beat his wifc's brains out with club after a
quarrel about property.
Six Chinese were killed and five
others seriously wounded by the fall Of 800
feet Of snow sheds half mile west OF the Sum
init, on the Central Pacific.
An Indian vessel, which proposed to
leave two hundred cases Of dynamite oIs.the
island Of Malta, was ordered TO leave with tie
compound within forty. eight hours.
On the 22nd, Lang Il Co.'S Touring
mills at Wilson, Kansas, burned with 1900
bushels Of wheat and four hundred barrels of
-four. Loss, 600; insurance, $4,000.
On the 10Th, Joseph Casey, Fenian,
and Captain scully, an Irish-American, fought
a duel with swords In the Bois de Boulogne, at
Paris. scully was slightly cut in the cheek.
On the 10th, two guests at the
Palmer House, Chicago, Mr.. and Mrs. II. G.
Fillmore, Of Fayetteville, New York, were suf-