Delta chief., 1884-04-09

ick, Buffalo, New York, is charged with divert
ing large amount of insurance funds. Eighty
thousand dollars bail is required.
Tom Campbell, the lawyer who de-
Tended Berner, the Cincinnati murderer, asks
for judicial Investigation, on account Of the
charges that the jury was bribed
An amendment to the postal laws
has been prepared by the House POstoffice
committee, which is intended to prevent the
establishment Of private postofiices.
On the 4th, George Lee, colored, as
saulted a child four years old, at Magnolia,
Mississippi and was lodged in jail. few
hours later he was hanged by a mob.
Governor Murray responds strongly
to those who bring charges against him while
Marshal Of Kentucky, and cites Speaker Car
lisle, among others, in his defense.
On the srd. At Regina, in the North
west Territory, John and George Stevenson
were executed for . Dmurder committed last
June. They made full confession.
On the Ind. William Robinson, the
Democratic candidate for Congress in tbs
1ighth Alabama district, committed suicide
By sticking pen-k,ifs blade int his heart.
On the lst, at Mineral Park. Ari
soaa, during . storm, a sAobs bsildi.g fell,
baryi.g A1. Stein, Ais wife and three cAil-
drsa- Only tvo q ths children escapsa
dive
For the week ending with the 9TH.
there vsrs tive AlsArsd s.d twelve failures
e. 49, vY.s<>A nAaA.s .~A ff.,>A~ .-A.>
I've tAeusaal ssd fssr fes tAs prsvisss
veak.
On the Srd. TIVE brothsrs named
hamilsou, snticsd Carl eeeidis, Il Ere Pe.n-
syivania, from . tratS at WaxrensbarK. No.,
and murdered him for his money. They are
IN jail.
Lynch O'Conner. the Lsxin ton,
Kentucky, policeman, who vas Implicated In .
fAsal bsrrooa ashs rsesstiy, was probably f.
tally stabbed By his mistzess, Katie Graves, On
~ md.
o, The 4th. the House Postof,os
ssamissss voted 70 > sAss II is i.szpsdss.s
sss tAe 0overnmsns other 70 sonstrles poe
- sslegsapA OF v purchase my Of the exist
fng lines.
The British Consular officers In the
United sassss having bssn i.ssrscssd 70 OBJ
tain information rsg.rding ths imposssssoo
into HngiAnd, of American adultssstsd bsstsr
nd eAeese.
On the 30th. Briggs Swirl. . Cinei.-
naa nillioa airs, psek packer, was sAos within
sve squares Of his rssidsncs, asd nose sssi-
oasly injured. He was talk1ng vttA fsiSnd
- tAs time.
On the 3sth an explosion Of the nitro
giyessins vorks u Thompson's Point, New
jersey, killed ssvs. OF eight persoss a.d bad
y shook The houses sersss ths Dslsvsre q
Chester, Psonsylvania.
On the S0th. ss Dallas. Texas. Nj
ehAsl Burns, N iao6ssdvs mas, vas eooIly
shot dead By Willis Adams. Thrssts are msds
Of lynching, which she sheriff declares Will be
followed BY bloodshed.
On the LIST. colony Of twenty-five
families lefs Pittssurg for Seattle, Washing
ton Territory. II they return . favorable re-
port several hundred moro VIII follow them
They claim that fsrslgn labor has crowded
them out.
The business failures Of tho past
three months were three thousand two hun
dred ninety six, and the amountbf the liabiii-
ties was 10000, 600, against two thousand
eight hundred and six failures last wear, with
e37 ,O000 900 in liabilities.
Advices from Cincinnati. on the 3lst.
stated that the city had been quiet all day and,
although no fear Of further outbreak was felt,
barricadcs and guards had been maintained.
Some Of the people blamed the military for in
discriminate firing at the first of the trouble.