Delta chief., 1884-08-06
NEWS SUMMARY.
4 Condensation Of Important DISPATCHES,
Domestic and FOREIGN.

| The Prohibitionists have formed an
organization in New York county.
Up to July goth, 1,146 deaths had
occurred at Marseilles from cholera.
"A new cable is to be laid from Brazil
to New Orleans at cost OF 100000.
The corner stone of the pedestal for
Bartholdi's statue is to be laid August 5.
| Governor Cleveland has been formal
" notified of his nomination for the Presi-
dency.
Five hundred head of diseased cattle
from Southwestern Kansas have been killed in
Chicago.
The PAGERS johnson and Richball
have been matched for s., 900 for race within
| three weeks.
LThe Greely relief squadron has
reached Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Mrs.
Grecly is there.
The Navajo wool clip amounting to
2,OOO, 900 pounds was bought by the traders at
| five cents pound.
Through coaches on the railways
between France and Germany are to be stopped
for fear of the cholera.
The hospitals at Panama are crowd
ed with the sick. DIR. Lopez, the canal physi-
clan, died of dysentary.
Reports have reached Shanghai to
the effect that France and China have agreed
upon treaty Of peace
The demonstration at Manchester on
| the o6th in favor OF the Franchise bill was
success. John Bright presided.
1t has been agreed that China shall
pay France an indemnity Of 100000 francs,
and an end Of the war is certain.
The steamer City of Yazoo struck
snag and sunk nine miles below Baton Rouge,
on the 3lst. No lives were lost.
The Mudir of Dongola defeated n
rebel Sheikh in the Ambukol district and
Dongola is now free from rebels.
The wholesale drug house of Leigh
ton & Clark at Omaha burned on the LIST.
Loss, slOO, 600; insurance, $4,000.
Mr.. Hendricks was form ally notified
| of his nomination by the committee on the
Both, who visited him at Saratoga
A tornado demolished dozen houses
at Cimarron Station, Kansas, on the 27th.
Several persons were painfully hurt.
Near Battle Creek, Michigan, an il
legitimate infant was crcmatcd by its mother,
the daughter Of q respectable family.
On the 1st, Jay Eye See trotted
mile at Narragansett Park in 21o, beating the
record of all horses, Maud s. included
A tornado 200 yards in width swept
through portion of Norfolk county, Va,
I destroying property and killing cattle.
Hon. Nelson Adams struck the Mar
shall OF Larned, Kansas, twice with heavy
cane and the latter shot him on the 3lst.
At Omaha on the 1st, John Field,
colored, shot his wife and killed himself after
failing to secure reconciliation with her.
China refuses to pay the indemnity
demanded by France. English sailors are land
ing at Foo Chow to protect the foreigners.
A ship load of rags are at New York
from Marseilles, and the United States authori-
ties will not permit them to be unloaded.
The second week of the New York
brick-layers' strike for nine hours opens with
the plasterers reinforcing the brick-layers.
Heavy rains are reported in Central
and Southern Ohio, and damage to crops is
feared. Six persons were killed by lightning.
Two American prisoners in the City
Of Mexico who were charged with defaming
the Mexican government, have been released
A French man-of-war is off Foochow
under steam, and cleared for action, but the
Chinese authorities do not apprehend an at
tack.
| Several of the Kansas railways have
agreed TO carefully cleanse and disinfect their
stock cars after they have been used by Texas
cattle.
Eight men and ten women of the
Salvation Army were arrested at Rochester,
New York, on the 27th, while parading the
streets.
Az Bradford, Pennsylvania. on the
Goth, the striking glass-blowers gouged out the
i eyes Of a non-union foreman TO disqualify him
from work.
| Forty buildings, including banks, ho-
tells, stores, etc, at Devils Lake City, Dakota,
burned on the 2sth. The place has no fire de-
partment.
The explosion Of coal oil lamp at
Hot Springs, Arkansas. on the 3lst, burned
$s5, 900 worth Of property, including the Com
mercial Hotel
Juan c. Baca, well-known and
wealthy citizen Of Las Vegas, New Mexico, WAS