Delta chief., 1884-06-04
NEWS SUMMARY.
4 Condensation Of Important DISPATCHES,
Domestic and ForeiW.

The death ,of Sir Henry Bartle Ed
ward Frere is announced.
There were thirteen yellow fever
deaths at Havana last week.
The new Mahdi claims to possess the
power Of becoming invisible.
Italy supports France in her demands
for international control Of Egypt.
A Receiver has been appointed fer
tho Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific railroad.
The New York Elevated Railway
Company has absorbed the Manhattan Com
peny.
The fire in the Atlantic Oil Works at
Philadelphia destroyed s6OO, 900 worth Of pro-
perty.
The car shops of Chicago & North
western railway, at Chicago, were burned :on
the 3Oth.
The Governor Of Dongola engages to
pacify the soudan II several thousand troops
are sent him.
The convention of the Methodist Pro-
testant Church will be held next year at Adrian,
Michigan.
The Southern fresbyterians decline
to form an organic union with the church In
the north.
In Southeastern Spain 400 dwellings,
have been destroyed, and 5l4 were injured
by the foods.
1t is reported that Earl Of Granville
will soon resign his seat In the Cabinet on &C
count Of Ill health.
General Butler has written letter in
which he declares that free trade is impractic-
able in this country.
The business portion of Sharpsburg.
Kentucky, burned on the Goth. Loss, $50, 600;
insurance, 5000.
The spinners' strike at Fall River,
Massachusetts,, is ended. The strikers lose
sixteen weeks wages.
Mrs. Christopher Schriefer cut the
throats OF folr children at Albany, on the
3Oth. She was insane.
The court house of Wilson county.
Texas, was burned by incendiaries and all the
records were consumed.
AhC SLoA Q NJ CSlCoAat-
ed at st. Petersburg, on the eth, while he re-
NAMED safely at distance.
The Brazos river, in Texas, has
flooded the country on both sides for one hum
dred miles from the mouth.
The Nile is rising rapidly. and this
is expected to facilitate General Gordon's
operations against the rebels.
The Secretary of the National Mil
lers' Association reports the outlook for the
wheat crop as very promising.
II. A. Collier, prominent attorney
Of Pittsburg, is missing, together with certain
funds which were in his possession.
The wife of Robert J. Burdette, edi-
tor Of the Burlington Hackeye died at Ard
more, Pennsylvania, on the 27th.
Moody and Sankey closed success
full meeting at Croydon, England, recently.
They will sail for America on July s.
Two men have been arrested at Char
ing Cross, London, with dynamite and in
fernal machines In their possession.
Mr.. G. F. Adams claims that the net
earnings of the Union Pacific during the year
will compare favorably with last year.
The internal revenue receipts of the
past ten months were 1896, ,627 less than for
the came months In the previous year.
Heavy frosts were reported in parts
of Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin, on the
Goth, doing much injury to the growing crops.
The fleeing President of the Hot
Springs, Arkansas, National Bank was cap
tured at st. Louis. Mrs. Steele was with
him.
James d. Fish, ex-president of the
Marine bank Of New York, is under arrest
upon warrant sworn to by Bank Examiner
Serbia.
The Indebtedness of Hawley & Co.,
of Boston, who closed In the first furry in
Wall street, amounts to $4,000; assets,
s32, 900.
The Ferguson Hotel, four stores and
one dwelling burned at Northern Pacific juno
tion, Minnesota. Loss, $4,000; insurance,
$4,000.
w. X. Killion, special bailiff, was
killed in Laurel county, Kentucky, by party
Of moonshiners, who were captured by his
posse.
Colonel J. o. P. Burnside, disbursing
clerk in the Postofice Department, has been
removed. He is charged with embezlIng
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