Delta chief., 1884-05-28
NEWS SUMMARY.
4 Condensation Of Important DISPATCHES,
Domestic and Poreigl.

NO news has been received from Ten.
Gordon since April 10.
Secretary Folger will soon call in
10000, 900 In 8 per cent. bonds.
Woodruff's paper mill, at Buffalo.
New York, burned. Loss, $4,000.
A row boat capsized at Port Huron.
Michigan, on the 23d, drowning three men.
The next meeting of the Ancient
Order Of Hibernisns will be held in st. Paul In
1885.
Ferdinand Ward, in default of bail,
occupies cell in the Ludlow street jail, New
York.
The Security warehouse at New Or
leans, burned on the night of the Goth. Loss,
s15O, 1000.
A bill is to be reported in the House
granting Mrs. DeLong pension Of $50 per
month.
1t is understood that the findings of
the Court Of Inquiry are adverse to General
Swain.
H. c. Blanchard, a coffee merchant,
OF Richmond, Virginia, has failed. Liabilities,
sas3, 900.
General Grant has mortgaged his
house in Washington In favor OF William H.
Vanderbilt.
General Butler has accepted the Pres
ideatial nomination Of the National Anti Mon
opoly Party.
Secretary Folger has issued the 12sth
call for $40, ,0Oo,oo 8 per cent. bonds, matur
ing June 30.
5The steamer Faraday has reached
Rockport, Massachusetts, with the Bennett
Mackay cable.
The President has approved the bill
granting loan OF 100000 to the New Or
leans Exposition.
Underfield's moulding and planning
mill, on Fifty-third street, New York, burned.
Loss, $4,000.
The Methodist General Conference
completed its work at Philadelphia on the 18th
and adjourned.
Charles B. Clark was hanged at Lit
tie Valley, New York, for the murder OF his
wife on the e3d.
The expedition for the relief of Khar-
toum will not be ready to leave Cairo before
the end Of August.
The six-year old daughter of William
Dyke was outraged and murdered near Hills
dale, Michigan, on the sd.
Those who circulated the defamatory
rumors concerning the Penn Bank, OF Pitts
burg, are to be prosecuted.
Our New York panic has not pre-
vented rush for American securities on the
part Of English capitalists.
The streams of eastern and northern
Texas are very much swollen and great
deal of country flooded. i-.-
1.-TWO Texas toughs named Miles, who
are wanted in Texas for many murders, have
been captured In Wyoming.
An immense natural gas well was
struck on the Westinghouse property, in Pitts:
burg, at depth Of !, $50 feet.
1t is claimed that diamonds may be
found in the vicinity of Waukeshs, Wisconsin,
and prospector is digging for them.
Wholesale arrests of railway en-
ployes have been made, in Russia, on the
charge of being implicated with the Nihilists.
Ferdinand Wood has been arrested
in suit brought by Nelson J. Tappan. In de-
fault Of $500, 900 bail he is in the custody of
the Sheriff.
The shooting tournament at Louis
vile, Kentucky, June 2, for the championship
Of America, has been postponed until June %,
for want Of birds.
An influential journal, at Monterey,
Mexico, suggestively says to It's readers, '"Do
you understand that our final destiny is TO he
come Yankees"
A syndicate Of capitalists has taken
all the Government bonds that were held by
Tirkc u Hatch, and that firm is now In a posi-
tion to adjust its affairs.
The dividends paid by the Western
Union Telegraph company for the year 1889
per cent, amounted to e6,599, 125, and the
surplus amounts to S577, 7,046.
April 80 Mrs. General j. X. Proudfit
disappeared from her home In Wyandotte, Kan
sas, and her body has been found on the sand
bar opposite Kansas City.
The capital site case in Dakota has
been decided by the courts in favor Of Bis
marck. The case now goes on ian appeal to
the Supreme court of the United States.
The colabrot t;on tho fiva hundradth