Delta chief., 1884-02-27
NEWS SUMMARY.
4 Condensation Of Important DISPATCHES,
Domestic and Foreign.

Hartford, Conn, gives $50, 600 to the
flood victims
Hanlon, the oarsman, left San Fran
cisco for Australia on the 18th.
New Orleans unveiled statue to
Gen. Robert E. Lee, on the 22d.
The Russian government has banish-
ed sixteen persons since January.
Freight and passenger schedules were
resumed at Cincinnati on the 18th.
The Democratic National Conven-
ton will assemble at Chicago, July sth.
Four buildings were destroyed by fire
at Pittsburg on the 22nd. Loss, $4,000.
The loss by flood in Cincinnati, New
port and Covington, is estimated at soo, ,00O, 600
A fire at Mayaguez, Porto Rico, on
the 22d, burned forty-two houses Loss, $50
900.
Commander w. S. Schley has been
selected to command the Greeley relief expedi-
ton. tag
Chicago had $3.50, ,OOOCfire on the
l7th. Nos ITO and :112 Madison street being
destroyed.
The Episcopal Mission at Santee In
dian Agency, Dakota Territory, was totally de-
stroyed by fire on the 17th
The Austrian Consul at Khartoum
sent Fl Mahdi $4,000 to secure the release Of
some Catholic missionaries.
j. w. Hall and David Long, the sup
posed Mount Pulaski murderers, have been
placed in jail at Lincoln, Ill.
Police Officer Nicholson, was murder
cd by some person, unknown, while on duty
at San Francisco, on the 10Th.
Clarence Sheppard & Co., hardware
dealers at Milwaukee, have assigned. Liabili
ties, 100000; assets, 10000.
San Francisco proposes holding
Worlds Fair and its proprictors want Con-
gress to give them 100000.
The Greenbackers will hold their Ma
tional Conventio" at indianapolis, May IS, and
place national ticket in the field.
A bill granting nearly $50, ,0Oo, 900 to
the Canadian Pacific Railway passed the Cana
dian House of Commons on the Dist
On the 22nd. Salmi Morse. of Pas
sion Play notoriety, committed suicide by
drowning himself in the Hudson river
The Indiana Greenbaekers nominated
State ticket, headed by II. 4. Leonard, of
Cass county, for Governor, on the 22nd
On the 10th, an entire block was
burned at Prescott. Arizona. $. n. Holmes,
pro lot n b. Tl,,1, 4. a.
On the 10Th. rain broke dam AT
Las Angeles, Cal, and caused the wrecking
OF forty buildings and loss Of $4,000
Ten of the freight conductors and
brakemen employed on the Boston and Albany
road, have been arrested for stealing freight
The ante-Jdwish feeling is so strong
at Kief, Russia, that attempts have been made
to inc!te general massacre Of the Jews there
John Fields was killed at st. Louis
on the 22nd by John Long who charges an un
due intimacy with his wife. Both are colorcd.
James b.. Curle, prominent cattle
owner In the Cherokee Nation, accidentally
killed himself while handling a revolver on the
10th.
Harvey Chappell, aged rs, wealthy
farmer who lived alone ut Lebanon, Connect
cut, was found murdered In bis house on the
21st.
On the 18th, Senator Plumb, Chair
man Of the Senate Committee on Public Lands,
reported adversely bill for irrigating public
lands.
On the 10Th, two rival sewing-ma-
chine agents quarrclcd Mt Macon, Georgia,
and one, named II. G. Turpin, was stabbed to
death.
Six persons, an entire family, were
taken to the college hospital at Minneapolis,
with trichinosis, on the 10th. One died They
ate raw ham.
Protracted sickness in his family
caused b. F. Barnes, residing near RIchand
Center, Wisconsin, to kill his wife and himself
on the 2lst.
Patrick MCGOWAN, Of New York, kill
led u local politician named Thomas Sullivan,
on the nth, the result. OF a discussion about
primary elections.
Near Glasgow, Ohio. on the 21st,
John Brchmcr attempted, while drunk, to mur-
der his wife, and his son interfering the old
man shot him dead
The body of Gabriel Erb, n wealthy
citizen Of ofdIubbard, Ohio, was found so badly
frozen on the 18TH, that death soon followed.
He had been drunk.
John Heith, sentenced at Tombstone,