Delta chief., 1884-03-19
NEWS SUMMARY.
4 Condensation Of Important DISPATCHES,
Domestic and Foreign.

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Omaha on the 10th.
Alicante, Spain, had little earth
quake on the 14th.
The Texas cattle drive for the COM
ing season is estimated at 100000.
Gen. Grant visited Fortress Monroe
on the Sth, and salute was fired.
On the 9Th the Odd Fellows block,
McComb, Ohio, burned Loss, $4,000.
The produce exports from New York
since January are ss,4l4,963 less than last
year.
A bill, providing that wife beaters
shall be fogged, has passed the Massachusetts
House.
Henry A. Tilden, q brother of Hon.
Samuel ]. Tilden. died at Hudson, New York,
on the 18th.
The Consolidated Paper Company of
Chicago has assigned. Liabilities, 97,0oO, as
setts, t125,OOO.
Peter Schmitz, who gained q little
notoriety by choking his wife in Chicago, sui
cided on the 10th.
On the 9th an anarchist named Nor
ply was sentenced to pay 1000 francs for ad-
vocating assassination.
It is officially denied by the Russian
organ that an alliance has been formed between
this country and Russia
The Common Pleas court Of Philadel-
phia has refused to admit Miss Carrie Kilgorc
to practice as an attorney.
The people in various parts of Ger
many are ahicted with trichinosis, directly
tracesble 70 German pork.
Mrs. Elizabeth Lewis and daughter
were sufiocated by gas At their house in New
Haven, Coun., on the 7th.
On the 9Th the French police had
eight, three persons under surveillance as In
terested in the dynamite plots.
The Galveston Cotton Exchange op-
poses the further coinage Of silver dollars upon
the present basis of valuation.
Frank Slagle was hanged at Somer-
set, Kentucky, on the 14th, for numbering
two men for the purpose Of robbery.
The Western Union has declared its
usual quarterly dividend of ~ per cent. The
company has a surplus Of e4,094, no.
Reports from Cuba indicate finnn-
cial crisis, which will involve all branches OF
business dependent on export trade.
The examination of package ad-
the 9th, revealed an Internal machine.
Rumors Of Fenian movement in
Manitoba are numerous. Three cases Of arms
are said to be stored at Fargo, Dakota.
On the 18th Frederick Vierks was
found near his barn at Lind, Wisconsin, with
his skull crushed and his pockets empty.
The remains of Jerome j. Collins, Of
the Jeanette expedition, were Inferred with
imposinaceremonies at Cork, on the 9th.
An explosion Of fire-damp occurred
at the Pocahontas mines In Virginia on the
18th, killing one hundred and fifty miners.
The Canadian government has sent
an objection to England in regard to the aided
emigrants who have been sent into Canada.
j. T. Deiterich, teller in the Laclede
bank, st. Louis, was, on the 14th, arrested
for defalcstion. He Is about $50 1000 short.
On the 10th Wallace Ross defeated
George Bubear, the English oarsman, In
four-mile race on the Thames, winning easily.
d. G. Sharp has been sentenced to be
hanged at Gainsvillc, Texas, April 25, for
rape, committed on two girls sixteen and
twelve.
The iron bridge Of the Arizona &
New Mexican Railway at Clifton, Arizona,
was swept away by food on the sth. Loss,
$4,000.
Arrangements are being made at
Dodge City, Kansas, for the convention Of the
Western Stock Growers association 70 open
April 2.
The President has nominated s. N.
Morgan, Of Wyoming, to be Secretary Of that
territory.
The actor and playwright Nathaniel
Byron Page is dead. He was known on tho
stage as Teddy Byron.
James Riley, a New York telegraph
messenger has been rendered insane by read
ing sensational boy novels.
On the 11th, two old women and q
child were found in Montreal, 30 weak from
starvation that they could not speak.
Efiie Ellsler, the actress, has sued
Brooks 4 Dickson, theatrical managers. for
e8l, 800 for forfeiture Of . theatrical con
tract.
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