Delta chief., 1884-05-21
Near Milwaukee, on the 11th, Mrs.

fatally Deaten Dy u lllhl aSilusl WnoH suc
Gently testified in an arson case.
On the 10th, while troop b, of the
Seventh cavalry were at target practice, at
Fort Leo svenworth, private Costello marker,
was accidentally shot and killed
At the annual meeting of the fire
Underwriters in New York, the president, in
his report stated that the fire losses for the
year aggregated over l0o,000,ooo.
On the 14th, the cornerstone of the
new Odd Fellows Hall in San Francisco, was
laid with imposing ceremonies. Over 10000
of the brethren were in the parade
At Winnipeg, Manitoba, on the 10th,
it transpired that John Boultbec, prominent
Portage La Prairie barrister, now In Protage,
Oregon, had absconded with $4,000.
On the 18th, Alderman Taylor. of
the Twenty y-ninth ward, Chicago, was fatally
shot by James Davis, ward politician, be-
cause he refused to drink with him.
On the 10th, three negroes, Riley
Anderson and James and Alfred Mccullough,
were hanged at Greenville South Carolina,
for murder. They were executed on one gal
lows
Road agents attempted 10 capture
the treasure boI..of Psymaster Whipple while
en- route to Fort Buforl, but were prevented.
One sargeant was killed and two privates were
wounded.
On the 10th fire communicated from
an adjacent lime kiln destroyed the greater
part OF Sherwin, Williams * Co.'S paint, oil
and varnsh works, at Cleveland, Ohio. Loss,
| $4,000: insured.
THE Northwestern Manufacturing
and Car company, OF saltwater, Minnesota,
Of which d. NJ. sabin is president and Z. d.
Gilfllan vice president, has failed for 81 COO
coo; assets, $4,000.
On 1.-THE l1th about three acres of
ground at GAINESVILLE, Ohio, sank several feet,
carrying down: and damaging a number Of
houses. 1t is attributed to the caving in Of an
bandoned coal mine.
ACCatholic priest travelling from
Chicago to California over the !cIas Pacific
WAS robbed, just as the train drew into Fort
Worth, on the llth, OF $4,000 in ca,h, by
three train pickpockets.
At Ashland, Ohio. on the 10th, Geo.
Andrew Horn and William Henry Gribbcn
were hanged for the murder OF Harry Williams,
one wear ago. Nine companies Of militia kept
10000 people away from the Jail.
On the 1lth. John Devote, ,the.privnte
watchman at the Atlantic Garden in Cincn-
natl, shot Thomas McDermott through the
bowels with n heavy calibre revolver because he
refused to pay for a glass of beer.
Butler B. Strong, member of Con
gress for two terms, killed himself on the 10th,
at Elmira, n. Y, in the presence Of his wife
and son. He had been n long time sick. He
was United States Marshal for Dakota In
1851.
The factory of the Naragansett Sus-
pender company, 4 the Webb company's build
| Ing and the buildings OF X. Wattles & Co,
spinning manufacturers, at Canton, Mass,
burned on the 10th. Loss, slOO, 600; insurance,
$4,000.
James Goodc, the man who is to
spar with Sullivan Mt Cincinnati, had "A Ibou,
with railroad brakeman named John Tanters
on the 10th, at Chicago. They spared four
rounds, but Goodc failed to knock his oppon-
ent out rlH.
Returns to the Department of Agri-
culture for May show the wheat prospects
nearly favorable as in April. Barring
the chances of the future, Il winter wheat pro-
duct OF about $50, 900, 900 bushels is Indicated.
Rye promises fully as well as wheat. General
average, 10l.
Frank Ward, peddler, on April u.
stopped at Folks house twelve miles from
Centre Point, Ark. Polk accompanied him to
creek where, aided by man named kuyken-
dali, he murdered Ward, bnrning his body and
pulverizing his bones May 10Th, the murder
crs were arrested, and Kuykendali confessed
A dose of morphine given instead of
oaomel, by drug clerk. killed +. b. Wards
child at Allegheny, Pennsylvania, on the 18th
When the clerk heard Of It he dropped sense
less Another drug clerk In Allegheny, the
previous week, gave aqua ammonia and sweet
oil instead OF castor oil and killed an old lady
named Ann Gallagher.
The bark Theresa" arrived on the
10th, with the survivors ofthe steamer "Flori-
da" and OF the bark with which the steamer
collided. The captain Of the "Thcresn," says
that when he took the wrecked persons the
Theresa" had scant space and provisions and
that he signalled the steamer "City OF Rome"
shortly after giving the usual signal OF distress
and that the "Rome" continued on her course
without offering any aid Captain Monro, Of
the steamer "City Of Rome" on the other
hand, claimed That no urgency signal was
shown him Inv the bark sPrhcreea aud st.,..