Delta chief., 1884-01-23
The Montezuma Hotel at Las Vegas

property OF tne guests. Loss, aUout f-Vo,ooo'
insurance, $4,000.
On the 18th, Stephen Richards was
hung at Auburn, California for the murder of
Thomas Richards He mounted the scaffold
smoking Il cigar
At Beloit, Wisconsin. fire damaged
B. sudster's farm machinery warehouse and
the adjoining property. Total loss, $4,000;
insurance about 5000.
The members of the Chinese Imperi-
al family are said to be Offering portion OF
their private fortunes to defray the expenses
of a war against France.
Secretary Howard. of the Prisoners
Aid Association, says American prisoners
are over-fed, and that their general treatment
defeats the objects of prison discipline.
Ralph Sellew, aged seventy-three. An
old and esteemed citizen OF st. Louis, fell dead
in the rotundA of the Lindeli Hotel, on the
18th His death WAS due to apople1y.
ID. p. Hill. merchant Of High
Bridge, New Jersey, was called to his store at
o'clock on the morning of the 10th. and per
haps fatally shot by masked burglars
The dead body of Professor Peter
voltz, prominent citizen Of Allegheny City,
Pa, WAS found on the 18th, with indications
that he had been murdered and robbed.
On the 18th John Elfers was hung st
walIa waiia, Washington Territory, for kill
ing Dan Haggerty because the latter refused
to pay him fifty cents which he owed him
At the University Hospital in Phila-
delphia, on the 18th, DR.. BENJAMIN Hamil shot
| and seriously wounded Edward Martin, whom
he suspected Of undue intimacy with Mrs
| Hamil
Charles Mathews, Dallas, Texas.
gambler. after being convicted on one charge
| of gambling compromised twenty -four other
cases agains, him by paying q 400 in fnes and
costs.
The business failures for the week
ending with the 18th, I'm the United States and
Canada number 4a6 against ass for the prcvi-
Gus week. They were mos,iy among the small
traders.
At Alexandria. Kentucky. on the
| 18th, I'd Bier's afhaneed went to church
with another, which 20 offended him that he A.
tempted to shoo, her. Fsiiipg In this, he kill
| ed himself
A gang Of two hundred penniless dis
charged railway iaborcn sook possession of =
train at PendIston, Oregon. on the eth and
stubbornlv refused 10 v.eat~ IL. The citizens
4 fed them.
Robert Harris. vice president of the
Erie railroad, has been elected president Of the
Northern Pacific railroad. He va. formerly
connected with the Chicago. Burlington 4
Quincy road.
The dead body Of Amelia Olsen. aged
seventeen, was found on the open prairie near
the n nerth~estern outskirts Of Chicago on the
10th, ~ith indications that abe died from vio-
icnec and exposure
A resolution has been prepared for
presentation in the House suthorisisx the
President TO prohibit the importation Of such
articles may be injurious TO health from
France and Germany.
John EgAn. ex-speaker Of the Now
Jersey Assembly. has been sentenced 10 one
months imprisonment at hard labor In the
pcnitentisry and $500 One for an attempt to
bribe an assemblymsn.
John H. Fleming and Fred l.. Lor-
| ing, the Chicago grain svtndiers, we're on the
l4th, sentenced " one years imprisonment
and $50 fine. writ Of error secured their
release on 5000 bail.
Mrs. Valeria Stone, Of Maiden, Mas
sachusetts, died on the 18th from the effects Of
fall received four weeks ago. She has within
the past few year, given eaOo,0Oo TO various
colleges and schools for girls
There is considerable excitement in
Chicago In regard to the French and German
prohibition Of American meats, aud the effect
Of retalia,ory measures ON the par, Of this gov
ernment are freely discussed.
The body of the missing Charles Del
monico, New York's famous rcstauranteur,
WAS found On the l4th in the Orsnge noun.
,ains, near General McClellan's summer resi-.
dence. His death was due To exposure.
On the 18th the boiler attached to the
kitchen range. in Frank 8. shcrwoods's house
at Hunters Point, Long Island, exploded, kill
ing his little son, fatally injuring another. and
destroying Mrs. sherwood's eye-sight
Mrs. Mcdonald, of New York City,
on the 18th locked two children in her room,
while she teok third to school. Upon return
ing she found them dead They had lighted
fire on the floor and had been sufyocaied
On the 10th the president Of the New
castle Board OF Trade said, In a speech, that
the Government would not consider Its task
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