Delta chief., 1884-03-12
NEWS SUMMARY.
4 Condensation Of Important DISPATCHES,
Domestic and FOreigl.

SteamerS IOr EUROPE on lhe ISL, TOOK
out 81, ,1Oo. 900.
The public debt was decreased during
February, Sa,5sa,6S7.
Pope Leo XIII. celebrated his sixth
anniversary on March Bird.
The Naire house, at Denton, Texas,
burned on the LIST. Loss, $4,000.
The British authorities offer G1,O00
for the detection Of the dynamitcrs.
The northern portion of Dakota, will
in future be called Lincoln Territory.
Destitute emigrants are reaching
Montreal from England in large numbers.
On the 1st Rosalia, the murderer of
Bolado, was executed at the City OF Mexico.
Nellis, the Irish informer in the Lord
Leitrim matter, proves to be crank or lu-
natic.
The High school house near Potts
town, Pennsylvania, burned on the 4th. Loss,
$50, ,0OO.
The Kennedy prohibition bill passed
the Iowa house Of representatives by a vote OF
So to Al.
The city of Saltillo, Mexico. has
passed duty of sixteen cents per bushel upon
corn importations.
The House of Commons rejected MIR.
Parnelps amendment to the Irish land act by
vote of 32s to T.
M. o. Van Fleet, treasurer of Huron
I~I l. .1oax
is $4,000 or 10000.
A convention of wool growers held
at Salt Lake, appointed two delegates to the
Denver conv ention.
John MoGinnis was hanged in the
county prison at Philadelphia, for the murder
OF his mother-in-law, on the 4th.
On the 1st the court house at Wealth
erford, Texas, burned. AL the county court
records were lost. Loss, $4,000.
+. A. Beelcr. real estate man of
Ottawn, Kansas, committee suicide on the
9th. Dependency was the cause.
Three buildings Of the oil Goth
works OF sBlabon & Co., Philadelphia, suffered
1900 damage BY fire, on the 9th.
On tho Ist fifteen pounds of dynamite
exploded in shanty at Harrisburg, Peunsyl-
vania, damaging sixteen buildings.
The coinage of standard silver dol
lnrs up to March I, 1884, was el66 1a6, ilo. OF
.his amount $50, zoe, TO arc in circulation.
The women of Ellenville. Now York,
threatened to boycott every business man
who refused to vote the Temperance ticket.
At Des Noines. Iowa. on tho 4th,
Peter johnson shot and killed his wife and
then killed himself. Tho cause is unknown
The California .Republioan Central
Committee mcets at Oakland Aprrl 20. Out Of
thirty-six members twenty seven favor Blaine.
The official inquiry into the wreck of
the steamer City Of Columbus ccnsures Captain
Wright and revokes his license az master and
pilot.
A fire at Odessa, Missouri, on the
9th, consumed one-half Of the business por-
tion OF the town. Loss, $4,000; insurance,
$4,000,
The imports into England for Febru-
ary were R2s9, 600 less than In February, 1888,
and the exports for the same month Increased
R8S7, 900.
&C. E. Gambler. sheep owner resid-
ing on North Bear Sreek, Wyoming, about
Afty miles from Cheyenne, committed suicide
ON the 7th.
Nellis. the man who professcd to
know something about the Lord Loitrim mur-
dor, has boon adjudgcd insane and sent 70
madhouse.
In bar room fight at Lexington
Kcntscl<y, on The Sad, James Campbell, a
stone cat.or, was shot through tho heart BY .
uolicemaa.
On the 4th Harry Beatty, Of Easton.
Pennsylvanis, agod 17,a reader sf dime novels,
shot his father, because the lntter attempted
to chastlse him.
At Hazelton. Pennsylvania, on the
and, Edwin Brotheras shot and mortally
wounded William Nichs,s whom he alleges 80
ducod his neicc.
d. W. Pratt, formerly General Agent
Of the Mccormick Machine Company, Of Chi
eago, has been arrested on tho charge of em
beAzling 1900.
Secretary Folger. in response to a
House resolution, says he has t7,584, $40 in the
treasury which can be applied to any Govern
ment purpose.
Prentiss Tiller. money clerk Of the
Pacific Express company, at st. Louis, dis
appeared ON the 9nd. with nearly s75, 900 in
ranLsusa