Delta chief., 1884-02-06

mlts that he has opened 5000 within the six
months just passed.
An explosion in burning building
at Rome, New York, on the sOth, wrecked the
entire front, killing Joseph Alexander and in
juring David PatterSon.
The English police are endeavoring
to trace some f6OO or fsOO which II Is alleged
has been sent TO England from the O'Donnell
vengeance fund In New York
On the SOth, the three Barker bro
thers, who robbed the mail stage between
Lampssas and stauterfeit, Texas, last fall, got
life sentences in the penitentiary:
Henry Stillson and Jim Foley quarl-
ed At Mansfield, Texas, on the 9Th, and Fo-
ley's effort to use knife was checked BY Still
sons revolver. stillson escaped.
On the S5th William Coombs, = far
mer near Elgin, Illinois, ATTEMPTED to cut his
wife's throat, and In her dying agonics she
seized the knife and fatally stabbed him.
While eating supper in Mrs. Bur-
rows cabin, in remote spot twenty-five miles
/ from Galveston, on the 30th, Lewis McComb
was shot dead by some unknown person.
The Phoenix glass works, at Phil
lipsburg, Pennsylvania, burned on the sOth.
Loss, sl25, coo; insurance, t71,5m Five hun
dred men were thrown out Of employment.
Much damage was done in London
by violent hurricane on the l27th. Many
buildings were unroofcd. Many vessels were
wrecked on the coast, and n number OF lives
lost.
On the 3Oth Engineer &. NJ. Faber
was killed, and his fireman was fatally scaided,
by their engine jumping the track at Dixon,
Missouri on the st. Louis 4 San Francisco
road.
Charles Mathews. Dallas. Texas,
gambler. after being convicted on one charge
Of gambling. compromised t~enty-four other
cases against him l., paying q, 400 in zines and
costs.
Sixty Philadelphia policeman recent
" sxoopcd down upon cock fight, and cap
,urcd fifty nine spectators, twenty teams, some
of them well appointed drags, and seventy-two
chickens
The Russian government orders
, Count Lubensk to sell his property and vacstr
! the Empire, because he conducts Roman Cath
ole meetings and cIci,es the p.opie against
the government.
At Fort Worth, Texas, on the 9th.
J. =. Fogg recently from California, wn
beaten with brass knuckles by ID. W. Wood,
and will probably die. This Is the nfth mur-
der at Fort Worth ak weeks.
Colonel Emeto, formerly an officer in
the Patriot army, who went from New York 70
Cuba TO administer on his brothers estate. was
forcibly taken from the American ship In Cuba
waters and 10 now held . prisoner.
The Brigham Young Academy at
Provo, Utah. burned on the ssth. -Four
hundred Mormon students, with some narrow
escapes, got out Of the building without in
Jury. Loss, esO,OOO. No insurance.
An entire grand jury has been locked
up in San Francisco for refusing 70 divulgc the
secrets OF the grand jury room. It vn done br
. Judge who was trying Aggis Hill and W. n.
Peilson for forgery in the Sharon divorce case.
The excess Of the value OF the exports
over the imports of merchandise for the month
which ended December 81, 1883, was e2l ,593,-
49, For the six months which ended at that
date, ssi, ,0ss, ,6e5, and for the year 1883, slOs,
O7l,6 ,6s4.
Among other important amendments
to the Edmund's bill proposed by the Senate
Judiciary Committee Ia one that compcs the
registration Of all marriages I'm Utah. and an
other which makes female suffrage unlawful In
that Territory.
On the 18th Patrick Hartnel, labor
or, killed his wife In Cincinnati and endavorcd
TO chop her body to pieces and hide II. He
fought the police hercely and WAS so badly
hurt by them that he was..tskc 10 the hospital.
He 10 thought TO he insane.
The Minnesota State prison Mt Still
water, burned on the 18th. Ali Of the prison.
ers, including the Younger brothers, were got
the out safely. They are now under guard Of
militia, and II ia problem where to incarccrate
them until tho jail Is rebuilt. The loss IA e5O,-
900.
An accommodation train on the
"Monon" road broke through bridge across
White river, near Indianapolis, on the slst, kill
ing six persons and wsunding several othcrs.
The following is list Of the dead John Brewer
ofLafayette, Indiana, engineer; g. 4. Ricketts,,
baggsgemaster, Of New Albany; George Low
cry, brakeman, Of BuenA Vista, Indiana; The
odore Parr, bridge foreman, Of indianapolis;
and Abel T. Smith, American Express messeu-
ger, Of Indiana. The only passenger killed
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