Delta chief., 1884-04-16
NEWS SUMMARY.
A Condensation Of Important DISPATCHES,
Domestic and Foreign.

10th.
Che<les Reade, novelist, died in Lon
don on the 18th.
Jim Ward, an old time pugilist,
died on the 9th, in London.
Jean Baptists Dumas, the celebrated
tterateur died in Paris on the 11th.
The annual boat race between Cam
bridge and Oxford was won by the former.
| On the End, Peter Huer was stabbed
in Cincinnati, by Peter Hughes and has since
died.
On the Sth, John Dillman was hang
ed at Easton, Pennsylvania, for the murder of
| his wife.
The death of Emanuel Geibal, Ger
man poet Of some renown, was announced on
the 9th.
DR.. James G. M. Ramsey, physician
and author, died at Knoxville, Tennessee, on
the 11th.
The Senate postal committee on the
9th, reported favcrably on Hills potal-tele-
graph bill.
Tho Directors of the Louisville Board
of Trade have arrayed themselves against sil.
yer coinage.
Clark's paper mills Tat Marseilles,
Illinois, burned on the 7th. Loss 10000;
fully insured.
Bailey Harrison, Canadian banker,
absconded on the 9Th, defaulter to the
amount of $4,000.
One half of the city of Mandalay, the
capitol of Burmah, a city of 20 900 inhabitants,
has been burned.
Comptroller Knox, of the Treasury
Department, has accepted the Presidency of
New York city bank.
A fire. at Pensacola, Florida, on the
10th, burned the railroad depot and other
property. Loss, s65,OO0.
Typhus fever has appeared among
the Poles who are located in some East Side
teuements, in New York.
Sadie Hayes, a negress, who killed
Police Sergeunt jerks, has been convicted Of
murder in the first degree.
On the 9th, the Senate confirmed the
nomination of J. c. Burrows, of Michigan, to
be Solicitor OF the Treasury.
Five fishermen weIc lately drowned
| by the loss Of the schooner Nelson Mcfarland,
off Gloucester, Massachusetts,.
The Nova Scotia legislature has ex-
tended the franchise In municipal elections to
widows and unmarried women.
Charles C oleman, colored. shot and
killed Elijah Brown, colored, in Baltimore, on
the 18th. The murderer escaped
Allyn & Co., wholesale grocers of
Corsicana, Texas, were burned out on the 10th
Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
Mike Berry, of Texarkana, threaten
Ell to lsill DepE.J sherfl Clark on sight, but
when they met Clark killed Berry.
The Central Pacific will put on fast
| mail April Is, making the time from Ogden to
San Francisco in thirty-nine hours
Mrs. Cecilia Burk, of fredericksburg,
Maryland, was found with her skull crushed
and throat cut near her home on the 1Ith.
The through mail and passenger SER
vice to the United States over the Mexican
Central Railway was inaugurated on the 10TH
A Fenian named Fitzgerald was ar
rested at London on the 10th, on the charge Of
treason and felony. He was taken to Dub
| lin.
And aged couple named Fleetwood
were found in their beds near Roridon, Coles
county, Illinois, on the 9th, with their throats
cut.
On the 9Th. the Adams Express Office
at Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, was burglar
lied and packages valued at about 81 600 were
| taken.
The st. Georges fiat. seven-story
building in New York, burned on .he 7th.
Loss, s15O,OOO. Four fremen were badly
burned.
On the 7th, the store room belonging
to the Wabash Railroad machine shops at Mo
berly, Missouri, burned. Loss, >S75, 900 to
sSO,000.
On the 9th, at West Point, Georgia,
four stores, two warehouses snd / 600 bales of
cotton burned. Loss, 100000; insurance,
100000.
Brown, the Cahokia, Illinois, mur-
derer pleaded guilty and was sentenced to hang,
May 30. He killed peldler and chopped his
body in pieces.
The New York Cotton Exchange
wishes silver coinage checked until the rela-
tive values Of gold and silver are established