Delta chief., 1884-01-09
NEWS SUMMARY.
4 Condensation Of Important Dispatches,
Domestic and Foreign


will be occupied February list.
The LOvington bank, at Decatur, nli-
nois, has failed Liabilities, *zs,0OO.
The Rye Beach Hotel, New Hamo
shire, burned on the Goth Loss, $4,000.
The Orangemen of Irelsnd are en-
deavoring to form military organization.
Judge Hallest, of Colorado. is being
pressed as the successor of Judge McCrary.
Joseph L. Murphy, late manager Of
the Lyceum thearer at Philadelphia, is dead.
On the End Deans furniture arcade
at Louisville, Kentucky. burned. Loss, $35,
00O
The Chinese Government has ordered
two more torpedo boats from the German ship
yards
On the 29th the dormitory of Park
College at Parkvillr, Missouri, burned Loss,
$4,000.
The Etna -four mills at Akron. Ohio,
burned on the 3lst Loss, s15OOo0; insurance,
10000.
D5A fire at Scotnialc, Pennsylvania. on
the Sd, destroyed property valued at s20,oco
partly insured.
A fire at Longview, Texas, on the
nd, destroyed property valued at $1,000; IN
surance, $4,000.
The failures for the week ending with
the ith, numbered 3i3 I'm the United States
and - in Canada.
The successor in Congress of Govern
or-elect Robinson. nf Massachusetts, will be
chosen ON the nth
The public debt wns. according to
estimate, reduced by the sum OF sI2mo. 600
during December
The property of the New York and
New England railway has been placed in the
hands OF receiver
Minister Lowell declines the. Rector
hip Of st. Andrews University, 10 which he
was recently elected.
Henry Wizards resignatiuR was pre-
sented and accepted by the Sortsrrn Pacific
directors, on the 9Th.
The coinSgc at the mints in Dcccm-
her amounted 10 s5,4s0,0n. Of whI,h sa.3,i. in
was In standard dolars.
a fire AT Jacksonville. Oregon, burn-,
seo,0C9 worth of property, upon which iisrrr
was only sIEsO insurance.
The 29th was Mr.. Gladstone, bir,h-
LAY, and congratulations reached him from
all points of Great Britain.
The Abilene, Texas. stage was robbed
near the Colorado river, on the ooth Nine
passengers surrendered 500.
Fritz Holder. who was wounded in
he aifrsy at Yazoo City In which tn. ,poscy
brothers were killed, Is dead.
Pierce S. Marx, of New York, de-
mands $4,000 from the Manhattan Railway
company for the loss Of an eye.
The decrease in the public debt in
December was ss,74ss57. The dccreas. since
June aoth, 1883, was sS3,o,o,4sa
Fifteen business houses. including on.
hotel at Whi,csboro. Texas, burned on the 3oth
Loss, s25, 600; insurance, slo,Up.
Frank Barr. Jr.. n railway postal
clerk between New York and Port Jcrvis. has
been arrested for robbing the mali.
Rober, A. Murray, n Boston broker.
has abseonded leaving liabilitie. of s4o.1o.
which was raised or forged mortgage.
The Pope has received a threatening
letter for his support Of England against the
Fcnians. His policy will remain unchanged.
The Rothschilds are reported To have
made the French government an offer Of 40.
900 600 francs for its interest In the state raiI
ways.
Currien, the young Alsatian who at
tempted To shoot Prime Minister Ferry, ha.
been sentenced TO three month. imprison-
meni
Clarence w. jackson, agent of the
Adams Express Company at vincenncs. Indl-
ana, Is under arrest, charged with embczziIng
s1,40o.
Queen Victoria has published Sec
ond volume entitled, "More Leaves from the
Journal Of Life In the Highlands, from isG2 to
iss2"
The public eScautiopcr was found
dead in HIS bed at Brunn, Austria. on the Ia,
II is supposed that he was the victim Of re-
vcnge.
The Attorney General rules that
postmnstcrs must pay their money order clerks
and not look to the government for such aa.
sistants.
Both the Nationalists and Orapye-
men held their meeting at Dromore on the Isl,
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