Delta chief., 1884-05-14
NEWS SUMMARY.
4 Condensation Of Important DISPATCHES,
Domestic and Foreign.


tics and will go to Australia
On the 2nd. the Berlin, Ohio. -four
ing mills burned. Loss, s35, ,ooo-
The'western end of the Bennett-Mac-
kay cable was put ashore on the 9Th
Miles Petty, a negro. was hanged by
, mob for an outrage. on the 9Th, a. EHlabe'h-
town, Ky.
The River and Harbor bill, as agreed
on by the House Committee, sppropia,es
$l2, 900.
The steamer Thstis. of the Greeley
expedition. reached St. Johns, Newfoundland,
on the 9th.
At Lawrence, Massachusetts. ex-
Mayor Saunders has been held for trial for bal
lot stufing.
Matt Connolly, in nine rounds,
knocked :out George Hickey, at Rocksway
Beach, for 1850.
The miners at Tombstone, Arizona
have formed a miners union, and demand
four dollars day.
The Treasury Department pur-
chased 225, 600 ounces Of silver during the week
ending with the 9Th.
On the 5th, the Senate confirmed the
hcitor of the Treasury.
Jane A. Connolly, who was confirm
ed BY the senat. Solicitor of the Treasury, has
declined the appointment.
The meeting of the National Anti
Monopoly convention is f1ed for May IA, at
the Briggs House, Chicago
The steamship. State of Florida. was
sunk by collision and ls3 persons perished
Forty-four were saved.
On the sth panic was caused in a
chapel in Trieste BY an altar catching fire.
Many people were wounded
At Tidioute, Pennsylvania, on the
S,h George Jenne killed William Ellis during
a dispute about log chain.
A. Blaney, chairman of the AAtick.
Massachusetts,, selectmen, has been held In
800 bonds for ballot stufiing.
The Senate has added 800, 900 to the
agricultural appropriation bill, for astesian
wells, TO reclaim the arid lands.
A gun thirty feet long and weighing
3D. 900 pounds has been cast at the Boston
Iron Works for the Government.
The House Committee has agreed 70
report favorably upon the bill for the erection
Of the Soldiers Home in Michigan.
The decrease in the public debt dur
ing the month Of April was s, 2:a, SO: de
crease since June 30, 1888, sso,7+O,E4.
William McHugh, Cincinnati wife
murderer, was hanged in that city on the End,
in the presence of two hundred spectators
On the Sd, James Maxwell, the
Harrisonyiile, Mo-, druggist who killed his
brother-in-law, committed suicide in his cell.
On the 9th, James S. Coleman. a
colored schoolmsster, was hanged at Colum-
bia. South Carolina for outrage and murder.
Bishop Salpointe, of Arizona, has
been named as the coadjutor of Archbishop
Lamy, Of sante Fe, with the right Of success
sion.
The body of Thomas Leonard, an
Engiiehman, aged 30 years, was found near
Nebraska City, on the 9th shockingy multi
ated
The firm of Grant & Ward, of which
Gen Grant and his son are members, sus
pended on the 9th. They we're over $500, 900
shrOt.
A Havana dispatch says: "Varena s
band Of insurgents Was defeated. One man
was killed and twelve men and horses cap
tured."
William Wissey, the paying teller
OF the Bank OF Commerce, of Baltimore is
under arrest, charged with cmbezzling s17,-
CO.,
The steamer d. S. Ford, of the Ches-
ter River Steamboat company, bunrned at
Chestertewn, Maryland, on the 4th. Loss
$4,000.
On the sth, Melmo & Brothers bank,
at New Laredo, Mexico, was despoiled OF
10000 by Mexican troops, for the use Of the
Government.
One hote!. the postofiice, several
business blocks and number OF dwellings, at
williamstown, New York, burned on the 4th
Loss, sG5, 900.
At Winston, North Carolina, on the
Sth, 25O citizens took Hy. Swain from jail and
lynched him. He murdered woman for the
purpose Of robbery.
On the 9th, Charles Ford, the slayer
of Jesse James, committed suicide at Rich
mond, Missouri, by shooting himself
through the heart.
An unknown assassin on the 9th,