Delta chief., 1884-01-23
NEWS SUMMARY.
A Condensation Of Important Dispatches,
Domestic and Foreign

The Chinese government has sent o.
900 troops to Hal Nan.
A truce has been agreed upon be-
tween Chilli and Bolivia
The Mormon press are savage in their
opinions of Gov. Murray's message.
The False Prophet demands ransom
of sa,OOo for five nuns and four priests.
Chinese pirates have burned several
villages on the left bank of the Black river.
Ten business houses at Naples. H..
burned on the 18th. Loss, $4,000; Rrtly in
sured.
Active work is being resumed on the
Panama canal. There are now over l4,OOO men
employed.
Minister Lowell has accepted the
Presidency of the Birmingham and Midland
Institute.
Stern. an American banker. has mar
ried Mile. Sophie Croixette, Of the Coincide
Franchise, Paris.
A rumor from Russia says simults-
neous attack is advised upon the C.ar and the
German Emperor.
On the 18th Governor Sherman. OF
Iowa, was inaugursted and the new state capt
tol was dedicated.
The defence in the Mutt trial at Pitts
burg claim that the prisoner was subject TO
temporary alteration.
The English machine guns at the
Portsmouth dockyard are to be examined by an
American naval ofheer
Herr Lasker's funeral. at Berlin. will
occur January y under the charge Of . com
mittee from the Reichstag.
A. Smith 4 Co.'s elevator at Milwau-
kee was partially burned on the 18th. Loss.
go, 100; insurance, t16, 80.
Three four-story warehouses Of Law
renee & Co., New York, burned ON the isth.
The losses aggregate $4,000.
A FIRE in S. W. Silver & Co.'s pub
fishing house, in London, on the 18th, caused
damage amounting to f3S,0Oo-
Senator Edmunds favors the con-
struction of postal telegraph, but he opposes
the purchase Of the eIistirg lines.
Francis w. Rockwell. Republican.
has been elected to succeed Governor Robin.
son, OF Massachusetts, in Congress.
An earthquake, strong enough to
hif. stove pipes and unlatch doors, was
felt in North Carolina, on the 18th.
A small package containing go. 900
worth Of diamonds was seized In the mail BY
the Treasury officials At New York.
The nephew of Lieutenant Colonel
Sudeilein, who was wounded when his uncle
was killed by the Sihilists, is dead.
A fire at Eau Claire. Wisconsin. on
the nth, caused los Of s47,0oo worth Of
property, With an Insurance Of es3, 900.
Tho Chicago Exposition company
having f.iled 70 pay IL rent, hss been o.
dsred 70 vse.se Ne building BY The Mayor.
The bill appropriating $1,000. 900
for the Mississippi river passed the House on
the nth, by vote Of 21s yeas and 8. nays
Leroy Donovan was hanged at Raw
Inns on the 18th. for the murder Of barber
named Leighton. at Rock Springs, Wyoming.
1t is denied in Paris that the United
States will mediate In the Chinese ques-
ton.
The Blue Cut robbery case has been
continued In the Kansas City courts, until
the lst prox, on account of Frank James' Ill,
meas.
An application has been made to the
Canadian parliament for the incorporation Of =
tunnel company, to operate under the St. Clair
river.
On the 18th the shops at the state
prison at Nashville, Tennessee, were damaged
u 600 by fire, and the stock lost w.s valued st
$4,000
Almost an entire block of buildings
on the public square at Fayette, Missouri,
burned on the 10th Loss, SIS, 900; insurance,
$4,000.
The late DR.. Calvin Ellis, of Boston,
left his estste in trust for the benefit of bis sis
ter, and after her death 1t goes to Harvard
College.
The Catholics in England. have
completed arrangements for the erection of =
cathedral near the Victoria Station, TO cost
10000
The Ohio Democrats have elected
Hon. Henry B. Payne as Senator to succeed
Pendieton. The Republicans presented no
candidate.
Frequen: highway robberies have rem