Delta chief., 1884-07-30

Governor st. John telegraphs from
Rochester, New York, in effect, that he will &C.
cept the Prohibition nomination.
Three youths while fishing in the H.
linois River, near Canton, were drowned by the
capsizing Of their boat on the 25th
Hon. w. H. Barnum, of Connecticut.
has been unanimously chosen as Chairman Of
the Democratic National Committee.
The first message was sent over the
Bennett -Mackey cable On the 2lst. 1t was to
Mr.. Mackey from his children In Paris.
Clara Pratt. a jealous colored woman
in Cincinnati, shot her husband through the
stomach, because she WAS jealous He will
die.
President Arthur has received the
congratulations OF Queen Victoria upon the
rescue Of the survivors Of the Greedy expedi-
tion.
General Hazen says Lieutenant
Greely accomplished all his work and brough
his party in safety to the point where he was
directed.
Twenty.five members of Pinkerton's s
police have been bound over at New Straits
Vile, Ohio, for the usurpation Of power, in the
sum OF 800.
Tho Austrian police have been in
structed to arrest all Mormon missionaries, and
warrants are out for the arrest Of Paul Hon.
mer Of Nevada.
A strip Of rich farming country three
miles in width near Huron, Dakota, was desc
n I.... ta
placed at $4,000.
4 People arc leaving Paris under the
fear that the epidemic will reach that city.
There is no panic but the tourists give that
city wide berth.
w. S. Cavett, ex-sherif Of Simpson
county, Ky, is under arrest for rapng his
fourteen-year-old daughter. There Is some
talk OF lynching him.
w. NJ. Nelson who instigated the
suit OF Miss Hill against x-scnatorSharon has
withdrawn from the case. He says some OF
the testimony was fals..
A party of outlaws attempted to
capture the horses in a livery stable at Wy
more, Nebraska, on the oath, but they were
driven of by the stable men.
Six thousand acres of grain were de-
stroyed by fire in the southern part OF San Joa-
quin County, California, on the 2lst Loss,
$50, 900; insurance, $4,000.
Two children of John Ransdale we're
burned to a crisp at Plano, Texas, by the cx
plosion OF a coal oil can, while they were trying
to kindle fire with the oil.
The Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph
Company charges IS cents for fifteen words
from the Mississippi River TO the Atlantic sea-
board and makes money att.
Paul Loscher shot and killed his wife
at Montague, Michigan, Friday He then shot
himself, but the wound is not necessarily fatal.
His wife had separated from him.
At Newman Station, Kansas, on the
Union Pacific road, on the oath, seven persons
were bitten by a mad dog. One woman had a
piece Of flesh torn from her face.
Seven persons were killed near Sioux
City, Dakota, by the tornado on the 2lst. The
damage in the village Of Dell Rapids is placed
at 100000, aud at Valley Springs at $4,000.
The aggregate receipts Of the Inter-
nal Revenue Bureau for the year, which ended
June 30, 1884, we're s12I 500, ,039, decrease OF
s22, ,963, ,ao5 when compared with the previous
year.
The President has asked for the res
ignation Of General James Longstrcet, United
States Marshal for the Northern District Of
Georgia. He is charged with carelessness and
inefiicicncy.
About 1000 bricklayers, 5000 labor
ers and 200 hod hoisting engineers have struck
In New York, demanding that nine hours shsll
constitute days work. Some Of the builders
have yielded.
1.-THE plot to blow up the Gar Mt War
saw was revealed through the suicide Of stu
dent who had killed himself rather than poison
the father of his aanee as the NIhilists had d.
rected him to do.
The excursion steamer Empire State,
of Boston, with 1900 people on board, struck
on the ledge between Thatchers and Rockport
on the Goth, but landed all her passengers at
Gloucester in safety.
Julius Helwegg, Russian, commit
ted suicide in New York on the 25tb, by shoot
ing himself through the head with two revol-