Delta chief., 1884-02-13
NEWS SUMMARY.
A Condensation Of Important Dispatches,
domestic and Foreign.

Wendell Phillips death was caused
by paralysis Of the heart.
The German mail at Leipsic, was re-
Gently robbed Of $1,000 marks.
Forty Socialists have been expelled
from Vienna and two Socialist newspapers
have been suppressed.
The Paris Academy of Medicine, ia
vors the repeal Of the prohibition against the
American hog importation.
Josh Hart recovered verdict of $55
damages against George Alfred Townsend for
libel. He asked for go, 900.
The earnings of the Denver & Rio
Grande railway for January, 1884, were so6,
900 more than for January, 1888.
The New York Assembly has passed
bill making twelve hours Il days work for
horse car conductors and drivers.
At Homer, New York. on the 5th,
James E. Lines shot his wife twice and then
killed himself No reason Is given.
Alexander Trimble, who was arrested
in Texas as a participant in the Mexican Ma
aonal train robbery, has been released.
The House committee on currency
will report = bill for the exchange OF trade
dollars for standard silver dollars at par.
The remains of Lieutenant DE Long
and his comrades have passed Berlin. They
viii be shipped from Hamburg by steamer.
Eugene Rouher, who was prominent
member of the French cabinet curing the latter
days Of the reign Of Napoleon III, is dead.
Sixty indictments against thirty-four
lottery agents and policy shopkeepers have
been returned by the Chicago Grand Jurys
On the 5th the works Of the P. C.
Hartford OIL company At Buglewood, Illinois,
were partially burned Loss, $4,000; insured.
Unfortunate grain specula'ions caused
c. A. Stevens, Of Geneva, New York, to
commit suicide by shooting himself on the
End.
Senator Hills bill to give the state of
CoIordo' lands in lieu Of those which were
found to be mineral lands has passed the Sen
ate.
Julius Crosio, who killed j. X.
Beams, near San Angela, Texas, refused to
surrender, and was riddled with twenty bull
lets.
JEFF Rogers, n negro. who outraged
and brutally stabbed Mrs. Striblin in Chambers
county, Alabama. was hanged by lynchers, on
the 4th.
Baker Pasha's forces were defeated
by the rebels on the 8rd, losing heavily. The
remnant of his army reached Trinkitat, on the
Red sea.
The Irish Invincibles who are con-
fined In the English prisons are to be placed
on board Of man-of-war. Their destination
is secret.
There were 278 business failures dur
ing the week ending with the 9Th, In the Unit
ed States and Canada, against 373 for the pre-
vious week.
At New Orleans, on the eth, James
Graham, while suffering from mental 'depres-
sion, due to drink, killed his wife aud cut bis
own throat.
The Teaxs legislature has appropri-
ated $50 900 for the use Of tho Governor, to
be used by him in suppressing lAwlcssncss
within the state.
J. w. Uppern, draft messenger for
the First National bank of Fargo, Dakota, Is
short in his accounts, and has been indicted
for embezzlement
Wendell Phillips died in Boston on
the snd, after an illness from heart disease of
ono weeks duration. He was nearly seventy
three years old.
A court-matial has been ordered at
the Annapolis Naval Academy, and II Is under
stsod.tha those cadets who arc guilty Of haz.
ing, will be tried
The aggregate Of tho reported losses
at twenty fires during the month Of January,
was q, ,25O, 900. The total losses for the month
are unparalleled.
At Brooklyn, New York, Alex Paul
sen, the Norwegian, recently skated twenty
Eve miles in one hour, thirty-two minutes and
seventeen seconds.
DIR. John B. Wood, a prominent New
York journalist, fell upon the ice in North
river, New York, and died on the 9th from the
shock and exposure.
A German farm laborer, residing
near Nillersburg Iowa, shot Mary schustcr
because she declined to receive his attentions
and then killed himself.
On the 7th, Manuel Rodriguez, q
Mexican merchant Of Eagle Pass, Texas, was