Delta chief., 1884-10-29

whole fortune, estimated at over S26O,UOO 10
the society for the prevention Of cruelty to
The cholera is is decreasing in Italy.
Naples reports si1ty-four fresh cases and
thirty-sevcn deaths in twenty-four hours.
There were no fresh cases at Genoa and only
SIX deaths.
A dastardly attempt was made on the
22d to wreck the train on which Ger. Logan
was passenge by placing ties on the track.
They were seen by the engineer in time to pre-
vent disaster.
The Masonic Grand Lodge of Ohio
has adopted a resolution to the effect that
dealer in Intoxicating liquors should be dis
qualified from initiation or afliliation in any
Masonic Lodge.
Train wrcckers caused an accident
ON the Boston g. Albany road near Kinder
hook, which killed Engineer stickney, and
injured the fireman, conductor
and baggagemaster.
At the instigation Of detective Mar
tin Luther Fritsch, minister, and Daniel ].
Wenrich, wealthy cattle dealer, have been
arrested at Reading, Pennsylvania, for frauds
on the Aims House.
Sixty men were killed and one man
was badly scalded by steaU, thresher eIplo-
sion at Beltramie, Minnesota. The engineer
was recovering from drunk at the time. He
died with the others.
John Huschka, aged GO years, who
was recently released from the Wisconsin In
sane Asylum, killed his wife at Viroqua, Wis
cousin, and fed to the woods. A party Of forty
armed men are hunting him.
While train on the Wabash road
was returning from Democratic barbecue at
Peru, Indiana, three persons were slashcd with
3 knife by drunken woman, who was after
wards elected from the train.
Minnie Cummings, the actress, OBJ
tanned verdict In New York against Police
Officer Dccvcs and Della Murphy, . dress
maker, for false imprisonment. The Jury
awarded her s25, goo damages.
The village OF Chlorydorim in the
province Of Quebec, was destroyed by hrc, and
the inhabitants are homeless aud starving.
Their neighbors have little TO give them owing
TO the failure Of the fisheries.
The Treasury department decides
that two Chinese women, who were sent over
by the Presbyterian Board Of Foreign Missions,
for work in the Home Mission at San Francis
co, must be returned TO China.
A dispute between the Postmaster
General and an Arkansas mail contractor has
been referred TO the Court OF Claims. The de-
partment asserts that he has been ovcrpaid
10000 for fraudulent expedition
Joha Fitzgerald. a horsc-thicf. At
tempted to escape from the censburg, Penn.
sylvan!a, jail by letting himself down from
window. The rope broke, the prisoner fell
forty feet and was fatally injured.
Henry A. Hageboom has been arrest
ed for wrecking the Boston Il Albsuy train at
Kinierhook. It Is thought that he hoped to
stop the train by signals and then secure
money from the passengers for bis heroism.
A gas explosion occurred when tie
Cashier OF the Chcmung Canal Bank at e.
mira, New York, opened the vault and attempt
cd TO enter 1t with a lighted candle. All the
windows were shattered and the Cashier WAS
painfully burned.
Rice Orbin, Of Bradford, Pcnnsyl-
vania, asserted that he dreamed Of killing
man, and insisted upon a search being made.
He piloted his brother-ln-law to a place Ave
miles from his home, where the dead body Of
Jacob Klink WAS found.
At the Thomas coke ovens. in West
Virginia, three men while examining defect
in one Of the ovens were cast upon ma.s Of
No traces Of the unfortunate victims could be
found, exc, pit somc silver coins. II 10 suppos
I'd that the gas from the Goals stranglcd the
mcL.
The North Springfield. Misso 1ri. Post
Once was burglsrized on the 2lst, and over
thousand letters were taken with . ANAL
amount Of money and stamps Several other
PLACES were entered. Both Springfield and
North Springfield are infested with band Of
h ,usebrc lkcrs, who have been operating heavl-
y during the past week.
The Phelps family vault, at Bingham
io,, N Y. one OF the co.tlicst structures Of the
kind In the State, was entered by grave rob-
bers on the 24th, and the coffin Of Robert, the
son Of the late Judge Phelps, was cut open, Tut
the watchmen scared OF the robbers, who
were five in number. Over Roberts body suits
are now pending for t5 900, the amount which
Is claimed by . physician for cmoalmiDg the
body.
Tho Queens speech at tho opening
Of Parliament, on the ID, consisted OF eight
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