Delta chief., 1884-02-06
NEWS SUMMARY.
4 Condensation Of Important Dispatches,
Domestic and Fureigp.

Baron Rothschild has advanced fl.
10000 to the Khedive.
Several stores at Hope. Arkansas.
were burned ON the 18th. Loss, e1,De.
Johnson's fluid beef factory At Mon
tresl burned on the 9th. Loss, 500, In
mred.
Boniface Desmareter, u Partisan
journalist, and author of the Sea Serpent
Myth, Is dead.
The decrese in the public debt during
January was s11, ,65s.ON. Since June 30
1888, $65,OO7, ,4ss.
Kline & Jacks block at Peoria, Illi-
nois, burned on the 3lst. Loss, 100000; In
suranee, $4,000.
An officer named Sabuloff. who was
sent to Chartoff to investigate Nihili-m, has
been assassinated.
A delegation from Dakota is going
to Washington to ask for the opening Of the
Sioux reservation.
Edmund Mackey. Representative
from South Carolina, died in Washington, of
peritonitis. on the 2sth.
A fire in r. G. Dun d Co.'S CONNER
cial agency, Fat St. Louis. damaged large
quantity of their records,
Within a radius of ten miles of the
town of Ayr, Scotland, 100000 trees were blown
down in the recent gales.
Philip Davis, on trial nj Gonzales.
Texas, for arson, was sentenced on the 3O,h,
TO twenty years confinement.
Henry b. Holmes, a dairyman near
Bloomington, Nebraska. was burned in his
barn with thirty cattle on the LIST.
Colonel A. w. Sheldon. associate
justice of Arizona, died suddenly at the Palace
Hotel, San Francisco, on the 3lst
Henry Lee ''aC Cincinnati bookkeeper.
who lost hiS head on an actress, has disap.
peared; supposed TO have defaulted'
f. G.. Lindsey. Of Petersburg. Indi-
ana, is in jail at Princeton, on the charge OF
outraging his thirteen year old daughter
Martin Sellers, of Kendallville. Indi-
ans, committed suicide on tho 9Th, because
he was called to testify In = murder Trial.
Jablusky, the chief murderer of Col
onel sudeikim, has been poisoned by the Nihi-
lists, who accuse him Of double dealing.
The Texas Senate has passed the
House bills for Furnishing Illegal fence build
ing, and also for Furnishing fence cutting
Simon Bonner, colored, was hanged
at Port Gibson, Mississippi, on the lst, for the
murder of white man in November last.
Articles incorporating the Merchants
Telegraph and Cable company have been nIed
in New York. Capital stock, sla,ooo,ooo
The evidence before the coroner's in
vestigation Of Amelia Olsen's murder at Chi
csgo proves that the girl was not outraged.
Christ Schneider, for the murder Of
Jsbob Well, in August, 1888, was sentenced
at st. .lLouis, on the 10Th. for thirteen years.
Two invalid members from Stanley's
Congo river expedition, who have reached the
Island Of Madeira, assert that De Brszzs Is
dead.
A joint resolution asking the New
Jersey congressman to favor National postal
telegraph law was defeated In the New Jersey
House
Margaret Sauer, aged q. died in New
York from malpractice on the 9Th. Three
persons have been arrested, including her be-
trayer.
Almost an entire block Of buildings
on the public square at Fsyette, Missouri,
burned on the 10Th. Loss, s7o, 900; insurance,
$4,000.
Seventeen prisoners have been re-
moved from the indianapolis jail TO the pest
house with smallpox. Other cases arc sppre-
hended.
Samuel A. Medany. for many years
pAymaster on the Cincinnati Hamilton & Day
ton railroad, Is said TO be $1,000 short In his
accounts.
On the sight Of the 2sth the safe in
the postoflce at Blue Island, near Chicsgovaa
blown open and robbed Of q, 900 worth Of val
usbles.
The police at Bristol are preparing TO
protect the Prince Of Wales when he visits that
cty. Many threatening letters have been re.
eetved there.
There were 373 business failures in
the United States and Canada during the week
ending with the LIST, an increase Of 80 over the
previous week.
John C. P. Collins. California stage
robber and murderer, wss hanged At Nevsds
City on the 1st, in the presence Of . large
crowd Of people.
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