Delta chief., 1884-02-20
NEWS SUMMARY.
4 Condensation Of Important DISPATCHES,
domestic and Foreign.

Hon, Thomas Kinsella, editor of the
Brooklyn Eagle, died on the 10th.
During the Montreal races on the
sth, somebody stole the pool boxes containing
$4,000.
Senator Payne, of OHIO, sent 81 200
by telegraph to the homeless and hungry at
Wheeling.
Wendell Phillips left S25O,OOO to his
widow and adopted daughter. He made no
public bequests.
The damage to private property in
Jefferson county, Ohio, from the flood, is
placed ats25O,OO0.
On the the 18th the Mapleson opera
company gave a benefit for the flood sufferers,
and netted over 5000.
The Mayor of Wheeling has been di-
rected to draw upon the secretary of war for
$1,000 for the sufferers.
On the 10th, the Platteville bank, at
Platteville, Wisconsin, failed. Liabilities,
sl5O,OO0; assets, $4,000.
At Bellefountaine, Ohio, on the 14th,
Edward Gordon accidentally killed his wife
while cleaning a revolver.
The State of Kentucky appropriated
s25,oo0, and the Chicago Board OF Trade con-
tributed 5000 to the flood sufferers.
Robert Garrett ordered the free
transportation of supplies for the flooded dis
tricts over the Baltimore & Ohio road.
The Republic of Mexico has appro-
priated s2OO,O for the representation of that
country at the Worlds Fair at New Orleans.
On the 14th. Fred. Plattenburg was
shot dead for refusing to loan a stranger
small sum OF money, at Selma, Alabama.
Detective Brown, who is at work on
the Crouch murder mystery at jackson, Michi-
gan, was shot by an unknown, manon the 10th.
ID. w. Knapp. Western Union
operator at San Francisco, has been arrested
for divulging the contents of cypher messages.
The O'Neill wagon shops at Cort-
land, New York, burned on the 18th. The
shops and contents were insured for slo4,-
900.
j. X. Finlay, San Francisco law
yer, was arrested on the 18th, upon the charge
of felony for uttering fraudulent divorce de-
cree.
On the 9th, r. ID. Boyker. promi-
ncnt Louisiana attorney, was shot dead by a
negro who said he was hired to commit the
deed.
On the 18th the steamer w. P. Holli-
day, of the New Orleans Anchor Line, burned
at st. Louis. The watchman was badly burned.
Loss, $4,000.
On the 10th. two desperadoes, Mike
Mcdonald and Ed. Carey, were burned to
death by the destruction Of the county jail at
Wausau, Wisconsin.
Custom officers and smugglers had
q fierce fight near Matamoras, Mexico, recent
ly, during which two smugglers were killed
and lot Of goods captured.
David c. Keller, pilot of the steamer
scioto, has been found guilty of manslaughter
The steamer collided with another on the Ohio,
and fifty lives were lost.
The New York Coffee exchange and
the Importers and Groccrs' Board Of Trade
formed relief committees and subscribed 1900
for the Ohio valley food sufferers
Thomas Benton, colored, was hanged
at Placquemine, Louisiana, in the presence OF
two thousand people, on the 18th, for the
murder Of Robert Duggan last July.
There were two hundred and ninety
eight business failures for the week end
ing with the 18th, against two hundred and
seventy-eight for the previous week.
Bridget Eagan, q pastry cook at
Milwaukee restaurant, was shot fatally on the
10th, by her lover, Jerre W. Arnold, tele-
graph operator, who then killed himself.
On the 18th, at the Fifty-ninth street
station OF the New York elevated railway, an
unknown woman shot Victor Grafton Andre
in the thigh, and then blew her brains out
F. s. v. Conant shot and killed AL
fred Mcclellan at Norwich. Conn. ,on the 10th.
Undue intimacy between the murdered man
and the murdcrcrs wife is the supposed
cause.
On the 18th, two brick buildings on
the south side Of Pearl street, near Ludlow
street, In Cincinnati, were partially wrecked
by the flood, and twelve persons were crush
ed or drowned.
DR.. Marshall, of Pittsburg, who was
charged with the attempt to blackmail Mary
Anderson, has been acquitted. The court
ruled that his ofrense did not come under the
provisions Of the law.
Mr.. Aubrey is TO retire from the man
agement Of the Metropolitan Opera House, In
New York I'm Nav next and Mr. Gve will