Delta chief., 1884-03-12


vile Iron and coke company for $4,000 each,
for the loss of their husbands by the West
Leisenring explosion.
On the 9th boiler explosion in q
-four mill at Stayner. Ontario, killed John
Reynolds, one of the proprietors, and fatally
scalded the fireman.
w. II, Oiler, agent OF the Consolida-
ted Fast Freight Line at Kansas 'City, COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself through
the head on the 9th.
The funeral of United States Minis
ter Hunt occurred at the American Chapel in
st. Petersburg, on the 4th. All the diplomat
| ic corps were present.
Mr.. Gladstone says England has no
intention of assuming the government OF
Egypt. The troops will be withdrawn at the
earliest moment possible.
Miss Matte Kaiser, hotel employe
at Ashley, Illinois, was knocked down twen
ty-foot embankment by Ed Roach and died In
consequence, on the End.
Henry Oberbeck, player who was
discharged by the st. Louis base ball club for
alleged instilciency, sued and recovered pay
for his full contract time.
Many houses in Eastern Canada have
been almost buried during the recent snow
storm, and the occupants make their exit
through the attic windows.
In quarrel at Albuquerque. New
Mexico, on the 7th, between Tobe Brncc and
John sinons, the latter stabbed Bruce with
pltchfork and was shot BY Bruce.
Tho total production of iron and
steel In the United States, last year, WAS
1,3sO,0o4 tons, = falling of of 20 per cent.
from the product of the year 1888.
John w. Hawkins. U. S. lumber in
spector at B.iIalo, New York, and alss private
secretary for Nelson Holland, is charged with
ombeEzling frsn the latter $+o,0
Noah Jackson, colored, was hanged
at Lake Providence, Louisiana, on the 7th. for
the murder OF his fifteen year old wife Two
thousand spectators were presest.
On tho 9th Professor Nutting. mu-
sic teacher OF Emporia, Kansas, was shot aud
severely hurt by James l.. Dougherty, with
whose wife Nutt.pg was too familiar.
On the 9Th. a snow 'plow on the ST.
Paul road struck sleigh Mt siblry, Iowa, kill
ing q farmer named sisk and his son, and
slightly injuring his three daughters.
In = shooting ARRAY at Topeka. on
the 4th, George Blaekman was killed and Pc
ter Bloodsos was mortally wounded BY Isaiah
McClary. All the parties arc colored.
In street fight at Washington. on
the Ith, two spectators were shot by Frank
Langston, a son Of the United States minis
ter to Hay.i. One Of them was killed.
Tho signal tower at the west end Of
the Cumberland Valley Railway bridge, ni
Harrisburg, Pennsvlvania, burned on the End.
The engine house was also consumed
The sailors attached to the United
States steamer specdwelI, who were accused
of robbing the dead from the city Of Coium
bus wreck, have been hosorAbly acquitted.
At San Lcandro. California, on the
9th, William scoliard qusrrelcd with Alex.
Dietcrichscn aud shot hin, dead Scollards
father fell dead after hearing OF his sons act.
Leonard Weinda, president Of the
weinda & wirthelin Manufacturing company,
u ot. lsouis, piouhuiy ihtnhy Wohnueh hh
wife while under the influence of liquor ON the
3rd.
William Mcmillan. who killed
George Thompson near Huron, Ohio, for In
tcrforng In q family quarrel committed sui
oide In his cell by taking rat poison, on tho
9Th.
Tho concessions made to tho people
of Manitoba by the Federal Government have
not nllayod tho exeitcmcnt In tho Northwest,
but have only tended TO aggravatc the difIlcul-
ties.
Tho annual meeting Of the Union Pa
cifo railwg ws held on the 9th, at Boston.
Tho report showed thst It's earnings for tho
year werc q, ,s2O, 900 icss thus for the previous
year.
Five miles from Sedalia, Missouri, on
the 1st, two masked 1mcn ostered Bcujunin
II. Weils' house and shot him dead. They
sought for his money. but only secured HE ST.
ver watch.
A black bag. made Of Amer can
cloth, and oontaining forty-nve packages
of dynamite, has boen found in the cloak room
at Ludgate Hill station, London. Il contained
cloak slso.
On the 4th Jesse Stephens, colored,
was hanged at West Point, Mississippi, for the
murder Of Perch Wsstbrook, colored, last July.
An immense thropg, chiefly colorcd, witnessed
the hanging