Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-06-15
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.

500 600. in $40 bills. have been stolen from
the Treasury.
FLORENCE, June 9.-The instruction ut
Lucia is suppressed.
LONDON. June 9.-The farmers are alarm
ed over the drought.
ATHENS, June little brigand chiefs
have escaped into Turkey
FLORENCE, June 1.-THE Minister to
Portugal has been recalled.
CAIRO. June 11.-Obstacles in the Suez
Canal, near Lake Temasu, are being re-
moved.
The Secretary of State has no official in
formation regarding the reported Jewish
massacre.
BOMBAY. June 9.-The Cholera is rava-
ging different parts of India. Particular
at Madras.
PHILADELPHIA, June 9.-The tobaccon-
lists of this city petition for a Uniform tax
of sixteen cents.
BERLIN, June ll.-Bismarck has been
forbidden to work, and ordered 10 England
for his health.
LONDON, June 10.-Charles Dickens died
at twenty minutes past six last evening, of
paralysis.
1t is understood that the Administration
will allow the courts to deal with the Fee
mans.
Persons acquainted with Indian councils
and character predict an early and serious
Indian war.
DeRodas' official dispatches report three
battles in which there were killed 26 of his
men, and 10 insurgents.
SAN Francisco, June S.-The city voted
81 ,OOO, 600 TO the Southern Pacific Railroad.
The negroes voted for the first time
New YORK, June S.-A school house
here was struck by lightning, which kill
ed the teacher and injured several pupils
WASHINGTON, June 1.-THE Senate APP
propriated fifty thousand dollars TO pay the
expenses of Indians visiting Washington.
CINCINNATI, June "a rope supporting
a scaffold breaking to-day George Joyius
fell, from st. Pauls Church steeple, and
was killed.
PHILADELPHIA, June s.-Forty thou
sand Masons were in line to-day, present.
ing the finest Masonic display ever made
in America.
Upon the announcement of the death of
Charles Dickens, the Queen fastened to
send letter of coincidence TO his afflicted
family
Spurious stamps on North Carolina to-
bacco have been seized in Baltimore. The
counterfeit is slightly longer, and without
the tinted lines of the genuine.
Private dispatches from Oregon indicate
that the member of Congress heretofore
claimed as a Republican is Democrat.
The Democrats made a clean sweep.
OMAHA, June S.-The city election yes
terday resulted in the election of 3 Repub-
licans and 8 Democrats to the City Council
A negro cOdidate was defeated in the Sd
Ward.
MADRID, June 1.-THE sessions of the
CoTtes have been for the most part mo-
nopolized, during the past week, in deba-
ting the proposition looking to abolition
of slavery in the Spanish colonies.
The British Minister, Mr.. Thornton,
has received instructions from his Govern
ment to thank President Grant for the Fee
nian interference The dispatch expresses
the English hope that the Fenians may be
punished.
Red Cloud and his party had their final
interview, to-day, with the Secretary OF
the Interior, when Red Cloud reiterated
his demands previously made, for the re-
moval Of Fort Fetterman. He was inform
ed, much TO his dissatisfaction, that the
Fort would not he removed. He was in
formed that arrangements had been made
for the departure of himself and party to
their home on Monday next.
COSsTANTINoPLE, June LIT is impOs-
sible TO say how many lives were lost by
the eonfiagratiOn. Some put the number
at three hundred, while others estimate il
az high as thirteen hundred.
The Sultan has been active in extending
relief to the sufferers.
More than a thousand Turkish houses
have been thrown open to the Christians
who were burned out.
Large sums of money have been sub
scribed for them by the people, irrespec
tive of sect.