Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-10-25
HON e NEWS.
THE MORMON ADULTERY CASE,
Legal Decision im acknowledgements
Mule Thieves Sentenced, dc.

SALT LAKE, Oct 23-The verdict in the
Hawkins case, charged with adultery, found WAS
guilty: The penalty is from three to twenty
years imprisonUont This j. considered u test
case, which virtually places poygamists at the
mercy of his first vito, who, under the act, is
the only person who can proceed against
him.
topeka, Kansas, Oct. 23.-In the United
States District Court to-day three men were
sentenced to five years imprisonment ut Fort
Harker for stealing government mules.
CHARLESTON, Oct. 22-The national colored
convention met in Columbia on Wednesday
Lieut. Gov. Ransier, of South Carolina, being
permanent president.
On Thursday, resolutions endorsing Presi
dent Grants administration were introduced
and referred.
SCRANTON, PA, Oct 23.-Delvn, an anti
Popery lecturer, attempting to speak here, n
riot ensued. Delvin was severely cut in the
head. He is determined to make another at
| tempt to-day.
CAIRO, Oct. 23.-Whie the passengers were
at supper at Union City, on the Mobile and Ohio
Railroad, three men jumped on the engine,
backed the train, robbed the express train of
| four thousand dollars and escaped.
BALTIMORE, Oct. 23.-The convention adopt
cd an amendment to the canon regarding
| bishops, whereby convention of diocese may
| place a diocese under the charge of neighbor-
| ing diocese or missionary bishop, under certain
| circumstances. The amendment is forbidding
| the division or combination of dioceses without
the consent of the bishop The convention Of
diocsses is concurred in to their general alevia.
| ton. No city shall form more than one diocese
| no new diocese shall contain less than six par.
| ishes and no diocese be reduced to less than
| twelve parishes.
| WASHINGTON, Oct. 20-The Secretary of the
| Treasury directs that, hereafter, all disbursnG
officers or agents of the United States, except
pension agents, drawing checks on moneys de-
posted to their 0fficial credit with the Treasurer
| of the United States or any of the assistan;
| treasurers and United States Repositories lin IA
1 thnmgalvaQ m nr in fQvO Of NJ
| person other than public creditor must state
| on the face or back of the check the object OF
| purpose to which the svails are to be applied
| Pension agents drawing such chicks must fur.
nish list containing the names of the persons
to whom payment is to BIO made and the amount
due to each.
BANGOR, Oct 20.-The Dominion Master Of
Fisheries and Marine disayows the rumor that
q British cruiser was sent in pursuit of the
schooner Horton sA -ltr
CHICAGO, Oct. 20-The loss of the McCor.
mick reaper establishment was three-quarters Of
million. 1t rebuilds Immediately.
General Curley, leader of the recent Fenan
| excursion, has surrendered, and declares that
the expedition was a colonization scheme.
| New YORK, Oct. 27-The administration
wing of the Republican party last night nomi-
mated Franz Sigel for Register Geo. b. Barrett
for the Supreme Court, and Chas. z. DAILY tor
the Court of Common Pleas. This ticket IS the
same as that nominated by the reform Democ-
racy the night before.
| JAIL LhhE OCl'E hO POis ShliiJ LIAuio M I
progressing. The Mormons plead that they had
no intention of committing crime in plurality OF
marriages that they could not be found guilty
of adultery because they were marriedi accord
ing to the usages of the Mormon church.
A number of additional arrests for lsscivious-
ness have been made. 1900. ...
NEW YORK, Oct. 2l.-To-day the largest sim
gle contract for railroad construction, ever
made fer work in the United States, was closed
by Col Mann, executive officer of the Mobile
and Northwestern Railroad Company. The
contract is for the entire line, from Mobile to
Helena, Arkansas $50 miles, and to be COM
pleted by December 3lst, 1873. He will COM
mence work at once and put five thousand men
on the road as rapidly as they can be gathered
Iron for a large section of the road is being
made in Great Britain.
| CINcINNATI Oct. 2!.-It is reported that nu-
merous woodlands in Campbell county, Ky, is
burning fearfully. Almost within thirteen
miles of Newport is threatened.
LONDON, Oct. 23-The subscriptions for Chi
eago and the Northwest continue The Ma
tional Choral Society, numbering thousand
performers, sung Mcssias at Hyde Park for
their benefit.
LONDON, Oct. 23-The Times, this morning,
states that Napoleon has declared the re-
ports from France of the Bonapartist cOnspi-
racy and intended descent upon the coast OF
France entirely without foundation the Empe'
ror claiming that he il the only legitimate SOW
ereign of France, He advocates no violent
measures for restoring his dynasty, but believe,
his partisans should urge the taking Of the viii
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