Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-08-04
HON z NEWS.
ARREST OF A NEWSPAPER MAN.

Death OF Senator CamerOn's Daughter.
NEW YORK, Aug. 3-Three more victims Of
Sundays explosion arc dead.
Rufus Hunt, of New Orleans, holds the stakes
in the Mace oburn fight
HARRISBURG, Pa, Aug 3.-Mrs. Burnside,
daughter of Senator Cameron, is dead
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 3.-A woman crazed
from nursing her sick child took it and choked
it TO death with rags then strangled herself
by tying a rag round her throat.
BosToS, Aug. 1.-The Lyman School House
has been burned loss. one hundred thousand
dollars.
SALT LAKE, Aug 3.-Small pox is reported
in this vicinity. There were three deaths to-
day.
toNe BRANCH August 3.-Milso won in
the steeple chase Wine Cup won the West
End Hotel stakes time 3.434. Nelly Gray won
third race, two straight heats, time 1851 and
1.47i. Helmbold won Tammany cup.
NEW York, August 3.--The proprietors of
che Jersey City EUeming Journal were arrested
at the instance of George Watts, who charges
them with libel
The Swedes have determined to Join the
proce ssion celebrating Italian unity.
Six Of the remaining sufferers from the dis
aster will die
NEW YORK, August 3.-In the disaster in
vestgation Henry Robinson, an engineer, was
sworn, and testified that he left Staten Island at
half past twelve and came in the New York
slip, the engine bell rang all the way down.
went out and put the hose on the tank and
went on deck to straighten them; l then went
back to the engine room and saw that there was
twenty-seven poundsEof steam on, when l went
out and told the fireman to shut the water off
l saw him coming out of the fre-room, asked
him if all was right, he said yes. then re-
turned to the engine and saw there was twenty
seven pounds Of steam L walked slowly off
towards the bow where 1 saw the Captain with
his hand on the wheel.
then returned toward the engine room, and
when within 10 or II feet heard the explosion,
L rushed for the engine room door and stopped
and lifted the drop, when a fireman came up
50 badly injured that he died Immediately, was
not absent four minutes after noticing q pounds
on gauge; don't know whether the gauge was
correct or not, when there was no steam on the
gauge it would sometimes stand at and others
at 0; worked from 20 to - pounds on the way
up; generally use from % to % pounds of
steam
The valve was set at y so as to give the steam
chance to blow of, and keep it at p. When
the gauges showed % in the slip, the safety
valve was simmering. The water in the tanks
Is sometimes boiling. The valve is inches.
Oouldh tell the square of ) or the difference
between nigh and low pressure. There were
sometimes little pin hole leaks in the engine.
1here was a patch on the saddle put on last fall,
which was blown off at the explosion.
FORTRESS MONROE, August 8.-In the boat
race, the Potomac Club, of Washington. beat
the Cndnes, of Norfolk, the distance around
the stake was mile and half down the river.
time - minutes and 10 seconds.
WILMINGTON, n. c., August 3.-Tbe cleo
ton passedlVf' quietly, In the ID ward of this
city there is a Conservative gain of "a In
Magnolia, Duplin county, the Conservatives
gain Is. The whole vote of the city in the ma
jority against the Convention is 973, which is q
Conservative gain of twenty-one on the last
election.