Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-01-04
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,cster Mob Results In BIoodshed.

meeting pTOpOseQ lOT. lO-InOETOW.
The Captains of the companies disavow hav-
ing ordered the fire whereby four citizens were
killed
The neg,oes have abandoned the streets.
John Etter, one of the killed was promi-
nent German citizen.
The military claim that they were assailed
with stones.
From three o clock until eleven this morning
a the city wasI comparatively quiet -Four COM
panies of the ffty-fourth regiment. are guard
ing the Jail and its approaches, and loaded can
non are placed to command the bridges. At
eleven O. clock the crowd assembled and there
was good deal of hooting at the military, but no
overt act had been committed. At half past
eleven o clock some one placed on the canal
boat in the slip of Court street, flag on which
were the words "Avenge your brothers" !"
Brigader General Clarke tore it down when the
crowd rushed upon him and for a short time he
was in peril, but was released and firearms
were handed him by friend The sheriff has
ordered out the remaining six companies of the
fty-fourth regiment and they are now as
sembled at the arsenal. 1t is feared there will
be more trouble ..
LATER-There is a considerable crowd about
the Jail, but the prevailing heavy rain checks
the excitement of the hour. There have been no
violent demonstrations since noon. Prepara-
tions have been made to meet any emergency
Howard has 5een indicted.
STILL LATER-The police charged mob that
had gathered around the jail, driving them
through the streets in every direction.
\ great crowd is now a o'clock assembled
in Buffalo street, at the intersection of State.
-Four veteran companies have been sworn in
special police
Several soldiers who stepped out of line we're
knocked down by the mob
Howard will not be brought before the court
until it is known whether his victim will die
This afternoon and evening 'the authorities
are determined to defend the Jail, but they wish
the negro Howard we'll out of it. Further par
tculars of the shooting last evening show the
soldiers were pelted by the mob.with brickbats
and stones and several were injured. The or
der to charge was given and some Of the me1
hres instead. "a. -. 81 er..r.ss
LATEsT-The Judges of Oyer and Terminer
court, direct .the sheriff not to take Howard
from the Jail, and to protect the public property
and to preserve the public peace at all haz
ards
The howitzers have been removed 60 the posi-
tions where they will command the exchange
street and approaches from the east side of the
river more etfectually.
ANSAPoLIs Jan. 3.-Professor Reese was
dismissed after five hours cross-e1amnation.
COLUMBIA, S. c., Jan. SIN the United
States Court this morning, ten more prisoners
from Spartanburg county pleaded guilty, and
told the story of their crimes in open court.
Among them was one old man who was dis
charged upon his own recognizance.
4 youth named Armstrong pleaded guilty of
all the recent robbing of the mail and was SEN
fenced to five years in the Detroit House of Cor
rection.
ger trains have been near Sherman two days,
trying to shovel their way through.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 3.-The Ledger says
the Susquehanna Canal has been leased by the
Reading Railroad for nine hundred and ninety
nine years, with the intention of making Havre
DeGrace large coal depot for Southern ship
ing and for supplying Baltimore and Wash
ington with cheap anthracite. '.
CHICAGO. Jan. 3.-The property holders of
the custom-house square demand fabulous
price. The values demanded aggregate over
two million dollars for the square.
SAN Francisco, Jan. 3.-The weather is
fair New Years day twenty-five hundred
tons of salt washed away at the works at Ale
media .....
LOUISVILLE, Jan. 3.-There was a fire at
Somerset Pulaski county. The courthouse
was burned. Loss, S5,OOO
HARTFORD, Jan. 3.-A man and his wife and
another woman were murdered at Windsor
Lock
SALT LAKE, Jan. 3.-Brigham Young has
been refused bail. Young gave the Federal
Governmen one Of his houses for the prison
wherein he was confined.
New YORK, Dec 3.-The counsel for the
people propose to except to young Tweed as
security for his father, on the ground that love
and affection as consideration are insufficient to
constitute good title
Tweed will not go to Albany until the bail
bonds are arranged.
The Highton shooting match Of the Long
Island Shooting Club was interrupted yester-
day by Bergh The members shot two birds
however, enabling Bergh to make test case in
the Courts. The Society, on the other hand,
threaten to sue Bergh for trespassing on the
Club.
Two ruthans seized respectable married
woman on Eighth Avenue and carried her to a
uisreputable house, The woman fought them
and one of them split her forehead with brass
khuckles and fled. The other was arrested and
proved to be George Schuyler Burns, who was
convicted Of similar outrage obont a wear
ago. '
SIckes has gone to Washington.
mo ThM taS ORLEANS, Jan. Yesterday the SEN
,bnIne, me custom m house partizans are absenting
Intellectually ~ ms sO' NJ i''''-
.o;,ro5 In me House Carter anti Yarmouth, re-
ofFTed of;o vote of thanks and endorsement of his
cide5 ciet5 nct5 Dy ahandsome majority. 1t is de-