Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-06-18
HON e NEWS.
Caterpillars.


MEMPHIS. June 14.-Caterpillars have
again appeared in an adjacent county.
They are destroying the cotton. They are
worse in North Mississippi than ever be-
fore, owing to incessant rains. Grass and
weeds are also damaging the cotton CROP
ST. LOUIS, June 14.-John +. Cook, the
English Vice Consul, is here in custody
for alleged embezzlemeut of 81 800 from
Thomas Graham. .......
ADrsdfaI Tragedy.
WHEELING, w. VA, June 13.-On
last Wednesday morning a masked party
broke into the house of John Jennings,
the chief of gang of robbers, in WetZeli
county,, in this State. Mrs. Jennings
seized an AK to defend her husband, when
the party fired killing Jennings and fatal
ly wounding Mrs. Jennings. The lynch
ers left written notice to the other menu
bers ofthe party to leave the country.
Murderer Executed.
ATLANTA, GA, June 13.-Isham b.
O'Neal was executed in the yard of the
Fulton county Jail at half past two O'Clock
to-day for the murder of James Little.
He died protesting his innocence and
without struggle. Life was extinct in
eight minutes. The execution was private
and was witnessed only by q few.
HENDERSON, Ky, June 14.-An insane
man, attending circus, killed a child and
injured number of persons with q club.
He was arrested after receiving three shots
from the police.
PARIS, KY, June IA negro was
hanged here to-day for the killing of an
other negro in 1872. The rope was too long
IN the first attempt, but the second proved
successful.
Another Wife Murderer.
New YORK, June l6.-The trial of Vic
toria Woodruff and Tennie G. Clafin, for
Luther c. Challis, was to have
been begun to-day, but has been adjourned
till fall.
The reported seizure in Brooklyn yes
terday of fourteen copper stills and twen-
ty-five thousand gallons of mash and other
articles for the manufacture of illicit
whisky proves not to have been altogeth-
er correct. The revenue men thought they
could manage the affair without the aid of
the police and made seizure, but the mob
pelted them with bricks and stones and
the illicit whisky distillers coolly procured
carts and drove off triumphantly with the
stills and otherproperty worth preserving,
meanwhile one of the revenue officers
made his way to a police station and ask
ing that his associates then confined in an
abandoned distillery be rescued.
A five months husband, aged % wears,
met his wife, aged 10 years, with whom he.
had never lived and stabbed her five times
death in five minutes.
The westHeId Murderer.
Boston, June l6.-The commission ap-
pointed to examine Smith, the Westfield
report him sane. He hangs on
the 9th inst
BELFAST, MAINE, June l6.-Almon Cor
don, wife and child were found murdered
in their beds at Thorn Dyke.
REI,EA Me lima 1H AT
this morning AlmOn Gordon, a farmer
living near Thorndyke Station, with his
wife and youngest daughter, were found
murdered in one bed, and his little son
years old, who slept in a crib in the same
room, also fearfully wounded and the
house set on fire. All the bodies were
much mutilated. A bloody axe, with
which the slaughter was committed, was
found near at hand. A younger brother
Of the murdered man is now under arrest
charged with the crime. 1t is alleged that
the cause of the bloody work was dispute
about some property. The suspected man
appears perfectly calm and manifests no
anxiety.
Miscellaneous News.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 16.-All the Mo-
doc prisoners have been removed to Forth
under q strong guard.
The reported invasion of Sonora in Mex
GO by the Apache Indians from the vi
entity of Tucson, is denied.
James Oldfield has been murdered in
The town of Palsade, Sonora, by man
named Audist, who stabbed his victim
right in the presence of his wife.
ID. o. Mills has the position as President
If the Bank of California;
1t is reported to-day Chat VIM. Sharon
las finally purchased the interest of Hunt
ng and Hopkins in the Central Pacific
'ailroad.