Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-04-08

| Iowa Elections.
DUBUQUE, April The election
passed Off quietly. The Democrats
elected o. H. Peaslee mayor by about
fifty-eight majority, and have a major
ity in tine council.
Death of CentenariaB.
STEVENSON, ALA, April Louis
! Carpele. born in North Carolina in 100,
the Oldest citizen of jackson county,
died Yesterday, aged one hundred ana
eight yesrs. He lived here sixty years.
Anesher vessel Wreeked-NO Lives Lost.
New YORK, April The agents of
the steamship Thorwaldsen have cable
dispatch saving that she was wrecked
in the sound off the Swedish coast on
the night of April 4th. The passengers
and crew were all saved. The vessel
and cargo are a total loss, but fully in
sured.
A Methodist Centennial Celebration.
New YORK, April THE eastern
conference has appointed committee
to make arrangements with the COM
mittees in other sections of the country
for the proper celebration Of the one
hundredth anniversary of the first Meth
odist conference in America.
A Banker Arrested for SWindIing.
NEW YORK, April Eugene E.
Pinckney, who keeps a banking and eX-
change Office in the basement of No. 6o
| Wall street, was arrested to-day and
lodged in Ludlow street Jail, charged
with swindling a German immigrant
out of three hundred dollars.
Public Library Drawing Postponed.
LOUISVILLE, April THE Public
| Library, Kentucky, drawing, advertised
for tomorrow, has been postponed, as
was generally anticipated. 1t will take
place July s. b, and Governor Bramlette,
in his card announcing it, saysi it is post
poned in order to have a full drawing,
which he positively promises in view of
the extraordinary large number Of
tickets sold.
Severe but Correct.
New YORK, April Judge Has
| kett, in his charge to the grand jury to-
day, urged them to deal severely with
offenders against the usury laws, saying
that the theft of industry, and of
regular profits, by means of the immOr-
al and unlawful Vaccinations of capi-
talists or money institutions, ought to
command their attention much more
| than ordinary larcenies.
semi-Centenaial Sabbath-SchOOl CeIe-
! bratiOn.
INDIANAPOLIS, April THE semi
| centennial celebration of the organiZa-
tion of Sabbath-schOols in this city was
celebrated yesterday. The first school
was organized in a cOOpershop, with
thirty scholars. The schools now num-
ber fifty-one, with over nine hundred
teachers and nearly nine thousand
scholars. Four of the teachers Of the
first school still survive.
Railroad submerged.
BUFFALO, April IA freshet caused
bv the late rains has covered Isehua
valley on the line of the Buffalo, New
York and Philadelphia railroad, to the
depth of four feet, and carrying away
! the south abutments of the bridges on
either side Of the Ischua. Large bodies
of men are engaged in repairing the
! damages, and travel will be resumed on
the road beyond Ischua in few days.
The Lottery Business in New York.
NEW YORK, April THE general
! term of the court Of common pleas to-
day decided in the suit of Isaac Edel-
muth against Alexander MeGaven, that
under the laws of this State the lottery
business is unlawful, and that any con-
tract which has the effect of abating it
is void, and that the lease Of any place
of business for the purpose Of selling
| lottery tickets is invalid.
Opening of Navigation.
SANDUsKY, April The steamer
jaw Cooke arrived this evening at seven
O'Clock from Detroit, being the first boat
across the lake this season. She ran
through twenty-five miles of ice be-
tween Detroit river and Putin bay. She |
81 Mort hN-racf rnff no /
Detroit and Cleveland line, lying at |
Putin bay, unable to get in tonight, but |
will proceed to Cleveland tomorrow.
A Double NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
New ORLEANS, April WIN. Mer-
riman, aged nineteen, and negro man,
killed each other in an alteration, on
Saturday night, at Dryas Creek station,
on the Mobile and Montgomery rail-
road.
The assassination of w. B. Mcdonald,
a Republican, at the hotel in Vernon,
! Jackson parish, is reported. He was
shot through the window at night by an
unknown party, with a dOuble-barrel
| shotgun.
Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce
Fatal Accident.
MILWAUKEE, April THE chamber |
! of commerce annual election took place |
to-day. J. ]. Hale was elected presi- |
dent. and John NazrO and John john |
ston vice-presidents, with a strong board
of directors, pledged TO erect a chamber
] of commerce, to be ready for occupancy
| January l, 1915.
A daughter of c. Z. Thubanville, of
Reed street, was run over by team to-
! day, and instantly killed.
| Confession of "A Murderess.
CHICAGO, April IA Peoria dispatch
saws that parties from Medoria state
that Mrs. Workman, wife of the Eureka
| Methodist minister, has confessed to
having killed Mrs. Hedges, at Eureka,
but says she did it in self-defense. The
general opinion is that Mrs. Workman,
driven frantic by the discovery Of her
husbands too intimate relations with
Mrs. Hedges, in a fit of desperation
killed the supposed cause of her do
mestic misery.
Fatal AeeIdent-FIre.
DETROIT, April An engine and
tender used in constructing the MGske
gan and Big Rapids railroad, run off the
track last evening near HoltOn, killing
one man and fatally injuring another.
Both were Norwegian labOrers, names
unknown.
A fire at Spring Lake this, morning,
! DESTROYED the residence of Charles K.
! Soule. Loss five thousand dollars; in
sured in the Phoenix for three thousand
/ five hundred dollars.
A Murderer Makes his Second Victim,
and in Lynched.
| CHICAGO, April IA Peoria dispatch
saws the Democrat of that city has in
! formation 10 the effect that O'Neil, the
murderer who was confined in the Peo-
ria Jail last fall for killing man at FL
/ Paso. and who was acquitted at the late
term of the Woodford circuit court,
killed another man at Streator, Lasalle
/ county, day or two ago. He Heattempted
to get out Of town, but a crowd of eX-
cited miners caught him and hung him
without further ado. No particulars
have been received.
The Nashville Industrial Exposition
i NASHVILLE, April The third an
nual industrial exposition Of Nashville,
which commences next month, already
promises to excel in interest its prede-
cessOrs. Art hall, and other additions
to the building, have been completed,
and applications for space from exhibit
ors come in so rapidly as to insure full
occupancy of the building. All rail-
roads concentrating here, and steam
boats plying in Cumberland river, will
bring freight for exhibition at half rates:
and railroads concentrating south will
transport ores and all minerals free of
charge. This department promises to
be most attractive.
New England MethOdIsts.
Boston, April AT to-day's session
of the New England annual conference
Of Methodists, the report Of the COM
mittee on the American Bible society