Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-09-17
The Grand Vizier Of Persia Imprisoned
by the Shah.
THE EPIDEMIC AT SHREVEPORT
Six Hundred Persons Frustrated with
Yellow Fever.
The ki0was and COmancheS TO be Sent
TO Reservations,
HON & NEWS.
The strike in Charleston.


The Strike in Charleston.
CHARLESTON, Sept. 1.-THE mill own
ers of the city, held meeting to-day, and
have determined to keep their mills closed
until the colored laborers now on general
strike returned to work at the usual wages.
Flood i'm Texas.
BROWNSVILLE, Sept. 1.-THE severest
rain for many years, accompanied by a
heavy gale, occurred here to-day. The
steamer st. Mary dragged anchor in Brazos
harbor and grounded in three feet of
water. All small crafts in Bagdad and
Brazos harbors were sunk or stranded.
The railroad between Brownsville and
Point Isabel is badly washed.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. IA fourth of
the town of Forest Hill has been burned.
Eight Chinese women brought by the
steamer MacGregory, who say they were
purchased and brought here for base pur-
poses, have been sent to the Chinese mis-
sion school for protection.
The Missing Herald Man
LOUISVILLE, Sept 15.-Lord, the miss
ing Herald correspondent, who disappear
ed from Shelbyville some weeks since, has
been seen near Midway and beyond there.
He is splendidly dressed, and wears dia-
mond studs and heavy gold watch and
chain. He exhibits considerable money
and spends it freely. His trunk is here in
keeping.
The Fatal MaIady.
SHREVEPORT, Sept. 13.-Theie were IS
deaths yesterday. Whole families are
down, and all the nurses are worn out
The depnstias ~tnDnr ""o crowded, IT is
thought that tampering with Red River
raft has someshing to do with the cpl
demic.
Ravages of the yellow Fever.
SHREVEPORT Sept. 15.-The sudden
change of wealth is unfavorable. There is
great need of nurses and money. Five
hundred are down and one hundred and
forty-six have died. The Howard Associ-
alton has assurances that nurses, doctors,
and druggists are coming from New Or
leans Twenty-four whites died yester-
day. Later.-Six hundred are down.
Assassination of General McCOOk I'm Da-
kOtah.
"YANKToN, d. T., Sept H.
To T. S. Grant, President Of the United
,StOteS.
General Edwin 7. McCook was assas-
sinated at public meeting last night by
2. p. Wintermute banker of this place.
(signed,) "JNO. A. BURBANK,
| Governor"
About GEN. McCOok's Death.
YANKToN, Sept. 13.-The death of Gen.
| McCOok was the result of personal quar-
rel. The fight originated in billiard par
| lor. His antagonists name is spelt q half
dozen ways in the dispatches, shot him
fatally in Railroad meeting. The flags
are at half mast in honor of McCook.
| CHICAGO, Sept. ia special train bear
! ing the remains of General Edwin 5. Nc
Cook, who was assassinated at Yankton,
passed through this city yesterday, en- route
for Cincinnati. The body was accompa-
| nj NV n
the most prominent citizens of Dakota.
odd Fellows Meeting.
BALTIMORE, Sept. 15.-The Grand Lodge
Of Odd Fellows assembled here to-day,
Deputy Grand Sire Durham, of Ken
and thirty-one Grand EncampmeHts were
represented.
The Grand Secretary's report, extending
from January 1st, 1871. 10 December 3lst,
1872 gives the following statistics:
Number of lodges in 1871, 4, 292; in 1872,
5,O45; increase, 753. limitations in 1871,
IS, PSI; in 1872, SO $50; increase, 1898.
Revenue of the Grand Lodge and Grand
Encampment in 1871, S3,3l0,OO9 50; in
1872, S4 ,29l OIL II; increase, 1851 ,06l SO.
Relief of the Grand Lodge and Grand En-
campment in 1871, 81 ,092, 095 43; in 1872,
Sl5O,34l 4O increase, S4ll,375 90. Mem
bers in 1871, 327,s77 in 1872, 5,007 in
crease, OZiZ
The Gentle Savage
| WASHINGTON, Sept. l4.-The Commits
sioner of Indian affairs South will leave
Washington toward the end of this month
for Fort Sill where he will join Secretary
Delano, and Governor Davis, of Texas,
for the purpose of holding a conference
with the Kiowas in connection with Big
Tree and Satanic, now at that place.
Governor Davis proposes, as condition
precedent for formally restoring these
Chiefs to their people, that both the Kiowa'
and Comanches deliver up or sell their
horses so they may not have the means t.
go beyond the reservation to commit dep
relations but some other means may bC
adopted to satisfy Governor Davis, should
the proposition be rejected
The transatlantic balloon burst at four