Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-05-08
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DEATH OF CIIIEF-JUSTICE SALMON p.
CHASE. t5l
Stokes Probably to Meet a Murderer'S
DOem.
Destructive Fire at Paris, Tennessee
Loss 100000.
Senator Br0WnlOW'S Letter TO the Con-
greSSi0nal Convention.
A Committee Appointed to Answer II.
A Committee Appointed to Answer II
HON e NEWS.
Chief Justice 3. r. Chase Dead.


New YORK, May 7.-Chef Justice Chase
died this morning of paralysis. Both of his
daughters and Senator Sprague were at
his bedside.
Fowler & Slocum, dry goods dealers,
have failed. Liabilities, $5O0,OOO.
James f.. Hayes, lessee of the Olympic
Theatre, is dying.
Stokes 30 be Hung.
The Supreme Court will deny new
trial to Stokes and affirm the judgment.
The widow of Major General John E.
Wood is dead, aged S6.
Oakes Ames is gradually growing
weaker.
Only three persons of the ship Tennyson,
that was wrecked on the 22nd of February
were saved. They tloated eight days on
piece of the wreck.
Paris, Tennessee. Burned.
LOUISVILLE, May THE entire bllsi-
ness portion of Paris, Tennessee, was
burned. Loss 100000. tI.n
INDIANAPOLIS, May THE Democrats
elect a Mayor by 37S majority. Other Off
GERS are Republican by $50 to 500 majority.
ST.. Louis, May Five ear loads of in
fantry passed here for the Modoc war.
The President at Chicago.
CHICAGO, May president Grant, on
being introduced to the Board of Trade,
made short speech, in which he said /:
Gentlemen ofthe Board of Trade:
1t affords me great pleasure to come
back to see your city again, after an absence
of little more than year, and to find it
improved even beyond what it was before
the great fire which swept over it just one
week after my last visit, and, gentlemen,
II laH To Il
tives of this prosperity.
More strikes-Farmer's Conyeniion,: dc.
NEW YORK. May THE horse shoers
of Second and Fourth Avenue wards join
ed the strike inaugurated by those of the
Sixth and Eighth Avenue wards.
The farmers Cheap Transportation
Convention was organized under the title
of National American Cheap Transports
ton Association. The Constitution pro-
vides for State organizations. President,
Josiah Quincy, of Boston. Among the
Vice Presidents are Gov. Smith, of Geor-
gia; Adelbert Ames, of Miss; II. G. Hall,
of n. c.; Col. Palmer, of S. c.; Daniel
Pratt, of Ala. .a =sF
Stokes Indifferent.
Stokes received the decision of the Su-
preme Court with Indifference, saying to
his father who was present, My case will
now go to the Court of Appeals.
Justice Strong of the Supreme Court,
was elected President and Bishop Johns, of
Virginia, Vice President of the American
Tract Society.
All gambling houses within the fifteenth
police precinct were closed this evening by
the police.
The Chicago Horror.
CHICAGO, May 1T was four and not
fifteen persons that were killed by the eX-
pIosion of the lard-rendering tank. Two
were scalded.
PHILADELPHIA, May 6.-At the 10th an-
nual meeting of the American Sunday
School Union, Rev. M. d. Hoge, of Rich
mond, was among the orators.
TRENTON May THE Court of Pardons,
after long consideration, refused to COM
mute the sentence of Lusignani.
ALBANY, n. Y, May THE Legisla-
ture appointed a Joint Committee to repre-
sent the State of New York and confer
with the United States Senate Committee
on transportation route to the seaboard.
LITTLE Rock, May THE Arkansas
Insurance Company has suspended.
DIXON, ILL, May THE rotten span of
the bridge broke before it was sufficiently
raised to release the bodies under the
wreck.