Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-01-03
New State Government i'm North Care
lima Inaugurated.
BoutwelE'S Chances to Succeed Wilson
Growing.
Several Battles Between Insurgents in
Cuba.
no her New York Theatre Burnp ed.

AuO her New TOrk 1neatre BufnPu.
NEW YORK, Jan. 1.-The Fifth Avenue
Theatre on 24th street, adjoining the Fifth
Avenue Hotel was burned to the ground
SOON after the matinee performance this
afternoon. The audience which had as
sembled to witness the play of 'False
Shame" had scarcely more than dispersed
when the fire was discovered.
Mrs. Gilbert and Mr.. Davenport lost
their diamonds at the Fifth avenue thea
ter fire. The musical instruments, music
and library were lost. Mr.. Daley had no
insurance. Loss, over S250,0O0. The val
uables i'm the safe were lost. The theater
belonged to James Fisk's widow.
Subscriptions are being taken up for the
burned out Thespians.
The HerdIG'S Washington dispatch says
at appears that Attorney General Will
liams has been used as cover for usurpa-
ton by Federal bayOnets in the Louisiana
trouble. He is allowed to be made a tar
get of attack in order to shield President
Grant personally from the Odium attached
to the high handed action of the Govern
ment. Attorney General Williams has
merely executed the orders of his chief.
He has done nothing of his own initiation
in the matter. The dispatch, signed by
nizing him as the rightful Governor and
the kellogg faction in the State House
in New Orleans as the Tightful Legisla-
ture was dictated by President Grant him.
self. 1t is even said that it went against
his legal conscience TO carry out the in
structiOns of the President" raaE tru
The Government has bought no bonds
to-day.
The ship Bennington from Liverpool for
Callao is wrecked off the Canary Islands.
A boat with eight persons is reported
lost. ...E .-....
Seven stabbing cases arc reported last
night, two or three of which will prove
fatal.
ATLANTA, GA, Jan. THE up and
down passenger trains collided on the Ma
con and Western railroad, thirty-seven
miles from this city, this morning. Eight
negroes were killed, and ten or twelve ne
grOes and three whites were injured. Three
cars and an engine were ditched. Carlot-
ia Patti and troupe were on board. Their
wardrobe and piano was a total wreck, but
the troup were unhurt. Patti gave active
relief to the wounded. The negroes were
emigratiDg to Mississippi. .-
Boston, Jan. The organization of
the Legislature indicates that Boutwell,
will be chosen Senator to succeed Wilson.
MACON, Jan. 1.-The Georgia State Em-
lgration Convention is in night session.
Hon. J. +. Long was elected President.
Two hundred delegates are present.
CINCINNATI, Jan. 1.-The loss by ice
to-day is estimated at 100000. The loss is
chiefly in coal barges .which..were torn
from their moorings. ~
LATER.
AT half past ten o'clock the ice in the
river gorged and stopped running a few
minutes past eleven. 1t has commenced
to move slowly again. The Fiftieth street
ferry boat was thrown on the kentucky
About fifty barges have been crushed tC
pieces and scattered along the shore on
both sides of the river below.
IMPORTANT LIFE INSURANCE DECISION.
Madelaine G. Battle of Alabama, brought
suit i'm the L. S. Circuit Court of this Dis
trict against the Mutual Life Insurance
Company of this city, to recover SIC, 900,
the amount her husbands life was insured
for. She alleged in her pleadings that she
paid premiums regularly to Thomas w.
Mccoy, agent for the said Insurance Com
pany in Mobile. The answer of the Com
pany is that McCoy'S power as agent had
been revoked about the time of the COM
mencement of the war in 1861, and that
the plaintiff was duly notified of the re-
vocation, and that, consequently, any pay.
ments she might have made since that
time were of no binding effect upon the
Company. Judge Blatchford to-day de-
cided that the evidence did not sustain the
allegations of the Cof1ipany, but also holds
that the plaintiff fails to show that she
paid her premium at the proper date i'll
1863 or at all in 1864, and, therefore, can
not recover.