Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1875-05-08
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.

fre-loss 100000.
Damaging frost IN Iowa on the LIST.
Trees and vines injured.
HHlsboro, Ohio. has had a fire-loss,
S23, 900.
, deaths from yellow fever at Key
West, Fla, ....r-.. ...t. F. ...--
Ineentiary fire at Bayou Sara. La.
Loss go, eco. .- --.-.. ON. b
Washington laborers have struck
for S1.50 day.
Carl Scburz and family sailed for
Europe. ......
Fishing fleet wrecked in Lake Mich
igan by wind-stOrm.
Riot at Osceola mines, Pa, two Of
1 fcers shot.
Officer Batten shot dead by Christie
pher Stoddart, at Plymouth Mass.
Change in Grant Cabinet, no change
in his policy towards the South.
so stores and dwellings burned at
Montpelier, Vermont = Loss sll4. 600.
/ Water frozen half an inch thick at
Omaha, Mob, on the LIST.
Robbers Of the southern Express
Company at Carney, Ark, arrested
Ground broken at Galve, tou on the
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe r. r.
Son Of Barney Hunter, Of Green
vile Ills, killed by train mar Bruins
wick, Mo.
Vice President Wilson visited Gen.
John G.. Breckenridge at Lexington,
! Ky, and left on Morday for st Louis.
Gov. Chamberlain veto checks the
corrupt ring III the South Carolina
Legislature.
Assistant Treasurer at New y ork to
sell $1,000, 900 gold during month Of
May.
Steamer Prairie City with 1909 bush.
els wheat burned at Terre Haute. In
I diana.
Wesley Vanderson. a.weAlthy and
! eccentric farmer shot his mother dead
and then killed himself.
| Wheat in Tennessee aud Ky, not
j really damaged-Tobaec9 crops in
both States promising.
/ Recent cold supposed 10 have dSs-
troyed young grNsshopptrs in North
West.
~ Schooner Margar, Crookard from
Aust ralia TO San Francisco wrecked
in Pacific oceanic persons drowned.
| Douglass Woods near West Fulton,
Mass, on hire-700 acres already
burned over,
4 S1,175,1 40 OF legal tenders to
be withdrawn from currency of the
Treasury, redeemed and destroyed.
Commissioners of Freedman's Bank
at Washington have 100000 in U. S.
Treasury. 5000, 900 would be requir-
ed to declare dividend Of 20 per cent.
| Weller furniture factory, Detrelt,
Mich, burned-LosS on Luilding,
i $500, 600, Machinery 800 600, Dwell
Iings $4,000.
SO business houses aud 500 dwell
lings destroyed in Oshkosh, Wiscon-
sin, by fre-Loss 81 SOC, 900. Insur-
-ance Companies loss, near 81 900, 900.
Bridge of Southern Railroad over
Kentucky River to be built by Balti-
more Bridge company. Cost 1877,
j. ). Prior fell dead with heart dis
case in dressing room of Opera House,
Toledo, Ohio, during performance OF
: Little Nell.
Storm blew down county bridge
lover Tennessee River at Knoxville,
| also damaged Bridge of Charleston r.
r. Loss. $500.
1 Richard Counett, Epglishman, at
Columbus, Ohio, killed by mistake of
drug clerk who put crOtOn oil for cas-
tor oil.
Elizabeth Thomas and Henri eta
Fisher. both colOred, murdered by
John H. Thomas, hush of the for
mer, in Detroit, Mich.
Cargo of Salt of Ship Niagara dam
aged by arsenic from barrels broken
during tempestuous voyage to New
York.
Judges Brooks and Dick charging
grand juriCs in Noria Carolina, de-
clared criminal features of civil Ehts
bill unconstitutional.
Internal Revenue receipts for April
Isl, O22, 331. Increase of s., $50, 9O1 for
for months of 1875 over receipts for
same time in 1874.
Steamer City of Hartford Ia EIst
River New York capsized. scow
drowning four children of Captain
Casta.
! Do,,,,o-s+- A,,l;,. IL s.
| General, succeed Republican incum-
bents in Pennsylvania. First time in
9 years that Dems. have controlled a
State Office.
| Suit brought against city of Boston
by assignees in bankruptcy of Wm.
Armstrong, for blowing up store to
prevent spread of the great confagra-
ton.
Henry Diehm, drunk, age 50, stab
bed himself fatally with a butcher
knife in Cincinnati, in the presence of
his wife, after reading insurance poll.
cy on his life.
Henry Overstalz, independent can
didate for Mayor in late St. Louis
election, is again independent candi-
date to fill vacancy by death of Mayor
Barrett. --.--.. -.
Negro preacher wife murderer cap
/ tured in attic of negro church George
/ town, Del Has been there since the
murder and heard the funeral sermon
\ of his wife.
W. c. Duncan of ri tSburg, Pa, an
/ insaue man well DIRE, ed with large
sum Of money IN his possession, es-
capped from a man in charge of him at
Holly Springs and fed 10 the woods.
| James Lannigan shot and killed by
q negro policeman at Helena. Ark.
| LRnEigan about to L. arrested for
whipping his wife resisted with the
result mentioned.
StCamer, st, Luke, sunk on Ml,sou-
n River. Mrs. Deavar and two little
girls, VIM. Brooks. fireman, Tom
Donelly deck sweeper, and four other
passengers lost.
Saturday nights frost variously ef-
fec;ed fruit and grain crops in India
IA, Missouri, Wisconsin, Ohio and
Kansas, damaging wheat and vegeta-
bles and partially killing fruit.
Edward Connolly and son were suf-
located with gas Will n bed on Sum
day night N Buffalo, y. Y. While /
coroner looking for tie leak, exuIo- |
sion took place tearing up floor and |
demolishing windows aud doors.