Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1875-05-15


front ike live rooster, whose weight
Is being tested before the great main
Of 1876.
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.
Scott beat Green doth Dems) for
Mayor, Carrollton, Ills.
John Sheridan, fsther of Phil sheri-
dan, is dead.
Brilliant reception Of Vice-President
Wilson at Nashville.
Postmaster Parker, New Orleans
gives bond in 800, 900.
VIM. Z. Sturtevant, triple murder
er hanged at Plymouth, Mass.
Miners war raging in AIahoney City,
Pa.
700 choristers in Musical festival at
/ Cincinnati.
$4,000 fire at Pekiu, Ills, destroyed
postotIice, printing and other Offices.
John Bender, Kansas murderer es-
capped from custody in Arizona.
Attempt to burn summit, Mississip-
gi,
"I6 houses destroyed by fire in Spring
field, Mo.
Beecher baptized II infants on Sun
day morning.
An l;.t;tI.-;.. =; AF;t,,..,,lo,, J;gtrict
to be seized except >.
$4,000 fire at st. Louis destroying a
stair factory and turning shop.
Vice President Wilson at Little Rock
on Tuesday.
Races over Kentucky, Association
Course largely attended.
| W.. Porter and Woods, of Ken
lucky, killed by each other in a fight
/ in Minnesota.
-Four hundred Indians on the war
/ path, near Omaha, Nebraska, going
North.
The International Sunday school
/ Convention has assembled at Balti-
more.
Signor Wandanna, sword swallower,
cut himself internally and died from
Inflammation, at Calais, Maine.
Centennial of capture of Fort Ii
conderoga, by Ethan Allen, celebra-
ted on Monday.
10 Distilleries and rectifying estab-
/ lishments and 1900 barrels of whiskey
seized in st. Louis by revenue officers.
County safe robbed in Jackson, Am
adore county, Cal, on Sunday night
and $4,000 obtained.
State Sunday School convention of
the Christian church, assembled in
Frankfort, Ky, on Tuesday.
9Th Maryland regiment will escort
President Grant to Bunker Hill Cele-
bration.
Richard Mass, colored, hanged for
murder, at Point Ia Hache, Ii. 1000
persons present.
Fires at TomkiRsville and Buffalo,
\. Y, and San Francisco, Cal. Loss
es 1920, 900.
Store of Graham and Chapman, Big
I Rock, Iowa, entered by burglars
$4,000 stolen.
Peter P. Wintermute, re-indicted for
killing Gen. McCook in 1873 in Deco
tab TirritOry.
Lightning struck and burned a
house in Evansville, Ind. Family
barely escaped with their lives.
Chas. Britton of Clelrfeld Co. Pa.
attempted suicide on account Of dys-
pepsia in Allegheny City.
Marshall E. Smellser, for years
city Editor of Avalanche, die of con-
sumption in Memphis.
Jewelry store of Benz. A. Hood, Al
bany. n. Y, robbed of $4,000, dia-
monds watches and jewelry.
100000 fire at San Francisco, burn
ed lumber yard, planning mill and sew
eral frame buildings.
Collision between freight trains on
Central Pacific R. r., killing brake
man.
/ Gov. Kellogg of La, vetoed bill ma
king state scrip Ofany character receiv-
able for back tax.
Southern Baptist Convention at
Charleston S. c., adjourned to meet at
Richmond, Va, May 1876.
Trotting races at Terre Haute, Ind,
and San Francisco, and saddle races at
Lexington, Ky, and York, England,
this week.
Ex-conductor Brinkley attempting
to rob express messenger on train be-
tween Lima and Forest, Ohio, shot and
wounded latter, who then killed him.
Bill Wray, ex-convict ofJDliet, Ills,
and professional thief trainer from New
York, captured while attempting TO
rob Chicago bank.
The striking miners of Pennsylva-
MIA, continue their diabolism, by try
ing to wreck r. r. trains and burn
bridges. in the Schuylkill region.
Jas. Daggart and Fed Romelman
quarrelled in Philadelphia, in srgu-
ment about refining sugar, and R0mel-
man, was fatally stabbed.
Police station in Providence r. l.,
struck by lightning and burned on
Sunday morning, ! officers sleeping
in upper story barely escaped.
Women Suffrage Association Of Mis-
souri, have petitioncd the State Consti-
tutioual Convention to give women
the right to vote.
Grant will leave for Chicago and St
Louis, return to Washington, and after
Decoration Day will q into summer
quarters At Long BIa1ch.
Government officers have detected |
an organized plan of frauds upon the
revenue with headquarters at st. Louis,
Chicago, and Milwaukee.
Vice President Wilson at Memphis
was visited at the hotel by white and |
cOlored citizens. He went from Mem
phis TO Little Rock.
Wyatt Flowers, colored, Columbus,
Ohio, shot his aunt and disembOweled |
her with a razor, after which he shot |
himself in the temple and died in great |
agony.
Hon. jefferson Davis delivered the /.
annual address at the Il custom, Texas, |
State Fair, Tuesday.
The New Orleans Picayune special /
reports q destructive fire at Bryan, |
Texas. Loss, 100000. Insurance |
$4,000.
Geo. \. Keckmaa, nelr Nevada; To- |
wa, hung by mob of unknown parties /
on Sunday morning. lie had been |
accused of burning his son-in-law's |
barn.