Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1877-06-09
TELEGRAPHIC.
Loss of Life at a Fire in Bridge
port, Conn.
Destructive Confagration at Calves
ton, Texas
Latest News from the Eastern Wal
Russia Anxious for Peace will
Guarantees.



WAsHrSeroE. June s.
Y. :. Lusk, United States District
II Attorney for the Western District of North
Carolina, arrived here this morning, as
| witness in the trial of Franks, United
States Deputy Marshal from North Caro-.
lima, who was arrested on charge oi
defrauding the United States Government
| Marshal Douglass, j. w. Dick, Deputy
| Marshal and j. w. Payne, United States
Commissioners, are also summond, and are
expected to reach here tomorrow.
| The District Attorney for the Southern
| District of Mississippi has been instructed
/ by the Department of Justice, to investi-
| gate the facts attending the death of Nc
/ Clelland, in the Kemper county massacre,
in compliance with request made by the
| British authorities, who claim that Nc
| Clelland was British subject.
At the commencement exercises of the
| Columbian University, on Tuesday even
| ing, Mr.. Theodore w. Noyes, the eldest
| son of Crosby s. NOyes. the editor of the
| Washington Star, graduated with the
| highest honors of his class. He took FIVE
gold medals of the eight which were
awarded to the successful students.
Major VIM. Rogers, recently Supervis-
ing Inspector of Ste7 mboats, at New Or
leans, has preferred charges of incompe-
tency against Gen. Joseph A. Dumont
General Supervising Inspector. The pa
DeTS were lalu D6IoT6 the L resilient to-day.
John ). McClintOck has been appointed
Marshal for Maryland.
Mr.. Kasson, Minister to Spain, had a
conference with Mr.. Evarts to-day. He
sails tor Madrid the 4th of July.
The Cabinet remained in session till three
o'clock.
1t was agreed that the prosecutions in the
Mountain Meadow massacre case should
be pushed. The Government will see that
sufficient force be sent to Utah to enforce
the DEGREES of the courts.
The Secretary of State read a communi>
cation received by him from Minister
Foster, in Mexico, in effect that the Mexican
authorities will cooperate with the United
States authorizes on the Rio Grande to pre-
vent raids into Texas and break up cattle
stealing in that section.
No appointment was agreed upon except |
the Marshal for Maryland. Gen. John |
Tyler, Jr., was appointed Inspector of
Customs at Richmond, Virginia.
CONNECTICUT.
BRIDGEPORT, June 8.-Glover. Sanford |
& Sons hat shop in East Bridgeport, was /
burned last hight. A number of men en-
gagged in saving the property were crushed |
by falling walls. Nine bodies have been |
recovered, others are missing.
BRIDGEPoRT, CONN, June S.-The fire |
was first discovered in the fourth story of |
Glover, Sandford Il Co.'s factory. Water
becoming exhausted, steamers drew from |
swamp holes and ponds. The building |
falling, caused the loss of life described. |
The main building was $50 feet long, 90 |
feet wide and four and half stories high. |
To the top of high basement the brick |
walls were l6 inches thick, but above that !
came a story Is feet, and two others ii feet
high, surmOunted by an attic, all supported
by l2-inch walls. The windows being 4S
inches wide and the columns between them |
only forty inches. Fifteen thousand hats
nearly ready for shipment were burned, |
. Upwards of 250 hands are thrown out of
employ nent
NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, June S-A dispatch from |
Bridgeport reports eleven men killed by |
falling walls at fire last night. The loss |
is said to be $3.50, 600.
TEXAS.
GALVESTON, June 8.-Three squares,
bounded by Market, Twenty first and |
streets and the Bay, were |
destroyed bo fire this morning. The prin- |
cipal losers are the Grand Southern Hotel, |
Bank, First National Bank, l.. |
& II. Blum, A. g. Crawford 81 Co., G. S. |
Z. Lgson & Co, Cotton Exchange, T. Q. |
Ayres, Jacob Buckhardt, T. @. Thompson
& Co., j. NJ. Brown & Co., f. ID, Hamar,
Geo. Schwicher & Co. Loss estimated to
W. three mllllOn dollars.
GALVESTON, June Sit is impossible, |
owing to the excitement and confusion, to |
get the details. 1t is said that the leading !
houses are fully covered by insurance, of
which only 100000 are in home COM |
panes Eastern and Northern Com |
panies' losses are heavy.
LOUISIANA
New ORLEANS, June 8.-The block |
bounded by CaTondolet, ST. Charles, |
Phillip and First streets was partly de. |
stroyed by fire to-day.
MASSACHUSETTS,.
BosToN, June 8.-The rubber sale closed
to- day. Western buyers who held back
on TAursday, hoping to get goods cheaper
to>day, were disappointed rs prices ad-
vanced towards the close of sale, and they
were compelled to pay from to 10 per
cent more for the same classes of goods
than they brought at the opening of the
sale. The prices to-day ruled about 10 per
cent. below the combination price list. The
result is eminenty satisfactory to the man.
ufacturers.
THE EASTERN WAR.
LONDON, June The Russian advance
is threatening the communication between
Erzeroum and Trebizonde. Muhktar
Pasha has sent five battalions to check
them.
Roumania has ffty-fve thousand men in
fighting trim. They are organized into
two army corps.
Among reports circulated yesterday on
the London Stock Exchange were, that
England is about to purchase the founders
shares in the Suez Canal, and that she is
about to purchase the Porte's sovereign
rights in Egypt.
Some papers think the advance of Egyp-
tian stocks indicate a good foundation for
reports. Others think the steps already
taken are ample to justify to the return of
confidence in the Egyptian securities, and
that all reports of further action are mere
stock iobbing canards. Nothing yet made
public affords basis of opinion as TO which
of these views is correct.
The Pail Mall Gazette of Wednesday
afternoon, in a leading article advocated