Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-05-21
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ST. LOUIS, May 19.-Suit was entered in
the circuit court yesterday by Jobu Hodnett,
against the st. Louis Times company and
Stilson Hutchins, the present proprietor of
the Washington Post, to recover his share
of the profits of the Times during the wears
to have been fraudulently concealed by
Hutchins, who was managing editor and
had financial control of the paper at that
time The sum claimed is in the neighbor-
hood of seventy thousand dollars Hodnett
owned one-third of the Times and sues for
his share of the alleged profits. This suit
has nothing whatever to de with the present
alleged to have occurred several years before
the paper went into the hands of its present
management.
A Lawsuit for Only S85,634,33s.
SAN Francisco, May 19.-Complaint was
fled yesterday in the twelfth district court in
a suit in equity, in which John II. Burke is
plaintiff, and James C. Flood, John w.
Mackay, James G. Fair, Solomon Heyde-
feldt, Charles II. Fisch, George w. Wells,
Edward Barron, Cornelius O'Connor, the
Consolidated Virginia mining company, Pa
cifc mill and mining company, Pacific wood,
lumber and hume company, Virginia and
Gold Hill water company, and the Nevada
bank of San Francisco, are defendants. The
complaint is of great length, the substance of
IL DtluS GudG pldluGlu UrluRS SulG IN O6QdII OF
the stockholders OF the Consolidated Virginia
mining company, to recover $35, 634, 338
wrongfully acquired by defendants in the
management of the company's Virginia
mine. Complainant also asks for the re-
moval of the directors of the company.
The Kemper County Massacre a Text
for sermon at Washington.
WASHINGTON, May 19.-The services in
memory of the late Judge Chisholm, son
and daughter, murdered a year ago IN
Kemper county, Mississippi, were held this
morning in the Metropolitan District Episco-
pal church. Rev. H. R. Naylor preached a
short sermon before a large congregation,
Mrs. Chisholm being present, and Bishop
Haven pronounced an eulogy, in the course
of which, he said: "We must defend the free
dom of speech and the freedom of the ballot
or we perish from the earth. To this coming
perfection of national peace aud power this
sad event will contribute. This family gr pup
are martyrs to the American equallty of
right, to the Declaration of Independence
and to the preamble to the constitution. 1t
was for the cause of equal rights they fought,
and the family fell. 1t was for the protec-
ton of every citizen at the polls, for the true
democracy of the government of 1.-THE MAORI
ty of the voters, legally and fearlessy ex-
pressed, for the American nation; for the
rights of mankind that this citizen of Ameri-
ca, with his brave son and Drawer daughter,
and death shall never be forgotten-never
below, never above"
A Small Fire Attended with Serious
Injury to several Firemen.
ST. PAUL, MINI, May 19.-The refrigera-
tor warehouse of Dunn, Thompson & Co.,
and Park Place hotel, four-story frame
structure on st. Peter street, burned last
night, the latter taking fire shortly after mid
night. Loss to Dunn, Thompson & Co.
about $4,000. Insurancejn the Home, New
York, $4,000; Pennsylvania, $500; North
British Mercantile. $500; Liverpool, Lon
don and Globe, $1,000. Loss on the hotel
about $4,000, sustained by the owner,, j.
Edward Ingham. Insurance on the building,
$500; on furniture, $500; the former In the
agency of S. S. Eaton, the latter in Massa-
| chusetts agency. Several firemen and others
sustained injuries by falls and burns; one.
John Briggs, being perhaps fatally burned.
The fire is supposed to have been incendiary,
as the building had been unoccupied for
some time, and was to be sold. t-auction to-
morrow.
SittingBuu Furnishing Traders with
Goods by Wholesale.
WINNIPEG, MAN, May ia trader
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