Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-04-24
GEOR GIA.
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

AMHERST, MASS, April Z3.-A
fire this morning, in straw shop a
Hills Manufacturing Co., destroyed
the building and straw works of H
D. Fearing & Co.; loss 100000
Three hundred hands are thrown
out of employment. The coalyardt
of E. D. Hunt and w. Morgan were
also destroyed. The gas works were
saved with difficulty. Origin of the
fire unknown.
5 PoRT JEFFERSON, L. l., April
23.-A terrible forest fire swept
nearly the whole north portion Of
the town of Brookhaven Wednes.
day, burning thousands of acres
south of Shaftesbury, Vt.
The Eagle Square company's es.
tablishment was destroyed by fire
yesterday. Loss 1925, 900. The
company manufactured sash, doors,
blinds, furniture, etc.
RICHMOND, April 23.-While the
fire which broke out in Snyder &
Co.'s foundry last night was burn
ing another one started in Jno.
Smiths large four story junk estab,
lishment on Dock street, and at 1:30
o'clock this morning was still burns
ing, and will probably result in the
total destruction of the concern.
Several large warehouses and other
buildings are threatened.
RICHMOND, Va, April 23.-The
loss occasioned by the two fires here
last night reaches $175,000. The
first fire destroyed the buildings
formerly occupied by the Richmond
stove and architectural iron works,
but since the suspension of that
business, they have been occupied
by Jos. N. Boyd, as a tobacco
stemmer, and not by Darlington &
Co., as previously reported, and by
Chas. L. TODD, as a store house for
hay and lime.
Jos. N. Boyd's loss is $4,000,
which is nearly covered by insur-
ance. Chas. L. Todd's loss is about
$12, 900; insured in local company
for $4,000. The buildings are esti,
mated at $25, 900.
The second fire destroyed J. G.
Smiths block Of fine brick build
ings, occupied as junk establish
ment. His loss will reach $4,000
upon which he has an insurance Of
5000 only.
PANAMA, April 13.-Major Rob.
ert II. CASTOR, inspector of customs
at this port. died of fever on the
7th inst. He was about 65 years
Of age, and was a member Of one
of the oldest families of Virginia.
He served in the confederate army
on Gen. Lees staff.
Mineralogist, and geologist J. r.
M. Irby, bachelor of sciences in
Lynchburg College, Virginia, died
on board the steamer Coquirabo, on
her last voyage south. He was on
his way to Chill to explore the min
eral fields of that country.
SAN Francisco, April 23.-A
dispatch from Los Angeles says /:
"R. Hoyle, the defaulting tax com
missioner from Georgia, whose case
has been before the superior and
supreme courts for several weeks on
a writ of habeas corpus, committed
suicide in his cell last night by
shooting himself, in the presence Of
of the guard and Mr.. Collins,
agent Of the state Of Georgia. How
he obtained the weapon is unknown.
PETERSBURG, VA, April 23.-
Miss Matte Wells was burned to
death last night by the explosion of
a Kerosene lamp.
CoHoEs, April 23.-The strike at
the Harmony Mills is ended. Both
sides made concessions.
CHARLESTON, s. c., April 23.-
Thos. White, who was sentenced to
be hanged at Spartanburg to-day,
for the murder Of Pit Hawkins, has
been respited by Governor Simpson
until May 14th.