Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1883-06-30

The cost of star-ro,he NAL service
IN Texas and Louisiana was sl4l,9,s less
last year than tbe year before. 3lt
THE dixie at Fish Lake, opposite ST.
Louis, Mo-, had given way on the I'D and
flooded an immense area of growing crops.
The Toledo, Cincinnati & st. Louis narrow
gauge embankment broke ON the same day,
north Of East St. Louis, and let the water in
on the own Of Brooklyn. Great damage
was bo g done by the overflow at other
points Ve" .'i!tr4
SERIOUS riots against the Jews oc-
Cured at st. Gall, Switzerland, on the 22d.
A number Of Jewish shops were pillaged
and the police were stoned while endeav-
oring to stop the excuses.
THE report that the state the British
North Borneo Company had been massa-
cred by the natives of Borneo has been de.
MED. eryr -.
A CONNECTION was caused among
the officials Of the Erie Railroad the other
day by the mysterious disappearance of
$4,000, in transit from New York to -Sus-
quehanna, Pa. A package that should
have contained that amount was found to
be full of brown paper.
The mystery surrounding the disap
pearance of {. T. Goodwin, cashier Of the
freight department of the Lake Shore Rail-
road, who had been missing from Cleve-
land, O., for several days, was partially
explained on the oath by the finding of his
body in the lake near that city. Investiga-
ton showed defalcation of $1,000 in his
accounts. 'Hl 9'i
THE cable announced the other day
that Mormon missionaries were making
many converts in the mining districts of
England and Wales. A large party had
already started for Utah.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has appointed D.
B. Barker Postmaster at Washington, d.
c., vice Tullock, deceased. 9-rAIQ IN
A NEGRO named Duke, who entered
the sleeping apartment of two young ladies
near Vienna, Kennebec Parish, La, two
weeks ago, supposed with criminal intent,
was found by body Of his pursuers the
other day and shot to death.
In drunken brawl in the southern
part of Jackson County, o., the other night
Constable Mike Reilly fatally shot Thomas
Smith and then escaped.
A BOILER exploded at an oil we'll
near Bradford, Pa, the other day, killing
the engineer and destroying the rig.
| FRANK CLARK. for thirty-three years
manager of the American Express Com.
pany at Cincinnati, o., died at Newport,
KY, few days ago. u.-.D
AT Richmond, Va, on the 23d, L. F.
Mason stabbed DIR. W. T. Crutchfield
fatally. Both belonged to highly respecta.
BILE families. An old ieud.
The steamers Hurunui and Watara,
both of the New Zealand Shipping Com
pany, left London, Eng, together few
days ago. That night the two vessels
collided off Portland and twenty five lives
were lost. The lost were mainly second
class and Storage passengers.
WILLIAM DAVIS, aged fifty, and his
wife, seventeen, have been arrested at
Waterbury, Conn.,, charged with commit.
ting numerous burglaries.
IT was reported on the oath that sew
enty persons had been drowned in the
floods in Silesia. ~
RECENT advices from Vera Cruz,
Mex, indicated that the yellow fever cpl.
demic was raging fearfully. One thousand
deaths had occurred in two months.
WILLIAM CHILDERs was found dead
with a bullet-hole in his head near VILLAINS
town, KY, the other morning. Later in
the day Haden Northcote surrendered him.
self and confessed to killing Childers for
running his (Northcote's sister.
The Coroner's Jury in the notorious
Hathaway case in Philadelphia, Pa, the
other day held the Doctor responsible for
the death Of the victims whose bones were
found on his premises.