Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1883-04-21
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The brig !,ctitia, which arrived at
New FORK the other day, reports the Revo'
lutionists, as causing trouble In Nicaragua.
THERE was disastrous fire the other
day at Mandalsy, Burmah. Ons thousand
buildings were destroyed, including the
residences of several Cabinet Ministers.
Two prisoners were burned to death In
their.eells.
TWENTY prisoners In the Tarrant
County jail, In Texas, overpowered the
guard the other night and escaped When
the alarm had been given, about twenty
five citizens started IN pursuit with shot
guns and bloodhounds, and before evening
seventeen of the fugttives had been recap
tured.
The King Of Italy has signed de-
cres ordering the formation as quickly as
possible Of seventy-two new companies Of
territorial and Alpine troops. ''
JAY GOULD has decided 70 pay out Of
his own funds the enjoined dividends on
Western Union Telegraph stock G .aia
INthe SANDER suit Of Helen NJ. Cougar,
editor and lecturer on woman suffrage,
against Henry J. Msndler, Chief Of Police
Of Lafayette, Ind, which had been on trial
before Judge Gould, Of the Delphi Circuit
Court, for eleven weeks, the Jury the other
day gave plain iff 5000 damages. The
tri,l was very bitter one and was given
wide publicity. The defendant moved for
new trial. tS
In the Pnenix Park murder trial at
Dlblin, Ireland, on the 18th the evidence Of
Joseph Smith, one Of the accused, was &C.
copied, and 1t was said Mullett would also
turn approver. The case for the prosecu.
ion closed. The defense In Brady's case
was an alibi.
ADvICEs from Benson, Ariz.. state
t!.at 4O0 soldiers have been sent to guard
. e IAN Carlos Reservation Indians from
.osahstOne and other Rangers.
Fn-D WAGNER, brother Ut the late
palace car magnate Of New York, has been
found murdered in Colorado. He had been
missing ever since last fall.
THOMAS H. BLYTHE died In San
Francisco, Cal, recently, leaving fortune
Of S, 00O, 0)) and NO will. Claimants were
The examination Of the dynamite
conspira ors in London, Eng, ON the 18th
adjourned .or week. Whitehead had an
animation at Birmingham. ,
Two Lehigh Il Reading Railroad
trains collided near PlainAeld, N. j., the
otter day and several persons were injured
and ole car was burned.
Two boiler explosions occurred the
other mo ming with dreadful effect At
Ashtabula, o.. the boilers OF Hitchcock &
Bradley exploded, killing James Graham
ms antly and totally wrecking the build
ing. Eighty men were thrown ont Of ON.
ployment. In the Fl ison (Wis.) Chair
Factory an explosion burned William
Peas, 50 sevei-iy that he died soon after.
Sup \. Ia, FL ,er was seriously hurt
by fyil,, debris, and man named Reilly
was injured sli ,h.iy. The building was
completely demolished, pieces being car.
ried quarter Of mi.e. Fifty men in a
neighboring room miraculously escaped
wi out injury.
NORTH WADEINAN, of Chicago, H.,
shot two constihles few days ago who at
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| sault on lis WHO.
WILLIAM NJ. CROCKETT, who It WAS
alleged murdered J. F. Hunt In w ytheville,
Va, was lyncaed the other day by one
hundred masked men. &F 4
THE steamer Wylly struck the bridge
at Fort Gaines, Ga, the other day and sunk
Immediately. Ten persons were reported
missing.
| TIE largest order for, blank forms
ever given the Public Printer has bsen Is.
sued by the Commissioner of Internal reve-
nue. at Washington on account Of the rebate
on tobacco and cigars.
A HORRIBLE accident occurred At a
saw-mill three miles north OF Armada, Ma
CO. lb County, Mich, the other day. Philip
| Short, while oiling buzs-saw, was caught
by the sleeve and had his right arm and leg
cut entirely OF, the saw ran the entire
length the other leg from the thigh to the
loot and then threw him six feet away,
striking his head on bolt, making . frac-
ture three inches deep. He lived three
hours after the accident ....yL ',.,
WHILE Nicholas Sheron, OF Milan,
O., was putting on . tin roof OF Chicago
Junction the other day he was blown OF
the building by the wind, the fall breaking
his neck. s-.t.,
ONE Of the most destructive fires In
the history Of Denver, Colo, occurred In
that place the other night in the total do
structiol OF the Continental Oil and Trans.
portation Company's Works. Two hundred
thousand gallons OF oil and the extensive
taIikage buildings were consumed, involv.
ing loss of 100000. Incendiarism was
suspected. ,,..,.. ,-..i~ .,..,-.,.
! The design for the new two-cent
postage stamps has been approved by Post
master. General Gresham TTW n
joe BRADY was conyicted at Dublin,
Ireland, on the 18th and sentenced to be
hanged May IA for the Phonix Park muir
ders. 5000. .-.,T
| In the trial Of Schellcr on the charge
Of setting Are to the Newhall House in MI
waukee, Wis, the chief engineer testified
that Scheller's attorney tried to get him h
swear that the Are started from gss-j
| The wages question involved in tn
Cincinnati, (O.) cigar.makers' strike hs<
been settled % the 18th, but other demsnd'
Of the men had not been conceded, ant
work was'still interrupted. lA Tef9yo
| The Union Trust Company Of St
Louis, NO., has been blacklisoed by th'
Post-ofIice Department.
AT Lake City, Colo, Alfred g. Packer
has been convicted Of numbering Ave mer