Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1883-05-19
THE Standard oil-works at Com

THE Standard oil-works at Com
munipaw, N. j., were struck by lightning
on the 10th Inst. and sst on fire. The
flames communicating with the oil tanks .ons
explosion followed another, and at last the
storehouse where the barreled oil was kept
was attacked, which succumbed. Six fire.
men we're overtaken by food OF blazing
oil and persisted. The loss was estimated
at II 200, 0oo, the property destroyed includ-
Ing twelve large tanks, eighteen cars, six
barges, a dredge, three docks and five back
buildings.
A LOCKOUT occurred at w. 8. Kmball
& Co.'s cigarette factory, at Rochester, n.
Y, low days ago, seven hundred female
employees being refused work. The flrn
had thrice refused to advance the twenty
| per cent. demanded, and fearing q STREE
refused to give the employees wcrk whtn
they arrived at the factory.
AMAsA STONE, the milliopa,ra r@lwa,
and iron magnate, committee So aii"
Cleveland, O., on the 18th by :. 30 p liza
SELF through the heart wra rryolyy
while suffering from temporary il 'aU r.
by u boiler explosion near Nata
Ind. the other afternoon tw, "a w.F
killed and three others fatally inferred
RECENT disturbances in Wu Gh"ng
China, have been repressed II y-,,,
insurgents were behcaded.
The Canadian Parliament VIVA pro-
rogued On the 18th after a sos9io- o o.
hun,,rod and seven days.
DURING the week ended on 'nn 1871
there were fourteen deaths fro y,l-as
lever at Havana, Cuba.
A BOMB was exploded on n street H.
NJ oscow, Russia, the other Il y i Sev "a
persons were wounded, The ro'i v'rsi'
was that 1t was only Il railway nll, u
the public was not satisfied and -! dteo..
alarmed.
A HARD case named d. G.. lIdt bins
who killed young man named Val
Lyon In Bossie Parish, near ShrtvrHo-
La, few days be ore, was taken n1m ..y
officers by a mob OF one hundred II n.
the 18Th and Hanged TO tree in a sw n".
In quarrel on ira n ak.ng p -
nir home general shooting ,,ri c,y..jn
ARRAY occurred near Cincinaa"i. o.. J.,
other afternoon and five mon were soa
ously wounded.
NINE culprits were whippr! At tn
post at Newcastle, Del, ti.o othu. .u,r.nae
for various offcnscs.
The Houston Il Texas Gem al Raj
road has defaulted in payne i1ee s.
due the State Tor loans on the ,.'asaingcG'
County branch.
THE assistant secretary o. the roya
library at Berlin, Germany, Ia; oeel i
prisoned for Distributing sodi i)u' wri
ings.
In the first four months Of 1888 Cana
da received o. immigrants.
A FURNACE was destroyed by fire a
OF 5000 o, and ten houses were burned al
Cassville, W. Va, the night b, ore.
THE warehouse of Mueller d. Blug.
gerhoff, Austin, Tex, was burned on til,
l3t:i with several other Offices and shops
The loss was nearly SI59,0Jl.
THE second trial Of Adlai H. snt
James Proudht, for the killing Of Axte
Winberg last January, in the Circuit Court
, at Memphis. Tenn, has resulted in verdict
{ of not guilty and both defendants hav,
3 been discharged.
TWENTY FOUR Socialists were sen
ten ed t. im,riIonmont at L,mbers, Ger
4 many, a few days ago.
OFFICERS from Wcatbcrford, Tex.
i
them in three places, In Jacks County feu
days ago.
EX-GOVERNOR ISRAEL WAsHBvgS, 0
Maine, died few days ago ut Philadel
plia, Pa, where he had gone for medica
: treatment FOR complicated kidney dis
ease.