Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1883-04-14
Personal AND GENERAL.

Ul Une UTlIiln Mills du MOSS TOluU, MISS, on
the 3D. nine men were killed and ten others
wounded.
JOHN JACKSON, negro who had COM
mitted several assaults upon women, was
hanged by mob the other night at Mos
COW, Tex.
DURING prize fight at Pittsburgh,
Pa, the other night between two eighteen
year-old boys, one Of them had his neck
broken.
The cross-eXamination of ex-senator
Dorsey was concluded and Henry M. Vale
was called as a witness on the 4th in the
star-mail route cases at Washington.
Two alleged murderers were lynched
at Hastings, Nebr., the other day, and
negro who confessed a heinous crime in
open court in Union County, Ark, was
hanged on his way to Jail by mob.
LATE Mexican advices were to the
effect that the Indians had killed ffty-two
people south of the Arizona line.
The first through train on the Utah
extension of the Denver & Rio Grande
Railroad carried two hundred Mormon con-
vertS TO the Land OF frOmlSe.
GENERAL GRANT has been elected
President and life director of the National
Rifle Association.
The Massachusetts House of Repre-
sentatives has defeated the Constitutional
amendment prohibiting the manufacture
and sale of liquor.
IT is reported that on the person of
Featherstone, an alleged American, arrest
instructions from O'Donovan Rosa for the
use of certain explosives.
The projected Vienna Qtaly) confer
ence of the Geneva Red Cross Society has
been abandoned.
EX-PosTMAsTER WAFFLE, of Cincin-
natl, who sued the Gazette OF that city for
$4,000 damages for libel, has been awarded
50 by jury.
CHARLES RICH, aged iifty-six years,
was killed by the fall of the elevator In the
County Hospital at Lancaster, Pa, the other
day. The rope was cut by an unknown
person.
A FIRE in the upper section of Brown
& Reels foundry, at Harrisburg, Pa, the
other morning, destroyed hundreds of val
liable patterns.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR intends to visit
Chicago, st. Louis and other Western cities
next June, if not prevented by official du-
| ties.
The centennial of the birth of Wash
1aL,
| N. Y, on the Sd inst.
THERE was q severe shock of earth
quake at Riposta, Italy, the other day.
FREDERICK DE FRovILLE, u former
member of the Signal Corps, shot and killed
his wife and then himself in Washington
the other night. The deed grew out of the
wife's refusal to live with him.
The President has appointed Lieu
tenant-C Colonel Anderson D. Nelson, U. S.
A. (retired), Deputy Governor of the Sol
diers' Home, vice Major Milton Cogswell,
deceased.
TWENTY business houses in Kent
land, Ind, were destroyed by fire on the
night of the 9TH, causing total loss, it was
thought, of 100000. ~ ~
A THREE-DAYs' secret session of Ger
man Socialists had been held at Copenha-
gen. 1t was determined to oppose Bis
marck's social programme and to force the
fight against capital.
A MAN named William Ludwig, from
Chicago, was killed in st. Louis, No., the
other evening, it was alleged by Tom Nc
Donough, alias Windy Tom, notorious
river rough.
AT Clarksburg, VIVA, Barney Doyle
and his two little girls were found muir
dered in Doyle's grocery few nights ago
They had been chopped to pieces with 6
Ratchet by country fiddler named Jane:
Harper
ONE THOUSAND buildings were de-
stroyed by fire at Iquique, Peru, ON the 10tl
of March.
A TERRIFIC gas explosion occurred a
Baltimore, Md, the other day, which die
more or less damage to number of houses
in the vicinity and tore up the bed of boil
Bond and Chew streets for some distance
Two children were killed and number o
other persons were injured, several of then
seriously. Ten houses were so badly dam
aged it was thought they would have to b.
torn down.
EARLY the other morning disastrou
fire occurred at Greeley, Colo, which de
stroyed several business houses, the Uniol
Bank building and the Masonic and Odd
Fellows Halls. Estimated loss, $l50,00O.
SIMON PHILLIPART, the famous spec
ulator, was arrested at Paris, France, q few
days ago upon representations made b.
the Belgian Public Prosecutor. The charg
against him was that he had falsifed hi
account at his bank.
THE Paris (France) Socialists VIII
melted the riots of March IS have been ser
: fenced to three years imprisonment.
: In an election row at Roundtree, Ill.
, the other night Mason Pointer Stable
George Young SO seriously that it wa
thought he was dying. Both were coloret
Mrs. JACOB ScHEIDERER was burne
, to death at Maryville, O., few days az
by her clothing catching fire while she wa
. working about the cook-stove.
HOWARD UNDERWOOD was hanged o
the 9Th at Charleston, NO., for the murde
of Belle Lucas.
NEAR Valatie, MY, Jennie P. Al
, ken, Edna Murphy and Lulu Phitt, chi
| dren, were drowned recently while playin
. on the ice.
5 BY boiler explosion at Newbernt
. N. c., on the 9th three persons were kille
n