Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1883-05-26


Haughnot, of New York, at Naples; b.
Odell Duncan, Sonth Carolina, at Catina,
and James Fletcher, Iowa, at Genoa.
AN engine and eighteen freight cars
were thrown down nm enbankment on the
Reading e. Columbia Railroad near Ephra.
Ia, Pa, tho other day. George W. Hahn,
Master Mechanic of the road, WAS killed.
The disaster was caused by "a plank mali.
ciously placed across the track.
DURING popular fete and fireworks
In village adjacent TO Llsbon, Portugal,
The other day, dynamite bomb exploded,
killing four persons and wounding tweuty
others.
~ THE wife of General Absalom Baird
died suddenly at Washington, D. c., the
other evening from stroke of apoplexy.
She was native of New York, aud niece Of
the late Garrett Smith, the Abolitiorist.
JAMES N. HoUGH. whom the de-
tectives, stimulated by 5000 reward,
beralded Inn and near as tho murderer Of
the Foreman women near Indianapolis,
Ind, recently, has been released by order
OF the Grand Jury.
IT was reported from Monterey,
Mex, on the 10Th that Psausland and Mudd,
two Americans in Jail for the murder of
Wihland, a wealthy contractor, few
days ago, hal been taken. on. and hanged
by a mob.
Mo0sIC, small town near Scranton,
Pa, was shaken throughout few days ago
by an explosion of powder in a magazine
at a coal breaker. One man was almost
torn to pieces and another was not found.
HENRY FLEMING was hanged at Pitts
boto, Cali oln Coanty, Miss, ON the 18th
for mur49r committed two years ago.
When Mt Ito galiows he attempted to kill
himself wit small pocke,.knife and in
flicted wound in the throat, but 1t was not
fatal. His neck was br, ken by the fall and
| the death struggle lasted but an instant.
Ten business houses and three small
or structures were destroyed by fire the
other morning at Silver Lake, Ind.
THE cable announced on the 18th
that Cetawayo's for, es had been routed by
insargent chiefs with great slaughter.
RAILROAD employees and laborers on
tire Mort ern Pacific Railroad captured
Gallatin City, Mont, few days ago, but
stored order the next day, arresting sew.
eral OF the leaders.
LOUIS D. JARRARD, Postmaster at New
Brunswick, N. j., is reported to be $4,000
short in his accounts.
WHILE number OF workmen were
digging trench at Allegheny City, Pa,
the other morning the ground caved in, in
stantly killing john Smith and seriously
injuring Matthew Golden and James
Hughes.
THE annual meeting Of the National
Board of Fire Underwriters was held OH
the 18th in New York. a
The jury in the case of Rev Henry
Smith, a BAPTIST Minister, on trial at Can
ton, Van Zandt County, Tex, for the muir.
der Of Deputy Sheriff Is. b. Day, returned a
verdict on the 18th Of murder in the first
degree, and assessed the punishment It life
imprisonment in the Penitentiary.
The trial Of Congressman Phil. b.
Thompson, of Harrodsburg, KY, for the
killing of Walter Davis, resulted In u YER
dict of not guilty on the 10th.
CHARLES +. kRING. who killed Dora
Broemser, at st. Louis, No., for which he
spent eight years in Jail, was five times
tried for his life and was twice sentenced
to death, died at st. Johns Hospital in that
city on the 18th, Of consumption.
| THE liabilities Of Turtons & IIadow,
stock speculators, ILonsion, Eng. whose
failure has been announced, are So, 600.
!, The Kentucky Democratic State Con
veution ., The 18th nominated J. Proctor
Knott Tag Governor and Cal tain James h
Hindnian for ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
! DISPATCHES received from Wheeling
i on the 17th indicated that IL would take al
official count to decide the contest betwee,
Brown and Snyder for Congress from th,
Third West Virginia District. The former
election was claimed by Republicans b!
fifty majority. ~
The, private bank Of Eugene Angel
at Lansing, Mich, closed It's doors the othe
afternoon, owing to run upon it, ami'
considerable excitement II was state,
that the late city Treasurer, E. B. Wood
was short in his accounts and that tn
troubles of the bank had connection wit
him, growing out of the endeavor 10 It'd
him over his troubles. ~.
4 THE death of Bishop Jesse T. Peck, a
; Syracuse, N. Y, has been announced.
THREE murderers were the other da
. sentenced to he hanged together at Orange
, burg, S. c., on June Orchard Jeffioa,
| for the murder of Louis Rumph; Williar
Irrelevant, for the murder of Fran
/ Mitchell, and Horace Hall, for the murde
, OF Daniel Glover.
THERE was frost throughout North
ern OHIO on the night of the 18th.
TwENTY-sEvEN persons were injure
, the other day by the explosion of the boi
i. ers o a steamer on the river volga.
: ROBERT B. MORRILL,. ex-Auditor {
!, the Philadelphia Pa.) Gas Trust, has bee
+ arrested for embezzlement. "a
THE trial of Jerre Dunn, for the mul
) der of Elliott, the pugilist, at Chicago, al
: has result, d in verdict of acquittal.
: EIGHT New York gamblers were Sci
. ten ed to the Penitentiary,a few days g.
!. The bodies of John Hurbert an
e Michael J. Carrie, two Of the men killed
the recent great oil fire at Communipaw,
y j.. were found in the bay at that place IL
$ OTHER day. They were blown into the ba
l. by the explosion.
THE steamer Granite State, awhic