Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1883-05-12


Hamburg CGrmab lay, to i'm
pri ;onultl.y from months for
circulating pampA. -,.-.-44ering Bis
marck.
Ar Terre IIaute, Ind, some sacrile
gious thieves tore tni orner-stone out of
colored church the Otter nj Int and stole
tue coins deposited ciein.
THERE was Il iic rain and hail
storm, accompanie Y thunder and light
ming, throughout & ranjon, Pa, section
on the 18th, and an ia. Sc amount of prop
erty was damaged re Wyoming House
and other large bindings and factories
were struck by lightning and telegraph
wires were prost ated.
The MaSsacl usetts Supreme CouG
has refused TO a1liIIiJ to bail Charles |. Free
man. the religious anotic who killed his
child at Pocassett in 1879 The application
was made en- the ground that he is now
sane.
The bakers strike in Vienna, Aus
tria, has resulted in riots and street barr
cades.
AN earthquake was reported on the
9TH to have destroyed great many houses
and caused the death of large number
of people in the vicinity of Tabreez,
Persia.
The recent gas explosion in the coal
mine at Wilkesbarre, Pa, by which several
men were killed, was caused by stroke of
lightning, which passed down the bell-rope
in the shaft.
SIX persons were killed the other day
by an explosion of powder used in filling
shells at the Portsmouth Maynard, Eng
land.
The Vice-President of the New York
Coffee Exchange has been expelled for vic.
lating the rules.
The Philadelphia and Reading (Pa.)
Rolling-mill has shut down temporarily.
PROF. H. E. PARKER, of Dartmouth
College, Hanover, N. H., had his skull frac.
tured the other day by fall from a ladder
while assisting to extinguish fire.
Two children burned to death the
other morning ina fire which destroyed five
dwellings in Rondout, N. Y.
WILLIAM H. VANDERBILT sailed for
Europe ON the 9TH in the steamer Britannia
The burning of the steamboat Crap
pier on Puget Sound was worse affair
than first reported. Later news. shows sew.
enty Cinnamon lost their lives.
PHIPPs, the ex-Almshouse Supern-
tendent of Philadelphia, Pa, has been con-
victed of forgery.
AT Millbury, Mass, a few days ago,
Frank Mann killed Mrs. Mary E. Moore
and then committed suicide.
Two Americans, supposed to be W.
II. Sinclair and S. B. Halliday, clerks who
robbed their employers, Lang, Robinson &
| Co., -four merchants, New York, were ar.
rested at Havana, Cuba, the other day.
They would be sent to New York.
The Japanese Ambassadors were pre-
scented at the White House on the 18th inst.
A QUARREL about fifty cents resulted
in murder at Cincinnati, O., on the 9TH
Aaron Scott, colored, stabbed William
! Crotty, white, to death.
WILLIAM BoUNDY and Thomas Dire
SaitoH were hiiicu dG t!le CAullpioh Mine,
west of kalamazoo, Mich, on the NJ, p. IL
! O. Railway, the other night by being
Knocked from skips into pit !, falling ice.
Z Harry Barrett, fireman at the Mitchell
Mine, in the same neighborhood, was buried
by n run and it would take three days to
recover him.
SIX buildings in the business part OF
rapport, Pa, were burned the other morn
ing, and George O'Neil, sleeping in saloon
where the fire originated, was burned to
death.
ROBERT BUTLER, colored, suffered the
extreme penalty of tie law at Columbia,
Caldwell Parish La, on the 4th fcI the
murder of George Burris.