Plateau gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1883-1884, 1883-06-09
Personal AND GENERAL.


r. Fordham for Auditor-General. The Con.
vention adopted platform favoring the
principles enunciated In the platform Of
tke National Prohibition Home Protection
party.
JAMES FLETCHER, of Iowa, has been
appointed United States Consul to Genoa,
vice John T. Hazelton, who has been ap
pointed Consul to Hamilton Ont.
FRANCE disclaims any intention of an
nexing Tonquin, the projected expedition
being undertaken merely for the purpose
of upholding treaty rights.
NEAR Loogootee, Ind, the other
evening Jimmy Conner was found dead in
ditch with two horses on him. The boy
had been narrowing in field and was rid.
ing one of the horses, and it was supposed
that the animals ran away with him,
throwing him in the ditch and falling on
| him.
The Mexican Congress has been pro-
rogued until June Is.
A BOAT filled with workmen capsized
at Abeggis, near Milan, Italy, the other
day and twenty-five men were drowned.
A FREIGHT train went through q
bridge at Stratford Hollow, VT, the other
day and the engineer and fireman were
killed.
A MOTION is to be pressed in the Brit.
ish House Of Commons looking to an ex-
change of views regarding the undistrib-
uted moneys of the Alabama award.
The Cars recent manifesto was bad
ly received in s.. Petersburg. The Cos.
sacks were called on to suppress riot the
other day and one hundred of the rioters
were arrested.
DURING the late outbreak against the
Jews at Rostoif, Russia, one hundred and
thirty Jewish houses were destroyed. Fiji
teen Of the rioters were killed by the
troops.
The Grand Jury at London, Eng,
has returned true bills against DR.. Gala
CHER, Bernard Gallagher, Whitehead, Cur.
tin, Ansburg and Wilson, the alleged dyna.
mite conspirators, the indictment charging
treason and felony. Lynch, alias Norman,
who turned informer, has been permitted to
give evidence for the Queen.
RECENT reports from Arizona indicate
that the Apacies in Mexico want to sur
render and news from General Crook was
promised soon.
THE French will hold the King OF
AMMAN responsible for the recent hostilities
and will demand indemnity.
| IGRRAT fires pcc,irredJin Paris, France,
and st. Petersburg, Russia, on the 30th ult.
In the former city the conflagration ragged
along the river front, destroying property
of immense value At St. Petersburg an
iron foundry was burned, the loss amount.
ing to 100000.
The schedule. in the matter Of the as
signment of the Arm of Blossom, Hayn &
Co., naval stores New York, shows the
liabilities to DO Sl5G,735; actual assets,
SAG, 100. #P &c
ALEXANDER X. IsBIsTER, who was
largely instrumental in breaking up the
Hudson Bay Company's monopoly il, the
British northwest, died few days ago in
England, aged sixty years.
Two HUNDRED mechanics have re.
Gently been discharged from the Chicago
Milwaukee a. st. Paul Railway, Company
shops inWest Milwaukee, WIS.,, on accoun,
of the prospective falling off in traffic
caused by the shortness of the grain crop
i THREE legal executions occurred in
the South on the LIST. At Macon, Ga, Johr
Bailey and Henry WimMsh, both cclore,l
were hanged, the former for the murder Of
Harris Lapman, the latter for the murder
kof Morgan Washington. Robert Hender
son, who murdered his wife near Oxford
N. c., last November was hanged at thai
place after making a full confession.
ANOTHER twenty-five mile section o
+ the Northern Pacifc Railroad has been nc
!; cepted by the President.
} SIXTEEN THOUSAND rejected models
of unpatentable inventions were sold at tn,
Patent Office ut Washington the other day
for $762.
THE National debt, on the LIST inst,
less cash in the Treasury, wasS $50, ls9, 40s
The reduction for May was nearly fv'
millions.
NOAH R. STINER, Postmaster at Ster
ling, o., and Secretary of the Russell
Wrench Company, was missing from tina
! place the other day and 1t was discovers
that he had forged his fathers name to hi
bond as Secretary of the Wrench Compa
: ny. Other crookedness was being devel
: oped. re ..10
BY boiler explosion near East Sag
NAV, Mich, the other day two men wer
killed, two others were fatally injured, an
two others less seriously hurt.
JAMES NJ. BRAzELL. of San Francisco
CAL, has sued ]. c. Flood, the Nevada mil
4 liOnaire, for one-eighth interest in the Noun
Gary Mine, valued 1T 1000, oOa.s = q v
: THE war ships built in Germany TO
=. the Chinese will be delivered ON the Goa.
A of China by German seamen. rs
5 SOME of the English newspapers on
= pose, the idea Of appointing any Of tn
b Queens sons to The Governorship Of colo
The triafaof the London dynamit
: cons2irators has been fixed for the 18th ms
The Pennsylyania Senate, has passe
!. the bill to prohibit railroad discrimination
!, DURING the absence of her husban
= Mrs. Susan E. Douglas, Of CHAMBERLAIN
Q County, Pa, the other day cut the throat
Q of her three children and then killed he
2 self. She was insane. ar
a A GREAT rain storm visited Counc
9 Bluffs, To-, and vicinity on the lst.. India
Greek, which runs through the heart {
$ that city, OVERLOOKED. causing . damage o
g timated ct 500 ,Ool. Sevea iron bridges an
> two stone culverts were, swept away; ais