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

THE remains OF Prof. Palmer, muir
dered with his companions by Bedouins in
November last. near Cairo, Egypt, were
buried on thea5th in st. Paul's Cathedral
at London, Eng.
The Irish detective force who have
been operating in France have been re-
called.
EX-SENATOR THURMAN fell on the
steps of his residence at Columbus, Ohio,
the other evening, and broke his arm.
THE date of the annual meeting of the
Society Of the Army of the Cumberland has
been changed from September 10 and 20 to
October "a and %, at Cincinnati, o.
IT is estimated that the Labor bill re-
Gently passed by the Wisconsin Legisla-
ture, imposing fine and Imprisonment in
the case of the employment of children un.
der fourteen years of age, will throw 5000
out of employment in Milwaukee.
AMERICAN lard has been made sub
ject to Board of Health inspection at Ha-
vana, Cuba.
SERIOUS riots were reported between
Jamaica and Carthaginian laborers EN-.
ployed on the Panama Canal the other day,
in which some twenty Of the former were
massacred.
ONE of the acts of the recent Socialist
Congress at Copenhagen, Denmark, was
the adoption of motion providing for the
collection of funds for monument to Karl
Marx.
A POWDER magazine at Passo Cor
rese, Italy, exploded the other day, killing
forty people.
Two brothers, named Dauria, and
two named Corbo, all Italians, fought with
knives in saloon at Newark, N. j., few
days ago. The Daurias were taken to the
hospital, one probably fatally cut. The
| Corbos fled.
A MAN was mobbed at Manchester,
Eng, the other day for expressing sym.
pathy for Whitehead, the alleged Superin-
tendent of a dynamite factory.
A BREAK occurred in the levee at
New Orleans, La, on the eth, doing consid-
cradle damage to property in the rear Of
that city.
THE American schooner Estella and
the Mexican pilot-boat Teodorita were lost
with all on board off Tuxan a few days
ago.
G. G. JACKSON and j. d. Duncan
have been indicted in Chicago, ILL.,, on ac-
count Of alleged frauds in the street de-
partments said to reach 100000.
AN inoendiary fire broke out in the
City Engine-house at Chippewa Falls,
Mimi, a few days ago, and that building
and the City Hall were entirely destroyed,
together with the records Of the city, which
were not protected by safe.
IT was reported on the 9Th that two
negroes in Virginia Jail had confessed to
the murder at Ashland, KY, Of which Neal
and Craft were accused.
In prize-fght between Tom Slavin
and Mike Cavanaugh at Nanticoke, Pa, the
other day, the former was knocked down
twenty-one times.
JUDGE MCCOMAs and wife, recently
killed by Indians in Arizona, were buried
at Fort Scott, Kans., on the Sth.
ANOTHER hotel horror occurred on the
morning of the 7th in the destruction of the
Ende House and several other buildings at
Greenville, Tex. Nineteen persons per
ished in the flames and the best part of the
town was totally destroyed
Losses by a recent fire at the Hotel
Berkeley, Boston, Mass, aggregated $lT0,
600, of which $150,010 was on personal prop
erty and 1000 on building.
P. H. BURCH, who styled himself ir
numerous advertisements in Chicago, st
Paul, La Crosse and st. Louis papers as the
"Union Manufacturing Company Of GA
lena" ILL.,, has run away with from ,0Ot
to $4,000 received through the mails in II
mittances for goods advertised by him anc
which he failed to forward.
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