Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-01-22
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Boston, January 2l.-Hornblower Il
Page, brokers, failed. Liabilities small
no assets.
Tyler, Tex, January 2l.-Eight business
houses in NIineola burned this morning.
No particulars.
Lowell, Mass, January 21.-Notice has
been posted of all corporations reducing
wages ten per cent. February lst.
jackson, Miss, January 2l.-Silas Lane,
colored, who was to have been hanged to-
day at Rolling Fork, was respited.
New York, January 2l.-George NJ.
Struck, wholesale grocer, filed an assign
ment, with preferences Of $4,000.
Newburgh, n. Y, January 2l.-Haigh's
wooden mill, employing fifty hands,
burned. Loss, 100000; partially insured
Chicago, January PIE. Schneider K
Co.'S candle factory burned this afternoon.
Loss estimated at Sl53,000; insurance,
S6S,0G0.
Norfolk, January 21.-J. A. Rogers,
prominent young citizen, was murdered
early Sunday morning. Four arrests have
been made.
Philadelphia, January PA dispatch
has been received at police headquarters
announcing the death of City Controller
f. Harper Jeffries.
WilkesbaTe, Pa, January 21.-The large
headhouse of No. plane, of tle Pennsyl-
yania Coal Company, at Pittston, burned.
The engineer perished.
New York, January PIT. r. Butler,
president of the Sixth Avenue Railroad
and Chicago, died yesterday.
Lawrence, Mass, January 21.-The At
lantic Mills have given notice that there
will be reduction OF wages, of not over
ten per cent, on February 1st.
Troy, n. Y, January 21.-TEe gasworks
in the village OF Malone exploded Satur-
| day, destroying several buildings. The
| watchman and boy were injured.
Chicago, January 21.-The Journals Clio
| Mich dispatch says that half of the
business portion OF that city burned at
o'clock this morning. Loss, $4,000.
Atlanta, January 2l.-The returns to
| the Department of Agriculture show the
| damage to winter oats by the recent freeze
to be sixty per cent, and to wheat Thirty
per cent.
New York, jar uary 2l.-The Rev. Jno.
| Z. Newman, pastorof the Madison Avenue
Congregational church, is rendered a re-
ception in the vestry OF the church Tues
day evening.
Petersburg, Va, January 2l.-The strik-
ing tobacco employees have appointed a
committee to solicit aid TO enable them to
hold out until the employers consent to
| pay former wages.
| Toronto, January 2l.-The Erskine
Presbyterian church burned yesterday
morning. Sabbath school was in session
at the time. All escaped. Loss, $4,000;
insurance, $4,000.
Alexandria, Va, January 21.-M. NJ.
/ Il -, lact
night, aged fifty-nine years. During the
war he was division surgeon in the
Confederate army
Cincinnati, January 2l.-Jas. Hayden,
| the balloonist, in drunken quarrel with
| Mick Morgan, an ex-market policeman,
shot the latter in the side, the ball lodging
against the spine. Morgan will die.
Hot Springs, January 21.-An explosion
of a coal-oil lamp last night caused fire
in the buildings of Perry HUFF, occupied
as clearinghouse, grocery and store
room. Loss, $4,000; insurance, 5000.
New York, January 21.-The Board of
| Aldermen organized by electing VIM. P.
Kirk, Tammany, president and Frances
j. Tuomey, Tammany, clerk. The Re-
publicans voted with the Tammany men.
Savannah, Ga, January PA fire broke
out in the forward compartment OF the
steamer Strohleven, loading at Tybee with
cotton. Two thousand bales in the COM
partment were damaged by fire and water.
Paducah, KY, January 2l.-The st.
Nicholas Hotel burned to the ground
yesterday. The building was a ithree-
story brick, and cost $4,000. 1t was in
sured for 5000, and owned by Neil
Bros.
San Antonio, January 2l.-It is reported
| hat hnrSaS nf Mnl,
river are dying by hundreds for want OF
grass. Owners are driving their stock
south.
Newark, y. J., January PA fire in
outbuildings spread to one of the build
ings OF St. Nincent's Orphan Asylum. The
iiremen promptly responded to the alarm,
stayed the panic and rescued the children.
The loss by fire was trifling.
East Saginaw, Mich, January 2l.-Chas.
L. Dewail attempted suicide in Chesaning
yesterday By stabbing himself with pair
OF shears. He was under arrest, under a
charge of forgery The wound is serious.
bat ne viii probably recover
Galveston, Tex, January 2l.-The Pub
tic charges that within the Galveston city
limits are number of places owned by
scayensers, whose hogs, which are kills1,
for the city market are allowed to fatten
ON ,s.e carcasses Of dogs, rats, cats, horses,
ETC.. gathered from the streets OF Gal
weston.
St. Louis, January 2l.-A dispatch from
Las Vegas, n. NJ, says: Jacob Shoffner, OF
New York, while coming here to visit his
brother George, on learning of the latter's
death became insane and jumped from
the train at Springer's Station. He was
found frozen yesterday by parties from
Las Vegas. George Shofiner's remains
were shipped to New York. Jacobs will
be sent TODAY