Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-01-13
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four shots at Sergt. Burk. is held for trial.
Chattanooga, Tenn, January IA fire
at Tunnel Hill, Ga, this morning, de-
stroyed four business houses. Loss about
$4,000, insurance $4,000.
plymouth, Mass, January u. = The
nailers and puddlers OF the Robinson Iron
Company struck tonight against a fifteen
per cent. reduction in wages.
Cincinnati, January H. - Goy.-elect
Hoadly left for Columbus tonight, and
will stop at the Park Hotel. The inaugu-
ration will take place Monday.
Pittsburg, January 12.-The difference
between the proprietors and finishers of
the Soho rolling-mill has been SATISFACTORY
ly settled, and the men will resume work
Monday.
Jackson, Miss, January 12.-Yesterday
Joe Deal and Gus Shaw, farmers, had
difficulty On the way home. Deal struck
Shaw with club, fFacturing the skull and
causing death.
Reading, Pa, January II. -Arrangea
ments are making to resume operations at
the Manhattan Hardware Works Monday.
The ten per cent. reduction announced is
only for January.
New Orleans, January IA special to
the Picdylne from Arcadia says that Jerry
Alexander, colored, was hanged at Sparta,
La, yesterday, for the murder OF Samuel
Fleming, December 23, 1882. 4 =
New York, January l2.-All the stakes
in the wrestling match between Malsada
Zorakicha, Japanese champion, and Ed
ward Bibby, have been posted. The match
takes place Monday night next.
Petersburg. Va, January 12.-It has
showing at High Point, n. c., and vicinity
oil OF ,,nht
another storm, the ground being covered
to a depth OF ten to fifteen inches.
Philadelphia, January 12-The largest
iron ship ever built in this country was
launched to-day by the American Ship
Building Company. Commander Gorringe
christened the ship Clarence S. Bemut.
Pendleton, Or, January l2.-No out
break has vet occurred. The men are
holding meeting The citizens are do
ing their best to provide for the men who
are destitute. No serious disturbances
are anticipated.
Boston, January IA plot to burn the
Foster grammar school in Somerville was
prevented by the janitor extinguishing
the flames. Several hundred children
were in the building at the time. The
miscreant is unknown.
Youngstown, o., January IA petit
ton has been filed in the Common Pleas
Court by ID. p. Ecels, c. A. Oils, John Hay
and others, of Cleveland, making applica-
ton to dissolve the corporation of Brown,
Bronnell K Co., iron manufacturers.
Fall River, Mass, January PA re-
duciion of ten per cent in the wages OF the
nailers at the Mount Hope and Old Colony
Iron Works, Somerset, takes effect Tues
day. The nailers have agreed to strike
Monday if the reduction is insisted upon.
New Orleans, January 12.-The boiler
of the Arkansas press, belonging to d. p.
White & Co., exploded this morning, in
juring four men, including d. 2. White,
| one of the proprietors. Jerry White, col
ored, fireman, is believed to be fatally in
jured.
Boston, January l2.-The cutting of a
diamond found in South Africa, and be-
lieved to be the largest ever cut in this
country, has Just been completed. The
process occupied more than three months
After being cnt il weighs seventy-seven
carats.
New York, January l2.-Judge Barrett,
of the Supreme Court, granted decree of
divorce TO Mrs. Augusta Roche Cherrill,
the actress, from her husband, Roderick
L. Cherrill on the ground of desertion.
The plaintiff was awarded the custody of
tuSfI
Paterson, n. j., January ia general
strike of the silk weavers is expected
Monday, the union having decided to re-
sist the reduction. Some of the manufac-
turers say they don't intend TO reduce, but
the reduction goes into effect in the other
mills Monday.
Petersburg, January 12.-The Rev.
Robert 7. Kerr, pastor of the Tabb Street
Presbyterian church, has accepted call
TO the First Presbyterian church in Rich
mond. He had two other calls, one in
Missouri and one in Mississippi. He is
widely known in the West.
Galveston, January PA City Coun-
ell committee tonight appointed five
prominent citizens to visit Washington in
the interest of special appropriation by
Congress to secure deep-water entrance
to Galveston harbor on the basis of Capt.
Eads's proposition.
Boston, January l2.-0wing to fire In
the central Office of the New England
Telephone Company this morning. Boston
is entirely without telephone service, and
will remain so for a week or ten days.
Every connection with the 5000 instru-
ments in the city was destroyed.
Pittsburg, January l2.-The employees
of the Homestead Bessemer Steel Works,
which has been idle for some time, have
been notified that work will be resumed if
the reduction of eight to ten per cent is
accepted. The prospects ara that the men,
who number about 300, will not object.