The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-03-07
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! his commission.
AT Savannah, Ga, competition between
two gas companies resulted in reduction
to fifty cents per 1000 feet.
| FRANK STEELE and Joe Ritchie, two
farmers, living near Chattanooga, Tenn,
drowned while attempting to cross Chica-
mauga Creek.
+ THE ownership of the Enterprise Coal
mine, of Kanawha County, w. Va, is in
controversy.
DANIEL O'NEIL, who assaulted his coun-
sci at Baltimore because he declared him
a monomaniac on the subject of Ireland
and dynamite, is declared insane, and will
be sent to an asylum. u
THE other evening General G. w. Lowry,
Principal of the Blue Mountain Female
College, of Blue Mountain, Miss, went with
a party of young lady excursionists to
purchase tickets at Mddletown, Ala, for
New Orleans. After buying tickets he
from heart disease. He was prominent
General in the Confederate army.
CHARLES BARTH was buried at Cherry
Run, east of Petersburg, Va. The ground
was frozen very hard and it was found
necessary to use a pick to loosen the earth
| to fill the grave. James AtchesoD was do
ling so. A man named Adams was shovel
ing dirt into the grave. Adams slipped and
fell just as the pick came down. Adams
was struck in the head The pick penetrate
ed his skull and the unfortunate man died
in an hour .... ..... ..t..
Two Mormon missionaries, laboring in
jackson County, Tenn, took hint from a
horse-whipping and decamped. Il
/ AT Rome, Ga, Mrs. Carrie Thompson
made an abortive attempt on the life OF
John Vandvir accused betrayer of her
sister.
PETER FRANKLIN, colored, while stand
ing beside the track of the South western
Railroad, near Georgetown and about
five miles from Eufa]a, Ala, was fired at
three times by an unknown party on a
passing freight train, one shot taking effect
in his knee, which brought him to the
ground, when he crawled off into the
woods. He has no idea who the wouldbe
murderer is.
A DAMAGE suit for 100000 was entered
in the Circuit Court at Wheeling, w. Va,
against Kasley & Brooks, prominent coal
operators, by the administrator of Chas.
May, who was killed in April, 1888, while
driving a qeavy truck belonging to the
firm down steep hill to where he had
been ordered to go.
l. A. NJ. TANNER, carpenter, aged thirty
four, was out hunting the other morning
near Clinton, Tenn. After firing one shot
at a squirrel, he set the shotgun down by
his side. 1t was discharged, setting his
clothes on fire and blowing off the LETT side
of his head, causing instant death.
A RATHER singular incident occurred in
st. Francis Bottom, Ark, lately. In cross
ing Tyronza River on a mule the rider a
negro, fell off and was drowned. The mule
came safely to the shore and was taken
possession of by the Squire. The river
dragged the negro's body was found and on
it pistol. He had been dead three days, ,but
the Squire fined him $50 and costs for car
rying concealed weapons, and confscated
mule and pistol to pay the same.
The North Carolina Senate has passed a
bill prohibiting, under heavy penalty Of
fine and Imprisonment, the importation
and sale in the State of obscene pictures or
literature of any kind. The bill having
previously passed the House, it is now a
law. Under its operations several illus
trated papers will be debarred from circu-
lation.
BOILER of Carroll & Co.'s lumber
mills, keuntz, Tex, exploded, killing two
persons and injurng fifteen others, six of
whom, it is believed, can not survive.
DELsEN HERPIN, a farmer, living in the
Southern portion of Lafayette Parish, La,
was assassinated in bed.
AT Cumberland, Md, Edward Burke,
aged twenty lone, plumber, from Cleve-
land, Ohio, was killed by an express on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
THos. BULLITT HARRISON, of Baltimore,
committed suicide by cutting his throat,
because of the loss of his money in cotton
speculation.
LIEUTENANT E. W. REMEy, executive of
ficer of the U. S. training ship Portsmouth,
is mysterously missing from his vessel,
now lying at Norfolk, Va.
KoYLE, SHAFFE & Co., of Minden, La.
assigned, with $4,000 assets and $114,0OO
liabilities. They propose to settle in full IL
granted one, two and three years time on
their notes.
Rev. JOHN SPENCER, colored, recently
sentenced to six months in Jail at Peters,
burg, Va, for burglary, received an addi-
tional sentence of thirty days in Jail on the
charge of stealing Bible and hymn-book
from Mount Hope Church.
AT Gonzales, Tex, Jack Turner and Jerry
Davidson, both coored, became engaged
in quarrel over Davidson's wife, of whom
the husband was jealous. Both were en-
gagged in getting out cord-wood, and they
attacked each other with axes Davidson
had his arm cut and head split open, and
cannot live. Turner was cut on the hip and
arm, and struck in the side.
THE steamer America, with a cargo OF
sugar, foundered near Jupiter Inlet Fla
Cargo and vessel were lost; crew saved.
THERE have been reports for some tins
past of great distress in portions of the
counties of Lewis, Braxton, Calhoun and
} Gilmer, W.. Va. The distress has beer
! caused by crops being ruined last sumnfe,
! by drought and the unusual severity of the
present winter. Whole neighborhoods oi
people, not to speak of live stock, hav,
actually famished for want of proper food
large amount of stock of all kinds have
died. The Legislature has taken means tc
relieve the sufferers.
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