The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-11-02
THE SOuTH.

THE Board of Health of Columbus, Ca,
has raised the quarantine against all
points,
J. NJ. WILSON, county and State tax col
lector of Atlanta, Ga, has been sus-
pended. He is short in his accounts so,
OGO
ORTIZ H. STEIN, a notorious newspaper
crook, formerly of Kansas City, has sue
ceeded in passing bogus check for $3.50 at
Baltimore, Md.
THEODORE E. GoBELL and anegro, Tom
Peak, have been arrested at Chattanooga,
Tenn, for setting fire to an unoccupied
house which was heavily insured.
THE passenger depot and dining hall of
the Santa Fe railway at Temple, Tex, has
been destroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000; in
sured.
DIR. NEIL MITCHELL reported thirty one
cases of yellow fever at Jacksonville on
the oath. There were four deaths. OF the
new cases twelve were white and nineteen
colored. Total cases, 1908; total deaths,
337.
THE steamer Phil Armour sank at VIII
sons Landing, a short distance above
Vicksburg, Miss, recently. She was en-
gagged in the Vicksburg and Greenville
trade.
THE four small children of Joseph Whit
aker, colored, were burned to death re-
Gently at Blackshear Ca, while their par
ents were away from home.
ALL the keno rooms in New Orleans
have been closed and the proprietOrs ar
rested. The faro games have not been in
terfered with.
THE price paid for the Georgia Central
road by the Richmond Terminal is said to
have been SS, ,OO0,O09 O
AT the meeting of the Brotherhood of
! Locomotive Engineers at Richmond, Va,
p. NJ. Arthur was re-elected chief and AIr
mgraham secretary of the Insurance order
of the brotherhood. G. d. Doherty, of
Massachusetts, was elected grand chaplain,
and w. II. Hesky, of Bloomington, H.,
grand guide. 1868 sE8
COLLECTOR MAGoFFIN, of FL Paso, Tex,
finds considerable difficulty with his small
force in keeping out Chinese seeking en-
trance into the United States by way Of
Mexico, ..
THREE negro murderers who We're to
have been hanged at Arkadelphia, Ark,
on the 26th, have been granted a respite to
allow the State Supreme Court to review
the case.
THE night watchman at Platt & Co.'s
packing house, Baltimore, Nd, was bu. ued
to death the other morning and $4,000
damage done by fire.
SURGEON PoRTER reports to the Marine
Hospital Bureau from 5JacksoRviue, Fla,
/ that there are mine cases of yellow fever
at Enterprise, Ffa., SIX of wlfich are crit
/ ical, and that DR.. Long is the only ply
/ scian there. He adds that DIR. Posey VIII
/ go to Enterprise.
| News has been received from Columbus,
/ Polk County,N. c. whichis in themount-
/ aims away from railroad aid teles aph
! Communication, that q riot occurred there
recently between Republicans and Demo
/ Gratis, after rival political meetings, in
which man named Brown was danger
/ ously shot Many others of both parties
were wounded and battered up.
/ HUGH BLACKMAN, a negro, was hanged
/ at Toledo, Ark, on the Goth for killing
/ another negro over a game of craps.
ALARGE steam gin house together with
/ forty bales of cotton ana loto seed, be-
! longing TO Frank g. Co, on the CovinRton
/ plantation, near Greenville, Miss, was
/ burned recently.
| WILLIAM T. HAMILTON, Ex-Governor and
/ ex-United States Senator, died of pneu-
monia at Hagerstown, Md, recently.
THE engineer and a passenger were IA
/ tally and two other men badly injured by
| the wrecking of q passenger train neal
| Paris, Ky, the other day.
THE more prominent members of the
lutte bagging trust have been indicted by
/ the grand jury of Shelby County, Tenn,
! for conspiracy.