The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-08-08
GENERAL NEWS.

Three conyicts from Gibson
County, Tenn, were received at
the State prison last week,
Cholera is epidemic in Mecca,
There have been thirteen cases,
seven of which have been fatal.
Rev. Lee Harris, the well-known
cowboy evangelist, is holding re-
vivalmeetingsatB Bell Buckle, Tenn,
The city clerk of Paris, Ill, is
said to be short from $4,000 to
$4,000 in his accounts, and has
fled.
Mr. S. G. Freeman, former edit
or of the Dickson, Tenn, } Dem
crat, died at that place, of pneu-
monia, July 25.
The Irish member of parliament,
William O'Brien, will lecture in
this country this fall in the interest
of the Irish cause.
There is a womanat Sedalia, No,
who becomes thoroughly charged
with electricity every time she rides
on the electric cars.
The Tennessee Range Company,
which recently removed its plant
from Nashville to Evansville, Ind,
has made an assignment.
VIII Vinson, of Bon Air, Tenn,
was seriously if not fatally injured
by falling from a moving passen-
ger train at Dickson last week.
Tom Hensley has been sentenced
to one year in the penitentiary for
shooting John Murphy, near Per-
ryville, Tenn, a few weeks since.
A white man, named A. w. Caw-
thorn, was arrested and placed in
jail at McMinnville, Tenn, Friday
evening chargedwith barn burning
The body of Richard Payne, who
was drowned July 30, at Harris
vile, Tenn, was recovered after
expending twenty-one dynamite
cartridges.
Stephen King, timer, fell from
the roof Of a building at Jackson
Tenn, Saturday, and broke his left
thigh in two places, and is seri
ously hurt.
Drs. J. w. Mccall, w, NJ. Wright
and j. B. Cox, of Huntingdon, have
been appointed a medical examin
ing board for the examination o
pensioners.
The House Committee of Post
Offices and Post-Roads authorized
Chairman Bingham to report fa
vorably, without amendment, th,
Fry postal subsidy bill.
The police Of Chicago made
raid upon the gambling-house op
Grated by John Condor last Satur
day, and destroyed over $3,00l
worth of gambling outfits.
Four hundred of the Armenian
who took part in the riotous dem
onstrations against the patriarcl
in the Armenian cathedral at Con
stantinople Sunday have been al
rested.
An explosion Of Gre-damp oc
Cured in the Pellisir coal mine a
st. Eteinne, France, causing tn
death of over one hundred miners
About fifty others were terribl
burned.
Thirty-nine people, two Of who1
were females and twelve colore(
participated in the civil service e2
animation at Chattanooga, Tenn
Saturday. Their work was fairl
satisfactory to the examiners.
The house of Joseph Hutto,
farmer living in a sparsely settle
section of the country, near PLAIN
view, Neb., was burned on Wednei
day of last week. A four-year-ol
daughter perished in the flames.
The dwelling house with all i
contents, belonging to Mart. Kel
dial, near Mount Lebanon, Decatr
County, was burned last weel
None of the family were at hon
! at the time and the origin Of I'll
fire is mystery.
Capt. w. B. Vancleave, ex-count
superintendent of Henry Count
> Tenn, has withdrawn from the rac
) for representative in that count
! owing to sickness in his famil
| This leaves the race to Hurt, A
derson, Miller, and Cook.