The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1890-08-29

New York, has been robbed OF
$4,000 by bookkeeper George Will
liam Curtis. Curtis fed, but was
captured and has made confes-
sion.
A fire broke out in the store of
the Wright Paint q Oil Company,
at Memphis, Tenn, last Friday
afternoon, damaging the building
81, 800 and totally destroyed $4,000
worth of stock.
The famous libel suit Of William
Dudley against the New York
Times for publishing the "blocks
of five" letter during the late Pres
idential campaign has been discon-
tinued by Dudley.
The British war ship Buzzard
arrived at Halifax, N. B., Sunday
from Jamaica with yellow fever on
board. There we're nineteen cases
on board at one time. and one of
the victims died at Port Royal and
was buried there.
Mississippi negroes are mani
Testing a desire to emigrate to Ok
lahoma. Great excitement exists
among the ignorant classes, and a
committee has been appointed to
90 out to Oklahoma and report the
prospects Of that country.
The Grand Army of the Repub-
| licwhilein session at Boston, Mass,
recently passed resolution re-
questing Congress to pass a law
prohibiting, under penalty of Sc
we're punishment, the treasuring or
display Of Confederate flags.
Chicago now ranks as the sec
ond city in population in the Uni
| ted States, the official count of the
census bureau shows her popula-
ton to be 1908, 1856, an increase Of
595,391 in ten years, and an excess
Of 1862 over Philadelphia.
Frank M. Allen, receiving and
paying teller of the Capital City
Bank, of Nashville, Tenn, is short
in his accounts to the amount of
$4,000. He speculated in stocks.
He is under arrest, bat his relatives
viii probably make thedefcit good.
Win Bryant and VIII Britton,
of Denmark, Tenn, both colored,
became involved in a QUARREL over
a pair Of suspenders last week, and
the latter struck the former with
stick producing injuries which
caused his death. Bryantisalarge
John Tinsley, a colored man who
| remembers Washington and knew
Hancock and Hopkins two of the
signers Of the Declaration of In
: dependence, lives in Toronto, Ont,
at the age of one hundred and
! seven years. He formerly lived at
) Richmond, Va.
Officers CASTOR and Mullins, at
Jackson, Tenn, raided big crap
game last Saturday night and cap
s tured twelve players, about thirty
escaping. They stampeded like a
drove of Texas cattle, going through
doors, windows, and every possible
. avenue Of escape.
e Last week while three little ne
t gro children were at play on pile
Of lumber, in the lumber yard of
w. b. Eartham & Co., at Murfrees-
!, boro, Tenn, four pieces of lumber
9 weighing 900 pounds were thrown
: ON them breaking a leg each of two
of them and injuring the other in
ternally.
;, Captain Gather, of the company
which is protecting Judge Lilly's
, court at Hazard, Perry County, Ky.
> reports that Joe Davidson, leader
Of the French faction in the Evers-
3 loe-F French feud, has been captur.
/ ed. Davidson is the worst desper.
: ado of all, and his capture has
u struck terror into the lawless bands
Last Sunday was the seventy
q sixth anniversary of the capture Of
u Washington by the British forces
7 under command of General Ross
. and Monday the day was celebra
l. ted in that city by grand demon
r stration in honor of the new bridg,
4 recently constructed to take th
, place of a much inferior one de
) stroyed by the enemy August "a
e. 1914.
n A disease somewhat similar t
he hux is having deadly effect i
to Weakly County, Tenn. The famil