Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-06-27
Nuggets of General News.

mug cnolerd Is raVaglnS the swine
herds OF Iowa.
The Florence (Ala.) National Bank
failed last Monday.
Much damage to crops in MINES
sofa is feared from grasshoppers.
A slight earthquake shock was felt
at Charleston, S. c., about noon last
Tuesday.
The Alabama Press Association
held its annual meeting at Admission
this week.
The Democratic State Convention
of Ohio will be held July 18th and
18th.
The price of silver bullion has. been
steadily advancing for the last few
weeks.
Seven negroes, members ola picnic
party, were drowned near Baltimore
Saturday night.
a construction train was wrecked
and four men killed near Richmond,
KY, last Monday.
An insane mother drowned three
Of her children in lake in Wiscon-
sin last Monday.
Another large cotton factory is to
be built at Huntsville, Ala, making
the third one for that city.
A fast train on the Illinois Central
road was wrecked near New Orleans
last Friday, killing six persons.
Ex-senator Jos. f. Mcdonald, OF
Indiana, died at his home in Indian,
apolis last Sunday night.
Hon. Benton McMillin will speak
before the Tammany Hall Democrats
in New York at their Fourth of July
celebration.
The Indiana Supreme Court has
declared constitutional the recent
law forbidding the piping of gas out
side of the state.
The Democratic State convention
of Iowa last Wednesday nominated
Hon. Horace Boise for second tern
as Governor.
Future elections in Illinois will bt
held under the Australian ballot sys
tenn, the Governor having affixed hi
signature to the law.
Brig. Gen. Albert Blanchard dice
at his home in New Orleans a few
days ago. He was a classmate 0
Lee and Johnson at West Point.
Arrangements are nearly complet
ed to resume work on the Charleston
Cincinnati & Chicago Railroad, which
passes through East Tennessee, at al
early date.
At meeting of officers of the New
York State Farmers League, held a
Albany last Tuesday, the third part.
movement was unanimously dc
nounced.
An excursion train was Wrecke
near Cleveland, O., last Sunday after
noon, resulting in one killed and fol
ty injured, ten or twelve of whom
thought will die.
About fifty passenger and freigf
conductors on the Illinois CentrI
Railroad have been discharged will
out any cause being assigned by tn
: company.
The expense tG the State of Penn
sylvania in bringing out the militar
= tosuppress the late riots in the coal r
gions of that State, was somethin
l over $4,000.
1 The steamship, City of Richmon'
: recently crossed the Atlantic ar
9 landed its passengers safely in Live
s pool, with fire raging among 81
!, hundred bales of cotton in its hold
il great part of the wsy.
s A balloon being inflated at st. ?
q tersburg last Sunday, escaped fro
y those who were holding 1t, and ca
e ried four men up in the car. Wh'
n it had risen to a great height the bs
r loon bursted, and the men fell to t
n ground, being crushed almost beyol
y recognition.
The town of Cherokee, Iowa, sufft
5, ed disaster similar tosthe Johnst
> flood on Wednesday, though on
a smaller scale. A tremendous rise
"a the Sioux river carried off seven
II houses and a number of bridg
at There was a general devastati
t. throughout Northwestern Iowa frC
'e the floods in many streams.
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