Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-11-10
LATEST NEWS NOTES.

Several robberies have occurred at
Bristol recently.
Grippe has again made its appear
ance in New York.
A woman and her child were killed
by panther in Oklahoma.
Seattle and Tacomah, Wash, have
several cases of small pox.
Five thousand men OF different trades
are on strike in New Orleans.
Nashville sports are enjoying some
fine racing at West Side Park.
Coon Gaa murdered his wife and
committed suicide at Laporte, Ind.
Citizens of North Knoxville are
complaining of excessive taxation.
The Socialist labor party is preparing
to agitate the eight hour labor day.
Oscar Leap, white man, was killed
at Vevey, Ind, Saturday, by negroes.
A Weaver procession was rotten
egged at Topeka, Kan, Saturday night.
Anna Bramble, a $4,000 racing filly
belonging to ]. Levy, died Sunday at
Nashville.
t. NJ. Cranberry shot and killed r.
w. Sewer at Brownsville, Tenn, in
self.defense.
The National Line Steamer England,
eight days overdue at New York, is
given up for lost.
The British war ship Howe, which
recently stranded on Ferrol bar, is now
reported total loss
,, Two daughters of Gen. Booth have
been arrested and will be expelled from
the Salvation Army.
j. P. Lowe, travelling salesman for a
Nashville house, is in Jail for gambling
away the firm g money.
Mrs. Lilly Glover, last living grand
daughter of Andrew johnson, died
saturday at kn0xvllle.
Canadian cattle going into England
and Scotland will hereafter be slaugh-
tered at the port of entry.
Supreme Court in session at Knoxville
adjourned Saturday to give attorneys
time to go home to vote.
Four men were found in camp in
Alaska with their heads cut off, proba-
bly, murdered by Indians.
Ex-President Hayes will deliver the
address at the dedication of the Ohio
memorial at the Worlds Fair.
Eight vessels have been lost and the
crews of three drowned during recent
severe storms on the Black Sea.
A dispatch says that the Egyptian
cotton crop will exceed 459, 100000
pounds. beating all previous records.
Two babies were born in the EsQui-
maux camp at the World g Fair grounds
last week; one was named Columbia.
Jack McAuliff will fight Burge, the
English lightweight, for a purse of
$4,000 before the Crescent City Club.
The whale ship Helen Mac was
crushed by an iceberg in the Arctic
Sea and thirty-fve of the crew killed.
Students at Springfield, O., nearly
killed W. G. Prigley; shaved his head,
tied him to a rail and threw him in
creek.
Sioux Indians from the Pine Ridge
Agency are buying their supplies from
distant railroad stores and refuse to
trade at the agency.
B. F. Hood and Sam Ferriss, boys
about 17-years old, quarreled in a
saloon at Nashville and Hood was pro-
badly fatally stabbed.
A syndicate has purchased 100000
acres of mineral lands south of Chat
tanooga, including Rising Fawn fur
naces, and will developit.
Mrs. Frank Cleveland, of Summer
field. o., while spanking her boy ran
lead pencil through her hand, and will
likely die from blood poison.
Holman Ray, colored brakeman,
was killed in freight wreck on the
Cumberland Gap and Louisville road
near Powell S river on Sunday.
The exhibitors of electrical applian-
ces at the Worlds Fair are kicking be-
cause of the decision TO close at p. M,
and the matter will be reconsidered.
The Russian iron-clad cruiser Ruvick
has Just been launched. She is 435
feet long, of 1898 tons burden, and
her engines are of 1880 horse power.
Mrs. Belle Bryant stood on the Nash
vile railroad track near Chattanooga
last Sunday and calmly waited until
a passenger train knocked her off and
killed her.
The Tolbert gang in Kemper county,
Mo-, are again on the war-path. In
the last fight John Tolbert and one
member of the sheriff's posse, Thomas
Cole, were killed.
The union workmen in the employ
of Hon. II. Clay Evans, Chattanooga,
are indignant over the campaign lie
that he is opposed to union labor. They
say he employs more union men than
any other man in Chattanooga, and
that every mechanic in his big car