The state chronicle., 1892-12-18
TELEGRAPHIC RREVITIES.

ieaVes WIDOW and three children.
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.-The supreme
court to day decided the apportionment
law is constitutional and reverses the de
cision of the lower court, which held the !
law unconstitutional.
RICHMOND. Va DR.. W. Lee Burton. |
popular and well known dentist, died !
this morning He WAS an inventor Of
the Burton electric heater, used for
cooking and street car purposes.
SAVANNAH, Ga. L. STRIPPING shot
and killed negro barber at Vedalla.
Montgomery county, yesterday. The
barber had knocked Stripping down and
was about to nit him with piece of
timber when STRIPPING fired the fatal
shot
BRooKIYN-The Brooklyn tabernacle.
Rev. Dewitt Talmage pastor, has been
seized by the sheriff to satisfy judgment
Of 81, t04 So, obtained against the church
by Alfred R. Dong, a. decorator and
painter, for work done in the construc
ton Of the tabernacle.
l.
Cooley trials to day acquitted Lutte
Cooley, father Of the two dead outlaws.
The rest of the family-mother, two
daughters and son were also acquitted
on the charge of larceny, but were con-
victed of receiving stolen goods.
LEXINGTON, N. C.-The day was
cloudy and misty. The birds were plen
! tiful and were found in the edges of the
fields Third series: Lora with Orlando
| Orlando won first: Lora second, Rip r .,
! third This en0s the central field trlats
Red Irish setter trials commence Moaduy
next.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala A special from
Huntsville Is Tie age Herald ssys; 4
Wolfe ana Mrs NJ A Earle, profession
al forgers of bank drafts. are under ar
rest there and everything points to their
bring the same parties who figured in
Knoxville two days ago. with man
named Hoyt and in Facrma, in October
RICHMOND, Va-At the inquest over
the bodies of james Mills and Judson
Wilkinson, the coroner's jury, at la.e
hour Thursday night, returned a verdict
holding Nicholas responsible. The yer
|
Judson Wilkinson came to their deaths
by drowning, the result of auger holes
bored 10 the boat by Philip Nicholas"
BlRM!NGHAM, Ala. Wiley Pratt
was convicted Of murder at Centervillt
today and sentenced to the penitenti
AIRY for life. He assassina,ed Sheriff
Jones, of Louisiana, several years age
vile the sheriff vas at the depot i,
Bibb county, with prisonsr whom
hs was carrying home on requisitior
papers.
ATLANTA, Ga.-A sensational i'm
parchment trial, which has been going
on before the legislative committee, cam,
to IN end yesterday and resulted in al
exonerati0n and endorsement of JuG y
George Gober, of Blue Ridge circuit b.
showed that Judge Gober had in n,
res )ect ac.ed beyond his legal rights, a
charged. and it was evident that til
charges were brought through malice.
BROOKLYN n. IA portion .
, Arnoid's stores at the foot Of Twenty
> seventh street was destroyed By fire thi
, morning A dozen firemen lad mar
. row escape from being crushed under
falling wall Several of til, N. however
. were injured, but only one, as far 8
/ known, was seriously hurt. At leas
/ 5, 600 bales of cotton ard an immens
quantity of bales of bagging and ju'
q were stored IN the building. The loss
about 1850, 900; insurance unknown.
:. CHARLOTTE, n C.-Julge Speer h;
! granted the demand of the operators al
ordered Nr Conner to appear at court o
:, Dec 22d to explain why he discrimin
ted against Order Of Railway Condut
IS tors Order of Railway Telegrapher
It Brotherhood Of Locomotive EngiDee
's and Brotherhood Of Locomotive Fir
. men He turned all the operators loo
IT that were under arrest and ordered the
e re instattd It is reported that Wadl,
has resigned.
>. BRISTOL, Tenn. While Irwin Robert
, the alleged murderer of Landon Cros
a white was being conducted by The Of
IS GERS through Shady valley yesterday e
n route to the johnson county Jail his ca
q tors were overpowered by a mob ar
= the prisoner hanged to the limp OF
ii tree Roberts declared ne was ianoce
r of the crime, but the mob would net j
~ ten to him. Crosswhite was az az
y. and highly respected citizen who V
i shot from ambush while riding along I
70 public road. Circumstances point
i, strongly to Roberts as the assassin.
ne PARIS M. Charles dLesseps aud
es fellow associate, arrested for connecti
he with the Panama canal frauds, protest
'st to day against the rigid seciusion
lis which they are subjected in the Ma
ed prison. They said they we're coufr
10 like common criminals and subjected
h the same treatment as robbers and OF
N offenders of the vilest type, and they
manded the privilege of being allo wed
see visitors. The examining magistr
u promised to consider the request after
c.. had examined the documents relstin Q
da their case. 1t is rumored that several Of
er- parliamentary reporters will be arres
gh as agents in the corruption of the legi
led tors and several of these reporters
to are already under surveillance by the
for thorties. NJ. Laur, whose residence
| is searched by the police to day, is at p
ent in America.