Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-12-01
ST A YEAR In ADVANCE.
LATEST NEWS NOTES.
Important Happenings In Tennessee and
Elsewhere.

SENATOR Colqultt is recovering from
stroke of paralysis.
The father of Gov. Mckinley died al
Canton, Ohio, last week.
Trinity church, Hampton, Va, has
been badly injured by fire.
The International Monetary Confer.
ence is in session at Brussels.
A few of the Homestead strikers have
gotten work at the Carnegie mills.
A negro named Nathan White was
lynched at Rock Hill, S. c., for burn
ing barn.
A young man named Fred Smith was
arrested for swindling people by chang
ing money.
All the large cotton mills at Augusta,
Ca, have advanced the price of their
brown goods.
Gen. Rosecrans has improved in
hea! tn and will return to his duties at
Washington.
A Ajockey at Chicago used an electric
battery connected with his spurs to
urge his horse along.
The silver jubilee of the Confederate
Home in Charleston, s. c., was cele-
brated last Friday night.
Elgee Allen was shot and killed by
Jesse Price at Alexandria, La, in a
quarrel over six ears of corn.
Mrs. Lease may be elected to the q.
5. Senate. She was once a dispenser
OF beer to the thirsty Kansans.
The report sent out that the Harri-
man Land Company is insolvent is not
true. The company is all right.
Speaker Crisp says that the new Con-
gress will do its duty in reducing the
tariff and without unnecessary delay.
st. Louis is in the clutches of a ty-
phoid fever epidemic. Physicians say
1t is the forerunner of cholera for next
year.
The Fifth district of Loudon county
is excited over phantom soldier in a
gray uniform stalking along the coun-
try roads.
John A. Thompson, one of the Oldest
citizens of Knoxville, died at the resi-
dence of his son, Mayor NJ. E. Thomp-
son, Friday.
Two children of j. X. whorley, of
Washington county, Va, were burned
to death where the men were killing
hogs this week.
1t is feared that the bark Platina,
with Capt. James Lawrence, of Phila-
delphia, and a crew of thirteen men,
has been lost.
Sidney E. Wortham, agent for the E.
I. V. & G. railroad at Jellico, was shot
and killed by tough named Jack Jo-
mas, last week.
Judge McMullen, of Lancaster, Pa,
has instructed the grand jury to indict
all persons known to have made wagers
on the-election.
William Binder, book keeper for the
Leidersdorf Tobacco Company, shot
and killed his wife, his seven year old
daughter and himself.
George Dawson, an engineer at South
Pittsburg in this State, was murdered
and robbed on the railroad track by
three negroes Friday night,
The Angler Dry Goods Company, of
Chattanooga, has made an assignment
to A. o. Kelley. Liabilities about $4O,-
900; will pay dollar for dollar.
A party of Hungarian railroad labor
ers, angered at their boss, locked him
in tool box and built a fire against
it. He was rescued by teamsters.
BERTHE Kearney, who was kidnapped
from Montreal seven years ago, was re-
Gently found in New York selling pa
pers. She is now twelve years old.
At the funeral of Joshua Summers,
a pioneer of Brown City, Michigan,
the horses Runaway with the hearse
and the coffin was dumped into ditch,
bursted open and the body mutilated.
A livery stable at Winchester, this
State, burned Saturday with sixteen
head of horses and number of vehi-
cles. The post Office was also burned
with all the mail.
The three negroes, Woodlea, Turner
and Collins, who murdered the old
man at South Pittsburg, are in Jail at
Chattanooga to prevent lynching. They
confessed the murder.
Sylvester Critchlow, charged with
murder in connection with the Home
stead trouble, was acquitted, but will
be held on the charge of riot. He will
probably be released on bail.
A scandal has been created in Bir-
mingham female school by one of the
pupils charging President Bass with
attempting to enter her room at night
for improper purposes. The Doctor
was exonerated by the investigation.
Jerry Constantine, hotel keeper at
Sparta, KY, shot and killed Henry
Roberts on Thanksgiving day. Con-
stantine had loaned Roberts $40 with
the understanding that if the money
was not returned on that day his life
should pay the forfeit.
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