Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-12-08
LATEST NEWS NOTES.
Important Happenings In Tennessee and
Elsewhere.

! A $4,000 livery stable fire occurre
! at Clarksville, Tenn, Friday.
At New York the Health Board re
ports that typhus fever has broken ou
again.
o. G. Benjamin has opened and /
operating new basket factory at Chat
tanooga.
A stock company has been formed {,
erect large Touring mill at Kings
port, Tenn.
W. B. Rose has put in machinery TO
first class handle factory at Kings
port, Tenn.
DR.. Scott, the Presidents father il
law, was buried at Washington, Pa
last Friday.
Chattanooga felt strong earthquak,
last Friday morning at 8 O'Clock. Nc
damage reported.
Chattanooga and Nashville police are
in quite a muddle over the identified.
ton of some stolen diamonds.
Mrs. A. R. Morrow was burned ia
death near Clarksville, Tennessee, by
her dress catching on fire from the
CRATE.
The fourth murder in three months
has just been reported among consruc-
ton hands near Owensburgh, Ky.
Booze.
Mrs. Vohath held her husband while
Mrs. Wasson publicly horsewhipped
him for slandering her at Independence
Missouri.
The State Legislature will meet the
first Monday in January. The election
of U. s. Senator will occur about the
fifteenth.
Congressman Mcmillan, of this State,
says that the people are entitled to an
extra session of Congress to right the
evils they have voted against.
The bears made a general move on
stocks when Jay Gould 8 serious illness
was announced, and all speculative
stocks went down perceptibly.
A telegram from Brussels says that
the monetary congress committee has
reported favorably on the Rothchilds'
plan for an international standard for
silver.
The statement of the Norfolk & West
ern Railroad for the month of October,
1892, shows gross earnings of $942, 1857;
expenses $615,511, leaving net earnings
of $326,S56.
Oliver. B. Heidi, president of the
Heidi Lumber Co., at Birmingham,
Ala, was found on the floor of his Of
flee with a bullet hole through his head
Friday last. Suicide.
The sisters of the convent of Notre
Dame, Baltimore, are in state of
great fear because of the constant ring
ing of the bell by invisible hands. No
body has been able to sop it.
In Blountville circuit court last week
Will Richards, of Knoxville, was &C.
quilted of numbering Jack Overstreet
and setting fire to the street car stables.
George Denny is now held for the
Dan Ratcliff was instantly killed and
Jack West probably fatally wounded
in drunken row at Knoxville on last
morning by William Cagley,
alias "Calico Bill" All were young
white men.
At Wins on, N. c., a Norfolk & West
ern trestle collapsed with an engine and
six freight cars, falling forty feet. En-
gineer Phil Nay and Fireman Eget were
injured, but not seriously. The trestle
is being repaired. rar
James. ]. Barnard, an employe of the
Nashville, Chattanooga and st. Louis
railway, was instantly killed in Nash
vile at the new shops of the company
last Friday by being caught beneath a
pile of falling lumber.
The union molders in the Wasson car
works at Chattanooga have struck
against an order requiring them to work
only eight hours day, which order
was made to save expenses of lighting
the works in the evening and to keep
from reducing the force.
The Democrats of Morristown held a
convention on Thursday last and nomi-
mated the following candidates for city
officers: James A. Carriger for mayor;
and Robert Mcfarland, R. F. Taylor,
a. II. Legg, w. ID. Hodge, w. A. Jones
and g. A. Rowe to serve on the board
Of Aldermen.
The United States Railway Men of
America, laboring organization that
may prove to be one of the most pow
erful of the time, has just been born.
Its headquarters are in Chicago. and it
will include members of the United
States, Canada and Mexico. It will
have for its object the maintenance of
wages and the redress of grievances.
Joe Luttrell, young man about 1S
years old, committed suicide at Norris
town Saturday night. He had been
drinking heavily for several days and
had become respondent. About eight
D clock he secured ter grains of NOR