Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-11-24

The strike at Homestead, Pa, has
been declared off by the Amalgamated
Association.
Humphreys county will make a poor
yield of peanuts this season, but the
quality is excellent.
Adlai Stevenson will attend the
opening of Atlanta's new Commercial
Club on December 20.
Coal Oil Inspector McRae, of Chat
tanooga, will be Turney's successor on
the State supreme bench.
Tammany Hall has decided to send
5000 braves from New York to the in
auguration of Cleveland.
The Supreme Court has decided that
pool rooms could not be run in the
State except on race tracks.
VIM. Cleveland, a cousin of the Pres
ident-elect, died at Jacksonville, Ind,
Friday. He was a Republican.
General Delk, white, killed Tom
Evans, colored, in the Jail at Atlanta
with a knife. Both were prisoners.
The telegraphers on the Cincinnati
Southern railway are about to adjust
their wage question without a strike.
Seventeen persons at Columbus, o.,
went through all the horrors of poison
ing from eating corned beef. None died.
Ten men at Centralia, Pa, are closed
in a coal mine, and it is feared they
will perish before they can be rescued.
O%ne-third of the workmen in the Pho
neer Knitting Mills at Plymouth, Pa,
have been discharged for lack of orders.
Mrs. Missouri Eliod, a widow with
two children. committed suicide in
Nashville Saturday on account of her
poverty.
The Cheyennes and Arapahoes are
engaged in a ghost dance. 1t is thought
5000 of them will be on the war path
by January 1.
Three hundred representative color
ed men met in Atlanta and resolved to
ask the Legislature to right the wrongs
inflicted upon their race.
A bill has been introduced in the
Georgia Legislature authorizes the is
suance of State bank money as soon as
Congress takes off the tax.
A wine dealer named Voight, from
Mainz, Germany, was detected snug
Cling diamonds into New York and
had his sparklers confiscated.
r. A. Bancroft, prominent citizen of
Brownsville, was terribly mangled by
the premature explosion of a cannon
at a Democratic celebration,
The cotton steamer Rosa Lea burned
at Memphis Saturday, with $40 bales of
cotton. Loss 1926, 900. Four of the
crew are thought to be burned.
Gen. Rosecrans, Register of the
Treasury, is getting worse, his hands
being now useless from paralysis. He
has been taken to Fortress Monroe.
A. L. Stone and VIM. Cox were en-
gagged in a quarrel at New Tazewell,
Tenn, when Frances Mantz, an elderly
citizen, attempted to make peace; Stone
drew a pistol and killed MANI.
During a Democratic celebi alton at
Decatur, Ala, Saturday, a s~ky-rocket
exploded p%rematurely and pierced the
eye of a beautiful young lady, killing
her and ending the celebration.
The Remington Typewriter Co. has
just paid $4,000 for the first coined
half dollar of the Worlds Fair souve-
mir coins. The limited coinage is ex-
pected to become very valuable.
The sentence of James Hickey to a
term of seventeen years in the State
penitentiary for the killing of Novella
Crumley at johnson City has bcen af-
frmed by the Supreme Court at Knox
vile.
The boiling members of the Peoples
Party Convention at Memphis have
formed The Industrial Legion of the
United States. They declare for the
Omaha platform of the Peoples Party,
free speech, free ballot and a fair count.
A pension clerk named Carraway
was arrested while trying to cash a
note at a Washington bank with James
G. Blaine's name forged to it. Cara
way formerly published the Messy
Greek Visi tor and after the election
of Bob Taylor became a Republican.
The Bristol Courier, speaking of the
lumber trade in East Tennessee and
Virginia, says: There are few if any
men who are better posted as to the
European lumber market than Z. S.