Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-11-17
Important Happenings in Tennessee and
Elsewhere.

Chief Justice A. S. Merriman, o.
North Carolina, died Monday.
Capt. E. d. Densmore, doorkeeper a
the White House, died Sunday.
Fire destroyed the principal business
block of Winston, N. c.; loss $4,000.
There is a recruiting station of the
United States Army at Greeneville now
Lizzie Rautt, eight year old child, was
burned to death at Tullahoma Satur'
day.
The National convention of the
Farmers Alliance is in session at Mem.
phis.
William Graham, aged So, dropped
dead ut the breakfast table in Knox
vile Monday.
Chas. Pallard, of Mobile, has been
appointed receiver of the Mobile and
Girard railroad.
The Bristol, Elizabethton and North
Carolina railroad begun running regu-
lar trains Monday.
Telegraphers on the Queen and Cres-
cent railroad may strike if not granted
an increase of pay.
Steamship England, sixteen days
overdue, has arrived at New York with
machinery disabled.
Willie Long stabbed Sam Bateman
through the wrist in a school bov quar-
rel at Bristol Monday.
President elect Cleveland will be
banqueted by the New York Reform
Club on December 3.
Gen. Weaver says the Peoples party
has come to stay and claims that his
party carried Alabama.
There is dangerous revolution in
Paraguay. English and French resi-
dents have been attacked.
President Harrison and Secretary
Tracy will form a partnership and
practice law in New York.
Rev. j. R. Moffet, Prohibition leader
at Danville, Va, who was shot by j. T.
Clark over politics has died.
Mary Reedy, aged 10, was found dead
in the back room of saloon in Chat
tanooga Friday-cause unknown.
Jesse Sykes, farmer near Newport,
Ind, had fit and fell in his hog lot.
He was nearly deyoured by the hogs.
The strike in New Orleans has been
declared off, and all strikers resumed
work where their places had not been
filled.
An engine on the Reading railroad
blew up at Conner's Crossing, Pa, and
mangled five trainmen beyond recog-
milton.
DR.. Henry Slade, the famous spirit
ualist and medium, was committed to
the insane asylum at Sioux City, Iowa,
last week.
There is danger of an outbreak of the
Arapahoe and Cheyenne Indians. They
are starving and Oklahoma settlers
are uneasy.
Judge Key has appointed Receiver
for the Morristown and Cumberland
Gap railway, on the petition of Con-
tractor Coleman.
Joe Lane, a prosperous farmer, was
found floating in the Tennessee river
near Chattanooga with two gunshot
wounds in the body.
The negro -unionists at Home
stead were attacked by the strikers
Monday and many wounded. About
fifty shots were fired.
The Democrats now claim that an
extra session of Congress will be nec-
essary after Cleveland's Inauguration
to begin reform legislation.
Adam Scott and David Falls, colored
and cousins, of Hooker's Station, this
State, quarreled while out hunting and
Scott killed his cousin with a shot gun.
A bold attempt to rob the through
Atlanta and Nashville Express train
Friday night, was frustrated by the
courage of a brakeman. The robbers
riddled the train with bullets.
A tramp near Bradford, Pa, threw
a bucket of coal oil over boy named
John Leggett, and some of the oil fell
in a fire, setting the boy on fire and
burned him to death.
At Democratic celebration at West
Point, Miss, an old cannon exploded
and blew off both legs of Warner
Ware, the mayor. who died. John
Carothers, Mrs. Gibson and Mrs. Joiner
were dangerously wounded.
Chief Justice Turney, Governor-elect
of the State, is lying dangerously ill
at his home near Winchester. Turney
is quite old, and should he die it would
be much vexed question as to who
would occupy the Governors chair.