Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-10-05
the A. K. U. with acts of violence dur

iaiR VIC oJllht.
On the 9th ult the coal operatcrs of
the Massillon CO., district agreed to
pay their miners fifteen cents more per
ton and it was thought the strike
would soon terminate. The matter
was put in the hands Of the state board
of arbitration.
bridge across the Iowa river at
Iowa Falls, Ia, burned on the 2Sth ult.
The structure was owned and used by
the Illinois Central Railroad Company,
was coo feet long AMI Is feet high, anI
its destruction will obstruct passenger
and freight traffic at that point for two
weeks.
After being out twenty-four hours
at Frankfort, Ind, the jury in the
Greentown bank case, in which John
W. Paris, president of the concern, has
been on trial for embezzlement, were
discharged on the 2sth ult., being un-
able to agree on verdict. The jury
stood to for acquittal.
At Atchison, Kan, on the 2Sth ult
two men were fatally injured and two
seriously hurt by the accidental explo-
sion of dynamite blast in sewer.
Milton Troxell's saloon, a frame build
| ing, was blown to atoms on the night
of the 27th ult. by dynamite. The per-
petrators Of the deed are unknown.
Five tramps were killed who were
riding in car of lumber which formed
part Of a freight train which was
wrecked near Woodstock, ILL.,, on the
30th ult
Miss Belle White, 23 years old,
daughter of wealthy lumberman
died at Chicago on the 30th ult. while
being treated for removal of facial
blemishes. The cocaine administered
to deaden the pain of the operation
caused her death.
Lee McDorman, of Madison, W. Va.
on the 2sth ult. went to take down his
double barreled shotgun to go hunting
when the hammers caught and both
barrels were discharged, tearing his
head to pieces.
While trying to cross the ferry a
Chaska, Mimi, on the Goth ult., th'
wife and five children of Louis Shar
were plunged into the river anC
drowned.
Some unknown persons placed poison
in the lunch of Joseph Cunningham
sexton of st. Peters Episcopal churcl
at st. Louis, Mo-, and S. f. Beckett, th
organist. Cunningham is dead, an
Beckett cannot survive. The affair i
mystery.
Indictments have been returned b.
the federal grand jury against fort.
strikers at Oakland, Saerahtento, Duns
muir and Red Bluff, Cal.
Gen. A. West died at Holly Springs
Miss, on the Both rlt. lie was rs year
of age. In 1884 he was nominated fo
vice president on the ticket headed b
Gen. Benjamin I. Butler.
Paul j. Sorg, of Middletown, wa
nominated for congress by the demo
Gratis of the Third Ohio district ON til
Goth ult.
A tornado visited Wichita, Kan, o
the 1st and did considerable damage t
property. Several persons We're in
| iured, none fatally. The Missouri Pa
, cific depot and number of other built
{ ings were unroofed. Shade trees an
| telegraph and telephone wires wer
blown down in all parts of the city.
The United States court of appeals a
Chicago on the 1st continued the cas
t of Debs and the Other I.ree.ors Of th
} A. R. u, who took an appeal from tn
Woods-Grosscup injunction restrainin
5 them from interfering with railroa
, property during the recent strike, t
: the next term of court at the reques
of the defendants.
) The residence OF b. B. Pierce at Wi
> mot, Wis, was burned on the night {
/ the S0th ult. and his daughter an
( three sons were roasted to death. Th
father and mother escaped with sever
( burns.