The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1894-11-23
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Rhenish Prussia, was destroyed by fire
Wednesday night and seven occupants
were burned to death, Several others
are missing.
The convention of the Southern Sur
gical and genealogical Association, now
in session at Charleston, S. c., has an
attendance of about one hundred mem
bers.
Governor-elect Levi P. Morton, of |
New York, has caused to be filed with |
the secretary of state his statement of
election expenses. He gives the total
at $l9, 700, of which $4,000 went to
the state committee.
The British steamer Breckfeld, Cap
tain Ferguson, from Galveston and
Norfolk, which arrived at Havre,
France, November 8, after partially
discharging her cargo, was found to
be on fire in her forehold Wednesday
morning. The fire was extinguished
with slight damage.
News reached Memphis, Tenn,
Wednesday of the burning of four
negro houses by forest fires near Mil
lington, Tenn, and of the fatal burn
ing of Fannie Woods and the child of
a negro named Pitt Rhea. About
fifty negroes are now homeless in that
vicinity.
Advices from Rome state that several
Catholic bishops in the United States
have renewed their request to the Pope
that he condemn certain societies of
workingmen as associations that can
not be countenanced by tho church,
but the vatican does not regard it as a
duty to interfere in the matter.
W. H. Gibbs, republican postmaster
at Jackson, Miss, under Harrison, ex-
auditor of Mississippi under the re-
publican regime, recently indicted for
embezzlement as postmaster, of 49,
970.82, was fined the amount of his
embezzlement by Judge Miles, in the
federal court Wednesday and sentenced
to three years in the Brooklyn, N. Y,
prison.
A sensation has been created at Den
yer, Col, by the announcement of
Coroner Martin that prominent bus
mess man is under strong suspicion of
having committed the horrible muir
der of strangling the three women who
have met death by this method in that
city during the past few weeks. The
identity of the man suspected is with
held by the coroner.
Meyer Hirsch, for number Of years
grand treasurer of the Ancient Order
United WOrkmen, was arrested at Bal
timore, Wednesday night charged with
embezzling funds of the order. An al
legged shortage of $40, SAT was found in
his accounts Hirsch's bondsmen re-
fused to make good this shortage and
the order turned the matter over to
the grand jury.
A Montgomery, Ala, special says:
The feature of Wednesdays assembly
proceedings was the presentation of
the governors message and the formal
election OF the officers named by Tues
days democratic caucuses. In both
houses the populists had tickets for
every Office voted on. In the house
the vote, in almost every case, stood
about 63 for the democrats and "a for
the opposition nominees. In the SEN
ate the vote stood about "a to in ia
vor of the democratic nominees.
A New York special of Wednesday
says: The White Star line steamship
Adriatic took in her steerage party
of twenty colored people bound for
Liberia. This is flying column from
the army of 1000 negroes that is said
to be gathered in southern seaports
awaiting means for deportation. This
organization is under the management
of Jere Nc MILAN, white man living
in Birmingham, Ala, and under the
patronage of Bishop Turner, Of the
African Methodist Episcopal church.
Wednesday the governing commit
tee of the New York stock exchange
listed $l19, 0O0,0 of Southern Rail
way Company common stock, $50,
600, 900 5 per cent, nOn-cumulative,
preferred stock; $21, 81, 900 first
mortgage, per cent gold bonds and
the various securities of the lines com
prising the company, to-wit: The
Columbia and Greenville, Georgia Pa.
cifc, Western Nor tn Carolina, Rich
mond and Danvlle, Virginia Midland
and East Tennessee companies, which