Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-09-04
THE NEWS.

49, "PPSoiSu Asnutoiot
Virginia.
Four murderers were taken from Jail
in Yreka, CAL, and lynched.
Frank Williams, an old soldier, sui
cided in Nashville last Tuesday.
Thirteen men were buried by a break
in a mine near Central City, Col.
Mrs. Mary Pettibone died at her
home in G~reeneville, Tenn, last Thurs
day.
The CubaDs are gaining Roadway in
their resistance against the Spanish
troops.
Jerry Jones, a negro, was lynched
near Pennington for insulting a young
woman.
Increasing trade in iron has made 1t
necessary to build another large dock
at Duluth.
About $500, 900 worth of property
was destroyed by fire in Buffalo, N. Y,
last Saturday.
Middleton McGhee, an aged colored
mar of Niles Ferry, Tenn, is dead at
the age of 112.
Many hogs have died of cholera in
Wayne, Hardin, Perry and Decatur
counties, Tenn.
Ben Stillman, an old man living
near Hamilton, Ala, was burned to
death in his house.
Chas. Ray shot and killed Will Will
liams in a street fight in Middlesboro,
KY, last Thursday.
A 800, 900 fire occurred in Louisville,
Ky. 1t was caused by a boy dropping
a lantern in a cellar.
Earthquake shocks were felt Sunday
in some OF the Eastern States, at some
places it was quite preceptible.
At Brushy Mountain (Tenn.) Cornick
Camp w. T. Garrett struck George
Walker with a pick, killing him.
State troops have been called out in
Michigan to suppress riots at Ishpa-
ming, caused by striking miners.
The Memphis Car and Foundry Com.
pany has gone into the hands of q re-
ceiver. The liabilities are about $780,
900.
r. R. Cannon. at one time a con
ductor on the E. T., V. & Ga. R. R.,
died in Birmingham, Ala, last Mon
day.
d. P. Click, proprietor of the Click
House in Newport, Tenn, was killed
Thursday by an engine of the railroad
at that place.
Sixteen convicts who were working
at Newsom Station, on the Northwest
ern Railroad, made their escape last
Friday night.
A rock relied down a mountain near
Fisher, Cal, and wrecked q passenger
train, killing one and wounding three
other passengers.
Geo. D. McLain, express messenger
on the Southern Railway, shot and
killed a colOred tough named Bill Cook,
near Corona. Ala.
Mrs. Laura Howe, a young married
woman of Birmingham, Ala, is in
Jail, charged with the murder of her
three year old son..
1t Is now reported that there will be
o short crop of cotton this season, and
in consequence brokers predict good
prices for the crop.
During a rain and wind squall on
St. Clair River last Thursday, three
women and n man were drowned by
their boat upsetting.
The total registration in Shelby
County, Tenn, is 16,434, the largest
ever recorded. OF the toal 9,875 are
white, and $3.50 colored.
Last Saturday United States officers
arrested about twenty men a Penn's
Grove, N. j., who were about to sail to
Cuba to assist the insurgents.
Large orders for iron have been re-
ceived by the Tennessee Coal, Iron and
Railroad Company from the Carnegie
Steel Company, OF P%ittsburg, Pa.
Major Richard II. Sylvester, a well
known newspaper man, died in Wash
ing City last Sunday morning. He
was employed on the Washington Post.
A Mr.. McLendon, living near Nash
vile, was overcome by foul gas in a
well in which he was at work, and died
before he could be brought to the sur.
face.
At a feast in Loudon County, Tenn,
last Saturday, several persons were
poisoned by something that was put
in the food. A number we're expected
to die.
W. L. Hickman, manager of the
North Georgia Mining Company, was
knocked from an engine and an entire
train passed over his body, at Ledbet.
ter, Ga.
1t is reported that $50 families, most
ly Swiss, from the north and north
west, have purchased $4,000 acres of
land in Lewis County, Tenn, and will
soon move into it.
Martha White, an aged and well
known woman living a few miles east
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