Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1895-08-16
General News Summary.
interesting Homo and Foreign News
DOMESTIC.

AT Buffalo, n. Y, on the Sth while
Temporarily insane, Miss Elizabeth
Blaney Bird, well known in social and
musical circles, committed suicide by
shooting. She was very wealthy
ADvIcEs from Eagle Pass. Tex, on the
5th state that there are 125 cases of
smallpox among the negro refugee col
oaists, ,vho are held in strict quarantine
at that place. There are from five to
ten deaths day.
c. f. & G. W. EDDY, grain and hay
commission merchants, of Boston, as
signed on the 9th. They were among
the best known exporters in New En-
gland.
Y1IE middle section of the big. unfin-
ished eight story building on the cor
ger of West Third street, and South
Fifth avenue, New York City, fell in on
ttAse ,sth. A number of workmen were
buried in the wreck, many of whom are
missing. John Burke, plastwcr, and
Charles Smith, an electrician, are known
TO be killed.
AT Trenton, n. j., on the Sth the jury
in the case OF Col. John Il. Van Cleef,
ex-secretary Of the state board Of as
SCISSORS, who was indicted for obtaining
money from the state for maps under
false preteascs, brought in verdict OF
S'hot guilty"
BUSINESS failures for the week ended
August 0 were 225 in the United States,
against 26i for the same period last
year, and 10 in Canada, against 81 last
year.
THE Pan Iron Mining Company, op-
Grating the East Vulcan, West Vulcan
and Curric mines at Norway, Mich,
nave announced an increase of wages
of 10 to 25 per cent, to take effect i'm
mediately The Paragon company have
also raised wages in the same ratio.
FIRE broke ont in one of the lumber
| yards OF the Shilling, Whitney & Barnes
Lumber Company, In Ogdensburg, n.
", on 9hc 9Th and consumed about nine
million feet of lumber. Loss S125,000.
TIE steamers Brittanic and Russia
colidcd in the Detroit river on the 9th,
and as a result the Brittanic sank and
orc other firemcn WAS drowned. The
Russia was quite badly damaged, but
managed to keep at.oat until she
geached the Detroit dry dock. The
Brittanic was wooden vessel of 1, 12l
tons register. She was owned by w. j
White, OF Cleveland. She was valued
at eco, 900 and is ces'srea by insurance
TIE Monongahela blast furnace al
McKecsport, Pa. has shut down by
luason of strike of twenty -four meta
carriers. The men demanded an adj
vance of twenty cen+s ard 2 per cent
! tonnage in wages per day. Five hun
drcd mon are idle.
THE business failures in the United
States for July show liabilities amount
ing to Sill ,78S,5l0, of which S3,549,07i
were of manufacturing and SS,2sS,1 III
'esf Grading concerns.
TIE Rational circuit bicycle tourna
ment opened at Chicago on the 9th
The chief event was the open mile
class Il, in which i. c. Bald, of Buffalo
N. A., lowered the worlds amateu
record to 1858 Is.
TIE rost Office department has in
structed postmasters thst ordinary let
tcrs addressed to any foreign country
except Canada OF Mexico, must be for
warded whether postage is prepaid o
not. All other mailable matter mus
be prepaid, at least partially.
The repair shops of the Boston, Re
we're Beach &c Lynn railroad at Orion
Heights, Mass, with four locomotives
were totally destroyed on the on b
fire, cntailing loss Of $4,000.
THE Rockefeller corporation ha
quietly settled it's difficulty with WI
liam Mckinley for Si0s,7i4. The sui
of Mckinley against the Lake Superio
Consolidated Iron Mines Company wa
for $500, 900.
Ar Oswego, N. Y, on the sth Charlie
Burgess, the murderer of Farme
Charles WhitloclS, was captured seve
i miles from the scene of the murder.
! WHILE driving across the tracks {
the Pennsylvania railroad at i lade
phia on the morning of the 1Jth Wi
liam Hassoh, an employee of the custol
house, was struck by a train and il
stantly killed. His brother Jerry an
6 Edward Miskill were badly injured.
A FREIGHT train on the Clevelan,
Cincinnati s. st. Louis railway WI
d wrecked on the nigsat of the 9th ne;
st. Paul August Kocnig, of Chicag
0 was killed and ten other men wei
:, injured, some OF them fatally.
NEAR Seattle, WASH, forest fir
l. have been rigging Cor the past tv
! weeks and enormous damage has bee
u done in that section of the state.
Nj. p. NoLLER's organ works we
completely destroyed by fire at Hagcr
town, Md, on the 9th. The loss is est
mated at $50, 900; insurance slight.
Mrs. MARY MURPHY, aged sixty, al
N Frank Kelly, aged four, we're fatal
Of burned at Cohoes, n. y, on the OF
The woman fell asleep while smolsii
and her dresscaught fire.
J. AT Springfield, o., on the 9th Il
WiclSham Chapman Company, pial
plate manufacturers, conceded the 4
r mand of their employees for Is p
10 cent advance in wages
a. TnE Methodist church at Kent,
20 was struck by lightning and burn
on the 18th.
e. SEVERAL. prominent citizens of Phil
ot, delphia have fled bill in equity
have an Injunction issued restraint