The main. span of the Memphis
bridge is the third longest in the world,
its length being 794 feet. The bridge it
self is three miles long and cost $3,000,-000.
It wap formally opened for traffic
Friday.
During a drunken row on a steam
boat at Calhoun, Ky., between raftsmen j
and members of the Calhoun base ball
club, one raftsman, two passengers and
a member of the base ball team weie
shot and fatally wounded.
Near Redding, Cal., the Redding
and Shasta stage was held up by twp
highwaymen and it is said they secured
$20,000. The express mespcnger died
from wounds received in a fight with the
robbers and the driver of the stage aud
a passenger were slightly wounded.
In an Anniston, Ala., cotton mil!,
Miss Jennie Pierce hit Miss Robbie
Brown, her rival, for looking at her with
contempt, and a dozen other young women
took a hand in a general hair pull
ing and face-scratching engagement.
When they were separated Miss Brown
was found to be in a dying condition.
The exciting contest which waged
in the democratic party in Richmond,
Va., for several weeks, ended in a signal
victory for the friends of Cleveland, the
delegation chosen at the viva voce primary
standing, Cleveland, 04; Hill, 33,
and one independent anti-Cleveland
delegate.
John Trumbull, of Chili, in a letter
to Representative W. O. P. Breckinridge,
presents evidence to prove the charges
of use of official position by Minister
Eagan and Cousul McCreery in favor of
Balmaceda, and to show that through
their influence the officers of the United
States naval vessels acted as spies againet
the insurgents.
