The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1886-10-07
summary Of the News.

ny AeaVy rains.
A telegraph line repairer in Detroit
was killed by the current from an
electric light wire.
Pine timber to the amount OF ESQ.,
600, 600 feet was transferred in a sin
gle sale in Minnesota.
Harmony, Me-, and neighboring
towns are terribly excited in conse-
quence Of many indendiary fires.
. Suits have been instituted by the
Knights Of Labor to prevent and pun
ish the importation of foreign labor,
Colonel Greene, the veteran Boston
editor, was buried, the attendance
at the funeral services being very
large.
Lake county bears the proud distinc-
ton of being the only county in Ten
nessee in which no republican votes
are cast. tbNI
The Sovereign Grand Lodge Of Odd
Fellows, in session at Boston, Mass,
decided to meet in Columbus, O., next
year and adjourned.
Commencing October list, a line Of
through cars will be put on from Br;s-
tol and run through to Kansas City,,
Mo-, TO be run daily.
Four thieves, who tied the wife OF a
cemetery superintendent to the fence,
failed to make her reveal the. the hid,
ing place of her husbands money.
! A confession of murder found in a
coat at a pawnshop led to the arrest
| Of colored man in Boston for a crime
committed in Cincinnati four years
| ago.
| Miss Hawly, who eloped from her
home at Rutland, VT, was captured
in male attire. She wanted to make
a start for herself and earn her own
living.
The East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia Road earned $179,S67 for the
second week Of September, an increase
of $7,735 over the corresponding week
of last year. M
DR.. Aveling, the English socialist
is warned not to tamper with public
sentiment in Chicago, and the Time
OF that city bangles moose before hi
eyes.
, The President will visit the fair 0
, the Virginia State Agricultural Socie
ty at Richmond, Va, on the 21st inst
Mrs. Cleveland will probably accom-
pany him.
9 The cattle plague has broken out il
: Virginia, having been directly CON
g municated from Chicago. The fats
S outbreak among the cattle at Akro
e Ohio, is found to be anthrax.
= A divorced husband, in Metropolis
. Ill, being tantalized by the individus
I who occupied his old position replie
= with shotgun, emptying both bal
/ rels into his successful riyars body.
= United States Consul Taylor Wa
Q thrown from runaway stage coac
4 near Neche, Man, and severely inju
p ed, his right leg being fractured in tw
q places. He received prompt medici
. attendance and is doing well.
r Senator Hawley hurriedly stroke
n his goatee as he steps up to the Mu
N ray Hill Hotel register, and havin
lie got his room, goes over to the Unic
te League Club, where he spends muc
q of his time when in New York.
IA A telegraph operator on Chical
n Change SO closely resembles Col. Ro
y ert G. Ingersoll that he is called "Pol
n Bob" Morrow. The principal poin
! in common are said to be the smoo
a. and childlike face, the welI-nigh hai
of less head and the rotund form.
20 A young horse cut his nasal boz
ae and also great gashes in his ne
le while entangled in abarbed wire fen
is at Randolph. A veterinary surge(
n has put pieces Of ordinary garden no
in the colts nostrils and throatfor hi
to breathe through, and he is gettil
re- along first rate.
IT, Senator German Of Maryland W
at the st. James a few days recent
and will be likely to be there aga
~ when the New Yorks and Chieas
q meet. He is an enthusiastic base b
e lover, and used to play catcher hi
self. He is q very grave, solemn nj
or boyish looking except for his gray
OF hair. He cares nothing for soc
ny pleasures, and declines most OF
20 invitations that he receives to m,
people He does not use tobacco
MS liquor. He spends his evenings
we his rooms, which are usually besies
IN by by politicians.