The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-11-06
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

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The Russian gunboat Nasr-ed-din-
Shah has sunk at Batoum. The crew
were drowned.
The shoe manufacturing firm OF Har.
/, kin & Becker, of Philadelphia, have
failed for over 1850. q
The. President has appointed Oliver G.
Z Bosbyshell, Of Pennsylvania, superin.
tendeht Of the pintat Philadelphia.
A cable dispatch, to the New York
Maritime Exchange announces that Hip
polyte has been unanimously elected
President Of Hsyti. ~
Deavou's pawn shop at Bridgeport,
Conn.,, was entered by burglars the other
night and the safe blown open. Valua-
bles to the amount of several thousand
dollars were!stolen. .a' -
At special meeting on the 18th of the
Northern Pacific preferred stock
majority was vot6din fsvorsM the con-
solidated mortgage.
A messenger from Bishop Rosse on the
Labrador coast has arrived at Quebec
with news that the fisheries have alto
gether failed at Esquimaux Point and
that,oyer hundred familieS are starv1
ing. The Canadian authoritiesw send
sufficient funds to relieve theirimhediT
ate wants. .Fl
The address Of the French national
committee to General Boulanger assures
Boulanger of the fidelity of the party
to his cause and their confidence in his
ultimate success. 1t is stated that Gen
eral Boulanger will 60 from Jersey to
Brussels or Geneva and suddenly enter
France and demand new trial. This
step will be taken when the committee
consider it opportune. Il
Mike Bittle, who was shot at Toronto,
Ont, three weeks ago by Louis Deas, .
colOred man, into whose house he tried
to gain forcible entrance, died on the
18th. Deas is in Jail.
At Grand Rapids. Mich, Amiel Gosch
has been sentenced to jackson prison for
twelve years for the killing of Dan Sim
clair. The Supreme Court will be asked
to give Gosch new trial.
Surgeon General Hamilton has re.
ceiyed a report from Surgeon Porter at
Key West that there are only two cases
of yellow fever there. Both are doing
WE'LL No fears are felt of the disease
spreading.
Antonio Moucci died on the 18th in
his home, the old Garibaldi cottage. at
Clifton, s. l. He was at one time part
ner of Garibaldi in tho manufacture Of
soap and candles at Clifton and banker
Morosini worked for them.
The miners strike at Lens, France, is
spreading and 5000 men are out in that
district. Scenes of violence are of FREE
quent occurrence and the police and mil
itary are powerless. Only one arrest has
been made since the disturbance began.
A dispatch from Hamburg, Germany,
states that the mutilated body Of wO.
man has been found in Flensburg, a
suburb of that city, under circumstances
suggesting the probability that Jack,
the Ripper" has transferred his opera
items to the continent.
The American Board of Foreign Mis-.
sions has concluded its annual session at
New York and will meet at Minneapolis
| in 1890.
The R. B. Stone Lumber Company, Of
Chicago, has made an assignment. The
liabilities amount to 41,500; assets
5000. ss&
While returning from an excursion
into the interior the other day the Sui.
tan of Morocco had to cross a swollen
river. The Sultan crossed safely, but
twenty of his bodyguard who undertook
to swim the river on their horses were
swept down by the raging flood and
drowned.
The Mount View House at Littleton,
N. H., was burned on the 18th with con-
tents. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $1,000.
Cause unknown.
The rivers are rising in Southern Hun.
gary and at many points have overhowed
their banks. Several important towns
are threatened with disastrous floods.
Two thousand miners in the district
about Charleroi, Belgium, have struck
| for an increase. The men have assumed
threatening demeanor and the author.
tiles have asked for troops.
The French government is discussing
the project of doubling the strength Of
the Sixth army corps, and Is also intend.
ing to double the railway facilities from
Lille and Lyons to the frontier. This
action is to be taken in view of the in.
crease by Germany of her garrisons in
| Alsace.
Jimmy Keenan,, of Baltimore, has
signed articles with Robert l.. Flynn, Of
| Washington, for finish fight within
| fifty miles Of Washington in one month
| for o purse of $500, of which the winner
is to receive two-thirds The men are to
| fight with four-ounce gloves under
Queensberry rules.
At New York, on the 18th, Mrs. Anna
Rudolph, aged twenty-nine years, COM
mitted suicide at her residence. She
purchased rubber tubing to reach from
the gas pipe to her bed. She was found
dead in bed with the gas turned on and
the tubing in her throat Ill health
caused the suicide.
At Bridgeport, Conn.,, on the 18th,
Rudolph Stoepfel, who shot and killed
farmer Peck in Newtown, in June, 1888,
and has stood one trial for murder in
which the jury disagreed, was brought
before Judge Terrence and pleaded
guilty to murder in the second degree.
He was sentenced to life Imprisonment.
The chief Of the secret service is in
formed by agent Brooks, of the New
York district. that he has arrested
Michael Ladykier for passing counter
felt Russian bank notes in New York
City: also by agent Shaw. OF Leaven.
worth, Kan, that he arrested Alice JEFF
freys for passing counterfeit $40 United
1 States treasury notes.
The Vatican will shortly publish all
the documents in its possession support
ing its claims to temporal power.
The strike of the miners at Lens,
France, has been settled, the masters
conceding the demands of the men.
A large feed and livery barn at Coun-
Gil Bluffs, Ia, belonging to Couzins &
Narwell,lwas totally destroyed by fire
the other evening A number of horses