The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-10-23
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

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General Boulanger is preparing WORK
on European military science.
The President has appointed Ellwood
+. Hance postmaster at Detroit Mich,
The United States steamer Saratoga
Is to be turned over to the State of Penn.
sylvania for educating sailors for tho
merchant marine service. ~
The Secretary of the Navy has re-
jected the bids for steel plates for the
armored battle-ship Texas. He holds
that the bids are excessive.
The President has appointed John w.
Blackburn, of Utah, Associate Justice Of
the Supreme Court of Utah.
Charles w. Woodward & Co., merchant
tailors, of Concord, N. H., have assigned.
The Indebtedness is estimated at $50, 600
and the assets $4,000
The Bey of Tunis has sent an expe-,
dition comprising 500 soldiers to Sfax,
where large body of native insurgents
are encamped who defy the Bey's au-
thority and refuse TO lay down their
arms. A desperate fight is expected.
The Gar arrived at Berlin on the 18th.
The Gar was accompanied by the Grand
William, Prince Bismarck, Count Her.
bert Bismarck and number Of Generals
and court officials received the Car and
Gaand Duke atthe station. ~
Governor Mellette has issued a proc
lamation converting the South Dakota
Legislature for October Is, to elect two
United States Senators. sa
A call has been issued by Luke Dillon,
M. Seaman, DIR. McCahey and others for
a convention of the Clan a-Gael to be-
held in Chicago in November.
Fritz Emmett, the actor, has made an
offer of $3.50. 900 for the Academy OF
Music in Buffalo, N. Y. The offer is !.
under consideration by the owners.
The deadlock in the Eighth New York
judicial district Republican convention
was broken on the 18th. Judge Lam
bert, OF Chautauqua, was nominated.
Advices from Crete bring fresh ac-
counts daily of the wanton cruelty prac-
ticed by the Turks upon the Christians
population of the island. Turkish offs
Gals connive at the outrages and all
complaints on the part of the victims are
met with derisive laughter.
Disastrous floods prevail in the de-
bridges have been carried away by the
high waters. Ions LIE Saulnier. the cap
ital of the department, is inundated and
number of villages are surrounded by
water. The military are actively en-
gagged in saving life and property.
Peter McManus, coal. worker at one
of the mines at Wilkesbarre, Pa, wa8
killed on the 18th by fall of fifty tons
of coal. Two Polish miners were badly
injured. . a A
Two tramps have been arrested at Bid
deford, Me-, on suspicion of being the
parties who tried to wreck a passenger
train on the Boston & Maine railroad
the other night They protestinnocence.
General Thomas Is. Van Buren, died at
San Francisco on the 18th. He was Con-
sui General to Japan between 1874 and
1855.
A storm in the northern part of Spain
has caused numerous wrecks and COM
pletely interrupted telegraphic commun-
ication.
TO the demand of theirmen for shorter
hours, the different tramway companies
of North London have sent reply In
which they offer to reduce the number
of working hours to twelve for days
work. 1t is expected that the other
companies will follow their lead and
that an amicable settlement will be
reached on this basis. %
While hoisting timbers to the top Of
new factory at Auburn, N. Y, on the
18th, the apparatus broke and fell to the
ground, carrying three men with 1t.
One, David Forrest, carpenter, was
fatally injured. The other two escaped
with slight bruises.
The President has committed the sem
tence of two years imposed on Manfred
and Edward Hills, convicted in Colorado
for violating the postal laws there, to six
months of actual Imprisonment.
1t is understood that Rear Admiral
Daniel Il. Braine, of the navy, will be
appointed Chief of the Bureau of Navi-
cation in place of Commodore Walker,
ordered tocommand the European squad
ron. n4 .f uaHf
The Secretary of the Treasury has ac-
:epted the resignation of Superintend-
ant Montegut, of the New Orleans mint
DR.. j. w. Smith, who was formerly SUI
oerintendent, will be appointed to sue
coed him. 4 ,u 4
The commissioners appointed by the
United States and Venezuela to settle
claims against the latter country have
chosen Hen John l.. Findlay, of Balti-
more. as the third commissioner. Mr..
Flndlay has accepted the position.
The United States corvette Galena
has brought to Jamaica, w. L., six ring
leaders of the Navassa revolt. About
100 of the negi oeS concerned in the riot
have been shipped from Navassa to Bal
/ timore.
The English Liberals are exultant
over the result Of the five Parliamentary
elections which have taken place since
the Propagation If Parliament. OF the
five elections the Tories have been sue
cessful in only one.
John Haynes, consul ct Bagdad, Tur.
key, writes TO the State Department.
under date of August ~ that cholera
was raging then in Bagdad and the sur
rounding country. 1t originated among
the Arabs in Mesopatamia and spread
rapidly. In Bagdad seventy-nine deaths
were reported in one day.
Haswell, who recently stole 800. 900 In
unregistered bonds from his father In
| Hartford, Conn.,, has been caught ct
| Portland, Ore, by his uncle. lIe hSd
negotiated $4,000 and out Of this sum
whom captured he had remaining only
4 $500, and when confronted by his uncle
he went to his room, opened q trunk and
! handed over $4,000 of the bonds.
The village of Norwood, four miles
north of Somerset, KY, has been de-
stroyed by fire. Only one house is left.
Two persons are missing. The fire
started from an explosion of a keg Of
powder. The loss is not yet known. &
The conservation of Rev. William A.