The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-07-17
LATE NEWS ITEMS.


the Russian army.
B. d. Milliken 4 Co., manufacturers Of
stove enamel Boston, have assigned LA
bilities are SIS 900; assets nominally $4,000.
George Loring Brown, a noted painter,
died suddenly at Maiden, Mass, the other
night, of apoplexy. He was seventy five
years old
At Bennington, VT, the jury in the case
OF Bent and Roberts, charged with the muir
der of Louis Wilder at Woodford last De-
cember, have disagreed and been discharged.
Both respondents were admitted to bail in
$500 each.
Walter and George Ly ord, aged ten and
sixteen years, were DIR yned near West
vile, N. j., the other da}. Walter had got
beyond his depth while swimming and
George tried to save him, but Walter sank
carrying his brother down with him.
Michael Davitt will testify before the
Parnell Commission July 2, and 1t is ex-
pected that he will be the last witness sum
moned for the defense His evidence is re-
garded as of much Importance and is looked
forward to with considerable interest.
A portion of the Manningham mills in
Bradford, England, was destroyed by fire
the other night, involving loss of 5000.
Two tremen were killed by falling walls
and several were injured. A number OF
workmen in the mills were also injured
Rev. William Henry Beecher, brother Of
Henry Ward Beecher, died on the 23d at
his residence in Chicago, aged eighty-seyen.
His death was due mainly to advanced age.
The semi-official press of st. Petersburg
daily INDUCES in attacks upon Italy. The
Gear goes out of his way to snub NJ. Ma
rochetti, the Ambassador, and misses no
opportunity for so doing.
| The barkentine Tropic Bird has arrived at
San Francisco from Tahiti The affairs of
the islands are quiet. The French are in
creasing their strength in the neighboring
| islands, their latest acquisition being Reita
Grouw Island, eighty miles from Tahiti.
Dwight Frank, a prominent merchant OF
jamestown, N. Y, committed suicide the
other night.
The fortieth annual convention of the
American Medical Association opens at New
York City on the 25th. The association in
cludes the leading doctors in regular prac-
tice, college professors, hospital surgeons
and specialists.
Disastrous timber fires are reported west
of Helena, Mont, on the Northern Pa
cific railroad. The bridge over Clark's
Fork, 600 feet long, has been destroyed. The
fires caused delay to trains and much dam.
age to property. 1880. t"st au
The record Of convictions Of members of
Parliament for Offenses against the Crimes
act shows that during the past year Irish
members have been sentenced to terms OF
Imprisonment aggregating nearly seven
years. Twenty -four Irish members have
been convicted and one English member,
Mr.. COney beare, has u sentence still hang
ing over his head. Messrs Cox and Finu-
cane have sustained no less than five perse-
BUTTONS each.
| The long standing litigation among the
stockholders Of the Royal Baking Powder
Company was ended at Brooklyn, N. Y, on
tine oath by a settlement out of court, 10
seph c. Hoagland buying the interest of Will
lam Zeigler for s2,500,000.
A large number of weavers have left the
Blackstone, Mass, mills during the past
two months, their complaint being that they
can not make sufficient wages to supper,
them. Many looms are now stopped on that
account.
The Civil Service Commission, which has
been on tour of investigation among sew
|
West, has returned to Washington. Among
the post-offices investigated was that at Mil
waukee Wis. 1t was found that the post
master at that Office had repeatedly violated
! the Civil Service law.
Secretary Tracy denies the report Of
wholesale removals in the Brooklyn navy
yard
The time for the completion of the cruiser
Charleston has been extended four month!
from May 49,
Gabriel Renville, chief of the Sissetol
and Wahpeton Indians, had an interview
with Acting Indian Commissioner Bell re
Gently in which he urged a settlement OF
the back annuities due the tribe since 1862
amounting to S350,000. He also urged tina
the Government purchase their surplus
land--about 100000 acres.
Great pressure is being brought bear upor
the Governor of Minnesota in behalf of {
pardon for Bob Younger, one Of the Miss
ouri outlaws, serving life sentence in tina
, State for the murder of bank officer il
Mortified in 1876, and it is thought thu
pardon will be granted. The petition il
based upon the fact that Bob can not live
long, his health being very bad, He ha!
already served over twelve years in Jail.
A very favorable impression has beer
made in Servia by the recent speech of thu
Emperor Of Austria to the delegations.
English electric incandescent lamps an(
,, two cattle have been washed ashore on thu
west shore of Nantucket. They are though
to be from the steamer Victoria.
At Atlanta, Ca, on the 25th, in the Su
: perior Court Tom Voolfolk, who murdered
,of
convicted Of murder in the first degree.
/ The Snyder Wagon Works, recently re
moved to Danville, ILL.,, from Auburn, Ind
, has been closed on executions aggregatinl
$4,000. The assets of the concern are be
: lieved to be about equal to the liabilities.
Ignatz Reinitz, the New York tobacconIs
who was brought home from Queenstown
1 on extradition proceedings two months age
{! has been released from Jail on an order 0
!, Judge Brown, of the United States Circui
5 court. He was acquitted of the charge o
!, forgery, rearrested in civil suit and agail
: released He was given ten days in whic
!. to leave the country.
> While loading oil at Ventura CAL, on tn
t 25th, the steamship w. L. Harrison, owne
by the Missouri Transfer Company, o
s. Santa Paula caught fire and was burned tt
the waters edge. The loss will reach abou
V So, 1000
|. As result of the complaints made by fol
l eign powers of the actions of Socialists an
9 others in Switzerland, that government ha
: appointed permanent public prosecutor II
i, order to strengthen the control of the polio
!. over movements of refugees
|. Superintendent Porter, Of the Census BIZ
9 reau, has divided the country into 113 Ger