The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-07-24
LAYE NEWS ITEMS.
There has been great rise in prices Of
wheat and rye at Vienna


There has been great rise in prices Of
wheat and rye at Vienna.
At Newark, N. j., on the 9Th, three
story frame building occupied as brewery
was burned. Loss, 5000: insurance, g, 600.
The Parnell Commission will adjourn Au-
gust 9, and the closing speeches on the part
of the Parnellites will be made on that day.
The carpenters, painters and blacksmiths
of Copenhagen have joined in general
strike, attributed to the agitation of the So
cialists
The German government has placed orders
to the amount of 3, 600, 900 marks for repeat
ing rifles. They will be made in German
factories al.tt
kadke Hassein Khar. the Persian Minis
ter to the United State will leave for Lon
don about the 10Th inst. There he will join
the Shah. The Minister is said to be grieved
over the obnoxious articles which have re-
Gently appeared in English and American
newspapers regarding the Shah, and it is
alleged that he is going to consult with His
Majesty as to whether he ought no to be re.
called.
Special reports to Bradstreet's show
total OF 100000 bushels of wheat at Mime
apolis, st. Paul, Milwaukee, Duluth and at
over 300 interior elevators in Wisconsin,
Minnesota and Dakota, as compared with
lO,75O,OOO bushels one month ago, 17,S0S, 900
bushels one year ago and 10, 10 900 bushels
two years ago.
Herr Laubs, the cashier of the provincial
treasury at Stettin, in Prussia, has alb
seconded with 55, 900 marks. 1t is believed
that he has gone to America.
At Foxboro, Mass, the other day, Sumner
Healey accidentally shot boy named Sam
uel johnson while target shooting. 1t is
thought Johnson can not live.
In the shoot at Nunhead, England, on the
4th, the Americans defeated the South Lon
don team at 200 yards by twenty eight
points and at 800 yards by four.
Eau Claire, Wis, held it's first election for
board of education on the LIST. 1t brought
out heavy wonan's vote, prominent so
ciety ladies spending the whole day with
their carriages taking women to the polls.
The anti Catholic question was made very
prominent in several wards, but the candi-
dates alleged to represent the Catholic side
We're elected. t-srrN YrL a'. u
The report that Portugal will submit the
'Delagoa Bay trouble to arbitration is con-
frmed. The Portuguese directors Of the
Deiagoa Bay railway have resigned
Captain Arthur Macarthur, the newly ap
pointed Assistant Adjutant General, has
been ordered from Fort Leavenworth 10
Washington to assume his new duties. ~
Mary Burke, aged thirty-iv was found
In cemetery at Rumford, r. l., the other
night with her throat cut. She claims to
have been assaulted by an unknown man.
At New York City on the Sd Judge
O'Brien, Of the Supreme Court, issued an
attachment against the property in New
York State of the First National Bank
of Nevada, Mo. The attachment is in favor
of Waterbury & Co., whose draft for 500
the bank refused to accept and who sue for
that amount.
John s. Tucker, of Virginia; j. l. Parker,
of Indiana, and W. H. Platt, of Alabama,
clerks at $1,000 per annum in the contest
division of the General Land Office, have
been removed by Assistant Secretary Chan
dler, and George w. Clark, of Iowa; George
f, Bogue, of Kansas, and W. G. Anderson,
of Tennessee, appointed to fill the vacancies,
The worlds Sunday school convention in
session at London has decided to hold the
next convention in America in 1893. The
exact date and location are yet to be de-
termined
A fire in Wredenhagen, in Mecklenberg-
Schwerin, Germany, the other night, de-
stroyed fifteen houses, ten barns and a
church. Two hundred people are rendered
homeless. t.t
The Guion line steamer Wyoming included
100 Mormons among her 35S immigrants
landed at Castle Garden on the 9Th. The
Mormons were at ouce shipped for Salt
Lake City.
| The Russia and Commercial docks on the
| Thames at London were destroyed by fire on
the 5th including number of timber sheds,
large amount of timber and seven barges.
The loss is 100000.
The Russian press declares that in the
event of war between Russia and Germany,
Denmark, Russia's natural ally, would
range her forces against Germany. The
Danish papers treat the subject very gin
gerly, but protest in cautious manner
against Russia's assumptions.
A German army contractor named Hage-
mann has been sentenced to five years. i'm
prsonment and to be deprived of his civil
rights for five additional years for attempt
ing to bride army paymasters. Contractor
Wallack was sentenced to eighteen months
Imprisonment for the same offense.
William Robinson Finley died at Altoona,
Pa, on the 9Th, aged seventy eight years.
He was physician for fifty-eight years,
prominent Mason and wellknown through
out Pennsylvania.
The Attorney General has appointed John
c. Mathis to be Assistant District Attorney
for the Southern District Of Illinois, and
Frank r. Ogg, of Kansas, to be special at
torney under the act Of Congress to protect
the Black Bagg band Of Shawnee Indians in
their rights to certain lands in Kansas.
State Department officials say that no
official advices whatever have been received
at the department respecting the reported
rupture between Costa Rica and Nicaragua
likely to grow out Of concessions to the Mic
aragua Canal Company. The report is dis
credited by State Department people.
In Midlothian, Mr.. Gladstone's constitu-
ency, the Liberal Unionists have decided to
make fight for his seat and are casting
about for suitable candidate to oppose
him At the last election Mr.. Gladstone had
no opposition, but the Unionists claim that
his course on the home rule issue has alien
ated many Of his supporters and that Q
thorough-going Liberal movement could de-
feat him.
Captain Stanhope E. Blunt, Of the Ord
nance Department, who was one of General
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