The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-12-25

LATE NEWS ITEMS.

General stephen H. Smith, one OF the
most prominent military men of Con.
necticut, died at New Haven the other
day.
Fire broke out the other day in J. J.
Painters bakery at Manor Station, Pa.
In all eight buildings were consumed.
Loss $4,000; insurance $4,000.
A Washington special saws that c. c.
Harrison, the head of the large sugar
firm of Harrison, Frazier & Co., of Phil
adelphia, is to be appointed Minister to
Russia.
At Chicago, the other day, Walter H.
Bidgood, the late cashier of the alleged
Frederickson land swindling company,
was released on $1,000 bail by Judge
Altgeld.
The First National Bank of Grant,
Neb., and the First National Bank Of
Fair Haven, Wash, each with q capital
Of SIC, 900, have been authorized to COM
mence business.
At Rome, Ca, the Tribunes union
printers, who have been on strike against
a non-union foreman, have surrendered
and returned to work. The Office is now
non-union one.
General Collett Leventhorpe died sud
denly the other day in Caldwell County,
N. c. He was formerly an officer Of the
English Coldstream Guards, but during
the late war served in command of
North Carolina troops in the Confeder-
ate service and rose to the rank of Briga-
der General.
A correspondent of the New York
Evening Post, in Russia, sends word
that the Russian censor has forbidden
the following New York newspapers in
the Cars dominions: The Evening
Post, the Sun, the World, the Times and
the Tribune. The Herald is allowed to
| enter Russia.
The proclamation of Carlos as King of
Portugal is fixed for the 2Sth of the
/ present month.
Edward Mcpherson, the new clerk Of
the House of Representatives, has ap-
pointed Charles Martin, of Kansas, as
reading clerk of the House in place Of
Neal Brown, of Tennessee, who was
killed in railroad accident during the
recess.
The committees who are at Washing
ton as the representatives Of other cities
who want the Worlds Fair, find their
efforts embarrassed by the fact that
many members of the Senate are already
committed to the national capital as the
place for holding the exposition.
| Tho cunar tpnct Il rod fyO nd
half per cent dividends.
Alfred C. Brackbush, a coal dealer, Of
Chicago, has made an assignment AS
sets, SIC, 1000; liabilities, $4,000.
Colonel J. H. Rathbone, the founder
of the order of Knights of Pythias, who
is lying i'll at Lima, O., can not recover.
H. E. Hamilton, boot and shoe manu-
facturer, of Toronto, Ont, has sus-
pended Liabilities $40, 900. The assets
are about $55, 900.
Secretary Window says bonds are be-
ing offered at rate which is very graft
flying to him and in larger quantities
than he anticipated.
A large hardware company in Connec-
ticut has signed q contract with the
Fort Payne (Ala.) Coal & Iron Company
to remove its works to Fort Payne. The
hardware company employs 500 skilled
mechanic.
William Bartram, one of the founders
of the Ancient Order of Foresters, died
at his home in Baltimore, Nd, the other
night. He was born in England fifty
eight years ago and had lived in Balti-
more for thirty years.
The total coinage at the minis during
November, 1889, aggregated IS, 400, 912.-
49, OF this amount 81, 7SS, 900 was in gold
pieces, and SO, 49,, 1912. 40 in silver Three
million, three hundred thousand stand
ard silver dollars were coined during the
month.
The aggregate total collections of in
ternal revenue for the first four months
of the current fiscal year amount to
$40, 7S3, $50, as against $42, 743,9S5 for the
corresponding months last year.
At New York City Henry Morgen
week, the German painter who was last
week convicted of manslaughter in
shooting and killing his stepson, John
Kirchner, on August II, has been sen
fenced to State prison for sixteen years
and eleven months.
John s. Graybill, of Pennsylvania, ha'
been appointed stationery clerk of the
House of Representatives, vice John F
Ancona.
The schedules of William Turnbull, {
New York commission merchant who re
! Gently assigned, show liabilities of $3.50,
SOL, contingent liabilitiesSlSa, 400; nom
inal assets 800, go; actual assets 500, 1896
, At largely attended meeting Of cana
, boatmen in New York recently, resolu
. tions were adopted demanding relic
from excessive port charges and othe
, restrictions upon trade at New York
: which, it was said, were reducing tn
commerce Of the port.
/, Baron De Penedo, Brazilian Ministe
to England, has been dismissed and hi
. name stricken from the diplomatic lis
> because of his display Of hostility to tn
Brazilian republic.
The Furst Distilling Company, of 81
Joseph, Mo-, has made an assignment
Assets and liabilities unknown as We,
{ Principal creditors are Chicago, Cincir
f natl and st. Louis parties.
, The court expenses during the yea
, paid by the Department of Justice, in
D GLIDING marshals' fees, attorneys sala
n ries, witnesses, special deputies at elet
e tions, etc., aggregated SS,353,6Os.
v A large sugar mill at Swoleniowe'
I Bohemia, collapsed the other day frol