The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-07-11
WHOLE NO. 272

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Last Monday the county court elect
ed l.. Il, Poats, ir., to fill out the un-
expired term Of his father as register
OF deeds for Hawkins county.
AT last an anti.Mahone Virginia
republican has got something. John
5. Wise has succeeded in getting his
son appointed a cadet to west Point.
The indictments against Dorsey,
Brady, ct. al. in the famous Star route
cases which have been cumbering the
court records for seven or eight years
have all been nolle pressed.
There was absolutely no interest Ia
ken in the election Friday to author
ize the board to issue bonds for street
improvements and school houses.
There were only about one hundred
votes polled. The people will pay a
severe penalty for their Indifference in
this matter.-Cuurier.
Blaine has told his man William
Walter Phelps, just appointed minis
ter to Germany that he might take
his own time about going to Berlin.
But it isn't his own time he is taking:
it is the peoples. He qualified as
minister the day he was appointed
and his salary Of $l7,5 year begal..
The Chicago hackers of f. L. Har-
per are making an effort to discover
who were his supposed wealthy back
ers in the Fidelity Bank deal. 1t has
besn asserted that the Standard oil
crowd were the people, but this is de.
MED and it is claimed that Harper
was ruined before the famous wheat
corner was run.
1t was supposed that the decree OF
the United States Supreme Court
would settle Myra Clark Gaines law
suit, but it is once more in court. The
heirs have begun fight over the iudg-
ment and the case bids fair to drag
along for years in the Chancery Court
until, as in the famous case of Jarn-
dyce vs. Jarndyce, all OF the money in
Volved will he swallowed up in cost.
Conductor Johnson, Of the wrecked
train, stated Immediately after the ac-
cident that as all OF his tickets and pa.
pers were burned it would be impossi.
BILE to tell the number OF passengers
on the train. 1t is, therefore, probable
that an accurate list OF the dead will
never be obtained. 1t is said, however,
that at Roanoke the train contained
seventy passengers. while the attaches
numbered eleven, making total Of
eighty-one. Twenty-three are reported
to have escaped alive.-Conrier.
Thursday night Matt franklin, the
well known engineer, nearly lost his
life through the effects of an overdose
of morphine.
Mr.. Franklin has been for long
time sufferer from rheumatism, and,
to deaden the acute pains, he often
makes free use OF hypodermic injec.
tions of morphine.
On Thursday night lie was to take
out the west bound passenger train
which leaves Bristol Mt 10 As. When
the train boy went to Mr.. Franklin's
room to wake him, he found the vet.
eran engineer in an unconscious state
, Dr. j. A. Dickey was summoned and
. found the patient under the innu
ence OF an abnormally large dose o
: morphine. All known antidOtes were
resorted to, and Nj. Franklin wal
. stripped to his waist and whipped with
!, straps, sponged with water and KEEP
walking all night About five o'clock
Friday morning. hc recovered con
). sciousness and is now improving fast
4 DR.. j. A. Dickey returned iron
A Knoxville Saturday evening, whithe
he had accompanied Matt Franklin
) Mr.. Franklin declares that he did no
i take that overdose Of morphine acci
!. dentally, but with suicidal intent H
:, says that he is determined to accom-
Al plish his purpose in some other way
-COurier