The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-12-18
LATE NEWS ITEMS.


the midland counties of England.
Jefferson Davis continues to improve,
and is now able to sit up, but is not al
lowed to leave his room.
James Barry, driver, fell from his
cab in front of the Chicago post-office
the other night and was instantly killed.
Jacob l.. Haldeman, ex-Minister TO
Sweden, and at one time prominent
Democrat, died at Harrisburg, Pa, re-
Gently.
The employees of the wooden and linen
factories at Luckenwalde, Brandenburg,
have struck work and assumed violent
attitude.
The dock laborers at Bristol, England,
have begun strike which threatens to
spread to other branches of labor. Al
ready 5000 men are out.
The Lehigh University team, of Beth
lehem, Pa, defeated the naval cadets OF
Annapolis, Md, at football on Thanks
giving by score Of 26 to 8.
Governor Foraker has pardoned An
thony Boccacico an ex-policeman, OF
Cincinnati, who was serving life SEN
tence for shooting to death saloonist
named Adam Dollar.
Secretary Tracy in his annual report
will recommend that the number + ~
prentice boys who are each year taken
into the navy to be trained as sailors bt
increased from $50 to 1900.
The Austrian government has de.
cided upon the immediate formation OF
two new regiments of cavalry in Galicia
and is also making changes in the d.
rection of augmenting its military
strength at other points.
The shoddy mill of Wolfenden a
Bros. in Philadelphia, was destroyed by
fire the other day; loss, $4,000.
Mrs. Howell Cobb, widow of ex-Secre
tary of the Treasury Cobb, died in
4 Athens, Ca, recently, aged seventy-one
The London bakers are exulting ovel
the success of their strike, but the poor
Z are rueful over the advanced price OF
bread
The plan OF campaign inaugurated
some time ago by the tenants on the
Olphert estate near Dublin, Ireland, ha'
collapsed, sixty of the tenants having
paid their rent in full, in addition to thu
costs incurred by their eviction
Judgment was entered recently in thu
Circuit Court at Chicago against Jame
~. West ex-managing editor of tn
Times, for $4,000 on Judgment mott
executed July 90, 1889, in favor of Johl
N. Irwin and George d. Rand, payable
four months after date. D
Carl Schuylenberg, billiard tabl
manufacturer of Detroit, was married
in the city hall at New York City, tn
other day, to Helen Holling. A few
minutes before the ceremony the bride
who is fifty-one years old, transferred
all her real estate, said to be valued a
100000, to the groom.
The strike of millers which is in pre-
gress at Cardiff, Wales, promises seriou
results in the event of the employment
of foreigners to take the the strikers
places. Public sympathy is with tn
strikers and the riot which is threat
ened as consequence Of the importa
ton of foreign labor will undoubtedl
assume formidable proportions.
The negotiations between presiden
Adams, of the Union Pacific, and tn
Denver, Texas & TT. Worth people hav
resulted in agreements, yet to be draw
: and ratified, for the formation of a Col
poration to be known as the Union Pa
cific, Denver & Gulf railroad, which vii
absorb the TT. Worth road and the Cole
RADIO lines of the Union Pacific.
. A dispatch from London says thu
United States Minister Lincoln has bee
suddenly called to Versailles, Francs
: where his son is fatally ill.
j An explosion occurred in coal min
at Bochum, Westphalia, recently, b
which fourteen miners were killed GU
: right and four badly injured. L.. %
The editor OF the Potsdam Zeitung
to be placed on trial ON charge of les
majestic in having stated in his papt
! that the Kaiser recently rode in a Sc,
imd class cab. i..... .,
A tremendous landslide occurred q
Senftenberg, Brandenburg, the otht
day, completely choking up two shat
and entombing number Of miner
whose rescue alive is doubtful .i,
The California Athletic Club director
have matched Jack Dempsey and Bill
Mccarthy, Of Australia, to fight son
q time in January for purse Of 800.
Henry r. Stowell's house in Attic
Mass, was entered the other night /
y burglars, who broke open a safe and o.
a tanned between 81, 900 and IS, 0O0 in cas-
n and securities. Hfr NJ f
: The Dartmouth College and Stevel
|. Institpte football teams played
0 Hoboken, n. j., recently, Dartmout
n winning by score of IS to 5. Tn
Q gives Dartmouth the championship
Q that series. ,... .a7 ....r
A dynamite plot against Herr Tiss
/ president Of the Hungarian Council I
0 Ministers, has been discovered and fru
q trated. ihL
Robert Bonner has bought OF Senate
Stanford, Ansel, eight years old, by Ele
tioneer, ont of Annette. The price pal
was $4,000.
: Secretary Blaine is negotiating an il
ternational copyright treaty wit
g France. Count De Keratry is at Wasl
I ington as the special representative {
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