The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-09-25
LATE NEWS ITEMS.


Ont was destroyed by fire recently. Loss,
$4,000; insurance, $1,000
Mrs. James Brown Potter cables from
Europe cancelling all her American engage
ments, giving illness as the cause.
Jack Dempsey expresses the greatest con- |
6dence in his ability to best lie Blanche,
"the Marine" and says 10 is anxious foI
another fight with him.
AT New York City on the 4th schedules
were filed in the assignment of Hiram II.
Hollis, dealer in shcepskins and wool. Tae
liabilities are Si35, 453; nominal assets, sl05,-
$50, and actual assets S5i, S32.
Charles H. Butler, of New York, senior
member of the firm OF Butler Bros, OF New
York and Chicago, died recently at the
hunting lodge OF the family in Northern
Michigan, of a complication of kidney
troubles, aged forty four He was we'll
known To the business men OF Boston, where
his earlier years were passed, and also at
Cleveland O..
The convention Of the Association Of Ma
tional Insurance Commissioners in session
at Denver, Col, has adjourned. Major &.
s. Merrill, of Massachusetts, was elected
president; s. c. Kemp, of Ohio, vice presi-
dent; George B. Luper, of Pennsylvania,
secretary. The next annual convention will
be at Cleveland, o.
In the police court at Portsmouth, N. H.,
on the 4th, George Bush pleaded not guilty
TO charge of engaging in prize fghtwlth
Henry Watson at Salem, N. H., on August
"A, waived examination and was held in
81 500 for the grand jury. The punishment
for the offense charged may be Sl,OOo fine
or one year in the penitentiary, or both, at
the discretion of the court.
After three months suspension the fur.
mace of Peacock e. Thomas in Lancaster,
Pa, has started up.
The expedition headed by DR.. Peters for
the relief of Emin Boy has been recalled
and Emin is to be left to his fate.
The Crozier Steel & Iron Company's prop
erty at Roanoke, Va, has been sold at anc-
ton to Samuel A. Crozier, of Chester, Pa,
for 100000. .pas aigGa. a
According to the census report on the
eight-hour movement submitted at recent
session of the trades union congress in sos
sion at Dundee, Scotland, 39,269 were for
and CASA against it. b
Das Vaterland, the leading Catholic jour
nal of Austria, and generally credited with
being officially inspired, announces that the
! Empress Augusta, of Germany, has joined
the Catholic church. 'i l.
A fierce encounter took place the other
day near Suakim, Egypt, between detach-
ment of friendly tribes and body OF der
wishes in which the former were routed
with terrible slaughter.
The Russian police have arrested forty
students at KharlSoff and fifteen at Kief
charged with Nihilism. The arrests at kieh
comprised several ladies. i'-
The steel workers of Wales have made a
demand upon their employers for ten per
cent. advance in their wages and threaten to
strike 1t it is not granted. A
M. d. Doherty, for many years engaged in
the manufacture and sale of buggies and
carriages at Charlottesville, Ind, has as
signed. Liabilities, $50, 600; assets, $4,000.
Mrs. Maybrick's health has 80 far i'm
proved that the physician at W oking prison,
where she is confined, has discharged her
from the inhrmary and she now occupies a
solitary CELL
The largest bar Of gold ever cast in the
world was turned out at the United States
assay office at Helena, Mont, recently. II
weighed 500 pounds and is worth q little
over 100000
The chief of post-of1ce inspectors has beer
officially informed that both the east and
westbound mail stages were held up and
robbed Of all the registered matter neal
Ager, Cal, on the night of the Sd. Inspector
Seeboldt has been authorized to offer re
ward Of 81, 600 for the apprehension of the
thieves.
A. c. Staley, president of the Staloy
Wooden Mills Company, at South BEND, Ind.
was poisoned the other night by morphine
give him by druggist for quinine and viii
probably die.
The widow Of President James K. Poll
celebrated her eighty sixth birthday a
Nashville, Tenn, on the 4th. She is in fairl,
good health and received number of visit
, ors who called to congratulate her.
1t is said to have been practically decided
, to elect ex-senator Thomas G. Platt, of New
/, York, as president of the Tennessee Coal
Iron and Railroad Company at the ap
Q preaching directors meeting in Nashville
q McQuestin, one Of the robbers who re
!, Gently robbed train near Kingsland, Ark
n has been arrested near Monroe, La.
About fifty delegates from thirty countie
!. met at Birmingham, Ala, on the 9Th an,
= reorganized the Greenback party of Ala
K bama. 1t is headed by w. G. Davidson, VIII
Q was recently an unsuccessful applicant 70
@ the United Suites Marshalship of North Al
q ALBANIA.
The Secretary Of War has referred the re
: quest Of the Interior Department to static
: additional troops at Fort SILL Neb., durin
9 the coming sun dance of the Kiowa Indian
y to General Merritt, with orders to act at hi
!, own discretion in the matter.
= Unsuccessful attempts were made tn
r other night by burglars to rob the residenc
II Of Vice President Morton near Rondout,
j. Y. The thieves were frightened away b
Il the burglar alarm system with which tn
- residence is equipped.
Dairy Commissioners Thorn and Ives, {
J. Wisconsin and Minnesota, respectivel,
8 have decided to join in call upon their fe
8 low commissioners throughout the Union
!. meet in convention at Cleveland, o., N,
vember 8, and of this year and discus
laws against adulteraton.
IS The various parties in the German Reich
! tag are preparing independent bills upc
the labor, question, in addition to the gol
eminent measures for the direction an
prevention of strikes. The indications OIL
that this subject will occupy much of Il
It time Of the coming session.
% During recent thunder storm five hes
n of horses belonging to L. B. Franklin, Ii
: ing near Fall River, Wis, were instant
10 killed by a stroke of lightning. The on
"a mails when struck lay upon the ground as
r asleep, with the mark Of the stroke upt
% the right side of each one. They were
n high bred stock. s4nr.'f
:. The President has appointed Thomas !
u Anderson, of Ohio, to be Minister Reside
8, and Consul General of the United States
ut Bolivia.
~ Mr. and Mrs. John Cunning, of Baltimol
e Md, were drowned the other night in Il