The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-09-18
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

loss Is enormous and thousands Of people
are rendered homeless.
General Boulanger has published the
names of forty one candidates for the De-
partment Of the Seine at the coming gen.
eral elections in France.
The Swiss government is energetically
looking after the foreign Anarchists domi-
ciled in Switzerland and eighty of these UNI
welcome guests have already been expelled.
The drivers of the mail carts of London,
England, made demand upon the post
office authorities on the 9th for an increase
Of their pay, which was promptly granted.
A special from Ashland, Wis, says that
Adolph g. Fleischbein, of Belleville, ILL.,,
who was shot in the recent stage robbery
near Ashland died of his wounds on the
27th.
Frank Lewis, a circus fakir, who has been
employed as a hack-driver, assaulted q
seven year old girl at Bloomington, H., the
other night. The child's cries aroused the
neighbors, who rescued her. and would have
lynched Lewis had it not been for the timely
arrival Of the patrol wagon. Lewis is now
In jail His victim was seriously injured.
General Isaac f. Sheppard died at Bel
bingham, Mass, on the 25th, aged seventy
three years. He commanded the Boston
City Guards for some years, and 1861 was
made senior aide-d camp to General Lyon.
After Lyon was killed Sheppard was made
Colonel of the Third Missouri Infantry. and
in 1865 was promoted to the rank OF Briga-
der General. After the war he was man
aging editor Of the Missouri Democrat.
Mrs. James G. Blaine Jr., who has been
rehearsing for her theatrical debut, is seri-
ously ill with infammatory rheumatism 1t
will be some time before she can appear on
the stage
John 8. Mcintosh, wool puller, Of Milton,
Mass, has assigned. His liabilities are es-
timated at 100000. The assignment is
caused by the embarrassments of Brown,
Steese e. Clarke and George w. Hollis.
The Department Of State has been in
formed Of the recent generous gift Of the
King Of Siam for the use Of the American
Presbyterian Mission Of one of the royal
palaces, together with extensive grounds
and buildings. y
Cholera, which has been making fearful
havoc in Bagdad, has spread to otherpoints
in Mesopotamia, Notwithstanding the pre-
cautions which were taken to cut of all
communications with that city, and is now
ravaging the entire province.
The new cruiser Baltimore was examined
at Philadelphia on the 9th by board Of
engineers and other naval experts, who ex-
pressed satisfaction at her construction and
1t was announced that she would be ready
for an official trial test September 9.
Henry Drout, farmer living near Rich
land Station, N. Y, was gored to death re-
Gently by Holstein bull belonging to
a;,rb k>nr IJ, had haav NJ iv,t N Hald
and was sitting on a log eating his dinner
when the bull attacked him from behind.
Three Mormon elders named Engel, Tay-
lor and Laird were whipped by "Regula-
tors' in Marion County, Ala, the other
night. The elders refused to leave the
county when notified to do 80, and were WIS.,
tied by party Of masked men who hung
them to trees by their thumbs and whipped
them severely.
Nellie Parks, aged thirty-two, died at
Portsmouth, N. H., recently from the eff
fects of laudanum taken with suicidal in
tent because Atwood Cannon, with whom
she lived and who had kicked her during
quarrel, persisted in leaving the house with
out bidding her goodbye, Notwithstanding
her threat to kill herself ifhe did so.
James A. Paramore, Of st. Louis, Yale
sophomore, aged eighteen, who was on q
trip through the Northwest with members
of his family, was accidentally killed re-
Gently while visiting a lumber camp near
Hot Springs, W. T. The other members Of
the party had gone into the woods, leaving
James sitting on stump. While they were
absent he was caught by falling tree and
his body horribly mangled.
The trial Of William O'Brien and James
Gilhooley, members of Parliament, on the
charge of speaking at a proclaimed meet
ing, was concluded at Cork, Ireland, on the
Goth. Mr.. O'Brien was sentenced to two
months imprisonment and Mr.. Glhooley to
six weeks, both without hard labor.
At Newport, r, l., on the 2Sth, H. W. Slo-
cum, Jr., won the amateur tennis cham
pionseip of America for 1889.
The dock laborers Of Glasgow, Scotland,
are threatening to strike. All industies in
that city are anxious over the prospect.
The Maryland Republican State Central
Committee has appointed October for the
holding of the State convention at West
minister.
The statement Of the operations Of the
Philadelphia & Reading railroad for the
month Of July show the net earnings to be
1901 1926, an increase of $3S,0O0 over July,
1883. The net earnings from December 1,
1888, to July 81, 1889, were a, 563, 1858, a de-
crease Of $59l 1893 from the corresponding
period last year.
1t is believed in Rome that the friction be-
tween the Gar of Russia and the Emperor
of Germany is too serious to be removed,
and that the coming visit of the Car to
William will result in nothing. The pro-
nouncod leaning Of England toward the
triple alliance is now the most reliable guar
antee for the peace of Europe.
T. 8. Gardner, the Chicago publisher ar
rested last week by United States Inspectors
Fleming and Irle, was arraigned on the 26th
before United States Commissioner Hoyne
and waived examination. Miss Fanny r.
Gaul, Gardeners clerk, did the same and both
were held to the Federal grand jury In
bonds of 5000 and $500 respectively.
Mrs. Maybrick will be removed to the
convict prison at Working, England, shortly.
Her friends will be allowed to visit her
every two months.
, Among the passengers on the steamer
City of Paris which arrived at New York
the 18th were Russell B. Harrison, Andrew
, Carnegie and John A. Kasson.
A stock train on the Illinois Central rail.
, road was wrecked recently In the yards al
WatSSloo, Ia Two cars loaded with cattle
' wera smashed and nearly al the cattle
, killed Three Of the trainmen were injured
but not fatally.
The block bounded by Twelfth and Thir
teenth, Webster and Harrison streets in
, oakland CAL, burned on the 18th. The
Dietz Opera House caught fire, but wa.
saved. Loss about $4,000.