The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-10-09
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

The next convention will be held in the CitI
of Mexico.
1t is believed that Edward o. Leech, the
computer at the mint bureau, will be ap'
pointed Director Of the Mint, to succeed Mr..
Kimball. ,.....
The strike of the coal miners at Punysa-
tawney, Pa, has been settled. The men get
every thing they asked for and have re
sumed work. =
The President has issued circular to col
lectors Of customs and others amending ar
ticles S54 and sos of the regulations so that
consular certificates will not be required
for invoices of goods passing through the
United States from one foreign port to an
other, provided that the invoice or bill OF
lading shall show such foreign destination
and shall contain q general description OIL
the goods in each package, with their ag-
gregate value.
At Buffalo, N. Y, the Merchants Ex-
change trustees have carried three more OF
the Sherman grain shortage cases to finish
and expelled Stephen Sherman, F. H. Tyler
and Henry r. Fish, Jr., from their body.
The deliberation over the cases has been
very long and the defendants were given a
patient hearing.
The crew of the Norwegian bark Eliza
Lines has been landed at Port Maitland, N.
S., by the brig Edith Mary. The Eliza
Lines, which left Pensacola for Buenos
Ayres on August s, encountered terrible
storm on September 8. She soon began to
leak and all hands on board abandoned her
on the 18th, being rescued by the Edith
Mary.
Captain Armes threatens to bring suit
against General Schoteld, who, as Acting
Secretary Of War, issued the order conven-
ing the board to examine into his mental
state.
AT Franklin Pa, on the 18th, Wilbur l..
Mccormick, aged thirty-tive years, son
of Judge Mccormick shot himself with
revolver He will die. Dependency caused
the act.
The natives of Riff, on the Morocco coast,
have ransacked Spanish vessel and i'm
prisoned the captain, four sailors and a pas
senger A Spanish war ship has been sent
to the spot
Kessler & Son, hat manufacturers, of
Reading, Pa, who recently failed for $685.
900, have settled with their creditors for
forty cents on the dollar and have resumed
operations under the name of the Reading
hat factory. They employ seventy hands
A Purvis, Miss, special announces the
sudden death there of apoplexy, of Robert
Scarborough a prominent merchant and a
bondsman for Sullivan, Kilrain and Re-
maud. Scarborough's death will necessi-
tate the making of a new bond in each case.
The schooner j. A. Parsons from Bangor,
Me-, for Bridgeport, Conn, collided on the
10th with the schooner Zulette Kenyon and
sunk her. Captain Ames, his wife and the
crew of the Kenyon were rescued by the
schooner Mary V. Wellington and brought
to Cottage City. The Kenyon is total loss.
Secretary Noble has directed that the re-
gion Of country in Colorado containing the
ruins and mounds of "Cliff dwellers' be
withdrawn from disposal until examination
can be made to determine their historical
value.
The ship South America. Of Boston, from
Iloilo for New York with sugar, was lost at
Strys Bay, Cape Agulhas, South Africa, on
the 18th inst. The crew was saved. The
ship was considered the finest wooden ship
ahoat.
INV hcuiiIS ulillo VI OohuliP ~
at Omaha, Neb., were burned the other
night. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
The Comptroller of the Currency has au-
thorized the First National Bank of Mar
inette, Wis. to begin business with CAPT
tai of 100000.
The sentence of DR.. Burke Priddy, Of
Tennessee, convicted of violating the pen
sion laws, has been committed by President
Garrison to one year He was sentenced in
April, 1899, to two years. Imprisonment.
The will of the late Prof Elias LOOMS, of
New Haven, Conn, beQueaths the bulk of
the estate, which is valued at from S25O, 900
to 100000, to Yale University, to be known
as the "Loomis fund" This is the second
largest gift ever made to Yale.
The freight steamship Vertumnus, bound
to New York from Jamaica, has stranded
opposite Point Lookout, on the Long Island
shore. The vessel carries no passengers.
1t is thought the vessel can be tioated. She
carries a crew of twenty-five men.
Colonel George Flournoy, a wellknown
lawyer of San Francisco, an ex- Confeder
ate officer and at one time Attorney General
of Texas. is dead
A fearful tragedy is reported at Szatmar,
Hungary. A Jewish family of six persons
were killed with hatchets and terribly mutt
lated by unknown persons. The motive of
the crime was robbery.
Hon. John H. Starin in a long letter to the
mayor of New York guarantees that the
local steamboat interests will subscribe
500, 600 if the Worlds Fair is held within
New York City limits.
Thomas Clemens, editor of the National
Times, an organ of the colorcd people at
Washington, has issued a call for a conven-
ton of the independent colored citizens of
Virginia to be held at Alexandria on Dc
tober -. The call declares the condition of
the colored peple in the State of Virginia
politically, industrially and socially to be
very unsatisfactory.
The captain four sailors and one passen-
ger of the Spanish vessel which was cap
tured by natives off the coast of Morocco,
have been carried into the interior of the
country, it being the object of their captors
to sell them into slavery. The Spanish gov
eminent will make an immediate demand
on the Sultan of Morocco that the prisoners
be restored to liberty.
The glue manufacturers of the United
States who have an organization for mutual
protection held their fifth annual meeting
at Chicago on the 18th. The business trans
acted was of routine nature.
c. G. Borden was stabbed and instantly
killed at Andalusia, Ala, the other night in
the Campbellite church by John Endsley
Borden was in company with young
woman who had refused Endsley's atten
| ton.
The building in which the Western Unior
telegraph office is situated at Bangor, Me-.
was Quilted by fire the other night. 1t was
mostly occupied by offices. The loss will bt
quite heavy.
Mrs. Hiram Shell, Of Malad, Idaho, ha:
given birth to three boys and three girls
weighing altogether eight pounds, and al
bright and lively.
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