The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-01-09
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

The civil service stores on queen VIC |
toria street, London, were nearly destroyed
by fire the other day. The loss is 10000.
The millers' convention at Milwaukee has
adopted resolution cutting down the out
put of -four during the month OF January.
The President has nominated John +.
Hartridge, Of Jacksonville, Fla, to be
United States District Judge for the North
ern district of Florida.
The westbound Santa Fe train when near
Santa Anna, Cal, the other day, struck
buggy in which were Joseph q. BARLEY, his
wife and two daughters. All four were in
stantly killed.
The Court Of Claims has given Judgment
for $40, 67S In favor Of the New York Cen
trail Railroad Company in its suit against
1.-THE Government for the refund of internal
revenue taxes.
Memorial services for the late Genera
Philip H. Sheridan were held the other day
in fremont Temple, Boston They were
very simple. General F. A. Walker dellV-
cred the eulogy.
Men are swarming through the gas terri
tory near Wabash, Ind, taking oil leases
from farmers. Much valuable territory is
already leased to foreign companies 1t Is
believed that these privileges will some day
be worth more than the farms on which
they are granted, and that many OF the
farmers could make themselves independ-
emily rich by holding on to their land. 1t Is
understood that the Standard Oil Company
is the principal operator in the work OF Sc
curing these leases.
Hon. Perry Belmont the newly accredited
Minister to Spain, has sailed on the French
steamship La Normandie for Havre, en-
| route for Madrid, where he will assume his
duties.
| j. s. Fussel's house at Charles City, Ia,
| together with a large barn, forty tons OF
hay, thirty head of cattle and horses and
| hogs, were consumed by fire recently. There
was.no insurance on the property.
| The liberal committee of Utah has issued
an address to the country, calling attention
| to the fact that the Gentiles unanimously
oppose the Mormon Statehood plan indorsod
| by the recent Democratic caucus, on the
ground that polygamy is still supreme lin
| Utah, and to give her Statehood now would
be a Mormon victory The committee claims
| to represent Republicans and Democrats
alike.
j. Metz, one Of the men who tried to rob
the Peoples bank of Denver the other day,
has been identified as Little Horace"
| Hovan, a noted bank thief, and his COM
panion, who escaped, is Walter Stewart,
alias Sheridan, alias Ralston, who came to
Denver fifteen years ago wealthy. became
bank director, lost his fortune by fast living
and degenerated into swindler and notori-
GUS bank robber
Two shifting engines on the Concord rail-
road collided near Concord. N. H., recently
and engineer James L. Williams was killed,
engineer Frank Flanders badly injured and
fireman F. W. Quimby less severely hurt.
The accident was due to thick fog.
Thirty-three head of livestock and 400
bushels of wheat, together with hay and
farming utensils. burned with the barn OF
Samuel Drennen, in Little Britain town.
ship, Lancaster County, Pa, the other
night. A thief took horse and fired the
barn to cover his tracks.
1t is asserted that all of the cryptography
in possession of the various German en-
oassies and consulates emanating from the
late Emperor Frederick which was found
to be missing and supposed to have been
lost, after the Emperor's death, was in fact
burned by order of the government.
A. G. Owen, aged seventy-nine years, an
old and respected citizen of Mason City, Ia,
is out with a challenge to any man OF
seventy-nine in the United States to run
: him forty or eghty-rod race, and at the
end of the race jump and strike his heels to
gether three times. He will wager $500 tc
$4,000 on the result
, Twenty-four suits have been entered in
the District Court at Davenport, Ia, against
L Do al Toll \, 40 ood
by Attorney General Baker in the name Of
the State of Iowa. The charge is extortion
ate freight rates and the allegation asks S.,
900 damages on each of the twenty-foul
suits, amounting in the aggregate to sl2O,0OO
R. NJ Hall, nephew of Senator Colquitt
, Of Georgia, recently appointed government
inspector of surveys at Denver, Col, ha'
been arrested for selling railroad passes an(
, "beating" hotels out Of board bills
Lord Harrington delivered speech il
Liverpool recently In reply to Mr.. Glad
stone, asserting that it would be impossibl,
l for the tenant farmers Of Ireland, In even
of Irish home rule, to elect just parlia
/. mont
@ In consequence, II Is said, Of business
n troubles, Morris Jacobs, tailor, forty
\ seven years Of age, doing business at IL
\ Fulton street, New York, shot himself il
: the head at his home on the 18th and die,
| Immediately after.
William Ritter, wealthy young farme
: of Mclean County, Ill.,, has been sentences
to five years in the State prison for killin
his hired man, JEFF Adkins, few month
Q ago. Ritter quarrelled with Adkins owe
r ten dollars difference in accounts and sho
Q him.
!, The bi-centennary Of the siege Of London
: derry by the French forces under James II
of England, was celebrated in that city o.
Q the 18th with much enthusiasm The mayo
4 and the citizens marched In procession I
&. the cathedral, the mayoress presented To- tn
I city two new flags to replace those capture
a by the French, and sermon appropriate t
y the occasion was preached.
Samuel Davis, the twenty-two-year-o oil
J. son Of William Davis, a wealthy farmer
fifteen miles north of Jacksonville, Ind
was found dead the other day with his nee
caught between the palings Of a fence. H
0 had started to the barn to feed the stock
n and in climbing over the fence slipped. Hi
)! neck, catching in the palings was broker
k He was to be married Christmas.
: OWN & to fears that the Panama Cans
r Company's difficulties may give rise to di.
r orders on the lsthmus the French govern
d ment has decided to send a man-of-war I
u Colon to protect French interests. 1t is e,
q pected the United States will send two wa
y ships to Colon.
Two freight trains on the Nickel Plat
= road collided near Fort Wayne, Ind, tn
!. other day. The locomotives and thrice
cars were derailed and badly DAMAGE
Some of the cars were loaded with dresse