The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-08-07
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

IAIe NEWS IIEMSs
Yellow fever has broken out at Colon, on
the 1sthmus of Panama.
Captain Thomas Britton, Sixth infantry,
has been placed on the retired list after
serving forty years in the army.
Archbishop Corrigan has been summoned
to Rome to give an account of his admins
tration of the New York diocese.
Oliver s. Roberts, of Lynn, Mass, hotel
keeper and sporting man, will go into in
solveDcy. Liabilities about $4,000.
An earthquake shock was felt on the 18th
on the island of Arran and on the mainland
Of Scotland. Houses were shaken.
The ship Premier, which has yellow fever
among its crew, has arrived at Saguenay,
Quebec. The captain j. dead and two OF
sailors are down with Z, disease. She will
be ordered to quarantine
At Puerto del Aqua. State Of Nuevo Leon,
Mexico, a fight recently took place between
party OF thirty smugglers and force of
custom house guards in which two guards
and three smugglers were killed.
General Grenfell has taken command of
the Egyptian troops. The Egyptians occupy
position two miles long near Bologna.
The artillery is in hecenter and the cavalry
is placed up the river in order to watch the
dervishes. The latter, numbering $500, oc-
cupy strong position. They are steadily
being reinforced.
| waterspout destroyed the town Of Chi
lapa, State of Guerrero, Mexico, the other
| day.
Eight Russian officers have arrived at Bel
grade Russian engineers are at work sur
veying the Austrian frontier.
s. A. Taylor, the new Commissioner of
Railroads, who succeeds General Johnston,
has assumed the dutiesof his office.
Prince Eugene, of Sweden, is on his way
home from Paris, where he has been study
ing art for two years. Besides art, he has
been devoting himself to the ebony skinned
Princess Kalkukani, of Hayt. and his visit
home is said to be to urge his father to sane
tion his marriage with the dusky Princess.
Fire in the second story of the building
at % and 25 Michigan avenue, Chicago, in
the rooms Of the indicator book and job
printing Office, on the 10Th, caused loss of
about $4,000. The Chicago Coffee Com
pahy's warehouse next door, however, was
flooded with water and the result was about
$4,000 damage.
Mr.. Benzon the English turfman, better
known as ''the plunger," has written book
with the title ''How Lost 4250,000 in Two
Years" Advance copies are selling for 8
halfguinea each and are in great demand.
NJ Proust, the French Minister of Fine
Arts, has written letter announcing the
withdrawal of the credit upon which he de
pended for the purchase of Millet's san
gelus." The picture now becomes the prop
| nptu Nf< haA ,,xn, A ~
John NJ Stehman, State Senator, who ha
been in ill health for some months, died OF
the 18th at his home in Rohrerstown, Pa.
aged sixty-nine.
The Schuylkill paper mill at Manyunk
Pa, owned by Frank Mcdonald, was burne,
on the 10th. Loss $4,000; insurance $4,000
The Grand Commander of the Knight
Templar of California, DR.. G. G. Mason
died at Chico on the 18th, after long i'll
ness.
A collision occurred the other day a
Grenoble, France, between a passenge
train and freight train on the Paris, Lyon
& Mediterranean railroad. Twenty person
were killed or injured.
The Comptroller of the Currency has au
thorized the First National Bank, of Cedar
town, Ga, and the First National Bank, 0
: McGregor, Tex, to begin business witt
capitals of $50, 900 each.
| At Paducah KY, the other day, the three
year old child of Italian parents, passenger
on the steamer Gus Fowler, fell overheard
Henry Shelton, colored fireman, spran
! into the river and caught the child, but
! chung to his neck in such a way that bot
! were drowned.
Harold M. Sewall, ex-Consul General
Samoa and an attache of the Samoan Con
mission at Berlin, has arrived in Washing
! ton direct from Europe He states that tn
treaty negotiated at Berlin is materially di1
ferent from any alleged synopsis which ha
yet been published.
4 The officers of the Baltimore & Ohio Raj
4 road Company report that its earnings fo
q the month of June for the Philadelphi
Q division were the largest it has ever made
1 They attribute this mostly to the johnston
Q food, but say they have had great deal c
d new business besides.
! At Jersey City, the other day, Mrs. Mar
) Brady was convicted of being commo
e scold. This is the first conviction for ths
|. offense in that city. Sentence was pos
8 poned.
The North German Gazette takes the o,
casion of the riot caused in Paris last SUI
day by the display of an Italian flag, to n
n mind the Italians that their interests al
with Germany and not France.
a The proprietors of hotel at Calais, Me
q have been served with legal papers on
, charge of importing help from Canada.
n will be test case affecting great numbt
@ of employers and employees in that vicinit.
:. The extensive car shops of the Eel rive
A division of the Wabash road, located |
" Butler Ind, were almost destroyed by fiji
Z recently, throwing over 100 men out Of en-
~ ployment Several fine coaches and mut
" valuable machinery were burned. The lo
u will be nearly 100000
"a George w. Norton, ST., the retired millio
"A aire banker and capitalist of Louisvill
KY, died on the 18th. He was the richie
"A man in Kentucky, possessing large real e
W tate interests in Chicago, Duluth, Cinci
4 natl, Louisville and elsewhere. He W
A. seventy four years Of age.
"A The Treasury Department has allow
"a the appeal of the importers on certain ste
/. plate shearings imported at PHILADELPHIA
a duty assessed at the rate of three-tenths
- cent per pound, claimed by the importe
At to be dutiable at forty five per cent ad V
"a loren. The merchandise in question co
a. sisted of pieces of steel cut from boil
= plates. ft
: The Treasury Department has approx,
" the action of the collector of customs
~ New York in assessing duty at the rate
:" twenty five per cent. ad valorem, and TIVE
~ ty per cent additional duty on certain 6
:, called watches. The merchandise consist
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