The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-08-14
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

mary Jackson, coloreu, dled At Ithaca, N.
T., on the 26th, at the age Of 105 years.
w. 7, Graves, one Of the oldest and best
known bankers in New York State, died
suddenly at Auburn, N. Y, on the Goth
The Rhode Island House Of Representa-
tives has refused to concur in the Senate
amendments to the liquor bill and a con-
ference committee has been appointed.
The British war vessel Sultan, which
struck hidden rock and sank short time
ago near Malta, has been successfully raised
Secretary Tracy has accepted an invita-
ton to visit Secretary Blaine at Bar Har-
Dor, Me-, during the latter part of August.
The Postal Guide has heretofore been Of
little use to the pub ic, because it contains
matter interesting on to post-office off,
Gals. The Postmaster General will make
an effort to popularize it, beginning with
the August issue of the monthly supple
ment, by placing in it matter Of interest to
everybody. The August supplement will
contain summary in plain terms of the
more important rules and regulations of the
service, carefully prepared and indexed.
The hotel, two dwellings and the stores
of W. Bierce and T. II. Howell at Dandy,
N. Y, were burned on the Goth. Estimated
loss $4,000.
The directors of the Flint & Pere Mar
quette Railroad Company have declared a
semi-annual dividend of three per cent,
payable August Is.
At the Detroit Driving Park on the Goth
Guy was driven with arunning mate to beat
Maud s. best time, but failed to do it, max
ing the mile in 2:12ls.
j. L. Waterhouse has arrived at Chicago
from Honolulu, where he is wealthy mer-
chant and member of the Privy Council.
He says the reports of King Kalalxua's pow
erty are exaggerated. The Kings income
is about $50, 600 per annum. He does not owe
over Sl2O,0OO and intends to start for the
Paris Exposition in few weeks.
| In the House of Commons on the 26th
Mr.. Labouchere'e amendment was rejected
29S to ll6 The amendment was intended to
defeat the grants for the royal family.
At Winnipeg, Man, ON the Goth, the argu-
ments in the habeas corpus proceedings
brought by Burke were closed and the Judge
announced that he would give decision on
the goth.
| 1t is believed that the Indebtedness of
Lewis Bros. & Co. to concerns in Provi
dence, r. l., will amount to fully 81 100000.
The concerns interested declare they will
not be driven to assignment by the failure.
At Chicago the other day, the jury in the
case of Frank BONNIE, charged with the
killing of George Smith, returned a verdict
of guilty and sentenced the defendant to one
year IN the penitentiary.
| Rumors have been in circulation at New
York that Mary Anderson was confined. in
an insane asylum in England. A recent
cablegram denies the report and states that
Miss Anderson's health remains unchanged
The Treasury Department has refused to
allow the free entry of pair of candelabra
imported by Rev. O'Hara and claimed to be
exempt from duty under the provisions for
''works of art specially imported for pre-
sentation to religious corporation" They
were donated to the Church Of st. Mary, al
Syracuse, N. Y.
The Secretary of the Treasury has in
structed the collector of customs at New
Orleans to allow the twelve Chinese coolies
detained there under the Chinese Exclusion
act, to proceed by the Southern Pacific rail
road to San Francisco as tourists. This &C
ton is in accordance with the opinion rem
dered by the Attorney General.
An English syndicate has purchased five
of the six breweries in Paterson, N. j., fol
an aggregate of $2,3S0,000. The owners re-
tain third interest in the concerns.
A number of the wealthiest citizens Of
New York City met on the 25th at the may
or's Office and discussed plans for thu
Worlds Fair which it is proposed to hold il
that city in 1892. Four committees Of
twenty-five each were appointed, namely
on permanent organization, finance, legisla
tion and site.
The Secretary Of the Navy has awarded
the contract for furnishing 42S tons Of stee
for the new cruiser Maine to the Lindel
Steel Company of Pittsburgh, for s34, 753.
The Secretary of War has appointed {
board of officers to examine applicants fol
appointment as superintendent of nationa
cemeteries
The G. W. Loverin Company, wholesal,
grocers and general merchants, of Chicago
have assigned. The liabilities are abou
$50, 900 and the assets something more.
A voluntary petition in insolvency ha
been filed by Oliver s. Roberts, of Lynn
Mass, proprietor of the Franklin trottin,
park at Saugus The schedule shows sew
enty-four creditors. The total liabilities arr
500, 800. The assets are light.
The Secretary of the Navy has remitte,
the sentence imposed by a court martial Of
Past Assistant Paymaster Henry R. Smith
who disappeared from the Essex at New
York last April and who was not disoov
cred for several days. He was sentenced t
six months suspension from rank and duty
A freight train ran into an open switch i
the railroad yards at Frankfort, Ind, tn
other day, and the engine and five car
were completely demolished. When eng
neer Green saw the danger he threw his lii
tie fourteen-year- son through tn
window and then jumped himself. Neithe
were badly hurt.
At Fall River, Mass, on the 26th, a fir
broke out in building of the Durfee mill.
in the third story, occupied as cotto
house. The second story was occupied as
cloth room, and the boilers were in tn
room underneath, The damage to cotto
and cloth will be several thousand dollar
but is small on the building.
The English delegates to the Sociali'
convention in Paris known as the intern,
tional labor congress, have returned wit
no very exalted opinion Of their foreig
brethren who took part in the proceeding
They say that their continental associate
; are Eighty and care more about displayin
their oratorical powers than agreeing upo
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