The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-08-28
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The Porte has decided to proclaim state
Of siege In Crete.
John H. Gale, late clerk in the Plympton,
o., post-ofice, has been arrested for tan-
pering with the mails.
The New Mexican constitutional conven-
ton, which meets at Santa Fe September 8,
will be solidly Republican, there having
been no opposition.
Advices from Mexico state that the pris-
oners confined at San Juanaulloa revolted
and the troops shot twenty, quelling the up
rising.
Mayor Grant, Of New York, has received
the first subscription to the projected exhi-
bition of 1899 in the shape Of the New York
Suns check for $4,000. - ~
Samuel billiard, of p, lladelphia, has been
elected Grand Chancellor of the Knights Of
Pythias of Pennsylvania; L. g. Bishop Of
Warren, Grand Vice Chancellor, and John
]. Davis, of Pittsburgh, Master-at- Arms.
The naval officers constituting the board
to which was referred the official report on
the trial Of the gunboat Petrol have rec
commended to theISecretary Of the Navy that
the contractors be allowed to make another
trial of the vessel.
The Comptroller of the Currency has de-
clared fourth dividend Of ten per cent. in
favor of the creditors of the Fifth National
Bank, of st. Louis, which failed Nov ember
Z, 1887. This makes in all ninety per cent
on claims proved, amounting to Sl0S,625.
Forty Russian peasants, comprising all
the inhabitants of small village in the
government of Kursk, have been arrested
70 h,,p will IN, N RI oh
tain the insurance. They made no secret
Of their plans gathered, together such of
their effects as the wished to save, awaited
favorable wind and applied the torch.
The total number Of cotton mills, spindles
and looms in operation in the South on July
81, 1889 as compared with 1880, is as follows:
Mills, 1853; spindles, 2,035, 26S; looms As, 0O1.
For 1880: Mills, 16, spindles, 6S7 ,S54; looms,
1923.
The court at Dublin has refused the appli
cation for writ Of habeas corpus in the
case Of Mr.. Charles Conybeare, member OF
Parliament, who was sentenced to three
months Imprisonment for conspi ring to OPP
pose the law.
In December, 1883, Commissioner Of Agri-
culture Coleman appointed special com
mission for the investigation Of epidemic or
rather epizootic diseases of swine. The COM
mission has just completed its report to Sec
rotary Rusk.
A court-martial has been ordered to con-
vene at Newport, R. l., on the 14th inst. for
the purpose Of trying Lieutenant John q.
Irving. There are four charges against this
officer: Scandalous conduct, drunk and dis
orderly, neglect of duty and absenting him
self from his work without leave.
R. B. F. Pearce, Of Indianapolis, has been
appointed receiver Of the Indianapolis, De-
catur & Western railroad, on petition Of the
trustees of the first mortgage bonds.
Captain Jennings, of the steamship Colina,
at Quebec from Glasgow, reports having
passed 800 icebergs, ITO at one time being
counted between Belle Isle and Point Ar
mour eiAH sI H -3
John W. Hardee, for five years probate
Judge of Towner County, OAK, has disap-
peared, leaving large indebtedness. He is
supposed to be in Canada A warrant has
been issued for his arrest.
The young and talented opera singer Of
Berlin, Catherine Micholsann, while on q
visit to Vienna last week, committed sui
eide by shooting herself with pistol She
was twenty three years Of age and re-
nowned for her beauty as well as for her
talents. No cause for the rash act is as
signed.
The popular movement in Liverpool and
elsewhere in England, to obtain reprieve
for Mrs. Msybrick is assuming enormous
proportions The verdict is attributed en-
tirely to the judges charge, which in the
last two hours of its delivery was charac-
terized by virulence which exceeded even
that of the prosecution.
| Hon. Jonathan Bourne, who died recently
at New Bedford, Mass, was the originator
of the Bourne cotton mill at Tiverton, X.
l., where the plan Of giving the operatives
share of the profits is now being tried.
Secretary Noble has requested the Secre-
tary of War to take such action as he may
deem necessary to keep intruders out Of
that portion of the Sioux Indian reservation
which these Indians have agreed to surren-
der to the United States.
Signor Beneditto Carroll, the eminent 1tal-
ian statesman, twice Prime Minister of Italy,
died at Naples on the 9Th, aged sixty-two
years. Signor Carroll fought with Carl
baldi and was wounded at Palermo in 1860.
In 1878 he was stabbed while protecting the
person Of King Humbert
Benjamin F. Spandauer, who was the
principal witness against Mrs. Surratt,
hanged at Washington in 1865 on the charge
of conniving at the, assassination Of Presi-
dent Lincoln, died ON the Sth in the Mary
land penitentiary.
The heaviest rain storm experienced IN
many years, accompanied by wind and hail,
passed over Mazeppa, Mimi, the other day,
blowing down many trees, chimneys and
outbuildings The loss to farmers on small
grain will be large.
Ex-Attorney General Garland has been
appointed resident attorney Of the Northern
! Pacific Railroad Company at Washington,
at a salary it is said of 81, 900 per year.
The Secretary Of the Navy has awarded
the contract for furnishing the Washington
navy yard with an electric lighting plant to
the Brush Electric Company for SlS, 795.
A congress of BARRIERS Of the German en-
pire have just concluded q weeks session
in Posen. Delegates were present from
1881 towns and cities Of Germany, repre-
senting nearly 10000 BARRIERS. A minimum
price for shaving, and no more hair cut
! ting Sundays are among the moro impor
tant edicts of this new trust.
/ Surgeon General Hamilton is in receipt Of
q letter from DIR. Porter, Of the State Board
of Health of Florida, in which he requests
that all foreign vessels seized by revenue
officers, when from infected ports, may be
taken to Dry Tortugas and there thoroughly
disinfected and cleaned before being al
lowed to enter any customs port Of the State
f, Of Florida.
It is believed that sack, the PEPPER"