The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-01-29
LATE NEWS ITEMS.


at Rochester, Ind, burned recently.
Loss, $4,000; insurance, Sl,500
Fire at Baltimore the other day caused
a loss to johnson, Boyd & Co., dealers in
notions and white goods, of $50, 900; fully
insured
Senator Lapham died at Rochester, n.
Y. the other day.
One hundred employees of the Bureau
of Engraving and Printing at Washing
ton are suffering from la grippe and
thirty presses are idle in consequence.
In Athol Mass, there are over 800
cases of la grippe. The leading physi-
clans are i'll, several schools are closed
and the factories are running short
handed.
The Brazilian government has Il sued
decree promulgating the separation OF
Church and State, guaranteeing religl-
Gus equality and continuing the life
stipends granted under the monarchy.
Herman Long, the noted Kansas City
short stop, has signed a five years con-
tract with the Boston League club.
Ann Eliza Conklin, nurse, was found
dead in her bed at Washingtonville, N.
Y, the other night. She had been suffo-
Gated by coal gas.
La grippe is rapidly spreading in Lon
don, Ont, the cases numbering over
1000. Several physicians are down with
the disease. Business houses are suffer-
ing for lack of help, many employees
being on the sick list.
A dispatch from Port Townsend,
Wash, states that the steamer Wide
West has been wrecked on Destruction
Island. Puget Sound. The steamer is
reported total loss, but the officers and
crew have been rescued.
Senate Committee on Naval Affairs
has agreed to report favorably the bill
giving medals to the survivors OF the
Greedy relief expedition. 1t has also
agreed to report favorably the nomina-
ton of ensigns in the navy.
The strikers at Charleroi, Belgium,
now number nearly $4,000.
There were All deaths in Brooklyn, N.
Y, during the past week, an increase OF
| III over the previous week.
Eight persons were drowned at Lu-
beck, Germany, the other day by break"
ing through the ice while skating.
Rear Admiral Walker, in a dispatch
to the Navy Department, reports the ar
rival Of the squadron of evolution at
Lisbon after stormy voyage. The dis
patch confirms the previous good re-
reports of the sea-going qualities of the
new cruisers.
Pension Commissioner Raum has had
an examination made of the files of the
Pension Office and finds that there are
now pending in the Pension Bureau AGO.
516 unad Indicated claims, classified as
follows: Invalid claims, 1872, 955; widows
claims, 1880; invalid increase claims,
1897 widows increase and accrued
claims, 2,415.
Auer g. Ring, furriers at No. 215 Race
street, Cincinnati, have assigned. Liza
bilities, SIS, 900; assets, $4,000.
The furniture establishment of Ruff
& Kuggler at Sandusky, o., burned the
other night. Loss, 100000; insurance
sos, 600.
The bingham mills of the Norton
Manufacturing Company in Walpole
Mass, were totally consumed by fire the
other day. Loss $4,000.
There have been thirteen deaths from
pneumonia in Rochester, N. Y, since
the 4th inst. The highest number o.
deaths from pneumonia reported for any
month during last year was eleven
Physicians believe the disease in most
if not all cases, results from the grippe
The following nominations have beer
confirmed by the Senate: j. r. Pitkin
Louisiana, Minister to the Argentine
Republic; Clark F. Carr, Illinois, Minis
ter and Consul General to Denmark; w
w. Bates, New York, Commissioner o
Navigation; Samuel N, Halliday. o
Pennsylvania, Commissioner of Customs
Three hundred inmates of the reform
school at Eldora, Ia, have been exposed
to diphtheria and about $50 cases of tn
disease exist at Fort Dodge.
The yearly report of Captain Moore
landing agent of the port of New York
shows that there were landed from Eu
rope during 1889: 96,6S6 cabin and 315,
227 steerage passengers in total mum
Der of S9l trips.
: The Commercial National Bank Q
Bradford. Pa, capital 100000; the Bi
Sandy National Bank of Catlettsburg
KY, capital 100000, and the First Ma
:. tional Bank of Middlesboro, KY, capi
tai $50. OOO have been authorized to be
: gin business.
The Boston League club has signe
Thomas j. Tucker, of last years Bait
: more club, for the season of 1890. Tuck
: er received 81, 500 in cash for signing an
will receive $4,000 per annum.
Andrew Dillon, catcher for the oil
Maple Leaf Base Ball Club, and fc
s several years playing with professions
n clubs in the United States, died recen
: ly at Guelph, Ont, of typhoid fever.
h All the buildings, machinery and er
d gines at the hosting works of tn
Anchor mine in Park City, Utah, wer
n burned the other day. The loss wi
s amount to many thousands of dollars.
n A dispatch from Zanzibar states tina
d there is much excitementa and conjectur
s there over the constant arrivals of Bri
ish men-of-war. The British fleet no
9 in those waters is said to be the larges
n ever assembled.
a There are thousands of cases Of
j grippe in Minneapolis and st. Paul, br
n up to date no fatalities have been n
ported. There have been some death
nhere the natient had the influenza hl