The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-01-07
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manufacturing company AZ SaVlisie'
Pa, were burned the other day. Loss
IS, 900; fully insured. A large number
Of men will be thrown out of work tenn
porarily.
c. s. S.oughton, of New York, was ar
rested at Indianapolis recently by a
United States Deputy Marshal and
taken to New York, charged with swind-
ling Mrs. letter out of 81, 900 in pen
sion transaction.
The Sultan of Vitu and his followers
have destroyed an English mission sta
tion on the Tana river. Several native
Christians were killed by the Sultan's
people.
The National League branch at Ar.
magh, Ireland, has repudiated Parnell
as leader of the Irish party.
Adolph Sterling, aged twenty-five.
formerly student at West Point, shot
himself recently at his home in Jamaica,
L. l. There is a possible chance of his
recovery. His father shot and killed
himself in the same house some time
ago.
Attorney General Miller has returned
to the President the papers in the case
Of the Worlds Fair. He found that all
the legal requirements of the case had
been complied with. The President will
now next inquire as to the sufticiency
of the financial guarantee.
A huge bulk of salt fell on young
man named Robert Hoy at the Bradley
salt works at Warsaw, N. j., the other
night while he was shoveling it into
cars, and smothered out his life.
At recent meeting in Philadelphia
of those interested in the Steel Patents
Company, which controls the patents
for making basic steel, it was decided to
sell to outside manufacturers the right
to use the process upon the payment OF
a royalty of one dollar per ton.
The Scotch railway men have decided
to go on strike next Sunday for shorter
hours. The prospect is that the rail-
ways will be tied up at the very time
when such an event will be most exas-
perating to the public, as the Christmas
week travel will be interfered with.
Hon. John M. Fleming, a well-known
editorial writer in Tennessee, with
whom Congressman Phelan had the cele-
brated controversy which ended by him
sending the editor challenge to fight a
duel, is lying very i'll at his hotel in
Knoxville, Tenn, with poor chances OF
recovery
The Morrison. Hanna & Allen Com.
pany, manufacturers of paints at 10 and
~ North Canal street, Chicago, have as
signed The liabilities are about $780,
900, with assets in excess Of thatamount.
The well-known French painter, Louis
Eugene Charpentier, is dead.
A terrific storm is raging along the
Jersey coast and much damage is being
done by the high winds and tides.
DR.. Neuer, of Denver, COL, is at Ber-
lin for the purpose of organizing staff
and securing the necessary equipment
for a Koch hospital which he proposes
to establish in the United States.
The question of immigration is excit-
ing lively interest in England, whittier
large numbers of Jews are hocking from
Russia. The British government has
instructed its consuls on the continent
to discourage such immigration.
The Treasury Department has de-
cided that importers Of merchandise i'm
ported and entered in bond prior to o.
tober 1, 1890, and now in bonded ware,
houses have the privilege of withdraw
ing either at the old or new rate Of duty,
The dock laborers Of Glasgow have
gone on strike. Their grievance is the
determination Of the employers to en-
ploy only non-union men.
At London the suit of Harry Marks,
editor of the Financial News. against
General Butterfeld for libel has ended
in verdict Of not guilty.
The Ways and Means Committee has
decided to report bill extending the
bonded period Of the tariff law from
February to July Of next yesr. The
bill is substitute for bill Of the same
purport introduced by Representative
Flower, of New York.
At Brooklyn, N. Y, on the 18th, Mrs
Matilda Dodge, seventy-two years Of
age. sister of General Tracy, Secretary
of the Navy, died very suddenly from
rheumatism of the heart She came
from Owego to Brooklyn to spend thu
holidays with her son.
f. B. LOOMS, commercial agent o
the United States at ST. Etienne
France, says in letter to the State De
partment that the French press is try
ing to excite its readers into state o
revengeful fury over what 1t calls tn
injustice of the Mckinley tariff act
Signor Crispi, the Italian Premier, ha
instructed the authorities to prompt.
suppress and prosecute all publication
printing seditious articles, whether pur
porting to be issued in the cause Of thu
church or otherwise This is locke,
upon as a menace to the Vatican.
In Leiningen, Germany, recently,
crowd Of people assaulted doctor VIII
administered an injection Of the Kocl
lymph to a patient who shortly after
wards died. The people believed tn
doctor had poisoned the patient VIII
proved, however, to have been in NOR
advanced stage Of consumption tha
had been supposed.
The use OF Prof. Koch's lymph will b
prohibited by the Russian medical coun
Gil until such time as the specific ha
been investigated under government
supervision.
Mr.. Labouchere in recent speec
said that London Tories paid Mr.. Pal
nell's election expenses in 1880. H
added that il the statement was cha
lenged he would produce the proof.
The court Of inquiry which has bee