The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1893-08-24
CONDENSED NEWS

Congressman James P. Dunn of
New Jersey is critically i'll 4 he,rt
failure at his home Elizabethport
Charles I. 0Farrel was Friday
nominated for Governorby the Yir
ginia Dem cratic convention, and R.
G. Kent for Lieutenant Governor
The four national banks at Lemars,
Iowa, failed to open their doors last
Saturday. They'are said to be solvent
and expect to pay dollar for dollar.
There we're 455 commercial failures
throughout the Umted States during
the past seven days, ending last Satur-
day, as compared with l92 the cores
bonding week last year.
Worlds Fair officials estimate tina
the daily receipts from all sources now
average SS0,000 The operating ex-
penses are in the neighborhood Of $751;
900 daily, and The net revenue OF $685.
600 is expected by the direct RS to
: enable them to clear up all bonded
and floating Indebtedness by the close
OF the Fair,
The suspension of businessis caus-
: ing great suffering in many localities.
: The coal miners at Colburn, Va, are
reported to be in starving condition,
] being driven to theft by their want
4 and causing the people in the neigh
o borhood to guard their cornfelds and
s gardens with shotguns and y inches
!. tiers.
{ The Chicago postal employees were
paid their salaries last week in gold,
the amount being $4,000. Sub Treas
y urer Tanner stated that the Govern
ment, hereafter, intended to pay reg
ularly in gold, the change of policy
= being made under instructions from
: Secretary Carlisle and being due to the
e surplus OF the yellow metal in the
II Treasury.
. Frank D. Jackson, of Des Moi0eF,
was nominated for Governor by the
!, Iowa Republicans. The convention
= sought to evade responsibility on the
Prohibition question, but in reality
reversed the Iowa Republican policy
: on that question The platform at
- tributes the present financial condi
ion of the country to the Democratic
= tassults upon the protection theory
favors bimetallsm and declares that
= "Prohibition is no test of Republican
!, e ism"
20 A stakeholder ii the Northern
Sc Pacific railroad has retained counse
n to bring suit against Henry Willard
Y. Edwin H. Abbott, Charles T. Colby
ID and Colgate Hoyt, of the Northern
as Pacific directory. The sensational al
III legation is to be made that they
it bought for the railroad company
l. properties belonging to themselves
thus realizing as individuals $4,000,
600 profits, while the railroad los
k. heavily. Mr. Willard denies the charger
in toto.
Consul General Mason, of Frank
'al fort, Germany, has made report t.
ne the State Department, in which h
10 says that under the new tariff not onl
~ will Germany cease to draw iron
or Russia the supplies of rye ant
oe petroleum, every year amounting t
al many millions OF dollars, but, OWN
'ae to the drouth, will haye serious d.
ng felt this year in her own home Gro
ie' of grain, which will call for yer
Ivy large importation Of breadstuffs frol
Ih' the United States.
We The bill agreed upon by a majorit
zen OF the Finance committee was n
on ported favorably to the senate la
4rt. Friday by Chairman Voorhees,. TIL
bill repeats the purchasing clause
the Sherman acs and has appende
ers the declaration pledging the goverI
,rk ment to bimetallic policy. Senate
ass Vest, on behalf OF the minority Of II
ich committee, presented a substitute f
HE the bill providing for the free colnae
out OF silver at the ratio of 90 to /.