The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1893-06-21
Items of Interest from all
Parts of the World.

OF the question or adding 10 the rev.
enue by its establishment.
Mrs. Clara Weaver, aged q,
drowned her two children, aged 4
years and 6 months, respectively,
and herself in the shallow waters of
Buckeye Creek, near Fultonham,
o. Mrs. Weaver left a letter adj
dressed to her husband, in which
she stated that she had often tried
to nerve herself to the terrible
deed. She was crazy.
A receiver was appointed yester-
day morning for the Harvey
Worlds Fair Hotel and the Harvey
Home Improvement Company
Walter Thomas Mills is the
principal creditor. The assets of
the Home Involvement Company
are scheduled at Sal 800 and the
liabilities at $4,000, and tho assets
of the hotel company at $4,000,
with 100000 liabilities.
The passenger steamer Nyack,
which left Buffalo Saturday night
with a large excursion party for
the Worlds Fair, and which was
reported as having foundered,
arrived at Cleveland o., safely
Monday.
Heavy rains prevailed dnriug
the past week in Cuba, which have
caused the loss of all the potato
and onion crops in the lowlands of
Guines, and the markets are being
supplied from New Orleans and
New York.
About 60 feet of the State dam
across the Hudson river at Troy,
n. Y, gave way about 3 O'clock
Monday morning and the timbers
were carried a hundred yards
down stream. The water has fall
len from two to three feet above
the dam and is still receding. The
effect of the break will be to suS-
pend all navigation on the Cham
plain Canal.
AT Kansas City, Mo, the Kansas
City, Wyandotte & Northwestern
Railroad was sold at sheriff's sale
Monday, under foreclosure of a
mortgage for $lV'ItU
Near Chicago, under the pro.
lection of the militia, work on the
drainage, canal, where there was
rioting and bloodshed last week
quietly resumed Monday. Only
about One-third of the drainage
workmen put in an appearance,
however, the majority seeming tc
fear violence at the hands of the
striking quarrymen at LemOnt, OF
seeking to aid the quarrymen by
continuing the general cessation OF
work in the disturbed region.
The French Catholic Church al
st. Anne, l.,was struck by lighting
early Monday morning. The loss
reaches $4,000. This church en-
.oyed national reputation. L
WAS built II years ago, and it il
said that fully 10000 people from al
over the United State made {
pilgrimage to the shrine of st
Anne annually. They claim tt
have a finger bone of the Virgin
Mary, and tradition is that it i
possessed of healing powers.
WASHINGTON, ID. G. June l6, 1898
Especial to the TIMEs,)-Not since
the shooting of President:Garfel
has Washington passed through
such week of sensational excite
ment as that just ended. I've aw
full calamity in Ford's old Theater
where President Lincoln was killed
by which q tmen lost their live
and 6S were wounded sent thrill
of chilling horror through every one
which has.since been intensified b,
the belief that it was directl,
caused by the carelessness and neg
ligence of one man, and that man
actions have increased rather thar
diminished that belief. The mar
referred to is Col. Ainsworih, VIII,
is in charge of the Records and Pen
sions office of the War department
which occupied the wrecked build
ing. Owing to his appearing at tn,
coroner's inquest accompanied b.
lawyer and attempting to intimi
. date his clerks who had been sum
mond to testify he made yer,
narrow escape from being lynched
He next caused a new sensation b,
appealing to the courts for a man
damus, which was refused him, t
cOmDel the coroner to allow hin