The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1894-06-14
CONDENSED NEWS.

The bank at Oberly, Kansas, has
failed.
President Cleveland is slightly in
disposed.
ChieI Justice Coleridge, OF England
is critically i'll.
Mrs. Mary Lease is quite sick, but
che is still in politics.
Ohio troops in the field are said to
be suffering for want Of food.
The Columbia was demaged TO the
extent Of 100000 by her trial tip.
The sugar trust investigating com.
mittee continued its labors yesterday.
A general tieup of the Wheeling
& Lake Erie road may come at any
moment.
Four persons lost their lives in a
wreck on the Canadian Pacific, near
Fort William yesterday.
The President has sent 10 the SEN
ate the nomination of w NJ. Dunklee
to be postmaster at Christiansburg, Va.
Vendig, OF the Duval athletic Club,
says Jackson is reticent about meet
ing Corbett at Jacksonville, alleging
he will not ges fair play.
John Cane, a Chicago timer, while
crazed by drink, cut four men with an
axe and almost killed Policeman Fitz.
gerald before he was arrested.
A sharp grocer in Chicago has a
corner on fancy apples and is holding
them at $50 barrel This is about
twelve and half cents apiece.
The store OF ]. B. Davis, dealer in
general merchandise, was burned out
at Brunswick last night. The loss is
$4,000; fully covered by insurance,
Kansas City had a 100000 fire in
West Bottoms last night. Buiord &
Georges and the Keystone Implement
Company's warehouses were burned.
Near Selma, Ala, Paul Frasier and
David Johnson drank out of demi.
john what they supposed to be whis-
ky. 1t was aconite and in few min
utes they were dead.
Reports from Montana. west oil
Helena, indicate bad condition OF
affairs due to high water Much dam
age has been done to railroads, and
people are actually suffering for want
of food.
Three leaders Of an organized band
OF freight car robbers in Indiana have
confessed. The mysterious disappear.
ance Of Claude McAlphin, of Washing
ton, Ind, was also explained. He had
detected the robbers, and to save
themselves he was bound and gagged
and locked in freight car destined
for Mexico.
United States Minister Taylor, al
Madrid, has notified the Spanish Gov
ernment that customs duties are i'm,
properly collected in Cuba owing to q
misinterpretetion of the treaty with
tie United States and that, as a result
the United States claims reimburse
ment Ct about "a, 100000 thus irregu
larly collec ed.
There wa4 no more lawlessness
among the miners of Sullivan county
Ind yesterday. and it is believed the
force OF militia will be reduced today
A meeting at Shelburn last nigt pledg
ed obedience to the laws il the troops
were sent home. 1t is the belief thai
the strike will soon be settled the mer
being willing to accept reduction o.
five cents per ton.
Eleven companies of West Virgins
militia have been ordered to Marshal
county, where rioting miners have
seized train and completely blocked
traffic on the Baltimore and Ohio rail
road. Immediately across the river il
Ohio the militia OF that State is Oh
guard preventing lawlessness tina
broke out couple Of days ago. AL
is quiet on the Ohio side.
In a speech at st. James Hall, Lon
don Last night, Lord Salisbury accuses
the Liberals of being afraid to appes
to the country on the Home Rul
question, saying they would not fin
another Parnell OF Gladstone. He ais
criticised the budget proposals of tn
Government, declaring them to be tn
most superficial and in every way th
worst ever presented to Parliament.
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