The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1894-01-04
CONDENSED NEWS.

1
Pueblo, Mexico, is in a violent state of
eruption.
The America, the second BRAZILIAN
cruiser fitted out at New York, has ar
rived at Pernambuco,
The total output of Colorado gold
and silver mines increased in value
about 100000 last year, despite the
cry of silver barons .hat the State
WAS ruined.
Speaker Crisp has been quoted as
saying that he expected to see the
Wilson Bill reach the Senate by Feb
ruary l, and at the latest by the mid
die OF the month .ahfr2 &
An electric searchlight larger than
any in use will be made By a German
firm for the United States War De.
partment. II successful. Others will be
ordered for coast forifcations.
An athletic club was organized in
Atlanta yesterday which will make a.
bid for the Corbett. Mitchell fight if it
is not allowed to take place at Jack
sonville. There is no law against prize
fighting in Georgia.
Receipts of live stock at the Chicago
markets last year, as compared with
1892, show decrease of 43S,000 in the
number of cattle and 777,000 in the
number of hogs received. Sheep show
an inCrese of 100000
Five large iron mills at Pittsburgh
will resume operations this week. Civ
ing employment, to several thousand
men. About 800 employees will be
given work by the resumption of
knitting mills at Amsterdam, N. Y.
In an encounter between Miller Bis
hop and his son Willie, near Rocky
Hill, KY, the father was shot three
times and his throat cut, while the
son received several dangerous knife
wounds. Bishop brought on the
trouble by shooting his son through
the shoulder.
David Galloway, OF Washington,
will take rank in current history 40
one OF the most original drunkards
on record. He attempted to celebrate
Christmas by jumping down the
smoke-stack OF a movin~ locomotive
from the bridge which crosses the
Pennsylvania tracks in the grounds
OF the Smithsonian Institution.
Eleven convictions 80 far in the
trials for smuggling in the Northwest
have vindicated the action of Secre
tary Carlisle in summarily removing
the Republic n officials last summer.
1t has been proven that by the
conspiracy, in which customs collec.
tor, special Treasury agent and
others were involved, 1900 Chinese
laborers were illegally landed in eight
months
Joseph DOMAIN has been arrested at
Washinton for sending threatening
letters to Vice President Stevenson,
Senator Mills, and others, including,
by his own confession, the President.
He claims he wrote the letters because
he had no money and could not find
employment. When he learned, after
leaving Washington, that officers were
looking for him he returned to sur.
render.
Attorney General Olney established
a pleasant precedent in the Depart
ment OF Justice. He not only excused
all the employees at noon Saturday,
but in addition especially gladdened
the hearts OF messengers, firemen,
elevator conductors and charwomen
by giving each OF them an order for a
turkey for his or her Christmas dinner.
A frigid exterior sometimes covers
warm heart.
Gov. Fishback, of Arkansas. has
written an open letter to President
Cleveland, calling his attention to the
position of the Indian Territory as an
asylum for criminals and constant
menace to adjacent States. The
Governor suggests that the time has
come when the United States should
cast sentiment aside, and by exercis.
ing its right of eminent domain estab.
lish irresponsible government instead
of "the farces of governments which
now exist in the Territory"