The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1895-08-01
CONDENSED NEWS.


dians.
The armored British cruiser, Power
full, the largest ever built, was launched
at Barrow last week.
"A company has been incorporated
at Nashville to start n morning news
paper that will advocate free silver.
"A final decree was entered at Chica-
go last week for the sale OF the Whisky
Trustproperty and the wiping out OF the
once powerful monopoly
The property of the Jellico and Bird
Eye Coal Company was sold by Mr.. L. II.
Halsey, assignee, for $175,00 to w. w.
Hill, who bid it in fer the hondholders.
The heRchm0ndState QuotesSecretary
Carlisle In an interview to the effect that
he does not want the nomination for
president, and will certainly do nothiug
toward getting it,
The executive committee OF the
Alabama Populists recommended fusion
with the Republicans, provided a straight
Populist be put up for governor to head
the piebald ticket.
Col. Silas Titus, of the Twelfth New
York Volunteers, gave a dying injunc-
tiOn to his son to return a Confederate
flag to the Virginia regiment from which
it was captured by Col, Tltpa' troops in
1862.
1T Is announced that the value of
| (pturity which will be run ot Sleeps
head Bay August "a will be 67,S6O.
Among the c0ntenders for this fortune
will be Mr.. August Belmont's SaT,000
| colt HaetinUc TIM u,nndacFn1 ,,nhno N
son Of Flambeau' Crescendo, McCaffer-
ty's Applegate and Pull Dwyer's Han
over colt handspring.
No reliable report has yet been re-
ceived from the scene of the reported
Indian outbreak in Wyoming. The
United States troops are marching to the
region, and three r9mpanies of infantry
have heen sent to Market Lake, the
nearest RAILROAD station, to be held as a
reserve force.
I'm the suit to test the divorces grant,
ed by the probate Judges Of Oklahoma
the sHpremR eeurt OF the territory has
affirmed its former decisions on the sub
jeot, holding that all such divorces are
void and that subsequent marriages oil
the persons so separated are Illegal.
The Carnegie wire-nail mills a.
Beaver Falls, Pa, have been purchased
by the Consolidated Steel and Wire
Company, of Chicago. for reported
price of $685. 900. This is said to be tht
first instance Of the Car9egle Company
SeIliIg o e9mpany bearing its name.
1t was reported at Memphis Sunda!
night that the big steamship belle o
/ Memphis, which runs between Memphl
and St. Louis, had gone down with tort,
| of her eightYsilye passengers, The re
part could not be confirmed; nethe
could 1t be traced to any reliable source
-Sound-money men made no attemp
I to secure representation in the Missour
Democratic State convention, for whicl
delegates were chosen Saturday. The
/ will stand aside and let tho free slve
men haVe plenty Gf Faam.
q Wholesale gr0cers of Atlanta have re
fused to boycott the Louisville and Nash
, Vile railroad, as has been done at sew
eral points on account of alleged unfai
dealing in the matter of rates.
r Reports have not heretofore indicat
ed a very serious state Of affairs In Jana
4 an aGe9YAt pf tho cholera, but it is noN
/ said thai there have been 5000 case
4 and 1000 deaths,
q "A ahip loaded with cannon, rife
and ammunition Is on Its way from Phlla
delphla to Cuba, having been fitted OF
by agents OF the Cuban insurgents.
Nine thousand Hebrew tailors in Ne,
York struck Sunday, claiming that I'll
contractors had broken thelr agreemeT
with the taiiors' union. " + 7
Mrs. Stanford viii sell the Palo AN
stock III order to raise money for r0l
ming the Leland Sanford University dR
ing tAp Aekt term;
There was a decrease of 81 1850, ,s07
the internal revenue collections in Kel
tgckY during the last fiscal yeas. II
AopIsVilIe district still ranks second
tho United States In the amount OF tt
paid which was $40, 10T,D9S The tot
for all the States was Sl43,S45, ,977, d
crease of $3,9s2,47
The report of the commissioner OF /
ternal revenue shows that the amou
paid under the income tax law before
was inyalidatedd Wag STll4o' Tho 60
oI eollegting this, which included Il
~ Preliminary PREPARATIONS for enfotcil
le the law, was $SS,7S9. N
lg THE treasury department has deci
t. ed that the preyepti0n Gf tha pF4pes
ig bull fghts VI tha Atlanta Byppsiti0n
q pr9hiblti6g the bulls From being bro1g
at ipt9 the Country from Mckee Is no pa
be- Of Its business,
NO Tho south Rend, Ind, Waolen Co
ra paRy and the New York Mills Cott
nd Company have voluntarily advanced t
al. wages Of their employees.
,et Mexico may have to make explar
nd tions to Great Britain for the seizure
nd two British sloops on charge of viol
m. ing the customs laws.
to The firing across the bows of t
wo schooner lane by a Spanish gbnhoat
jv my beaR 6fRFIall$ 'fRfarfEa NJ Wapsshii
w THE Alabama Ropulsts and frees
W. yer Republicans have decided to hoIt
silver convention vt Birmingham In
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