The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1895-12-05
CONDENSED NEWS.

lOI ON yIud'
Alexander Dumas died last Wednes
doy evening at Paris from cerebral alb
cess.
Gonzales, the Cuban leader, has been
sentenced to death and some of his fol-
lowers to Imprisonment.
The Trans-MississippiC Congress lifted
UP its voice for 16 to silver. Honora-
BILE W. j. Bryan led the chorus.
Ex-Congressman BANDS proposed
lecture at Savannah, Ga, on free silver
was declared off, one seat having been
sold.
The net receipts of the YalePrince-
ton football game last Saturday were
$38,005 Each college will receive $14,-
100 as its share.
The Cherokee house of representa-
tives passed bill denying the rights of
member of the nation to white men
marrying into the tribe.
Herr Stadthagen, socialist member
of the Reichstag, has been sentenced to
years imprisonment for libelling the
Prussian ministers and police
The motorcycle race from Chicago to
Evanston and return, was run in the
snow and slush Thursday The Dur
yea gasoline motorcycle finished first.
Severe storms have been raging in
the Black Sea. Eighty lives have been
lost, and it is feared many vessels have
gone down. The damage on land
amounted to 10000, coo roubles.
The New York Central will next week
shorten the time of the Empire State
express twenty-five minutes between
New York and Buffalo It is even now
the fastest train in America.
Eleven socialist clubs have been clos
ed by the Berlin police, and an editor,
DR.. Forester, has been sentenced to
three months Imprisonment for pub
fishing an Objectionable article.
Herr Otto Ehlers, a noted African
explorer, with twenty native members
Of his expedition, have been drowned
in British Guiana. Herr Ehlers was
an intimate friend of Emperor William.
Peter McGeoch, O Milwaukee capi-
taiist and daring speculator, who
made, lost and regained several for
tunes, committed suicide to avoid the
scandal following threatened divorce
suit.
Lebanon, KY, was badly scared last
week by the discovery that farmer
had sold to grocers the meat of hog
that had been bitten by mad dog. The
meat was gathered up before any had
been sold to consumers.
At Atlanta Thursday, Senator Till.
man contributed to the celebration ol
South Carolina day in a speech de.
nouncing the president, and Governor
Evans proclaimed that the south pro
posed to rule this country.
In O sermon Thursday DIR. Charles
II. Parkhurst demanded the immediate
trial and hanging of the boys whC
wrecked New York Central train, an(
attacked "incendiary sheets" for publ
cations that encourage lawlessness.
A compromise has been reached be
tween the Cherokee nation and the col
ored residents of the Cherokee country
by which the latter are to get $13, ,0O0,
coo of the money received for the strip
besides an interest in the unsold lands
Colonel Lamb, Of Norfolk, was yes
terday chosen by Virginia republican,
to succeed the late General Malone a
leader of the party in the state. H,
was elected chairman of the state com
IHnittee and -Nrginia's representative OF
J $lG0atleEa1ll Committee.
ptslkFA2y Smith, of the interior de
partment, urges the necessity of elm
mating politics from the management
OF Indian affairs and suggests plal
for the reorganization of the Indian bu
reau. He proposes three commission
ees to have charge Of Indian affairs, in
stead Of one.
The ranort az the secretarr nf the in