The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1895-08-22
THE NEWS TO DATE.

Ihe Republicans oil Maryland, nom
mated Lloyd Lowndes for governor.
Many of the. finest trees in Chica-
mauga national park have been torn
up by storm.
Gen. j. D. Imboden, the noted Cor
federate cavalryman, died atAbingdop,
Va, last week.
The bond syndicate deposited ST..
G50.0O0 in gold in the sub treasury in
New York last week.
Another so called rival to Mammoth
Cave has been discovered in Edmon.
son county, Kentucky.
Heavy rains in Kansas have in.
creased the already enormous esti.
mates of the corn crop.
The Moorehead-Mt Clean iron COM
pany has started its plant at Pittsburg,
after an idleness Of four yeas.
The Bank Of Shelby at Memphis
closed It's doors and placed its assets
in the hands of trustee last week.
Defaulting Treasurer Taylor, Of
South Dakota, has been sentenced to
FIVE years imprisonment at hard la.
Dor.
1t is said that sufficient money is at
hand to keep ten thousand men en-
ployed on the Panama canal for two
years.
The Missouri, Kansas & Texas Rail.
road has paid $4,000 for 900 reserved
seats at the Corbett. .Fitzsimmons fight
at Dallas.
The Mexican authorities caught a
band OF robbers, shot seventeen OF
them and impressed forty OF them
into the Mexican army.
The property of the whiskey trust
was sold at auction last week. There
was unly one bid, and The property
went to the reorganization committee
for $9,SC0OOO.
d. G. Hill, county superintendent OF
public instruction, and w. M, Elege,
trustee of Jefferson county, Tenn, are
under arrest charged with raising
county warrants.
Five OF the participants in the Ku
CheDg outrages have been arrested,
but the Chinese government is in a
state Of helpless confusion, and not
much is expected from its efforts.
A newspaper recently published in
Pawhussa, Usage nation, has been
suppressed by the government Indian
agent and the editor banished, on the
ground that he had abused the In
dams.
The Southern Railway and Steam.
ship Association is to be succeeded by
the Southern States Freight Associa.
tio1. Mai E. B. Stahlman will be a
candidate for re election as commits.
sioner.
1t is reported az Lexington, KY.
that Judge James II. Mulligan, al
present United States consul gene RAJ
at Samoa, is to be made consul gene.
raj at Vienna, to succeed Max Judd
OF St Louis.
When Timothy Harrington said in
the House OF Commons last week thai
the Liberal party had fled from home
rule, DR.. Tanner shouted that ths
statement was lie, and was put ou
of the house for disorderly conduct.
Here goes for the second round O
raises. The Riverside Tube Works a
Benwood, w. Va, which added ter
per cent to the wages OF its 1000 em
ployes three months ago. has mad
another increase ef the same amount
The three men who two weeks ag
attacked R. 7. Dinkens at Brandon
Miss, and shot him to death hav
been sentenced to life imprisonment
for their cowardly crime. The mul
: derers were all from Vicksburg an
: we're prominent men.
:, The European agent Of the agricu
0 tural department reports all crop
d injured by drouth in Great Britain
q wheat area reduced in France, averag
. crops in Germany, and an averag
t wheat crop in Russia and a god
a wheat crop in Austria.
!. Additional details Of the storm
) July % off the south and west OF ]
T. pan, make the loss OF life over 800
: Three steamships we're driven ashol
and few OF the passengers or crew e
I capped. In the province of Satsum
~ alone 1000 fishermen are known
% have perished.
n Pugilist Corbett was married n
al week to the woman who figured