The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1896-01-30
CONDENSED NEWS.


in Monday.
Senator Jones, Of Arkansas, will try
to secure a vote on the silver bill this
week.
Ex.President Harrison called on
President Cleveland Friday and paid I
his respects.
John X. Cowen was yesterday
elected president Of the Baltimore and !
Ohio railroad
John Tyler, eldest son of Presiden
Tyler, died ut Washington Sunday,
aged seventy six.
Peyton G. Bowman has. been ac-
quilted at Birmingham OF the murder
OF Eugene Jeflers,
CaItoonist Gillian received a salary
Of $4,000 year and left an estate
valued at $250000.
Chairman Harrity Friday issued
the official call for the democratic ma
tional convention.
OF the SIC, 10000 in specie held by
New York banks, $31 ,115,OOO is held
by six institutions.
The Tennessee supreme court has
decided the medical and surgicfl law
to be constitutional.
The Rev. T. B. Hsrgrove fell dead
in the pulpit while preaching in Cold
water, Miss, Sunday.
Senator Call, of Florida, asks the
senate to investigate the imprison-
ment Of Eugene V. Debs.
The CIarksdale Bank and Trust
Company, of Clarksdale, Mics, has
made partial assignment.
The national woman's suffrage as.
sociation met yesterday at Washing.
ton, with 800 delegates present.
Col, Augustus R. McCurdy, an old
Alabama gambler, was found dead in
his bed at Montgomery Sunday.
Russia and Turkey are reported to
have formed an offensive and deien-
sive alliance and France may join it.
A stone image OF woman has been
found near Cedarville, o., which is
thought to ante date the mound build
ers.
There were 373 failures in theUnited
States during the last week, against
1863 for the corresponding week last
year.
Lord Leighton, better known as Sir
Frederick Leighton, president of the
royal academy Of Great Britain, is
dead.
SenStol Mills, Of Texas, introduced
a bill TO repeal the refunding act Of
1870 and the specie resumption acI
OF 1875.
The directors of the Tennessee cen
tennial exposition have recommended
that the exposition be postponed til
next year.
) A report comes from apparently
5 trustworthy sources that Gen. Gomez
the leader of the Cuban Insurgents, il
seriously i'll.
An unfavorable report was made L
! the house on the bill to reduce th'
! salaries of state officers, and the bill
, wss rejected,
: Dr. Ahlwardt has written to friend
!. in Berlin that it ia his intention to re
: : main in the United States as editor 0
a Western paper.
Mrs. Betsy Hotter Moody, mother 0
the famous evangelist, died yesierda.
at East Mortified, Mass She wa
ninety'one years old.
The Pennsylvania delegation wi
probably be unanimous in urging eX
Governor Pattison Tor the democrat
nomination for president.
Bids for the new treasury loan ar
said to run from 109 to 112, and sui
scriptions to the amount oi$200,000 90
have already been received.
Herbert B. Gehr has been awarde
$l0,000 damages against the Mexics
Central railway company for false a
rest on charge of robbery.
Patrick Mcmahon, an insane Ne
York man, assaulted lie uncle an
q aunt with an ak. The aunt is dea
: and the uncle may not recover.
B Mr.. ] I'm Russell Young has r
turned from Mexico, whore he went
7 make a study of the Mexican battl
h fields on which Gen. Grant fought.
n fernando De Soto Money was nor
d mated last Thursday by the joint der
ocratic caucus to succeed Unite
n States Senator George, ol Mississippi