The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1896-04-23
NEWS IN BRIEF.

ing.
The Rev. DR., Cyrus S. Bates, rector
Of the St Pauls church, Cleveland, 0
is dead.
Free silver clubs are being organized
in Arkansas to push BlAnd presiIen-
tial Doom,
Frank Ives won the closing game
aud the championship in the billiard
tournament.
John NJ Mclean and his associates
will take obsrge Of The Paducah
Standard today.
Five children were smo'hpred in
tenement house FIRE a. Trnevs Falls,
Mass, Yesterday,
Robert Jeans Was badly ,hot and
hiS father killed by George Elder near
Watkinsvlle, Ga,
Chairman Charles ., MolHtt, If the
democratic STATE committee of Mis-
sour, has resigned.
John Stetson, the well known theat-
ricsl M ger, died 10 B ,ston at Dn
early hour This morning.
Failures Tor the week in the United
States wtre 223, against 24l for the
corresponding week last year.
The national arbitration conference
will hold a Two days session in Wash
ipgton this week, beginning Wednes-
day.
Austin Abbatt, IL, D, dean of thu
New York university law school, diec
at his home in New York after an il
uess Of ten weeks.
Representative Pugh is working t.n
an appropriation of $1,000 to clear the
Big Sandy OF the snags left in it's bec
by the recent freshtt,
Maj. NJ. A Spur, president I lh'
deIunct Commercial National bank q
Nashville, has been convicted of falst
certifcat]on OF accounts
1t is said that the royal speech at
the opening OF the new Spanish Cores
will promise political and administra
tive reforms for Cuba and Porto Rico.
The suit against the Louisville and
Nashville railroad company to compei
reduced rates on coal from Kentucky
mines to Nashville has been dismissed
at the cost OF the prosecution,
The MatabeIe uprising is becoming
widespread. Earnest requests for
more troops have been made CT the
British government. Buluwayo is in
imminent danger of all attack.
| Andrew Carnegie has offered,
through the trustees of the Carnegie
art gallery at Pittsburgh, $1,000 for
the best oil painting by an American
artist and $4,000 for the second best.
Miss Clara Barton calls for money
with which to carry on the relief work
in Armenia. Three thousand people
are sick OF typhus at MArash, and at
Zeitouu there are forty or fifty deaths
daily.
Police were needed to quell riot
among the delegates to the Jtfferson
county, Alabama, republican conven-
ion, which finally split and named
mckinley and anti.McKinley dele
gates.
Hon. Wi liam Mckinley denies over
his own sig allure that he is an hor
orary member o the young mems in
stitute, and e. j. he does not even
know the nature ~ III rts I the or
gsnal
The eGlrt Of II 'K,lo in ~
Indiana to belttle Gen Il .u,on h.
offended many delegates who are
warm personal friends OF the ex-Presi
dent, and they May yet make trouble
for Mckinley,
In an interview atChicago yesterday
w. FL. Griffith, late chairman Of the
republican state central committee of
Colorado, said c lArado would give its
vote to whatever party nominates
freG-silver candidate.
Great Britain is hsmp'lei in meet
ing the Msiabele outbreak l., the fear
that the dispatch of mure irt"ps to
South Africa may precipita'e trouble
with the 1cers 1t is known that the
Transvaal government is accumulat
ing stores OF arms and ammunition.
Leo Bird, etree love" preach er,
who had spent the winter at T ,mouth,
KY, was badly beaten there Saturday
night and ordered to leave t,wn II
left Sunday night His preaching had
come TO be particularly obi tctiopabla
Revised figures qs to the delegate
votes instructed ior esch OF he eandi