The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1896-06-11
NEWS IN BRIEF.

John Hayes Hammond is said to be
on his way to the United States.
! Gov, Stone, OF Missouri, will 90 to
Arkansas to advance the Bland boom.
Consul General Lee and Capt. Gen.
Weyler had long conference yes
terday.
Heavy rains in Main have subdued
the forest fires and saved several towns
from destruction.
John w. Ackerman, a Yonkers, N.
Y, builder, pared his corn too closely
and died of blood poison.
The national convention OF the trav.
elers' protective association will be
held next year at Nashville.
Several lives are reported lost in
an Arkansas tornado. The town OF
Benton, in Saline county, was almost
destroyed.
There were 234 failures in the Uni
ted States during the past week,
against 1876 for the corresponding pc
riod last year.
The United States ba.tleship Massa.
chusetts, built by the Cramps, has
been completed and goes into COM
mission in June.
Senator Blackburn s,ys he has
promised no silver aspirant any sup.
port from Kentucky for the presiden-
tial nomination.
There are more than 1000 liquor
saloons 10 San Francisco, CAL, or one
for every fifty OF its inhabitants. This
is record breaker.
| A Mormon missionary has organ
lied colony in Buchanan county, Va.
He Is said to have secured 800 follow
ers, whom he will take to Mexico.
| The Milwaukee Street Railway Com
pany has offered reward OF $1,000
for the arrest Of the persons who shot
two of the company's employees Thurs
day night.
The Hon. Albert 8. Willis says that
he will not become candidate for
congress from the Louisville distric:,
but will return to his Post as minister
to Hawaii.
Jerre Aiken, negro aged 1874 years,
died near Piedmont, Ala, few days
ago. Thirty years before the war
, Aiken was the property of the father
Of Capt. ]. A. Bale.
Alter July 1st most OF the big post.
Offices of the country will print the
. weather forecasts on letters going
through the Office, as we'll as the can
collation. OF the stamps.
According to the census OF 1890 the
men of the United States outnumbered
the women by 1,422,182 In most
European countries the excess is
largely the other way.
The advance guard OF politicians
and newspaper correspondents are al.
ready putting in an appearance in St.
Louis to be in readiness for-the reprb,
. lican national convention.
Two democratic representatives,
Lockhart, Of North Carolina, end
: Downing, Of Illinois. we're unseated
, ty the house. Downing was the only
democratic representative in the Iii
: nois delegation.
g g Gen. Grosvenor, McKinley's close
= friend, is said to have intimated with
u in the past few days that If the ST
Louis platform should be q straddle
of the financial question it would bt
best for Mckinley.
A law that is now trying to be forced
IL on the Kansas people is that when
man calls as many as ten times to see
9 any certain woman, it will be counted
s as an engagement, and marriage
Q will then be in order.
The ocean steam ship record be
tween Southampton and New Yorl
: has been broken by the St. Pau, which
" made the run from the Needles Il
Sandy Hook lightship in six days, fiv
. hours and thirty.two minutes.
1t is believed that no opportunit
W will be given for vote in the hous
at this session on the Butler bill pre-
hibiting the issue OF bonds. Speake
=. Reed is said to have concluded tina
it is good politics TO let the bill die il
committee.