The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1896-06-18
NEWS IN BRIEF.

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The Supreme Lodge of the knights
of Honor declined to admit women to
the order by vote of 81 to SO.
Congressman Josiah Patterson has !
announced that he will be candidate |
to succeed himself in the Tenth Ten
nessee district.
Capt. Thomas p Leathers, the vet |
eran steam boat man, died in New Or
leans from injuries received by being
struck by II bicycle.
The legislature of Louisiana has lust
passed law requiring the parish in
which a lynching occurs to pay the
heirs of the deceased $4,000.
The house by vote of 11G to 107 I'M
seated Congressman Underwood, of the
Birmingham district, of Alabama, and
gave the place to Mr.. Aldrich.
At a large mass meeting of colored
delegates in st. Louis it was decided
practically to withdraw from the Nc
Kinley column and support Reed.
The platform adopted by the Kansas
democrats eulogizes President cleve-
land, but declares for free coinage at Is
to l. The delegation is solid for silver.
Ex-Congressman Thompson, another
of the numerous Mckinley managers,
says that McKinlcy's platform on the
financial question will declare for the
single gold standard.
Scott Jackson, convicted of murder
ing Pearl Bryan, is sick i'll the Coving-
ton jail. He is gradually breaking
down under the terrible strain. He
wept bitterly Saturday.
Representatives of all shades of senti-
ment, except that for free silver, have
agreed on the financial plank for the
republican platform 1t declares for
the existing gold standard"
There is but little dissipation among
the boys of Rogersville and there are
no prettier or sweeter girls than those
that destroy green plums and apples in
this neighborhood, -Rogersville Star.
Col. Richard Gentry, of Sedalia,
Mo-, is i'll Kentucky and it is said that
his mission is to secure the support of
the Kentucky delegation for Bland for
the presidential nomination at Chicago.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. w. Russell were
hurled over cliff sixty-five feet high
into Rolling Fork, Ky, near Danville,
Saturday by run away horse. Both
they and the horse escaped seri Gus
injury.
If all the houses blown down and de-
stroyed in the st. Louis cyclone were
on both sides of q street, that street
would be just IS miles in length. In
other words, about one-fifth of the city
was destroyed.
The Tennessee Coal, Iron and Rail
road Company has sold 500 tons of low
silicon iron to an Italian steel-making
concern, undertaking English iron
masters, and is now closing contract
for so, 900 tons annually.
The Indiana silver men will attempt
to adopt a free silver plank without
saying so and will procure the benefit
of Gov. Matthews experience. He will
"edit" their financial resolution to make
it properly ambiguous.
The republican national committee
selected G. W. Fairbanks for Temporal
ry chairman and G. w. Johnson, of
Minnesota, temporary secretary. W.
E, Riley, of Louisville, will be one of
the assistant secretaries.
OF the 1876 claimants to seats in the
national republican convention rejected
by the national committee sitxy-two
were avowed Mckinley men. In num-
Der of instances both contestants and
contestees were for Mckinley.
Engineer Lewis was fatally and Fire
man Wilson badly hurt in q freight
wreck on the Cincinnati Southern rail
road near Sadieville, Ky. Eight horses
which were on the track were killed and
fifteen cars and the engine wrecked.
Clifton Black was fatally stabbed in
Mercer county, KY, Saturday by his
brother Keller. The latter has disap-
peared, and is thought to have commit
ted suicide, as he is known to have
made one attempt to end his life since
the commission of his crime.
1t is claimed that Hamilton county
paid more for criminal prosecution last
year than was paid by the whole state
or Georgia. The Chattanooga Times
says bankruptcy stares the county in
the face, and can only be averted by O
reform in our criminal cost system.
The prosecution closed its rebuttal
in the Walling trial Saturday. Evi-
dence was introduced to show that Wall
ing's signature on Heider's Hotel reg
lister was written since his arrest for the
murder. This was the most sensation
al feature of the trial up to date.
Mckinley workers are accused of re-
sorting to the plan, in order to over
come objections to the gold plank, of
privately assuring silver men that if
Mckinley were president and a free
coinage bill were passed, he would
either sign it or permit it to become a
law without his signature.
Chairman w. F. Harrity, with his
subcommittee in charge of the nation
t al democratic convention, has opened
headquarters at the Palmer House, Chi
cago In an interview Mr.. Hmrity ex-
pressed the belief that "the moderate
silver men will join hands with the
honest-money men and save the party
from going on the rocks
Two stone bridges near Havana and
the stone aqueduct that supplies the
city with water have been badly dam
aged by a dynamite explosion. 1t is
supposed to have been the work of in
surgents, who have threatened to cut