The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1896-06-25
NEWS IN BRIEF.

In great Britain alone two train
loads OF pills are consumed every year.
Uncle Jake Lawrence, of Uniontown,
KY, although nearly "a, is busy cut.
ting some new teeth,
Anthony Allcorn, the negro boy
who killed his father in Lincoln coun-
ty, KY, has been sentenced to hang on
August 6.
]. /. Vanscholk, OF Fort Dodge, Iowa,
has breed of cattle which look like
the ordinary varieties, bat have no
upper teeth.
Ten persons were killed outright
and nine seriously injured by the ex-
plosion of a boiler on the steam yacht
Titus Sheard in Erie canal at Little
Falls, N. Y.
Mormon elders are working hard to
secure converts in southern Alabama.
One of the inducements held out to
young men is 100 acres OF land and
seven wives.
The silver men who withdr' W from
the republican national convention
will issue an address and hold meet
ing to present Teller as a silver candi-
date for president.
A London magistrate, being unable
to write, made his mark to number
of commitments to prison lately, and
they we're held good. He is not il
literate, but has the govt.
Fitzgerald, Georgia, the new town
of federal pensioners, is not a good
place for negroes to go. A meeting
was held recently and the few that
were there were told to move on.
The Indiana supreme court declared
invalid the 1877 issue of Jacksonville
bonds, to the amount of $4,000. The
court held that the city had no right
to issue bonds for county purposes
, A monster parade formed at Canton,
o., when the nomination of Mckinley
was announced and proceeded to Mai
McKinley's home, where he made a
response to the cheers of copgratula-
ton.
After legal battle extending over
20 years, Hetty Green, the rich New
York woman, has won possession OF
! property in Chicago worth 81 100000
by a decision of the Illinois supreme
court.
The free silver executive committee
OF Indiana decided upon a program
to be pursued at the democratic state
cunvention. R. y. Bell, CT Fort Wayne,
was selected for permanent chairman,
and VOORHEES,, Turple, Shively anG
Shanklin as delegates at-large.
Gov. Bradley, OF Kentucky, sadly
shook the dust OF st. Louis from hi
feet and started for home, taking hi
lunspoken speech along with him. The
little attention paid him at the conven
ton must have convinced him tha
4 the republican party does not regarC
his victory in Kentucky as such (
! wonderful thing after all.
A seven-year.old boy committed
suicide at Gloster, Miss, on the 14tl
instant, says the Yazoo Sentinel. H,
D heard OF young man committing
suicide and had been heard to say tha
= he was going to try it TO see If his necl
would break. He tied rope to hi
neck and swung off. His parents
missing him from the dinner table
went to call him and were Mortified t,
= find him dead, hanging from tn,
swing.
. There's pretty custom in Lagrange
which is observed on all funeral occa
sions, says the Macon Telegraph. A
soon as the hearse and funeral corteg
appear on the streets every bushes
= house in town closes its doors, and re
mains closed until the procession
passes out Of sight. The same respec
is shown for an infant as for an adul
for the poor and the lowly born a
for the Oldest and proudest families il
the community.
The republican national convention
nominated Mckinley for president o.
the first ballot Hobart of New Jersey
was nominated for vice-president, alp
on the fast ballot. Mckinley receive
: 6611a votes. The gold plank wa
adopted overwhelmingly, the vote Of
Tellers silver substitute being 8l81
gold aud 1919 silver. Teller an'
:. twenty-five other delegates Withdrew
from the convention amid nois
demonstration, after Senator Cameron
. had first read form al vsledictory
s The convention adjour ned sine die 8
3 7:52 pm.
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