The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1896-03-05
NEWS IN BRIEF.

bIOlI IasI HiSuV'
Populists are trying to elect sena
tor in Kentucky.
S Officers ar still after tie " arren.
Ark, bank robbers.
Fitzsimmons and Corbett are still
fighting with their mouths,
John A. Wolfe and daughter were
drowned st Smithton, Pa.
DR.. Joseph l.. Thayer, of DaIlas,
Tex suicided at Los Angeles.
There will be no strike of street car
men at Chicago at present.
Salvation army people held big
meeting in New York last night.
Fire destroyed the Cady planning
mills IN Omaha. l. ~ $4,000.
Morn- Firky, Of Blue Earth, Ninn,
murnersd his wife and suicldtd.
The army appropriation bill amount.
ing to 1923 $4,000, passed the senate,
Ire head Of woman-not that OF
Pearl Bryau-was found in Cincinnati.
A foot ball player was captured on
his way 10 ALI TUE Cuban lusuIgenl
Lord Dunraven was expelh d from
membership in the New York Yacht
CluO
The prisoner Jackson and Walling
Will be removed to Covlngton jail
SOON for trial.
Steve O'D, nnell knocked jim
Dryer out in nine rounds at New
York city last night.
the bill in the Kentucky legislature
20 rep ~ h. cha,ter 81 the Southern
Pc tic tailed.
The Baltimore city counsel passed
an ardioanct deprivlng the mayor oI
the appointive power.
Coxey and Others, who believe a.
ne does, will meet in Pit. sburg Marci
10 10 form a new party
John Wanamaker was found gu
At Philadelphia of having violated lh
contract labor law.
Gold republicans and free silver
populists will try to url,, ON tickel
at Montgomery on Aprl %,
1t il reported that Japan is makirs
overtrues to Russia with view to al.
ranging for dual control of Corea.
In the Minister Brown Sensational
case, at San Francisco, yesterday, thu
evidence produced was in his favor
DR.. E. A. Dill and j. j. Seaman
fought in ST. Louis, when the latter
was killed and the former badly hurt
q The third incendiary barn fire il
t Giles county, Tenn, has excited the
= people, and bloodhounds have beer
Q put on the trail.
The Raines Excise bill, containing
a rigid Sunday 81 SIG feature, is saiC
to be sure of passage through tn
New York senate.
Susan B. Anthony has started 70
California to begin campaign for
t woman suffrage amendment to th
state constitution.
In testing the sFeed of train Oh
= the Lehigh Vale railroad to arrane
for new schedule, speed OF seventy
ak miles per hour was made.
e Amelie Rives-Chanler, who a fey
days ago became the wife OF Primo
IS Troubetszkoy, is quite i'll at the hom
n of her father, Col. Rives, near Char
/ lottesvile, Va.
;. President Cleveland will preside a
d n meeting of the Presbyterian HON
Mission in Carnegie hall next Tues
II day night. The object of the meetin
10 will be to pay off debt of 1852 900.
Miss Marne Reece, a farmer
!. daughter, il Warreh county, Ga, wa
brutally assaulted by an unknown
y white man. The fieod is being pul
,e -aed by bloodhonnds and will b
Iynched when canght
'r Elections committee No 3yesterda
70 decided unanimously in favor Of Nj
Laurin, the sitting congressman frn
" he sixth Sonth CAROLINE district, !
the contest Of Wilson versus McLau i
and in favor OF L,'imer, the sittip
member in the content from the th'r
~ South Carolina district The commi
tee holds that the registration laws {
n the state are unconstitutional.
T. There was a lively time in the n,
IL tionsl senate Thursday, the silve
question again coming up for discu