The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-10-22

Culh pittlou.
Recent census report on agricul-
tural products of Massachusetts
shows s52,sSO,43l worth and $2l9,
957, PA land value.
The Spanish Government is en-
ploylng twenty-one vessels in
transporting troops from Cuba and
Porto Rico to Spain.
Three Spanish vessels have adopt
ed the American flag under which
to sail in traficking among the
among the Philippine Island.
Pension sharks are already send
ing out circulars to Spanish war
soldiers offering inducements for
business in their line.
The United States representative
on the Island of Guam, in the Pa.
cific, administers all of the offices
from Governor down.
Capt. McCalla, who commanded
the cruiser Marblehead throgh the
war, has been given command of
the Norfolk navy yard.
Citizens of Portland, Ore, have
subscribed $1,000 to buy sword of
honor to be presented to Capt.
Clark, of the battle-ship Oregon.
The Secretary of Agriculture has
issued a statement showing the
beneficial results of the Dingley
tariff bill on farm products.
The War Department has dis
covered system of frauds where
by enlisted soldiers are seeking dis
charge by means of forged appeals.
The Corean Minister of Jutice
has been dismissed for permitting
the savage mutulation of the bodies
of executed men and women.
Two San Francisco bankers have
sailed for Honolulu, there to estab-
lish the First National Bank of
Hawaii, with capital of 100000.
While toying with revolver at
Carlyle, I'LL, j. III. Corcoran acct
IDENTIFY shot Leila Shade, and, sup
posing he had killed her, committed
suicide.
The American commissioners
have notified the Spanish authori-
ties that the United States will
assume control of affairs at Ha-
vana December 1.
! A white man suspected of having
yellow fever was burned to death
in a church in Lefiore County,
Miss, by terrified negroes who fear
the plague.
Hawaii is a poor place for fortune
seekers, according to warning
letter sent out by the Masons of
Honolulu to their brethren in the
United Stotes.
The New York Court of Appeals
has declared unconstitutional the
law requiring all prison-made goods
brought into the state to belabeled
as such.
Concerning the progress of peace
negotiations, the Paris newspapers
say that the Americans want
everything and Spaniards demand
J nothing.
A mountain peak has been focnd
in Alaska which is declared to be
10000 feet high, the highest eleva
ton in the world. 1t has been
named "Bullshai."
In proclamation the Governor
of the Dutch West Indies declares
that all private yachts carrying
correspondents will be treated as
rrivateers.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland and her
children have returned from their
summer home at Buzzard Bay
Mass, to their winter residence al
Princeton, NJ.
The outcome of the approaching
congressional elections is so uncer.
tain that political forecasters al
Washington are unwilling to hazard
a prediction as to results.
Samuel Ensign. of Rockford, I'll.
Just released from MORO Castle, al
Havana, Cuba, where he was i'm
e prisoned for eighteen months ar
: rived home last Wednesday.
William Z. Travis has been ar
: rested in New York as profes
f sional burglar. He had handsome
home, and his wife and family, 1t i
= said, knew nothing of his calling.
: Owing to the yell fever quaran
: tinn of Nav Orleans the MOrpal