The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-10-29


and raised recently by Lieut.. Hob
son, will sail for the United States
before the end Of this month.
Col. Wiley, Lieutenant Governor
at Santiago, Cuba, found at Guam
tanamo great horde of Spanish
Office holders, whom he proceeded
to turn out with but little cere-
mony.
The majority of the Democrats
on the New York City police force
will vote for Col. Roosevelt as
mark of appreciation of his honesty
and fairness when a commissioner.
Prince Victor BOnaparte is said
to have been approached by the
military conspirators in Paris with
a proposition to overthrow the
government and establish an en-
pire.
M. Eugene Ruffy, President of
the Swiss Republic, has received
threatning letters from anarchists
on account of connection with the
prosecution of the assassin of the
Empress of Austria
Col. Waring says that Havana is
the dirtiest city he ever saw, and
that the sanitary work there abso-
lutly unavoidable to prevent pesti-
lence will be enormous and will
cost millions Of dollars.
The highest mountain peak in
the world, elevation above the sea
10000 feet, recently discovered in
Alaska by the Eldridge surveying
party, is said to have been found
by two young men in 1896, and
named Mckinley.
According to a United States
Treasury report just issued, the ex-
ports from this country during the
nine months ending September 80,
1898, exceeded by more than $780,
O0O,00O any similar period in the
country's history.
Geological specimens lately dis.
covered at Mount Poole, In the fal
west of New South Wales, are con.
sidered to show that in distant
age the sea divided Australia into
two or more portions. They con-
sist of fossil shells, etc.
/ Guy-Ne- Won Aush, chief of the
Pillager Indians in Minnesota, de-
clares that the cause of the Indian
troubles is the theft of timber by
whites. Another chief says The
deputy marshal arrests Indians fol
trivial causes to get his fees.
Lawyer Alfred r. Conkling, thu
New York political reformer, pre-
diets that the success or defeat o
Col. Roosevelt in his campaign TO
the governorship Will depend upol
the work within a radius of ont
mile of the city hall, in New Yorl
City.
Agoncillo, the agent of the Fill
pinos, in an interview at Paris, SAT-
that the Americans should take al
or none of the Philippines. FL
said that the object Of his trip wa
to learn the views Of the American
, commissioners and TO report t
Aguinaldo.
A recent complication by tn
secretary Of the American Sill
A Association shows that the valu
of silk frahrics manufactured il
the United States amounts to $15,
400, 009 per annum and that Ameri
!, can factories are supplying So pc
! cent of the silk goods used in thi
country.
The cost of the railway fror
: Guyaquil to Quito, in Ecuador
which is now being built by Amer
can capitalist, is estimated at $l8
, 600, 900 for 400 miles. 1t will be th
highest railway in the world, wit
, stations at an elevation of S25
$500 and 10000 feet above the Sc
level.
Military p ans to overthrow th
, government of France were di'
D covered in Paris.
Floods in Japan have don
, great damage to crops and man
lives have been lost.
S The National Council of wome
s of the United States will meet 6
Omaha October "a.
] France has concluded a treat
\ with Abyssinia against England i
t the Fashoda affair.
J. The twantV.siXth annual col