The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-08-05
News Notes.

fuS VIII Degln at RenneS on August
10
The cruiser Buffalo will be re-
fitted "a a naval transport, at cost
IF $4,000.
Repairs to cost $1,000 will be put
on the cruiser Philadelphia, at
Mare Island navy yarl.
Brig. Gen, Woods prompt meas
ures have checked the yellow fever
outbreak at Santiago.
Mamie King, a New York girl,
has lost her reason through excess
i've cigarette smoking.
Gov. j. Hogue Tyler has formally
his candidacy for Unit
ed States Senator from Virginia.
Gen. Wheeler met at Sacramento
the other day Gen. Crosby, who for
ty years ago taught him, at West
Point, to ride a horse.
The reports that Japan and Rus
STA are arming for struggle over
Corea are received with much al
loWance i'll diplomatic quarters.
An insect is playing havoc with
wheat crops in South Dakota. One
farmer lost crop of 10 acres and
others report similar losses.
While drilling an artisan well at
Birmingham, Ala, strong flow OF
natural gas was struck at q depth
of more than thousand feet.
About 500 Democrats met at
Sterling. KY, and adopted resolu-
tons denouncing the methods by
which Go9bel was nominated for
governor.
The British Museum has present.
ed 10000 documents relating to the
French revolution, of which it had
duplicates, to the French National
Library in Paris.
United States troops are held in
rediness to be sent to Alaska in the
event of an outbreak, which is
threatened as an outgroWth of the
boundary dispute.
The natives in some of the Philip.
pine Provinces are resisting Tagal
domination and are said to be will
ing to declare allegiance to the
United States.
Planters in BrazOs and Burleson
Counties, Texas make an estimate
that in the two counties 10000 acres
CT crops were ruined and $4,000
people are left homeless.
Kansas City has raised 100000
which it " i'll offer to the Democrat
ic National Committee, ii the com
mittee will give Kansas City the
next annual convention.
The remaining battalion of the
10Th Infantry at Camp Mede has
been ordered to San Francisco tC
embark for Manila, on July %, or
the Ohio and Newport.
Admiral Cervera wrote to Ports
mouth, n. H., denying that he was
coming to take to Spain the bodies
of the Spanish soldiers who died a
Seavey's Island.
In spite Of the efforts Of govern
ment officials to prevent it, the In
dians of the territory are holding
their ghost dances, smoke dances
and other similar ceremonies.
A Paris paper discloses that sew
eral French ministers of war were
cognizant Of the forgery of the Dor
dereau in the Dreyfus case and de
cided to make the captain soap,
goat.
Gen. A. j, Warner, president o
the Bimetallic League, believe!
that Bryan will be the next Demo
cratic presidential nominee, anC
that the chief issue will be thu
Philippine war.
London papers say that Presiden
Mckinley must appoint as sue
cessor to Aiger man whose pas
commands full confidence. They
look for the recall of Gen. Otis il
the near future.
Much is said about the work o
Americanizing Cuba. There will
be no trouble about as soon as thu
natural laws of geography AND
commerce are allowed fair play.
Adolph L. Luetgert, the wealth!
Chicago sausage maker who wa
i cnruinor O life Snntnnna for the muir