The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-06-24
News Notes.

The Upper Yukon River in Alas
ka is now open TO navigation.
The Pope has ordered the clergy
OF Paris to stand resolulely for the
republic.
Colorado will send a gold nina
ture of Pixies Peak to the Paris Ex-
position.
The Was Department wants four
expert Spanish stenographegs for
service in the Philippines.
A meteorological antidote for
snake bite has been discovered by
DR.. Mcfarland, of Philadelphia.
While cursIng his daughter for
marring against his wishes, Tex
as man was striken with death.
The first formal meeting of tho
Venezuelan Arbitration Commits
sion was held in Paris last Thurs
day.
Belgian Capitalists have formed
company a company with 5000
600 capital to invest in property in
the Philippines.
A cave has been discovered ten
miles from Wellington, New Zea-
land, larger than Kentucky's Mann
moth cave.
Argentina has sent official thanks
to Uncle Sam for aiding in the set
Element of the Chilean boundry dis
pute.
An Ohio man has sued for a di.
vOrce from his wife on the ground
that she "bossed" him and forced
him to do the family washing and
cooking.
The New York silver men will
send a delegation to the Democrat
ic National Committee meeting, in
Chicago, on July 20, to insist that
none but Cnicago-platform delegat.
Q; be seated.
A canvass among the members tf
the Democratic National Commit.
tee shows that they are almost I'm.
amiously in tavor of giving the
trust question prominence in the
coming campaign.
June bugs are thick in some parts
of Germany this year. At Brody
school children lately gatherep 251s
hundred weight from a sixteen
acre field. Some one has figured
out this means 1,27O,OOO June bugs.
Seven thousand people attended
the 117th. anniversary of the killing
of Col. Crawford by Indians at Up.
per Sandusky, o. The celebration
was held near the place where Col.
Crawford was buried.
The federal grand jury at juneau,
Alaska, in its presentment accused
the General Agent of Education of
wasting the school funds in need.
less juants, and establishing stores
where they are not required.
The watch which Roqert E. Lee
carried through the war is in the
possession of the Rev. T. X. Fount
Leroy, of Opelousas, La. 1t has a
gold dial plate, which is handsome
ly chased and has in its center a
fine diamond.
There is a town without name
on Lake Huron. 1t is composed of
500 huts. During the summer the
dwellings are hidden away in the
brush, tenantless, but when winter
comes their owners appear, move
them out on the ice, cut hole
through the floor and the ice and
proceed to fish.
1t has been found impossible to
dislodge the American steamer
Paris from the Manacle rocks on
the Coast of England, where she
was recently stranded. Her prac-
tical value af1oat to her owners was
$3,OOO,O00. The insurance on YES.
sci and cargo aggregates 81, 242,OOO.
There will be elections on Novem-
Der It'll. in eleven states, six of
which, Maryland, Ohio, Iowa, Mas
sachusetts, Kentucky and Missis-
sippi, will choose Governors and
other state officers. Pennsylvania
will elect state treasurer, Sup
erior Court judge and two Supreme
justices.
A wealthy but absent-minded re-
sident of Mcpherson, Kan, recently
h uuht Safa in which IN kaon h;a