The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-02-25


Andree's brother discredits the
story of the finding of the balloon
ist't body in Northern Siberia.
Among the entries found in the
Spanish accounts at Havana was
for SIC, 600 for secret service expen-
ses at Washington.
During the extreme cold weather
of last week the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal at Washington was fro
zen solid to the bottom.
Second Lieut.. Fitzhugh Lee, Jr,
has been appointed a Second Lieut..
OF cavalry, being transferred from
the infantry arm of the service.
So many cattle died in Indian
Territory during the recent cold
spell that laborers have been hired
at good wsges to skin the dead ami
males.
The loss of live stock in Wyom-
ing, Montana and the Dakotas by
the blizzard will be about 80 per
cent.
The fever among the men of the
2O2d New York Regiment at Guam
ajay, Cuba, proves to be virulent
malarial instead of yellow fever, as
heretofore reported.
The cost of administering the
Cuban Government under United
States military control will not be
more than one-quarter of that
under the Spanish management.
Congress is to be appealed to by
Sandwich Island natives to grant
an annuity to Princess Kaioulani,
who has been receiving $4,000 a
year from the Hawaiian Republic.
A bill creating the Office of Ad-
miral of the navy has been passed
by the Senate. Rear Admiral
Dewey it is understood, will be
Nominated by the President for the
position.
Prominent Delaware fruit grow
ers assert that the successful peach
,ays of old will come again as re-
suit of zero weather. Prof. Wesley
Webb declares that the dryness of
the atmosphere is very favorable
to the buds.
lat Anderson, Indiana gasoline
was substituted as motive pow er
by the Buckley company, manu-
factursrs of gas engines, and sever.
al of the workmen were rendered
Intoxicated and delirious by the
fumes, and had to be removed to
their homes for medical treatment.
Thomas Osborn, of Economy,
Indiana began weather record
sixty years ago, taking register of
1.-The thermometer three times q day
and the custom has been followed
by his son, Elan Osborn Accord
ing to their record, Thursday, Feb
ruaiy 8, was the coolest day in
sixty years.
An old Chicago landmark, the
United States Hotel, was destroyed
by fire last Monday. During its
palmy days, long before the civil
war, the hotel was a famous resort
Of prominent political men, among
whom were Gen. U. s. Grant, Abe.
Lincoln and Stephen A Douglas.
AT Havana last Monday, during
a secret meeting of members of the
Cuban Assembly and prominent
Cuban Generals, it was decided to
request Gen. Andrade to resign on
account of the grave error he com.
mitted in ordering the Cuban
troops not to march in Gen. Gar.
cia's funeral procession. =
William Dickerson, of Chester,
Pa, has been treated by physicians
for bronchitis and other ailments,
but with little relief. Last Wed
nesday night, while lying on a
lounge, no was seized with fit of
coughing, and elected live lizard
from his mouth. He thinks that
the reptile was taken into his stom-
ach when he drank from q spring
while cunning.
The Standard Oil Company has
ten active gas wells at lola, Kansas
one of which produces 100000 Gu
bic feet of gas daily. The average
depth of the wells is 900 feet, and
the total supply Of gas is sid to be
enough to light Kansas City, St.