The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-05-06

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ed 1891, supposed to be the work Of
Shakespeare.
The Kentucky law under which
many negroes in the last twenty
years have been sold on the block
for term of years In punishment
for vagrancy has been declared
unconstitutional.
The South Carolina Supreme
Court has sustained the anti-lynch-
ing law, which provides, among
other things, that the estate of the
party lynched shall get $4,000 from
the county In which he resided.
The British flag was raised by
natives at Palawan, Philippine Is
lands, as protection against bri-
gands, but the flag was taken down
at the request of the commander of
British warship.
The Arkansas Supreme Court has
decided that man can not escape
jury duty because he has not paid
his poll tax. Here tofore the fact
that man had failed or had re-
fused to pay poll tax had excluded
him from such service.
A warranty deed for an eighty
acre tract of mineral land in JAS
per County, Mo-, which was recent
ly filed with the Recorder at Car
thagp, bore revenue stamps agrega-
ting $44 The price paid for the
land was $344,000.
Particulars of the fighting in Sa-
moa show that in the recent battle
between the friendly natives and
the rebels, the latter lost 100 killed
and wounded; also, that Ensign
Monaghan, of the Philadelphia,
was beheaded before he was dead
The Marble Heart Anti-Matri.
monial Association, of Appleton
Wis, COZ sists of bachelors, who pay
an initiation fee of $25 and annual
dues of $40. The accumulated
funds go to the particular Marble
Heart who longest resists the at
fractions of Womank ind.
Ore assaying $1,000 to the ton has
been taken out Of the side of Blow
out Mountain, in Polk County
Arkansas, aud since Saturday
April %, every claim within a ra
dius of mile Of the discovery has
been staked. Farmers have qui
their field work and gone to pros
Npecting.
Recently Frank Griffen. editor o
the Maryville (Mo.) Review, wa
1shot dead by a man whom he hat
attacked in his paper. He hat
hree dsughteri, all of them undo
20, and since his death they hav'
taken charge Of the paper, writing
edeting, type-setting and printing
it themselves.
One of the effects of the sever
weather in Northern Illinois las
winter was to kill a good deal O
the clover. Wheat, which a mont
ago was thought to be in good con
dition, is found to be worthless
The acreage of corn will be larger
because wheat and clover must b.
plowed up.
Lake Wawasee, near Wabash
the largest lake in Indiana, is bein
raided by thieves, who with seine
and dynamite nightly capture ant
send to market in defiance Of Law
large numbers of fine game fis
with which the lake was Stoke
by the government and State Fisl
Commission about eight years ago.
The hulk of the Spanish war yes
sci Pluton, sunk in the naval battl
at Santiago has been found by div
ers near Moro Castle, at the en-
trance of Santiago harbor. TIL
hull of the vessel was riddled wit
6 pound shots, but there is no mar.
of u shell. The ship cannot b
raised and will be left to rust away
Congressman.Cha Curtis, c
Kansas, is an Indian Of the Ka,
tribe. He is a Republican from tn
district embrasing Topeka, and ha
served three terms in Congress an
holds certificate for the fourth
He is a lawyer by profession, a
earnest and accomplished speaker
and a conspicuous friend of hi
race.