The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1901-08-30
NEWS AND COMMENT.

Templar in line of parade al
Louisville Tuesday, the meeting
of the twenty-eighth triennial con
clave. The city was full of yisi
tors and the hotels crowded.
Tennessee editors visited the
Pan American Exposition this
week. A resolution of thanks
have been passed to Rutledge
Smith, of the Cookeville Press,
for his effortsin carrying out plans
and securing railroad accommoda-
ton for the press.
Boer leaders have notified Lord
Kitchener that they intend to keep
on fighting. AT the same time
reports say that surrenders have
increased.
Diplomatic relations between
France and Turkey have been sus-
pended. Nj. Constans left Con
stantinople August 26. Munir
BeY, the Turkish Ambassador to
France has been telegraphed not
to return to Paris. The French
Government holds that the Sultan
has broken his word. He had
promised full payment of the
long standing indemnities to the
Frenchmen, amounting to $4,000, :
900 francs, but at the end of last
week declined to pay the full
amount and offered a reduced sum,
which was refused by M. Con-
STAINS, who waited until yesterday
and then departed.
Thomas j. johnson, we'll
known Nashville gambler, held up
five men in the Climax last Tues.
day morning at an early hour, and
escaped from the room with a
pocket book containing 1920.
He was holly pursued, however,
and caught crossing the bridge
leading to East End. The prison
er was locked up on a charge of
grand larcency.
The impression obtains in
Washington that Howison will
be asked to be relieved from sit
ting as member of the court of
inquiry in the Schley case. This
is on account Of the criticisms in
regard to his alleged Boston in
terview, in which he favored Samp-
son. Friends of Admiral Howl
son declare that 1t would be the
best for him to decline to serve
rather than suffer the embarrass
ment he would sustain.
Washington and Baltimore will
likely be connected by an electric
line by the close ofthe year. The
proposed line connecting the
suburbs of the two cities unfinished |
is twenty miles in length. The
construction of the new line will |
begin themiddle of September.
A Scimitar special from Texar-
kama, Ark, says: From 4 to 6
o'clock Tuesday morning Texar-
kama was visited by one of the
severest electric storms in its his-
tory, also one of the hardest rains
that has fallen in many months.
The lightning hurled huge balls of
fire all over the city. Prof,
Gasby's son was killed, bis neck
being broken. He was under an
umbrella with companion, who
was also badly shocked.
The Navy Department has
through Capt. Lemley, the Justice
Advocate of the court of inquiry,
supplied counsel for Admiral
Schley with a tentative list of
witnesses to be called before the
court by the Government. The
Department declines to make the
list public, but it is understood
that it contains, and, in fact, is
headed by Rear Admiral Sampson.
1t is not even possible to learn the
number of witnesses named, but it
is said the list is by no means
Some of the witnesses
named may not be called, while on
the other hand, not only may the
add TO the list, but
Admiral Sphley's counsels are at
liberty to suggest additional
names.