The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-12-24
Condensed News

are dissatisfied with the reduction
made in wages the past week and may
strike.
The ice gorge on the Ohio river at
Ashland, Ky, has broken, and a gen.
eral breakup, with the usual flood, is
threatened.
The Turkish cruiser built in this
country was given a successful trial
trip Saturday, meeting contract re-
quirements.
A convent costing $4,000 is to be
erected near Cincinnati to be the re-
iuge of the 1000 monks and nuns re- |
Gently expelled from France.
The Second United States cavalry
sailed from Now York Sunday for the
Philippines, to relieve the Fifteenth,
which has had two years service.
There is an improvement in prices
and demand in the Southern iron mar
ket and operators at Birmingham be-
lieve that the curtailment of production
has reached its limit.
1t is reported in Washington that
the Tammany leaders in New York
have decided to send Bourke Cochran
10 Congress to succeed Mayor ELECT
George b. Mcclellan.
w. j Bryan, now in Russia, had an
interview with the ear of Russia on
Saturday. 1t IS stated by the news.
paper correspondent that both will re-
cover from the interview.
The attorney general of Ohio has
filed proceedings against Hooking Val
l3Y to appoint a receiver on the ground
that the road is misusing its privileges
aud discriminating in its rates.
At Cleveland, O., Roscoe W. Derby,
machinist, killed his wife, his three
children and then himself, The trag-
edy is believed to be due to despond-
encv which arose from poverty.
Eight killed and thirty-two seriously
injured is the result of q wreck on the
81. Louis e. San Francisco railroad
Monday. The responsibility for the
wreck has been fixed upon a brake
man.
The New York Sun has O dispatch
from Lansford, Pa, saying that there
IS strong sentiment favoring the
nomination Of Senator Hanna for pres
ldent in the southern part Of the coal
fields.
W. Mcclellan, of ShelbyviIle, Tenn,
who killed a negro in this county
year ago and made his escape but wal
subsequently arrested at CentreYille,
has been given three years in the state
prison.
The assassin who shotl aud killed
Corbin Rowe Friday night, at Knox
vile, has not yet been apprehended
A movement has been started to ask
Governor Frazier to offer reward fol-
the murderer.
Charles helms, in Jail at Asheville
\. O., charged with completely in thu
murder OF woman named lamb, il
also accused of having knowledge O.
the cause of the disappearance of Mill
ionaire Wentz.
The Pennsylvania will build a grea
steel plant in Altoona for the manufac
ture of structural steel which will b,
used in the construction of the NORTH
river tunnel. The plant will employ
about 1000 men.
Important details regarding tn,
transfer of the province Of Louisiana tC
the United States have been discover
cd by researches in the French archives
of State at Paris by L. Spencer Pratt
former United States minister tt
pers STA.
Returns at the Agricultural Bureau
at Washington indicate the estimated
seeded area of winter wheat to b,
about 80, 900, 600 acres, and increase O
8 per cent from the area estimated t.
have sowed in the fall of last year.
Andrew Carnegie, in regard to hi
reported alliance with John d. Rookie
Teller for the PURPOSE of reorganizinl
y. 5. Steel and eliminating J. P. Nor
gan as factor of that organization, il
quoted as saying; 81 have no state
ment whatever to make regarding thi
report
Southern Pacific has spent owe
$4,000, 600 on oil lands, oil tanks, an,
equipment for the use of oil in Texas
Lbout $500, 009 was spent on the land
and machinery, 81 $50, 900 on tank car
and $S00000 on equipment of locomo
tges, and S41l, 155 in the construction
Of tanks.
The House Of Representatives ha
adopted a resolution offered by Mr.
Lamar, of Florida, to i'm peach Charlie
: wayne, Judge of the United State
District Court for the Northern dis
trict Of Florida Judge Swayne /
charged with high crimes and misde
meanors, which include allegations q
corrupt official conduct.
A Pottsville, Pa, dispatch SAYS niue
excitement has been caused there b
the reports from Auchey's Station
Schulykill county, of the discovery G
pure anthracite coal far beyond til
limits OF what has heretofore been cor
sidered the southern boundary of th
hard coal region in Pennsylvania.
To save Charles Bynum, a negro
from lynching, Justice Morris, G
Driver, Va, held court at 8 O'Clock j
the morning by the light of fire tina
the negro was accused of having start
ed Bynum, it is alleged, set on fir
the barn of John Bond. IL the fire
number Of fine horses, several vehicles
farm implements and several thousan
pounds of cotton were destroyed. BY
mum was bound over for trial.
Several minor stockholders OF III
United States Shipbuilding Compan,
filed suit in New York asking to hav
the company declared insolvent an
praying for an injunction to restrai