The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-11-26
Condensed News

Mother Jones, the miners distin.
gulshed friend, has gone to Colorado
to help them in their strike.
Princess Louise, daughter of the late
count of Paris. is said TO have been Sc
lected to be King Alfonso's bride.
The convention Of the American
Federation of Labor donated 81, 900 to
the Western Federation Of Miners.
Rollin @. Parvin, of Evansville, Ind,
has sold silver dollar of the 1904
mintage to II. G.. Brown, of Portland,
Ore, for $1,000.
The Indiana National Bank at Elk
hart, Ind, was closed by the controller
as the result of a steady run for several
weeks which il could not stand.
The contract to erect the federal
court house aud postoflice, at Greene
vile, has been awarded to Miles &
Bradt, of Atlanta. Ga, at $s6, ,S97.
Gov. w. Il. Durbin, of Indiana, is in
Tennessee on hunting trip. He de-
MED that he has aspirations for the re-
publican nomination for vice. president.
IT is said that former Senator James
X. Jones has shaken the dust of Ark
ansas from his feet, and probably will
take up his residence in Washington.
The Postoffice Department is investi-
eating the published allegations that
rare postage stamps have been sold
from the department to stamp specula-
tors.
The w. G. T. U. convention, in ses-
sion at Cincinnati, reelected Mrs. Lii
lian Stevens president. Mrs. L. ID. NJ.
Frey was reelected recording secre-
tary.
The next Confederate reunion will
be held In Nashville. The members of
the executive committee made the selec.
tion and later were guests at a public
reception.
Mrs. Carrie Nation was elected from
the White House. Later she attempted
to make a speech from a senate gallery
and was arrested and fined $25 in the
police court.
p President Roosevelt has declined tn
invitation of Governor Peabody of Col
orado to send federal troops into the
coal fields of Southern Colorado to act
as strike breakers.
Severe weather is prevailing in vari-
GUS parts of the United States. The
cold wave has extendee far into the
south, and zero temperatures are re-
ported from the northwest.
An unofficial report at Manila says
the captain OF United States army
transport has landed endorsements
in Jolo and that fighting commenced as
soon as the troops were landed.
A New York paper says it has veri-
fed the report that negotiations are in
progress for settlement of the United
States Shipbuilding Company contro-
versy and that settlement has been
virtually reached.
There is fight on between the ad-
ministrationlsts and the "lily white
republicans of Alabama. 1t is de-
clared that Roosevelts lieutenants pro
pose to oust every ''lily white" repub-
lican federal of1iceholder.
According to the estimates of the
Agricultural Department at Washing
ton, the total sugar production of the
world for 1904 will be 10, 425, 800 tons.
Cuba and Java, it is stated, will pro-
duce 45 per cent. of the worlds output
of cane sugar.
The grand lodge of the A. o. U. W.
of Massachusetts has voted to secede
from the supreme lodge of the United
States, because of dissatisfaction with
recent change in the rate OF insur-
ance. Officers of the supreme lodge
say the case will be taken to the courts.
AS the paymaster OF the Pennsylvania
railroad was coming ont of bank at
Logansport, Ind, an officer seized his
valise containing $41, 200 aud took it to
the courthouse where nearly $20,00C
was counted out to satisfy two judg,
ments against the railroad company.
The question of removing Morgan
from the chairmanship of the Inter.
oceanic Canal Committee is causing
the Republican Steering Committee
considerable worry. Some republi
cans argue that it will be party mis-
take to re aove the Alabama senator.
Senator Dietrich, OF Nebraska, de
clares there is nothing in the Hasting
postoffice case to have warranted tn,
indictments returned. He says he will
waive the protection guaranteed a sen
ator when congress is in session, an(
will go to Omaha aud demand an i'm
mediate trial.
Over one hundred pulpits in Ken
lucky and Ohio, around Cincinnati
we're occupied by women delegates t.
the thirtieth national convention o
the Woman's Christian Temperate
Union, holding session in that city
At the same time, thirty pulpits wer
occupied by clergymen of the Anti
Saloon League.
BY the collision of freight trai
with O work train on the Big Fou
, railroad near fremont, ILL.,, twent
miles from Peoria, 81 men we're kille
and Is or more injured. The me
killed we're all members OF a sectio
crew and had been engaged in uuload
ing steel rails. The freight train cre'
. is said to have disobeyed orders.
A new treaty for canal across th
isthmus of Panama was signed a
Washington by Secretary of State Ha
and Minister Philippe Bunau Varilli
of Paeama. While the contents of tn
] treaty we're not made public, it is III
/ derstood that the lands for construc
ing the canal we're ceded to the Unite
States outright. The canal is to /
neutral, but in absolute control of I'll