The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-12-31
Condensed News

acquire the friar lands in the Philip
pines
Virginia Jackson, negro woman OF
Chicago, died from the thought of be-
Jig poisoned. A postmortem exsmin-
alton revealed the fact that her heart
had burst.
A 10000 spindle cotton mill will be
erected at Marshall, N. G. Operatives
for the mill will be imported from the
crowded tenement districts of New
York.
Mayor Mcclellan, of New York, has
announced former assistant secretary
of the navy, William McAdoo, as po-
lice commissioner.
p B. Delaney, Of Orange, MI,
has perfected a telegraph system which
he asserts is capable of sending mess
ages at a rate of 5000 words minute.
The George Il. White Lumber Com
pany of Chicago, has been placed in
the hands of receiver. The liabili-
ties are placed at S25O,OO and assets
$780, coo.
Attorney General Bryan, of Mary
land, has drawn bill for introduction
IN the legislature, which, it is claimed,
will disfranchise 80, negroes. The
bill IS practically certain to pass.
The Interior Department has re-
fused the application of the city Of San
Francisco to obtain a water supply
from Yosemite National Park. The
city contemplated the expenditure
OF $4,000, 900.
At the forthcoming dinner to Mayor
Mcclellan, at Sherry's, i'll New York,
Jan, 4, former President Cleveland is
expected to outline what he considers
should be the leading issue in the cam
paign OF 1904.
A Washington dispatch to the New
lork American states that the outlook
is that the Panama treaty will be
heaten and that United States marines
are perilously.near an armed clash with
the Colombian troops on the Isthmus.
Should the Panama treaty pass and
the work of building the canal begin,
1T is estimated that at least 10 per cent.
of the $40, 100000 appropriation, or
$4,000, 900, would be spent in this
country for machinery.
Colombia has been given to under
stand that the refusal of the United
States to refer the Panama question to
The Hague tribunal will meet with
Europe's approval. A European am.
bossador said yesterday that the Pan.
anna incident was closed chapter in
the history of nations.
The London Times says Japan has
asked Russia to reconsider her reply.
The reply contained no tangible con.
c3ssion, inasmuch as it excluded Japan
altogether from the Manchurian ques
ton and proposed an equal position
for the two powers in Korea.
An official of the Jones & Laughlir
Company, of New York, says there
las been no signed agreement between
the United States Steel Corporation
and the Independent manufacturers al
to wage reduction but admits that al
understanding exists to reduce wages
about 10 per cent. to become effective
after Jan. 1.
The surplus in the Tennessee stat,
treasury on January 1, which will g
to the school fund, is estimated a
S211 200. This added to the perman
eut school fund of $4,000, will NEAR
about S345, 900 for distribution early il
January. Treasurer Folk is now max
ing preparations to meet the January
interest ON registered bonds, which
amounts to $4,000
Sixty-three persons were killed an(
thirty persons were injured in thu
wrecH of the "Duquesne Limited" tn,
Baltimore and Ohio's fast passenge
train between Pittsburg and New
York, at Laurel Run, Pa. The trail
ran into wrecked car loaded will
bridge timbers. The wreckage tool
fl and many passengers were burned
to death.
The New York American says tina
the Interstate Securities Company il
organized by Standard Oil interests to
deal exclusively in railroad bonds
Alexander Mcdonald, the close per
sonal friend of John D. Rockefeller, il
p 9sident of the company. 1t also
states that the bonds OF the Mobile
Jackson & Kansas City Railroad vii
be the first bonds offered for sale.
Pension Commissioner Ware OK
presses the opinion that the peusio
list will lose during the present yea
about $4,000 names, and that. if tn
law remains unchanged, within to-
years the pension list will be so re
duced as to call for a very small 81
penditure from the national treasury
Very many pensioners of the civil wa
are OLD, and naturally the number c
doetks will largely increase during th