The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1904-09-08
Condensed News

'no 'Otai Whehu SloPi putting lhe hSute |
at 533, 900, 900 bushels.
Carroll d. Wright will resign as
Commissioner of Labor at the end of
the year and devote his attention to
Clark College,
The Democrats of Wisconsin in con-
vention at Oshkosh nominated former
governor George w. Peck, of Milwau
kee, for Governor.
The students at the Ohio Normal
University at Ada quit their classes
because the trustees refused to strike
the name Of a negro student from the
roll
An explosion Of dynamite near the
old Carter Furnace in Carter county,
Tenn, killed Mr.. Powell Bowers, and
badly injured Thomas Nidever and a
fellow workman, named Newton.
1t is expected that the Government
will establish fifty wireless telegraph
stations on the Atlantic and Pacific
coasts to communicate news regarding
the weather and all classes of vessels.
The Four Brothers Independent
Oil Co. will ask for an injunction
against the Standard Oil CO. if the lat
ter corries out its present intention of
again reducing the wholesale price of
burning oils in Massachusetts,.
The Standard Oil Co. announces that
it will extend its pipe lines to the cen.
trail western states. The proposed adj
ditions and the lines now being con-
structed will amount to 800 miles and
the cost will be about $40, 100000,
The second of the two ball oons
which started from the Worlds FAN
grounds in race for Washington land
ed near Wyoming, ILL.,, after being in
the air little more than twenty -four
hours. The first one remained up two
hours.
The wives of some of the most prom
inent men of Cuba, Kan, armed them
selves with hatchets and wrecked foul
saloons in the town, demolishing al
the furniture and fixtures, breaking
every bottle and opening every keI
and barrel found.
Judge Parker spent day at the vi
ster county fair, at Ellenville, N. Y,
and reviewed the prize parade, whiel
is an annual feature of the fair. H
was heartily cheered as he made hi
appearance at the grounds. 1t has Ions
been his annual custom to attend The
Ellenville fair.
The monthly statement of the put
lie debt shows an increase of SO, III, 81
for the month Of August. The month
ly comparative of Government receipt
and exenditures shows deficit Of SO,
343, 212 for August, the total deficit 70
D the first two months of the fiscal yea
g being $S8, 75O,O41.
A confederate monument has bee
unveiled on the battlefield of Bull Ru
8 at Groveton, Va. The troops of til
4 United States army, assembled in tbs
= vicinity for the annual maneuvers
took part in the exercises and Ger
Corbin delivered an address. The pril
cipal speech was by Gov. Montague.
The flight Of the Princess Louise
Q Saxe-Coburg, daughter of the King
J. the Belgians, from sanitarium in Sa,
, ony, is agitating court circles. Viii
: there is no definite information as I
!. her whereabouts, it is supposed thu
Q she has joined Lieutenant Count Ma
b assick-Keglevitch, with whom Sd
n eloped once before, Sympathy seen
! to be with the Princess, who is said
" have been harshly treated.
Chairman Babcock's doleful summi
= ry of the congressional situation is n,
disputed at Republican headquarters
\ in Chicago. On the contrary, Repr
tentative Tawney, who is in charge {
9 the campaign in the West, said thl
Mr.. Babcock undou btedly knew VIII
he was talking about, The Nation
Committee admits that several di
tricts that are ordinarily Republica
are virtually lost by reason of factiol
;, al fights.
is The Grand Army of the Republ
e elected w. W. Blackmar, of Bostol
= commander-in- chief and chose Denvt
:, for the encampment in 1905. The We
h Grams went on record as favoring inte
ligence and fitness as qualifications fl
p the exercise Of the voting franchis
70 as opposed to race and color line
is They also tabled the resolution provi
r, ing for fraternal convention of Il
e survivors of the Union and Confede
y ate armies.
% One Of natures remedies, cann
8 harm the weakest constitution; new
fails to cure summer complaints of o
, or yonng. DIR. Fowlers Extract
u Wild StrawberrG.
% Fairbanks speech is said to hay