The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1904-06-09
Condensed News

= National Committeeman Guffey, of
:. Pennsylvania, denies that he is in
= New York for the purpose Of entering
n q political combination.
= The Democratic vote for presiden-
~ tial nomination now stands: For Park
y: er l72; for Hearst, 9S; for Olney, 80;
1. for Wall, 90: uninstructed, 304
= Floods in the Kansas rivers are caus-
& ing heavy losses and much inconveni-
y ence. Anumber of towns in that State
. are partly under water.
+ There is some talk of sending r. L.
< Quay to the Senate to succeed his IA
y ther, the late Senator Quay. Former
3 Senator J. Donald Cameron is also
= mentioned for the vacancy.
y. The split in Republican ranks in
9 West Virginia is growing wider and
= promises to end in a bolt by the Teter
" faction and the nomination of Dawson
II for Governor.
y An amendment to the charter of the
- J. M. Buck Lumber Company, of
h: Washington county, increasing the
8. capital stock TO $50, 900, was filed with
4 the Secretary of State Saturday.
= Three negroes are dead at Trail
! Lake, Miss, as the result of the MUIR
z dor of two white men in their store.
. Further trouble is feored. The MUIR
t. ders are believed 10 have been insti-
r. gated by secret society.
u George B. Cortelyou, secretary of
q commerce and labor, denies that he
N. has any intention of resigning his po-
= sition to accept the craftsmanship of the
:: Republican National committee. He
q believes that the Republicans will be
. successful in the coming campaign.
n. The United States cruisers Brooklyn
* and Atlanta have arrived at Tangler to
- exercise pressure on the Government
e of Morocco to secure the release OF
" Ion Perdicaris, the wealthy American
IT, citizen who was abducted by brigands.
-, Two other American warships are ex-
II pected shortly to reach Tangler.
-. The Republican machine leaders are
II. still contemplating about the appoint
* ment of Secretary Cortelyou as cam
Y paign manager. Senator Drpden has
" been suggested as O good man to 'fry
~ the fat" 1t is claimed that Cortelyou
": will be novice when it comes to rails
,%. ing campaign funds.
W: The anniversary of the birth of JET
~. ferson Davis was generally observed
.SS@ throughout the South as memorial day
NJ: by the Confederate veterans. Busi
~ ness was suspended in many cities an(
y the graves of the dead heroes were
70 strewn with flowers and eulogies wer'
W pronounced by orators.
70 There are rumors from the Far Eas
~ that great battle is in progress a
W. Port Arthur, but they are not verified
~ and the reports are lacking in details
~. A Toxic dispatch to an Italian paper
h.& says the Japanese have occupied tn
If: first line of the Notifications outside 0
w Port Arthur after feeble resistance
~ and another correspondent OF anothe
- paper says the Japanese have occupie
- Kwan Tung heights, on which the
emplaced heavy artillery dominatin
Port Arthur. These are rumors, ais
- unverifed, of severe fighting on th
Liao Tung peninsula. Field Marshi
G. Yumagata has been appointed Com
mander- in Chief of all the Japanes
us forces in the field and will shortly pro
Nv ceed to the seat of war.
,uis,
etc. On the seventy-ninth ballot, Charlie
who S. Deneen, of Chicago, was nominate
ring for Governor by the Illinois Republ
nail can Convention at Springfield. d
l to, mems nomination was brought aboI
by combination, Yates, Hamlin al
Sherman Withdrawing from the CO.
test and throwing their influence
Deneen, who received 957 10 votes
lVen- 522 1-9 votes for LowdeD, 81 for Wa
yan, ner and for Yates. The nominate
ana was then made unanimous, and t
Ma convention took mp the work OF non
ss are Mating the minor candidates.
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