The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1904-10-06
Condensed News

Inc Dig DattleSnlp O0nnectlcub was
successfully launched at the Brooklyn
navy yard.
Senator German said that he felt
confident that Parker would carry New
York, Maryland and West Virginia.
The congress of lawyers and jurists
indorsed the proposed call for sec
ond peace conference at The Hague.
Former Vice President Adlai E.
Stevenson formally opened the demo.
cratic campaign in Central Illinois with
an address at Bloomington.
United States Senator Geo. L. Hoar,
OF Massachusetts,, died early Friday
morning, after an illness extending
over period of many months.
The city OF Trinidad and the whole
valley along the Las Animas river in
Colorado suffered great damage by
flood. No loss OF life is reported.
United States engineers have discov-
cred an outlet for the Chagres river
into the Pacific ocean, by using which
the cost of the Panama canal may be
reduced by $50, 900, 900
The Worlds Buzzard Bay special in
dicates that Grover Cleveland is salts
fed with democratic outlook in New
York, but says he will make 10
speeches during the campaign.
Mrs. Mary Perkins Hindman has filed
a suit for divorce from Thomas @.
Hindman, the we'll known insurance
man of Nashville, alleging cruel and
inhuman treatment and abandonment.
The World says that a new metal has
been discovered which will take the
place of copper and can be produced at
one tenth the cost, and that an offer of
81 200, 600 for the patent has been re-
ceiVed.
The Alaska season of 1904 is closed.
Gold receipts are estimated at $11, 900, =
600 from Klondike, $l0,000,0 900 from
Nome, 50, 900, 900 from Tanana, SO, ,000,-
600 from other districts; in all $780,
900, 900.
The Herald asserts that Judge Park
er will make a whirl-wind campaign Of
the state after Oct. Is, and will preside
at mass meeting under the auspices
of Tammany Hall at Madison Square
Garden.
"Ticky Jim" Bach, the notorious
witness for the defense in the Jett-
White murder trial, was killed by his
former wife at Jackson, KY, while try
ing to force an entrance into her moth
er's home.
Mr.. Pulitzer devotes eight columns
of the editorial pages of the World to Q
third open letter to President Roose.
welt under the caption "Mr. Roose
velt's Strange Policy of Peace and
Publicity"
1t is estimated that the railroad ant
industrial companies will pay out IL
dividends during October approxi
mately $40, 900, 900, being a decrease ol
about $1,250, 900 as compared with
October, 1908.
Payment of so, 900, 900 by the Philip.
pine government to the Augustinian
friars for their lands will be made by
draft upon the London branch of The
Guaranty Trust company, instead of OF
Bank of England.
About 1000 employees of Pennsyl
vania railroad system have been drop
ped from the company's service, th,
company having issued an order tha
no employe who was hired after b,
reached the age of thirty-five is to b.
retained.
The grand jury at Buffalo, N. T.,
has indicted three aldermen and fou
former aldermen on charges of graft
ing" All indicted men were arraignet
in court Friday. They pleaded no
guilty, and bail was fixed at $500 il
each case.
Four women were placed in Jail a
Wichita, Kan, Saturday for breaking
two large plate glass windows in thu
Mahon Wholesale Supply Company
There were Mrs. Carrie Nation, Mrs
Lucy Wilhoite, Mrs. Lydia Mount
and Mrs. Marion G. Henry.
A Chicago despatch to the New Yor
Herald says that the of the plants G
: the international Harvester Co., an
the Pullman Go. non-union has alarm
ed Chicago labor unions. Fear is ex
pressed that other large concerns vii
operate on the ''open shop" basis.
The Chicago Record H erald est
mates the corn crop at 2,246, 900, 90
bushels. It gives the seven 'surplu
states 1888, 900, 900 bushels Illinois
303million; Iowa, 276 million; Nebral
ka, 300 million; Missouri, I75 milIior
Kansas, 1850 million: Ohio, - millioI
D. M. Flournoy, one of the mo
prominent brokers and society men
Paducah, was granted. q divorce fro
Laura Flournoy, daughter of Evang
list Sam Jones. The couple met la
summer during o big evangelistic NEE
ing held by Rev. Jones, and they we
married short time afterward Tht
: lived together but few weeks. d
sertion was the basis Of the divor
, suit.