The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1907-06-28
GENERAL NEWS.

! number of honorary degrees on dis
tinguished persons on June 20, whe
Lord Curzon, of Kedleston, will
publicly installed as Chancellor Q
the University. Among the recIp
ents of honors will be Mark Twain
Rudyard kipling, Premier Camp
bell-Bannerman, Ambassador Reid
Prince Arthur, of Connaught An
guste Rodin and Admiral Lor,
Charles Beresford.
| Several counties in Eastern Ken
lucky will be developed by a new
electric line which is proposed to b
constructed by m n who held ;
meeting at Olympian Springs OF
Saturday. Sharpsburg, West Liber
ty and other towns will be reached
by the road, which will be about
sixty-fye miles long.
1t is announced IN Paris that the
French Ambassador at Washing
ton, M. Jnsserand, will return to
France shortly and submit to the
Foreign Office the propositions of
the United States and the result Of
his negotiations with Secretary
Root regarding a new commercial
agreement.
Loyalist members OF the Cumber-
land Presbyterian Church have or
ganized a board of trustees, and at
meeting in Bowling Green it was
ordered that steps be taken at once
to recover property held by that
branch of the denomination which
Joined the Presbyterian Church.
According to the views of Judge
Ii. M. Garwood, prominent Texas
lawyer, the South views the candl-
Idacy of William ]. Bryan with cold
ness and indiference, and people in
his section of the country think
it ridiculous that the Nebraskan
should be deemed Democrat.
John Stewart. New York man.
nfacturer, in close touch with poll
tics, says Hughes will be the next
President OF the United States and
believes New York will favor its
own son rather than some man out
side that State.
Reports received by Memphis
paper from correspondents through
out the cotton belt indicates that
the stapleis from two to four weeks
behind. Conditions during the past
week wera somewhat improved gen
orally
GastoR X. Philip, well known in
society and club life. was indicted
BY the grand jury in Washington
yesterday for the murder of Frank
MacabOy, hackman, on tbs 18th
of May last.
J. Warren Shelby, great-great-
grandson of the first Governor Of
Kentucky, ended his life in a small
town in Louisiana by swallowing
carbolic acid. His home was in
Danville.
Louis Glass, vice-president of the
Pacific States Telephone and Tele-
graph Company, will be the next
man under grand jury indtetmentl
brought to trial in the San Fran
cisco graft cases.
President Roosevelt has appoint
I'd Michael e. Bannin, business
man Of New York City. member
IF the Board Of Indian Commits.
sioners, to succeed DR.. Maurice
Francis Egan.
President Roosevelt has signed
The Dominican treaty, the conven-
ton which regulates customs mat
-ers between the United States and
Santo Domingo.
The President has forwarded to
Arms, Of GAINESVILLE, Tenn.
medal for saving the lives Of three
men in a wreck at that place in. Sep
tember, 1906
Gov. Patterson declares that he
will not call an extra session Of the
Legislature on account Of the Mem
ohis charter decision.
Three distinct tornadoes struck
Medicine Lodge, Kaus., destroying
twenty-five houses in the northern
BART of the town. Six persons were
injured u