Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-06-23
STATE NEWS.

D%yersburg folks are enjoying home
grown peaches.
Cut worms are proving destructive to
tobacco in Henry County.
AT Mckenzie June apples are selling
from wagons at twenty cents a bushel.
At C~ovington the other day the ther-
mometer marked ninety nine degrees.
One dealer in Dyer County this sea-
son sold thirty five self binders and
thirty mowers.
Colonel r. Cornick, ST., of Knoxville,
died last Saturday. Hewas an old cit
izen and attorney.
John Watkins committed suicide by
taking morphine at his home, near
Gadsden, Tuesday morning.
John Steele, colored, was run over
and killed by an engine at the Kansas
City roundhouse in Memphis.
Sherman Cobb, the murderer of Con-
rad Keltner, in Chattanooga, was SEN
fenced to the penitentiary for life.
Grundy County will make a fine crop
of wheat this year. The acreage is
larger than usual and the grain unusu
ally fine.
The freight a shop of the Nashville,
Chattanooga & st. Louis Railroad in
Nashville, were entirely destroyed by
fire. Loss about 1000.
Joe Wallace was hanged at Jasper
last Friday in the presence of at least
1900 spectators. His neck was broken
and death almost instant.
Wheat is reported as being unusually
fine in this State. In the vicinity of
Mckenzie the crop is estimated at from
twenty five to thirty bushels to the
acre.
James Wilburn, a farmer of Cannon
County, dropped dead Tuesday in Read
yville, where he had gone to summon
o physician to attend a member of his
family.
Ned Craiglaw and his uncle, James
Kelley, became engaged in a quarrel
near Bells Depot, during which Kelley
was seriously cut with a knife. Craig
law escaped.
Major II. @. Jackson, aged SO years,
a prominent citizen of Knoxville, died
suddenly Saturday morning. He was
at one time President of the East Ten
nessee Railroad.
Two negroes, Tom Richardson and
Walter banner, disagreed about O girl
and a fight ensued. Richardson was
struck with a club and killed. Banner
made his escape.
Bon Air, a mining town on the noun
tain above Sparta, is threatened with
destruction by laid slides, the ground
is sliding from under the buildings and
the people are moving away,
Last Saturday night an attempt was
made to blow up the Maryville Times
office, and but for the timely discovery
by the night Waterman of the town the
attempt would have succeeded.
Willy Wynn, formerly a clerk in the
Abingdon hotel in GAINESVILLE, became
entangled in the harness of a horse he
was hitching to a plow, and the horse
ran away, dragging him to death.
Green Fizer shot and killed Wade
Douglass. Fizer had been too intimate
with Douglass wife and the latter had
discovered the fact. The parties are
colored, and talk of lynching Fizer is
INDUCED in.
The yacht Clinton, which is being
constructed to carry an exhibit of the
products of Anderson County to the
Worlds Fair, is about completed. She
is now at Knoxville, where she will
await her cargo of exhibits.
Revenue officers destroyed four wild
cat stills in Polk County the other day.
Deputy Marshal Williams, who lives in
the vicinity, is accused of showing the
revenue officers where the stills were,
has been made to fly for his life.
DR.. j. p. Lowry and Frank Dowdy
and the latter's two sons, of Big Sandy,
County, engaged in a fight a
few days ago, which resulted in DIR.
being severely knitted by Dowdy.
The latter was also severely hurt.
AS Miss Baker was going through a
piece of woodland about ten miles from
Bristol, she discovered on the road side
blood and hair. Next day a peddler
was found almost dead from bullet
wounds. He lived long enough to de.
scribe the men who had attacked him.
Last Saturday night at Cash Point,
four miles west Of Blanche, two young
men, named Baylor Leatherwood and
W. w. Roper, while on their way home
church, became involved in a diff
over an old trouble, and Leath-
wood dangerously shot Roper.
Mrs. W. II. Clark, wife of a well to
10 farmer living at New Hope, David
'on County, hanged herself in her room.
unknown trouble with her father
the recent marriage of q sixteen
'ear old daughter, who was going to