The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-12-02
STATE NEWS.

MILAN, Tenn, Nov. % -Samnel
Yates, miser, reported to have
vast hoard of money secured in his
residence near this city, was burned
in a fire which destroyed his house.
The police suspect that lie was
murdered and robbed and the house
set on fire to conceal the crime.
When the United States Circuit
Court met this morning there was an
incident, the first of it's kind in
Tennessee, in the admission of Il
female lawyer to practice at the bar.
AS soOAl as Court was declared open
by the veteran baliff, Uncle Dick
Norris, Judge J. NJ. Greer arose, and
presenting Mrs. Martins ID. Strickland
of Michigan, to the Court, asked that
che be sworn in and enrolled as q
practicing attorney.
Judge Hammond made q neat
little speech OF welcome. He said he
believed it was the first time in the
history of the State that any court
had been called upon to admit a
female practitioner and it gave him
pleasure to be the first Judge to be
called upon for such purpose.
Mrs. Strickland was then duly
sworn in by Clerk ClOugh, and re-
manning q few moments until the
argument in the street railway case,
sine left the court room, accompanied
by Judge and Mrs. Greer.-Memphis
Scimitar.
Two years ago a dozen young men
of Haw kins County, Tenn, organized
themselves into a regular gang, and
made q lonely cave in the county
their headquarters. They had read
the lives of the James boys and de-
termined to follow the examples set
by them. Various robberies were
committed and the gang was not
broken up till one of them was shot
dead by q merchant who was being
robbed. Up to that moment none
knew who composed the gang of out
laws. But then the masks were
thrown OFF, The whole county was
shocked to learn that the dead young
man belonged to a leading family,
and that the other members of the
gang were sons of the best men in
the county. They all fed, some go
ing to Mexico and others to Canada.
The affair was kept out of the papers.
1t is now thought that one OF these
highway robbers arrested to-day for
robbery the bank at Radford, Va,
belonged to this gang from Hawkins
County, and that he is going under
an assumed name.
Mai. Anderson, Commander of the
Tennessee forces at Coal Creek, is eX-
pecting to be attacked by the miners
and is in Nashville for the purpose of
securing achievements.
A dispatch from Chattanooga says:
News from Piedmont, Ala, says that
the three notorious Conner brothers
were arrested yesterday, about four
teen miles west of there. J. V. Jack
son, the famous express detective,
assisted by Byrnes and Barnes, of
Chattanooga, and a posse OF citizens
made the capture, but only after
desperate fight, in which q woman
took part, pouring scalding water
over the attacking party, while the
men fired Winchesters and six-shOOt-
ers. The Conner brothers are sup
DC sed to be the men who robbed the
mail and express Cars of the East
Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia train
near Piedmont, October, 81. Their
arrest has caused great excitement.
TULLAHOMA, Nov. 29.-News
reached here to-day of brutal and
cold-blocded murder which occurred
near Lynchburg, Moore County, yes
terday evening about O'Clock, An
drew Branch being shot and instant
ly killed by John Dorster. The
facts are given as follows: Dorster
Was a tenant of Branch's and refused
to vacate when the latter wanted pos
session, disregarding numerous re-
quests to do so. Yesterday evening
Branch went to the house for the
purpose of trying to induce Dorster
to remove. DOrster was drinking
and in an ugly mood, and when the
subject was mentioned replied in an
inaultinQ manner Branch remarked
that he had not come for the purpose
of raising difficulty, and turning,
walked away.
Just as he reached the yard gate,
DOrster fired at him with q double
barrel shot gun, the load penetrating
his back and killing him instantly.
Dorster escaped. Branch was a
quiet and peaceable man, while Dor
ster had the reputation OF being
quarrelsome and dangerous charac~,
ter, especially when drinking.