The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1893-03-17
STATE NEWS.


Broad was in flames, and the fire
department being called out quickly
extingnished the flames. The loss
from the fire was very light, but one
0f the firm estimated the loss by
water TO b. about $4,000. 1t was
fully insured.
The Hon. Richard Coker the chief
Of the Tammany political organizes
tion in New York il visiting this
State. He is a guest OF Gen. w. H. |
Jackson Of Belle Meade. Mr.. Croker |
is something of horse man, and will |
probably make some purchases in the
State.
]. F. Enderline, German shoe
maker, who sold his little home in
NAshv lie and left with the proceeds,
about $4,000 = few days ago for New
York to live out the balance of his
days with diS son, was found dead on
the Pennsylvania Railroad track,
hoRr Macbeth Station, Pa, Thursday
morning. A telegram received here
gave no details Cf how he came to be
killed.
john Ransrme, colOred, living near
Huntington, is having trouble with
u wildcat which persisIs in obtaining
rAtiOns from his smokehouse. 1t
ntripped off boards sufficient to get in
aud dispose OF two hams one night,
aud the next night came back and
took y liberal supply OF middlings.
John poured charge Of shot into the
darkness toward 1t, but failed of hia
| An ~ n nd tlaaA fLalnninta fnlinn 10 oliIl
At large.
Knox County farmers have been
3 bitten by patent right sharper.
: Eleven in ~ many different districts
signed notes for $l25 each.
) Thirteen couvicts escaped from the
Tracy City mines y few days age by
y overcoming the guards Upon near
I ing Lhe entrance to the mine Guard
q Joe Hargis WAS dealt a blow and
felled to the ground by one of the
convicts and his gun taken from him.
y Guard w. A. Miles, who was near at
hand Immediately made an attempt
u TO get his gun in position to fire
= without endangering Hargls, but he
fore he could do anything he, too, was
r. pounced upon, Overpowered and re-
Q lieved Of his gun, whereupon thirteen
Of the cOnvicts made their escape
e There were twelve negroes and D
white man in the party. Some oI
=. them we're desperate characters anC
II IN for long terms. There were fifty
seven more who had the same chance
a to escape, but did not leave. Warder
A. Burton was soon Oh the trail will
lr blood-houDds, but has not yet CAP
Is tuTed any OF them.
During the last week the case ha
been on trial between the States o
Virginia aud Tennessee as To th,
ownership Of little strip OF lard il
,he Northeast corner Of this State
a Al last accounts it looked as ii Vlr
st ginia would win the case. Some on
e. suggests that tbe three States, Vii
giniA, Tennessee aud North Caroline
ne each surrender piece of its terrlJor
H. and create a new stare. 1t would st
~, cure two additional Democratic S,ns
as. tors if it did no other goyd,
up A venerable woman lives alone o
A. mOuntAin near Harrimat A
, We though she is 100 years Oil she rt
fuses to accept any assistance frOI
We her children, and says she is ampl
nd able to take care Of herself.
nd Mrs Sailie Graves has just died 1
GSllatin, Tenn, at the extreme ag
ce OF l03 years. She WAS born in Ge
We Inauy but has lived the most Of h'
ey lif- in Tennessee. For The last thirt
oa years she ha4 supported herself Q
w hnp f.r a,H hoa hanp IlNy q,
tive and healthy. Some ten yea
ws ago she lost her sight and was bin
he tor yeare, but her sight was final
he fIlly restored.
az az The American Eagle Pencil Con
nts pany is to Oren it, new wood worl
ing plant at Snelbyville this weel
'ls- The plant is for the purpose Of ge
1T. ting out the cedar with which Il
pencils are made and the euterpri
y will work 100 men and turn out thr,
- car lo' DIS week for shipment to Il
New Jersey factory. The penC
cedar is not flushed in Tennessee
but the company will soon put in
us; branch to make peu-hOlders, whit
l.; will do finished work.
ors Turrentne Academy, in Bedfo
ave County was destroyed by fire Ia
sea fall aud 100 children deprived of
Das Das school until u new building could
erected. 1t WAS finished up and ]
I'm, occupied one week, when, few da
5 in sgO, it was ags in burned to {
to ground by firebugs. There is liat
ut 10 be a hemp-stretching matinee
Ine 'fas that vicinity some of these days.
urs In Dyer County the other d
;, while the family were away fro
'uu home, little 6-year-old son OF Jol
Huckbly went up stairs aud found
old pistol and while playing with (
ba- wespon, accidently sLot hims,
etv through the heart. When found /
of child was dead.
ar ar r. J. Freeman, who lived ne
: 70 Blackjack, KY, while rpturni
be home in a drunken condition fro
to Springfield, Tenn, one night |,
week, fell from his horse into dit
ON the road side and was strsugl
~. - to dea'h in pool Of water.
srt leaves a wife but no children.
rn- Joseph Newton, tailor at McMin
:, " ,, vii e, who The other day celebrat
"' his 9lst birthday with an enterta
ment given his friends, maie {
coat in which James X. Polk "
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