The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1893-07-26
STATE NEWS.
Items cleaned here and
there among our ex.
changes.


wo feet high was killed near Crys-
al Springs last week.
G. w. Olmsted, dealer in paints
and painters supplies at Chatta-
nooga, has made an assignment.
The barn of ]. M. Paschal, at Nc
was struck by lightning
and totally destroyed. The loss
was considerable. No insurance. :.
w. w. Gordon, of Lynchburg,
has sold his interest in the Lynch
burg Falcon and has accepted an
under Collector Bond.
Dock Bloomfield, colored, of Fay
cite County went from home and
left his two children alone in his
cabin. The cabin was burned to
the ground and the children crema.
ted when he returned.
The Morristown Cooperative
Stove Works, with capital of $40,
600, made an assignment last week.
The East Tennessee Wood Work
ing Company, also of Morristown,
and which controlled capital of
$4,000, has made an assignment.
Liabilities not known.
James Irvine who with the assis-
lance of man named Lavender,
murdered Roll Reed near Chatta-
nooga, has been arrested and
lodged in the Chattanooga Jail.
The capture was effected with
the aid of bloodhOunds. Feeling
against the men is very intense.
A negro named Henry Hatfield
was shot and instantly killed by
an officer in the East Tennessee,
Virginia & Georgia Railroad yards
at Citico, near Chattanooga. The
man was caught in the act of rob-
bing a car and resisted arrest until
a load of turkey shot quieted him.
During the coming month
Greenville intends to commence
building a handsome new school
house.
A Canadian chair concern has
been looking for a location in the
South during the past week. The
representatives have been In Knox
Vile, but whether that will be the
lucky city or not has not been fully
determined.
Samuel Spencer Of New Yorl
has been made a co-receiver witt
Messrs. Fink & McGhee for the E
IT. V. & G. Rail Road and controlled
lines. The appointment to taxi
effect on August 1 1898. The Bono
100000.
The East Tennessee Baptist Sun
day school convention was in Sos
sion at Johnson last week. 1t wa
an interesting and profitable SEES
sion. Knoxville has been selected
as the place of meeting next year.
Prof. M. r. M. Burk has beer
elected to a professorship in thu
Grant University at Athens to fill
the vacancy caused by the resigna
ton of Prof. John A. Hicks.
Atty. Gen. F. ID. Owings came
down from Huntsville to spent
Sunday, going back Sunday night
Dock says he is warming them W
this court.-Rockwood Times.
The new furnace is rapidly climb
ing skyward and assuming magnifi
cent proportions. 1t will not bt
long until the smoke will begin t;
curl from the top of the fur
mace. A great amount of work ha
been done by the company in thu
past few months and the old place
is being considerably changed. l
we were not here every day WI
would not know the place.-ROck
wood Times.
An unfortunate affair Occuret
here last Thursday between j. II
Welcker and r. l.. McGuffin. II
seems that Welcker was the attor
ney in prosecuting McGuffin TO
assaulting Geo. Hart, and after tn
trial Welcker and McGuffin met
and after talking about the trial
difficulty arose. McGuffin drew al
iron picket on Welcker, who free
his pistol at McGuffin, the sho
taking effect in the left side unde
the arm. The ball was extracted
by DR. Sienknecht, and the wound i
doing well. No serious result
Roane County Republican.
Near Clinton, Anderson county
today, Freeman and Nose Co.