Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-12-19
STATE NEWS.

GAINESVILLE, Dec. 16.-The grand
jury, which has been in session the
past week, returned fifty two indict.
ments, four being for murder. Those
charged with murder are G.. w. Dur
ham, VIM. Evans, John Long and Dick
Wisdom.
PARIS, Dec. 16.-The Board of Mayor
and Aldermen of Paris have signed a
contract with a Chattanooga company
to putin electric lights and works in the
city, to be completed by or before July
1, 1895.
WARTRACE, Dec. 16.-Fire broke out
in Ellington Bros planning mills last
night. A good deal of machinery and
a large buzz saw were ruined. Damage
about $3.50. Origin unknown.
WARTRACE, Dec. 16.-Mormon mis-
sionaries have been preaching in this
neighborhood for the last few weeks.
They met with a cold reception at this
place. Having been refused the col
lege and the churches, they preached
on the depot platform to IA small crowd.
1t is now said the family of DR.. Hen
derson, who was assassinated in his
home in Sevierville recently, for the
alleged seduction of Mrs. Gass, thinks
he was killed by white caps and not by
the husband of the woman.
A letter to the Knoxville Journal
from Blountville says Geo. A. Smith,
Democrat, who was defeated for Sena-
tor from the Second District, is prepar-
ing to contest Fitzgerald's election on
the ground of irregularities.
Wilbur McMillen, of Sunbright, while
out hunting Friday, in taking a gun
from a wagon with the muzzle pointed
toward him, it was discharged. The
shot struck him in the side and killed
him instantly. He was 10 years of age.
Charles Carrier was arrested at Bluff
City Saturday morning by a Deputy
United States Marshal on q charge of
counterfeiting. Other parties are sus-
pected and will be arrested at once.
The business has been going on for a
month. Carrier carried the mail on a
star route from Bluff City to Hemlock,
some seven miles. 1t is thought that
the coin was made at Hemlock or in
that neighborhood.
A stock company has been organized
for the purpose of publishing a news
paper at Wartburg. The new paper
will be known as the Republican, and
will be edited by John Roberts and R,
D. Delius. The press and type are on
the ground. The first issue will appear
this week.
The Republican is the lame of q
weekly paper established in Lexington,
the first issue appearing last week.
Barnes & Greasy are the editors and
proprietors.
What is supposed to be a valuable
coal VEN has been discovered one mile
south of Sunbright, neal the Cincin-
natl Southern Railway. The vein is
said to be twenty five inches thick.
The election in Morristown Saturday
resulted in the election of Goodson
over Cain, citizens candidate for May
or, by a good majority.
Ernest Springer, a hoodo fiend, was
arrested at Milan last Tuesday and
jailed to await trial for the attempted
poisoning of three colored people. The
negroes had a narrow escape.
1t is said that during recent years
over forty prisoners have escaped from
the Campbell County Jail.
Large quantities of East Tennessee
poplar is being exported in the log. 1t
is said to bring better returns in that
shape than any other.
Miss Laura Kirby, aged so years, was
found dead in her bed heal Earlyville.
Warren County, a few days ago. She
was well the previous day.
Dock Brown. his six sons and five
daughters, passed through South Pitts
burg last Wednesday, enroute from
Kimball City to Oklahoma. There
were nine families or three generations
of the same family. They are going
through in wagons. They have ten
covered wagons and n spring wagon,
twenty one mules and forty seven hui.
man beings. The entire wagon train
was composed of the families of the
sons and daughters of Dock Brown.