Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-01-23
STATE NEWS.

Dresden, Ian. 15.-Last evening wit.
messed a murder, thu parties being ne.
groes. Sank Hamilton and Dick John.
son, who came here from Huntingdon,
witch others were putting up ice for W.
Il. Riddle, when a quarrel arose be-
tween Sank and Dick at the pond, the
latter drawing II knife. The trouble
was again renewed when they quit
work and went to Riddle 3 family groc-
cry. Dick again drew a knife and
started to open it. Sank picked up a
hickory bar used to fasten the door and
struck Dick over the head, when he fell
to the floor and never spoke afterwards,
dying at 10 o'clock. Sank fled and has
not been captured. johnson had had
three drinks while at work, but neither
was drunk.
Fayetteville, Jan. III. N. William.
son shot and killed his brother. VIM.
Williamson, about three miles east of
this place yesterday. Bad feeling had
existed between them for some time.
The deceased moved to Alabama not
long since aud came back to Tennessee,
1t said, for the expressed purpose of
killing his brother. Arriving at his
brothers residence yesterday he called
him out to the road. When his brother
came near him he began to curse and
villify him, saying he had come to kill
him and was going to do it, at the same
time thrusting his hand under his coat
for his pistol. but his pistol hung in his
clothing, and while trying to draw it
his brother, 1. N. Williamson, shot him
dead. l. N. Williamson came to Fay-
etteville at once and surrendered to the
sheriff.
Knoxville, Jan. 17.-Doc Benson.
white, aged S5 years, was killed by the
s%outhbound passenger train from Louis.
vile over the Southern Railway inside
the yards here this morning. He was
a section hand in the employ of the
road and did not leave the track in time
when he saw the train approaching.
He leaves a family.
Fayetteville, January 16.-Rose Ann
Woods, colored, was found dead in bed
here this morning. Coroner D. P. Hol-
man held an inquest over the body and
the verdict of the jury was that she
"came to her death either by strangu.
lation from snuff or by some disease of
the heart s%uperinduced or caused by the
excessive use of snuff" She used snuff
excessively and at the post norton ex-
animation balls of snuff the size of q
mans thumb were found in her throat.
Memphis, Jan. 17.-Mrs. Mary Bates,
of Atlanta, Ca, died of apoplexy at the
Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham
depot, this city, this morning. Mrs.
Bates was en- route to Hot Springs, Ark,
and was accompanied by her husband.
A c%oroner's jury rendered a verdict in
accordance with the facts.
Knoxville, Jan. 17.-Special Master
Tllman, who was appointed by Judge
Key, of the United States Circuit Court,
in the case of Ralph R. Saxtou, Chief
Dispatcher, vs.. Knoxvills, Cumberland
Gap & Louisville Railroad, today filed
his report, allowing Saxton $40, 900
damages for injuries received by a stove
exploding in one of the company's cars
and crippling him.
Nashville, Jan. 17.-Ex.Gov. Turney
today pardoned Dennis Wales, of Bed.
ford County, in for nine years for lar.
ceny; Dick Bradford, of Shelby, in for
five years for larceny, and Nose Hinton,
of Shelby, in for three years for forgery.
J~ellico, Jan. fisherman Bills had
a preliminary hearing today on the
charge of numbering John McCarty
and was bound to court and committed
to Jail, bail not being allowing.
Memphis, Jan. 19'-This morning, at
Island 40, u suburb of Memphis, Walter
Gregory, while playing with a revolver,
accidently shot his best friend, Walter
Harper, in the bowels. Death resulted
instantly, and Gregory is half crazed
with grief. Both parties are prominent
planters.
Chattanooga, Jan. 10.-Will Cross,
aged 8 years, was fatally injured by
the explosion OF a pint can of gunpow-
der at noon today. He and several
others were playing with the powder
when the explosion occurred.
Memphis, Jan. 19.-Mrs. Jennie Jop-
lin is at the point of death as the result
of an attempt to blow out a stove pipe
with powder. The accident occurred
this forenoon, and the victim can not
survive the day.
Knoxville, Jan. 17.-David MAYS,
colored, was shot through the heart
and instantly killed by Joe Collett and
John Cunningham in n drunken fight
at Bricevlle. Both men have been
Jailed.
. Jackson, Jan. 16.-Benton & Howell.