Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-12-02
FROM THE STATE AT LARGE.
Fresh Items Of News CulIed from our
Exchanges.

Hog cholera is raging worse than
eyer in Sullivan County.
A boat laden with 200, 900 hoop poles
is at Clinton bound for New Orleans.
A spoke and hub factory will be
built at Tazewell in the near future.
The Ducktown Sulphur, Iron and
Copper Company recently made a ship
ment OF copper ore to London.
The famous Bob's Bar we'll, in Fen.
tress County. is being pumped and ia
producing 200 barrels OF oil daily.
George Gunard, a Nashville boy, was
run over and killed by a Louisville and
Nashville train near Sharon on Tues.
day.
Knox County has 142 miles OF turn
pixies, and Roane, Sewer and Loudon
Counties are all improving their high
ways.
The report is once more put in circu.
lation that the LaFollette Railway is to
be built to Jacksboro, 10 the Coal Creek
region at once.
The revival which has been in pro.
gress at the Baptist Church in Jellico
for some time has closed. There we're
about % professions during the meet.
ing.
A mill for the manufacture of knit
hosiery will be established in Knoxville
by the first of the year. The factory
will give employment to probably fifty
people.
The residence of John d. Bumpas,
Jr in the Fourteenth District of Madi.i
son County, was destroyed by fire, the
origin of which is unknown. Most of
the household effects were lost.
Nashville, Nov. 28.-The tax aggre-
gate for this year shows that the Der.
sonal and real property in the State is
assessed at S312, 1903 ,910. For last year
It was S3l6, O61 ,593, a decrease of 49,
667, 674.
The Grand Jury of Shelby County
have returned 317 indictments for VIC.
lations of the sunday laws. The find.
ing OF these indictments was the re.
suit of Il special charge delivered by
Judge Cooper.
A party of men from Ashe County.
N. G., passed through Mountain CITY
Wednesday morning with a negro
named Mitchell, who was under arrest
on the chare of rape, his victim being
a little girl, named Eggers.
Christian Hostetter, a we'll known
and highly respected citizen of Gruetli,
committed suicide by shooting himself
through the head at his home at that
place. He shot himself with a gun,
placing the muzzle of the Weapon In
his mouth aud pressing the trigger with
the ramrod.
A young man named Leslie shot and
Killed a man named Cantrell in a
bawdy house near Tompkinsville, KY,
recently. Cantrell was q stranger In
that section, but said he was from
Smithville, Tenn. 1t is believed here
that he is a son of ex Circuit Judge
Robert Cantrell, of Lebanon. Young
lived in Nashville for years.
a movement is on foot to reorganize
the Gallatin Manufacturing Company.
effort will be made to increase the
capital stock to $25, 900, which will
give employ ment to about 100 men.
The factory will consume q large
amount of hickory timber, etc. The
company, when organized, will manu-
lacture spokes and handles ready for
use.
Judge W. P. DUNCAN and j. NJ. Lacy
81 Elizabethton, were in the city Satur.
day arranging 10 put up a telephone
line from Mountain City to Bristol, via
Butler, Allentown and Elizabethton.
About $4OO was contributed by citizens
this place to the enterprise. 1t is the
Intention of Judge DUNCAN and Mr..
Lacy, to push the matter through with.
out delay.
X. w. Tillman, ex.Assemblyman and
Populist Elector for State ut large in
he recent election, died Saturday near
henderson, Chester County. Mr.. Till.
nan was found one night after the
Election near an old tank on the rail-
DAD. He was in an unconscious CON
|ition, and is supposed to have been
truck by a train. He managed to
ecover sufficiently to get out of bed.
'ut the Injuries finally killed him.
AT the close of the union Thanksgiy.
ng services conducted Thursday in The
lrst Baptist Church of Chattanooga,
he congregation was startled by see.
ng w. l.. Nelson, who was singing in
choir, fall forward on his face dead.
stroke of apoplexy had carried him
H.. lie was a deacon OF the church he
led in. He was well known, and for
lany years was senior member of the
ioneer Music House of Winters G.
'elson.