Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-12-30
FROM THE STATE AT LARGE.
Fresh Items of News Cuiied from our
Exchanges.

Fresh Items Of News Cuiied from our
Exchanges.
The chair factory of Flanagan
Brothers in Blount County was de.
stroyed by fire OF Monday night with
a loss Of several thousand dollars.
Memphis, Dec. 28.-John baltimore,
q tramp from Louisville stealing q
ride to Memphis, was crushed under a
lumber cal at Germantown last night.
His body was cut in two.
Murfreesboro, Dec. 81. While re.
pairing the roof of the express office
Saturday, Richard Cswthon lost his
balance and fell thirty feet, sustaining
very painful, but not fatal, injuries.
George L. Kennedy, 40 years old,
who lived on Houston Street, Nash.
vile, and worked as a brakeman on
the Louisville & Nashville Railroad,
was fatally hurt neal Decatur, Ala,
about 8 o'clock Saturday.
Chattanooga, Dec. 22.-The 4 year
old child Of Matt Smart, Of the Chat.
tsnooga Shoe Company, this morning
set fire to the family residence and,
finding the flames beyond its control,
told its mother.
Bristol, Dec. .24-John White, an
invalid who wac subject to fits, fell in
the fire at his home near Blountville
and was burned to death. He leaves
an invalid wife, who will have to be
sent to the county poor house.
Sweetwater, Dec. 22.-Joseph Butter
worth, foreman of the Sweetwater
Wooden mill, q highly respected citi-
zen and an honored member of the
Presbyterian Church, died at his resi-
dence here last evening after a long
illness.
Memphis, Dec. 24.-The residence of
Rairken Greer, colored, nine miles
from this city, burned tonight, and
with it the three small children of
Greer. The parents had left the chill
dren alone, and romping about the
place a lamp was overturned.
Bristol, Dec. 21.-Dissppointed in
a love affair, Clarence Anderson, aged
10, created a commotion in the public
school of Bristol, Va, this afternoon
by an attempt at suicide in the school
room. He aimed a pistol at his breast
and fired, but the ball glanced off.
Nashville, Dec. 22.-The Sheriff of
Madison County is looking for a negro
manned Thomas, who brutality assaulted
a 10 year old colored girl near Dem
mark today. There is great excitement
among the negroes. and ii Thomas is
caught it is thought they will lynch
him.
Union City, Dec. 22.-Last night Tip
Pool was shot with q revolver by Sam
Douglass. Pool is still alive, but no
hope is entertained for his recovery.
Douglass at first claimed the shooting
was accidental, but he has disappeared,
and up to this hour has not been
captured.
James Heatherly shot and killed
Sam Page at the mines near Newcomb,
Tuesday, December "a. Page was shot
twice through the breast with a Win.
chester rifle and lived only a few min
utes afterwards. Both men were me-
gro workmen at the mines. He made
good his escape.
Nashville, Dec. 23.-An unknown
man was found dead under the rail.
road !restle neal Line Street this morn
ing. He was about thirty five years of
age, red bair and mustache, five feet
eight inches tall, and weighed 175
pounds. He is supposed to have been
Il printer from Knoxville.
Knoxville, Dec. 20 The Knox
County commissioners this morning
decided to ask the County Court for a
$4,000 Centennial appropriation. The
East Tennessee Centennial Executive
Committee elected James s. L~ipscomb
agent. to account for East Tennessee
at large in Centennial matters.
Bolivar, December 26.-.Sydney Baird,
a Hardeman County patient in the
West Tennessee Hospital for the insane
leaped from a window last night while
laboring under the delusion that his
room was on fire. He tore the wire
screen from the window and fell forty
feet. He died of internal injuries.
Rose, Dec. A.-Wesley Upchurch, a
prominent member Of the church, has
gone wrong. Mr.. Llewellyn has been
missing corn and hay for some time
past and James aud Anderson Low
ellen laid in wait in the barn and
watched Vpchurch steal hay and carry
1t away. Ho isin' jail in default Of
bond.
Pulaski, Dec. '2s.-News has Just
reached here Of o. difficulty between
Claude Marks and Will Wilson, near
Tarpley, 10 the southern part of this
county, Monday night, In which viii.
son was severely, II not fatally, cut by
Marks. Both are young men and the
quarrel 10 said to have been the result
of an old feud.
Fayetteville, Dec. 2%8.-John. Berry.
hill, brakeman on an NJ. T. A. con-
struction train. fell from q car yester-
day near Madison Cross Roads. His
head was crushed and he was probably
killed instantly, though the accident
was not known till his body was found
this morning. He was a young man
and unmarried.
Clarksville, Dec. 28.-Henry Rivers,
colored, is In Jail charged with an at
tempt to kill Alfred Lisenby, also COL
ored. 1t seems that the men were at
tached to the same girl, aud while es-
corting her home together became in
yolved in u quarrel, during which
Rives drew q revolver and shot Lisen-
by, %wounding him in the hip.
The residence of H. Truner, OF the
Third District Of Knox County was
burned to the ground Tuesday night
with a lost Of about 81, 1000. The fire
occurred about ten O'Clock just after
the family had retired. Such head
way had been made by the fire before
II was discovered that the family had
barely time to save themselves. The
household furniture together with all
J the clothing Of the family was de-