Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-03-24
FROM THE STATE AT LARGE.
Fresh Items of News Culled from our
Exchanges.

The storm Of last Saturday destroyed
barns, out houses and killed a great
number OF stock In Hickman County.
The grand jury OF Sewer County has
returned tru bills againt Bob Catlett,
Pleas Wynne, Catlett Upton and Bob
Wade for the murder of VIM. Whaley
and wife.
A Lavergne woman was caught up by
the wind on last Saturday and would
probably have sustain serious injuries
had she not Rugged a convenient telc-
phone pole.
Ilarmany, Tenn, March lS-Miss Han
nah Hulse died of a cancerous affection
and was buried yesterday. The deceased
was well known and highly respected in
the community.
The tomato canning company recently
organized in Manchester has nearly COM
pleted its factory, and seeds for this sea-
sons tomato crop are being distributed
among the farmers.
Bristol, March l7.-Mrs. Mamie Lynch
widow of the late Hon. &. ii. Lynch,
was burned, probably fatally, near here
today. Her clothes caught fire from u
burning broom.
While n Bedford County man was en-
deavoring to rescue his three children
from the flood by taking one on each
arm and the third perched on his back,
the child upon his back fell off and was
drowned.
Nashville, March l7.-Through the eff
forts of Senator Mann, Governor TAYLOR
today offered a reward of four hundred
dollars for the arrest and conviction of
the assassins of Heck, who was killed ut
Coal Creek lately.
Chattanooga, March lL-This after
noon at Round Mountain, Ala, seventy
eight miles below this city on the Chat.
tanooga Southern railroad, George NJ.
Harrison was run over and killed by
south bound freight train No. l.
Chattanooga, March l7.-Dr. Jones, ac-
cused of criminally %assaulting Mrs. Ed
ward caves here Monday morning is
still in Jail, having made no effort to
give bond. He has employed Hon. c. f.
Bates as his council and claims his in
nocence of the crime.
The citizens of DeKalb County in mass
convention assembled have adopted res
olutions opposing the movement to de-
tach DeKalb County from the Fifth
Chancery Division and instructing their
Representatives in the Legislature to
use all Legitimate means to defeat such
a measure.
Jackson, Tenn, March ls.-The BODY
OF a child was found in a well in the
south portion OF the. city, with a cord
about its neck, indicating foul play.
Minnie Mayo, a mulatto girl, acknowl-
edged the child to be hers. She and her
mother have been arrested on the charge
OF murder.
Belle Buckle, March l6.-Thos. Mckee
committed suicide this afternoon about
2 o'clock by shooting himself through
the heart with a pistol. He lived about
hye miles from town. He was insane.
AZ one time on his way from here to
Texas he attempted suicide by cutting
his throat with a razor. He leaves a
daughter.
Nashville, March, l6.-H. A. Hardison,
a travelling salesman for Cheek, Webb
~ co., OF this City, was today arrested
on a state warrent charging him with
the enlightenment of $3.50 of the firms
money. He was a collector for the firm,
and got the money in this way. Hardi-
son is highly connected and had been
with the firm for sever years.
Huntingdon, March lS-The tobacco
factory, three miles from town, owned
ana run by w. +. Mebane, was totally
destroyed by fire Tuesday. Mr.. Mebane
manufactured several brands of plug
and smoking tobacco and had a consid-
cradle amounto OF both manufactured and
leaf tobacco on hand at the time of the
hre. The loss is a severe one, as no in
surancc was carried.
Centreville, March l7.-News of the
damage by the heavy rain storm of Sat
urday night continues to come in from
all over country, and show that it was
much more disastrous that was at first
thought. The damage done will reach
several thousand dollars, as in many
places in the path of the storm, which
was about three miles wide, all of the
small houses were turned over, or their
roofs blown off, and the number of stock
Killed is much larger that at first
thought, as something neal one hundred
head are reported so far.
Tullahoma, March l6-News was re-
ceived here yesterday of the total de-
.struction Of Brinkley Il Hornady's distil-
lery by the flood of Saturday night. The
plant was located on Shipman's Creek,
in Bedford County, five miles from this
place, and every vestige, of it, except the
boiler, smoke stack and furnace, was
swept away by the creeks raging tor
rent, n pen of twenty fine hogs was
also carried away, and the hogs drowned.
The warehouse where the whisky was
stored was above the reach of the water
and escaped. The loss to the firm foots
up about $4,000. On Thompson's Creek
the loss along its whole course was i'm
mense. X. ii. Mitchell, of this place,
owns a fine farm on that creek, and he
estimates his loss at 5000. Other farms
along the creek suffered in proportion.
The loss by this unprecedented flood, in
q IrOuD of six or Spynn countiaS In this