Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-08-18

FROM THE STATE AT LARGE.
Fresh Items Of News Culled from our
Exchanges.

Exchanges.
Nashville, Aug. 14.-Sixty seven coun.
ties give 28,305 for the constitutional con-
vention and $3.50 against it. The ma
jority will probably reach $4,000.
Murfreesboro, Aug. l4.-Horace Hunt,
a popular young white man, was serious
ly stabbed in a fight here this morning
with two negroes, William and James
Cooper.
Cleveland, Aug. 13.-The wheat crop of
Bradley County Is estimated to be from
100000 to 100000 bushels. 1t is not being
sold rapidly, the farmers being slow to
accept the prevailing prices.
cambridge, Aug. 18.-The jury returned
a verdictin the Dawn case today, finding
Dawn guilty of murder in the second
degree. Sentence was fixed at twenty
years in the penitentiary.
GAINESVILLE, Aug. 13.-About noon the
II year old daughter Of Dock Owens, a
colored shoemaker, was knocked from
Red River ~trestle, falling about forty
feet, by a freight train and killed.
Tullahoma, Aug. 12-Tom Blythe, n
young man of this place, who was one of
the bridge crew on this division of the
Nashville, Chattanooga 81 st. Louis Rail-
way, fell from a bridge near Chattanooga
yesterday afternoon, where he was at
work, and was killed.
Knoxville, Aug. A.-Cbief Clerk Gaut
has resigned his positiontin the Internal
Revenue Collectors Office and is succeed
ed by Grant Jarvis, recent cashier. Chas.
Allen, Of G%reeneville, has been selected
to fill the position Of cashier.
GAINESVILLE, Aug. 13.-Hog cholera is
causing heavy loss to the planters of
Southern Kentucky. Within the past
day or two l25 head have died belonging
to Gilbert Wallace, and other planters Of
that section are losing porkers by the
score.
Coal Creek, Aug. 14.-Work at the
mines has been unusually good for the
past month. The Shamrock mine, the
only idle mine here, will resume work at
once. The Middle Ridge mine has its
new chute complete and Is loading coal.
Hartman, Aug. 14.-In Kingston Court
Hoss Hembree submitted to six pistol
cases, and n assault, and was fined 5000
n costs. He Is now On trial for MUIR
dering Bailiff Hickman. Five hundred
men were summoned before o Jury was
obtained.
Bristol, Aug. 13.-Dr. Lee Fankel, one
OF the Jewish capitalists interested in
the development of the pyrites vein dis
covered in Carter County, arrived here
yesterday on his way to the mines. He
and his partners are enthusiastic over
the discovery and will spend money
freely in the work of development.
Nashville,Aug. 14.-Twenty seven bust
ness firms OF Knoxville have filed com
plant before the State railroad commits.
sion that the Southern Railway is ship
ping goods from New. York and other
eastern markets to Nashville and Mem
phis cheaper than it is to Knoxville.
Knoxville, Aug. 13.-A special from
Sevierville announces another sensa-
tional jail delivery Mt that place this
morning at an early hour. Geo. Thur
man and Joseph Jenkins escaped. Jen
kins was recently sentenced to five wears
in the pe%nitentiary for grand larceny f;
Thurman was awaiting trial fol- being as
ISOLATED in the same crime with jenkins.
Chattanooga, Aug. 14.-One OF the most
brutal crimes OF record In Hamilton
County occurred this morning at nine
o'clock. An unknown white man crimi-
nally assaulted and attempted to murder
Mrs. Daniel Heathcock and her sixteen
year old daughter, who lived on the AL
exander bridge road in C~hickamauga
Rark, just eight miles from the city.
~Tullahoma, Aug. 12-There are in pro-
OF erection here nine handsome
business houses. Work on three
will be commenced o The
of the Episcopal church are about
way up; the M. Il. church will soon
built; several new residences are In
3 Of construction, and a new medi-
\Ethas established aplant here.
IS booming.
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