The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1897-06-10

the GAINESVILLE electric power house.
A Robertson county woman is report
ed to have killed two would be burglars.
Chattanooga has discovered the
Southern railway averse to stop-evers.
Bristol's new charter is said to be es-
pecially effectiye regarding collections.
Gov. Taylor has pardoned Ross Full
ton, of Knox county. He was sentenc-
ed to ten years for murder.
A man in the Cleveland Jail charged
with stealing a COW tried to commit sui
eide by eating powdered glass.
Two Hamilton county justices have
been ordered to trial by the grand jury
on charge of drunkenness.
Commissioner of Pensions Evans is
fast appointing the new boards of exam
iners for Tennessee districts.
E. I. Engram was elected mayor Of
lockwood in the recent municipal cleo
ton of the Furnace City.
Mr.. Lahdon G. King of Bristol and
Miss Mamie Painter of Emory, Va,
we're married last week.
A Kingston paper introduces testimo-
ny of citizens to prove that the earth
quake was experienced in that city.
Lee G. Smith, John B. Harr and Eli
Anderson are the appointed election
commissioners for Sullivan county.
Jim Meyers, charged with burning
the Greasy Hollow school house, in
Claiborne county, was bound to court.
A negro boy was bitten by Bradley
county copperhead snake last week.
The snake is dead; but the boy will re-
cover.
Considerable changes are the order
in the schools of the state for the COM
ing year from superintendent down to
assistant teachers.
A truck farmer near Cleveland Guilt
waited lot of dewberries and is now
placing fine berry on the market. He
began by planting his own vines.
Mynatt Leach is now in Clinton Jail
and may be called upon to stand trial
for the murder of John Heck at the
present term of the Anderson county
court
General Pickle says the Tennessee
tax rate is forty-five cents on the one
hundred dollars, thirty cents for the
State and fifteen cents for school pur-
poses.
Dayton is dealing in horses by the
car load and on the other side her truck
farmers and fruit growers sold $50, 900
worth of Strawberries from this seasons
crop.
While trying to catch mule at his
home in Giles county, M. M. Mitchell,
well-known farmer, living near Ashen
Hill, was kicked under the chin. The
blow broke his neck and killed him
instantly.
When President Mckinley and his
party pass through Chattanooga on the
12th, enroute to Washington from the
Centennial, he will be accompanied by
Fl, Clay Evans and will remain the lat
ter's guest while in that city.
A horse belonging to o Mr.. Hoover
was bitten bys mad dog some several
months ago and few days since the
horse went mad and was very ferocious
biting itself in numerous places. 1t
died from the effect of the mad dog bite.
Bristol News.
Slack, of the Courier, says he don't
ask chairs and tables for the families
and friends of all newspaper men, but
that he does think the active reporters
should not have to hang on window
sill by their eyebrows and then be ex-
pected to write something that positive
ly never occurred.
The business men and citizens of
Bristol intend to erect tabernacle and
have the same in readiness to accom-
modate the people who will attend the
Conference of the M. E. Church, South,
to be held in that city in October next.
The building will have q seating ca
pacity of $500.
Fayette Henson and woman named
Wallace eloped from Loudon county
together. Henson is prominent eiti-
zen and brother of G. N Henson the
well-known banker of Loudon. Mrs.
Wallace is the wife Of prosperous
farmer of Loudon county. Henson is
also married and leaves wife aud four
children, while the woman in the case
deserted her husband and three chill
dren,