Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-06-09
FROM THE STATE AT LARGE.
fresh Items OF News Culled from our
Exchanges.

Archie Kirkwood, colored, was shot
and killed for laughing at Albert Ds-
wilson, another negro, in Memphis.
Gov. Taylor has appointed as election
commissioners for Sullivan County.
John b. Harr, Lee G. Smith and Eli
Anderson.
Nashville, June 4.-Gov. Taylor to-
day pardoned Berry Smart, of Wilson
County, sentenced to five years for
house breaking.
Dandridge, June 4.-John Pierce was
arrested and tried before Commissioner
Moody for passing a counterfeit dollar.
He was bound over to Federal Court.
Knoxville, June 81. T. Owens, who
keeps q small grocery store on Central
Avenue, made an assignment today.
Liabilities $500.
A wrestling match between Fletcher
Frazier and Hill Sapp, in White Coun.
ty, terminated in a row in which Sapp
was dangerously stabbed with a pock-
ct. Knife. Frazier made his escape.
Sparta, sumo 2.-R. L. Station found
guilty of murder in the second degree
and sentenced to the penitentiary for
eighteen years, has appealed to the
Supreme Court.
J~acksboro, June 4.-The proposition
for the ratification of the charter bill
for La Toilette was voted upon and
carried in favor OF the charter by a
majority of 90. E. T. Warner was
elected Mayor.
Nashville. June 4.-Gov. Taylor to-
day pardoned Luke Smith, of Campbell
County, convicted of murder In the
second degree, in November, 1893, and
sentenced to twenty years. The old
mans wife and children are in Nash.
Vile ! IN destitute circumstances.
Nashville, June 2.-Steve Nichols, q
convict in the new prison, escaped yes.
terday afternoon by crawling through
a sewer 800 feet to where 1t empties in
to the river. Nichols is from Shelby
County.
Nashville, June 5.-Revenue officers
today seized and closed Tolley & Can.
mons big whisky distillery ia Lincoln
County, for violating the internal rev.
enue laws. The charge is that they
used cancelled stamps.
Knoxville, June 4.-The City Coun.
Gil today decided upon Thursday. July
., as the time for the election on the
consolidation of the three Knoxvilles.
The Councils of North and West Knox
vile will he asked to acquiesce in this
decision, and hold an election Jointly.
Nashville, June 4.-Tom Lynch, who
killed his wife's aunt, attempted to
kill his wife and cut his own throat,
was found guilty OF murder in the first
degree in the Davidson County Crimi.
nal Court today. A motion for a new
trial cut off sentence of death.
Lexington, June 4.-Rain is needed.
Vegetation aud crops are suffering for
want of it. The cool nights and con-
tinued dry weather have resulted in
great damage by bugs and cutworms.
Hogs are dying with cholera. Farmers
who have had large droves of hogs
have lost many.
Chattanooga, June "A lively SEN
sation was caused in city affairs here
today by the statement that Alderman
Spencer and Policemen Baird and Nor
gan were caught in a raid on a gamb.
ling room late Sunday night. The po-
licemen were in full uniform and
should have been ON duty. The matter
has been kept quiet until today.
Murfreesboro, June 5.-Last night
two prisoners named Weatherford and
Porter, who were confined in a cell in
the county Jail charged with larceny,
made their escape with a few sticks
and pieces of iron by cutting the brick
from around the window, bending
back the bars and climbing out on the
roof of the kitchen to the Jail.
johnson City. June ga big real es.
tate deal has just been made in Unicoi
County. The International Fraternal
Alliance of Baltimore, Nd, sold to the
Southern Industries Company 8,579
acres of mineral land for 800. 900. 1t
is expected that the Southern Indus
tries Company will begin mining oper-
atoms this summer as this tract con-
tains In abundance of iron ore of a
good quality.
Huntsville, June 2.-'Squire VIM.
Claxton, of Campbell County, was
shot by some unknown party on the
head of Rock House Fork, at the foot
of Branden Mountain, in this county,
some time yesterday afternoon. 1t lie
generally supposed that the killing is
the outcome of a feud between the
Hughetts and Claxtons in that neigh
borhood, as Claxton shot Elswick
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