Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-07-21
FROM THE STATE AT LARGE.
Fresh Items Of News Culled from our
Exchanges.

Fresh Items Of News Culled from our
Exchanges.
Nashville. July '15.-At Clarksville
today, Gus Hyatt, the train robber. re-.
Gently captured at Kansas City, was
indicted, tried and convicted and sen
fenced to fifteen years in the peniten-
tiary.
Knoxville, July 14.-The trial of NY
matt Leach, accused OF the murder of
John d. Heck, shot from ambush sew
eral months ago near Coal Creek, be.
gan at Clinton today. Heck was man
ager of the Royal Mines.
Gallatin, July IA terrible acct.
dent at the machine shops of the Chesa-
peake & Nashville Railroad near town,
this morning, resulting in the death of
Thomas Rose, a young man about 20
yehrs old, the son of j. l.. Rose. ,
Hartman, July 17.-Commissioner
Ewing sold all of the East Tennessee
Land Company's properties here to j..
Rodes, W. B. Winslow, and L. s. Free.
man, Trustees for the Reorganization
Committee, for $67, 900.
Knoxville, July ia special from
lockwood says: A supposed band of
robbers broke into four dwelling houses
last night and secured between $40 and
$50. They make a raid about every
three or four months. There seems to
be no clew to the identity of the
thieves.
Sparta, July 15.-Mrs. Matte Cum.
mings, aged SO, died at the home of
Joe Denny Cummings, ut Cummings
Vile, Tuesday evening. She was one
of the Oldest women in this section.
Mrs. Cummings has been a member of
the Methodist Church all her life. She
leaves several children, among whom
is Attorney N. A. Cummings, Of this
city.
Springfield July 15.-Fire was dis
covered up stairs in the furniture store
of Marshall Allison, on the Public
Square, at 10 O'Clock last night. The
building was flooded with water, and
after a stubborn fight of an hour was
saved. The adjoining building, occu.
pied al an Office by d. G.. Shapard,
dealer in grain, was injured by water.
Clarksville July 14.-It is reported
here that a band of over a hundred
whitecaps propose to rid the southern
portion of this county of pliers. Tom
Harvie, Tom Nixon and two named
Swift and Crick, have been stripped
and whipped with hickories. Harvie
has moved. The accused is charged
with neighborhood depredations at
farm houses. Considerable excitement
exists.
Charleston, July 15.-W. L. Ledford,
a wealthy and prominent citizen of
Charleston, was shot and fatally
wounded in an ARRAY this morning be.
tween himself and Walter and Luther
Wolf, two of his renters. Ledford was
shot five times. Neither of the VOLTS
were injured. No arrests have been
made.
Shelbyville, July 18.-While the two
young children of James T. Cunning.
ham, of the Sugar Creek neighborhood
were playing in their fathers yard the
little girl threw q rock at a chicken,
which, striking the ground, rebounded
and struck her little four year old
brother just over the heart. The boy
dropped to tue ground unconscious and
loon died.
Chattanooga, July 15.-Jas. Freeland
q prominent farmer of Hill City, q gu.
burb of Chattanooga, committed sui
eide this morning by shooting himself
through the heart with a Winchester.
He arose at an early hour, took his gun
to a corn field on a hill 800 yards in
the rear of the house, placed the muz.
zle to his breast and discharged the
trigger with his foot. Dependency
over financial reverses is given as the
cause.
Knoxville, July 16.-Lee Brazelton
of Messy Creek, was drowned in the
Tennessee River about half q mile west
of the city tonight at s O'Clock. Braz.
elton, together with two other men
was in swimming at the time. He went
far out into the stream and Immediate
ly before he was drowned called to his
friend to watch him dive. He jumped
from a pile of rock nea a bridge pier
and when he struck the water he found
the current too swift for him. He went
down the third time before assistance
could reach him.