The age-herald., 1898-09-08
INDUSTRIAL BOOM
 IN TWIN CITIES
Several Large Industries Secured
 to Increase Pay Rolls.
OLD FIGHT OVER CITY BONDS
Renewed by Decatur With Chance for Satisfactory Settlement-Par- tial Quarantine Has Been
 Established.

Decatur, September 7.-(Speclal.)-A reSu- lar industrial boom seems to have struck the Decaturs. Several days ago was re- corded the closing of a deal by which the Tennessee Spoke factory, of Union City, Tenn, was located here, they agreeing in the deal to build light draught steamer, a sawmill, a flour mill and a cotton seed oil mill. This company has a cash capital of 0,000 and will employ to start with about 200 hands, cutting 5000, 900 spokes per year.
 Today another deal of a like nature was closed by which the Turner, Day & Wool worth Manufacturing company of Louis- vile, Ky, will locate and build a handle factory here. This company, with capi- talization of $250O0O operates nineteen fac tories in different sections of the south. Charles D. Gates, general manager of the concern, the spot and closed the deal, purchasing large tract of land from the Hinds estate, paying $500 therefor The concern is to have a capacity of 5o,OOo handles per day, employing about flfty men. They will begin operations Septem- Der l5.
 Serious Accident
 Harry the 14-year-old son of Frank Prewett ex-nighu policeman, while moving a large piano from this place to Trinity, Ala, jumped from the top Of the piano to the ground, falling upon his right leg in such a way as to snap 1t just above the ankle the bone protruding through the flesh. The boy will be a cripple for iife
 old Bond Question
 An important move was begun by the mayor and city council at their meeting last night in conjunction with counsel rep resenting the holders of $50,0OO worth of the city's bonds, by which the city and bondholders can get together and settle the debt which has been hanging fire over the city of Decatur during the regime of the famous Dick Austin, then mayor of the city, now United States marshal of the East Tennessee district. It has always been claimed by those in authority that the money derived from the sale of the bonds was never expended for its rightful pur- poses, the funds never having been placed in the city officers hands named in the bonds. In other words, big deal Is openly claimed by those now in authority, and 1t is on the stated grounds that the city has for ten years been combating the payment of the bonds, and refused to pay interest recent decision of the supreme court, handed down in reference to the attempt of the bondholders to compel the city to accept coupons in lieu of taxes, etc., held substantially that a corporation could not be so strangled where its income did not exceed disbursement on necessary expense appropriation.
 The bondholders now have a proposition to submit looking to the refunding of the bonds at possibly 50 cents on the dollar, 4 per cent. interest, getting the legislature to pass a bill guaranteeing the new bonds. Such a settlement would be satisfactory to both parties. and it would be big move for Decatur, placing her at once on Gnn a{o1 hao ofC ohr chn fo already on a firm cash basis at home. The matter will come to head in a few days
 Partial Quarantine
 A parial quarantine is now on by this city against all of the infected fever places in Louisiana and Mississippi. It is proba- ble that in the next few hours a strict home quarantine will be declared, with guards on all trains in every direction, as the council last night empowered the mayor and city health officer to act at their dis erection. pr. Conyugton, health officer, is in favor of A strict quarantine