Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1898-04-08
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Auulps are prevalent al Wart-
burg.
A military company is being or.
gained at Sparta.
Memphis has a squirrel that il
fond of beer.
The old Johnnie around Sparta
are thirsting for Spanish gore.
The cotton compress at Coving
ton will be increased.
The races are on at Cumberland
Park, Nashville.
An effort to organize a business
league is being made at Cleveland
Burglars at Jackson got 5000
from the Robertson Dry Goods
Co.
A new iron ore mine has been
opened at Whites creek by j. D.
Roberts and Sam P. Sparks.
The municipal authorities are
resolved to enforce the Sunday
closing ordinance at GAINESVILLE.
Horace Etter, aged 16, was acct.
dentally shot while hunting near
Riceville.
There were GO graduates from
the medical department of Wander.
bilt last week.
A law and order and improve.
ment league has been organized at
Mt. Pleasant with 70 members.
Ammunition belonging to the
state militia is to be removed from
the cellar of the state capital.
The Democrats of Hamblen
county are reported to be for Ben.
ton McMillin for the gubernatorial
nomination.
The entire plant of the Syca.
more Powder Company was de
stToyed by an explosion last week.
-Four persons were injured.
The Illinois Central railroad has
purchased valuable property in
jackson and may build a new
depot.
The race in McNairy for the
county offices is free for all, neither
party taking any official action as
to the selection of candidates.
Judge W.. j. Leonard, of Mar.
shall county, recently pardoned
by Gov. Taylor, is hanging around
Nashville on a protracted drunk.
The dedication of the Tennessee
monuments at Chickamauga Park
has been finally fixed for the the
18th of May.
Detectives from Memphis are
working in connection with the
police at Nashville to keep out
pickpockets and petty thieves
during the races.
Seventeen carloads of mules
passed through Union City en-
route for New Orleans. They
will be shipped to Cuba for use in
the Spanish army.
The board of health has been
urged to prOmulgate a mandatory
order requiring all residents OF
Knoxville to become vaccinated al
once.
Hon. w. G. Dismukes, of Gala,
tin, is being solicited to make the
race for congress as successor to
Benton McMillin-and there are
others.
James Bozeman, who killed
James Fennel while raiding a bin
tiger in Granger county, has been
removed to the Knox county Jail
to protect him from mob violence
Jim Davidson went out of his
house near the Polk county mines
and was in the act of returning
when he was fred upon by some
unknown person. The ball en-,
tered the back and passed through
his left lung, injuring him probab
ly MORALLY.
The city council of Union City
is wrestling with a curfew ordi
nance, and the Democrat rises to
inquire if there is anything to in
hibit the simultaneous enactment
of a vagrancy law, so that the two
ordinances may go hand in hand
in the effort to reform the town.
Alice Mitchell died in the
asylum at Bolivar last week. She
is the young woman who some
six years ago became world fam
GUS by numbering her girl,lover
Freda Ward, in a fit of jealousy
growing out of a perverted affec
ton.
The wives of Ben and Faulkner
Mornnca OOt into q row in DaKolI