The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1901-10-11

Ben Gibson and Bud BradIe
were captured last Saturday morn
ing at Mitehellville, suspects 0
raising 81 bills to s. and $40.
Thomas Clark. member of th
city council at Memphis, and 0
the wholesale grocery firm of M
Gavin & Co., died suddenly Sun
day afternoon. He had been il
for several weeks with typhoi'
fever.
w. Robertson, of Greenfield,
candidate for sheriff, is dead from
lockiaw and blood poison. Mr.
Robertson was hitching his hors,
to the buggy one day last week
and in some way stuck one of the
shayes into his hand, which caused
lockjaw and afterward blood pois
on.
The Beulah Baptist Association
closed its labors Friday at Gro
nanviIle, Lake County. The Off
GERS for the present year are;
Elder |. N. Penick, Martin, Mod
orator; Elder q. l.. Ellis, Clerk;
Executive Board, l. N. Penick, r.
E. Nowlin, Thos. H. Farmer and
j. H. Wright.
A deplorable accident occurred
about a mile from Henry Saturday
resulting in death. While Mrs.
r. L. Wright was mixing some
oil in terpentine about the stove
the mixture caught fire and the
flames ignited her clothing, utter
ly consuming it. She lived about
three hours. She leaves d husband
and several small children.
Walter Craddock, a young man
living near Gadsden, was found
dead in the road Sunday morning
with bottle of morphine on his
person. He had been married
about two weeks and both his par
ents and the BRIDES opposed the
union. This is the only cause
known for the supposed suicide.
He was a farmer Of good charac-
ter.
Memphis has taken up the For
rest monument movement again
with renewed energy, and it is
hoped that the whole amount nee
essary will be secured in a very
short time. Notwithstanding the
fact that a contract for the monu-
ment has been let to a New York
sculptor to be finished in two years,
there is still a considerable fund to
be raised, and an active campaign
is to be carried on this winter.
AT Memphis Lille Pearlman,
who was oalK old enough to talk,
asked her 3-year- old sister, Dora,
for drink of water. The water
cooler and the gasoline tank were
side by side, and Dora gave her a
drink of the latter. The family
was at once called to the scene by
Lilies screams and the father,
Louis Pearlman, FASTENED for
medical help, but Lille died in
twenty-five minutes and before be
could get a physician.
Bud Twilla, John Alsup and Alb
Taylor are in the Dyer County
jail under the charge of murder
or being accessories before the
fact, the warrant against them
having. been sworn out before
Squire w. A. Fowlkes, Jr., by a |
negro named James Dewatt, who |
alleges that they are three of the
whitecappers who fred into the
work train on the switch Of the
Illinois Central Railroad in the |
Rich Woods, six miles west of |
Dyersburg, about ten days ago,
killing two of the crew and wound
ing others.
A movement is on foot to form |
IN independent political party in
Tennessee composed Of union
Iaboring men. AT meeting held
1t Chattanooga Saturday, dele
gates were appointed to attend a
meeting to be held in Nashville
IN about three weeks, when the
new party will be formerlyIlauDch-
ID. Knoxville, Memphis and
other cities have joined the move
nent. The promoters claim that
The courts are used to the jeopar-
iy of rights of labor by the use
IF injunctiye process and demur-
'ers TO evidence.
Humboldt was visited by two