The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1901-06-21
TENNESSEE STATE NEWS.

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state.
John Blackmon, ST., SO years
old, the first settler at Medina, il
dead.
Well boring machinery was
} ordered by oil operators at Reel
foot Lake.
Elizabethton abandoned its
Fourth of July celebration on ao-
count of the recent flood.
The new railroad bridge at Wa
tauga will be twenty feet higher
than the one recently washed away.
A government inspector is in
Polk county looking at available
property for the Abalachian park.
Fiddlers from halt dozen
states will participate in the fd-
dlers' contest at NcMinnville,
July 4.
Sadlersville had a $4,000 fire
Tuesday. A large tobacco factory
and a large quantity of the weed
was destroyed.
Hon. w. w. Baird, of Hum
boldt, has been reappointed by
Gov. McMillin TO fill the impor-
tant position of Assistant Com
missioner of Agriculture.
Improvements are being made
on the Seven Days Zinc Company's
plant at Knoxville. A hundred
ton concentration is being erected,
and zinc will soon be mined for the
market.
Babe Battise, Duser Thompson
and Abe Pellway, three Nashville
negroes who were to have been
hanged yesterday, have been given
respite of thirty days by Gov.
McMillin.
That the dog law recently passed
by the Legislature is having good
effect is evidenced by the fact that
there is larger inquiry for sheep
throughout the State for stock
purposes than has been the case
for years.
Jim Simpson, desperate negro,
who recently assaulted H. G.
Smith, a farmer living near Sauls-
bury, is now lodged behind the
bars of the Bolivar Jail. Mr..
Smith was attacked few days
ago by the negro, who dealt him
several severe blows on the head
with heavy stick and beat him
badly. The negro succeeded in
escaping at the time.
Elijah Abston, of Gang, shot
and killed his brother, John Alb
ston, Tuesday evening. Elijah |
had been working for A. l.. Potter
and was on his way home, and
when near his home his brother
John saw him coming and thought
he would have some sport with
him, as Elijah is near sighted.
John advanced along the path in
the direction of his brother, and
began calling like turkey, at the
same time lodging through the
bushes. Elijah heard the turkey
call and was on the lookout. Soon
his brothers. head came in view
the bushes and he thought
It turkey and shot at it with a
rifle he was carrying. The ball
struck the young man in the right
side of the head and passed through
he brain, from which he died in
Few hours. The brother and pa
'ents are almost frantic over the
flair.
The attempt of some one to kid
zap Miss Noppie Scott, of Browns
lille, the 17-year old daughter of
Sheriff Scott, last Monday from
Ter home, has created quite a
sensation. 1t seems that for some
ime, when Miss Scott and her q
would come in the 7
sate from parties, ETC., they would j
ee white man upon the porch, ?
Who would run around the house t
Vhen he saw them. Monday night 2
bout $3.50 o'clock Miss Scott went n
ut on the back porch to wash her q
ands, and as she went to throw :
ut the water some white man V
ut 1t was so dark she could not 7
III who caught her by the arm q
! a very harsh manner and said,
Now | have got you-I have been q
.ying for you some time"-an
Expression which leads every one
, believe that he was the same =
ian who has been seen around the 4
pnse several times after night. q