The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1901-06-28
TENNESSEE STATE NEWS.

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Hon. w. j. Bryan will lectur,
in Bristol on the afternoon of July
IS.
Pulaski has brand new Anti.
Saloon League, fifty member.
strong.
Reports from Montgomery
County, concerning the wheat
crop, which is now being harvest
ed, are the most favorable for
years.
The contract for building the
railroad from Corinth to the Ten
nessee River, a distance of twenty
miles, has been let and work be-
gun Monday. The road will be
known as the Greenville, Nash
vslle & Chattanooga.
Julian Kimbell was run over and
killed by an electric car near High
land Park in jackson Saturday
evening about II o'clock. The
car was making its last trip for
the night when the accident oc-
CURED. The deceased was a fire
man at the Model Laundry.
The wheat crop in Lauderdale
County has been harvested and the
yield much better than the far
mers anticipated. The hardware
dealers and machine agents re-
port the sales of mowers, thresh-
ers and binders larger this year
than ever before.
A special to the Commercial APP
peal from San Francisco says that
w. F. Taylor, Jr., of Memphis,
committed suicide in the Crelin
House Sunday night by turning on
the gas and making his room air
tight. He left a letter saying that
domestic troubles caused his self
destruction. His family is well
known in Memphis.
Deputy Sheriff w. B. Sweet
Burnett, from Milton, near Muir
freesboro, suffered a stroke of
paralysis in the court house at
Murfreesboro Monday. Mr.. Bur
nett vast standing up at the time
of the stroke, and as he fell sever
al FASTENED to his side in time to
prevent his fall. The entire right
half of his body is paralyzed.
A warrant has been sworn out
for the arrest of William John
son, aged about thirty years,
charged with rape upon Mamie
Stevens, aged ID years. Both live
at Ledford's Mill, about twelve
miles from Lynchberg. johnson
has not been arrested. The com
munity is aroused and the feeling
runs high at the enormity of the
otfense.
The Nashville, Chattanooga &
st. Louis Railway Company has
fled a bill in the Chancery Court
ut Lebanon, asking for an injunc-
ton against the Tennessee Central
Railway Company to prohibit it
from treepassing upon the rights
and privileges of complainant.
Complainant charges the Tennes s.
see Central survey near Green
Hill and at divers places along
SAID line is within one hundred feet |
of the center of the compliments
line. Chancellor j. S. Gribble
granted the injunction.
John M. Miller, for the past six
years carrier and city mail col
lector on the local force of the
Knoxville postofice, is off duty
pending charges that have been
preferred against him of conduct
detrimental to the service and re-
fiecting on the local postoffice-" J.
H. Rosson, a Postoffice Inspector,
who has his headquarters at Chat
tanooga, has been there for several
days investigating the charges. 1t
is alleged that Miller's wife keeps
a hotel north of the city, which is
a resort for immoral purposes, and
also that she conducts her home in
a manner that is improper.
The United States Government,
the first of July, will commence a
and exhaustive survey
and analysis of the soils of the
section of country about Clarks-
vile. This very valuable and ex.
pensive engineering and chemical
work is due to the efforts of certain