The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1901-09-13

the County court. to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Trustee G.,
W. Stacey.
Shelbyville people very deeply
deplore the terrible calamity that
has befallen the nation in the at
tempt to assassinate the President
All the church congregations of the
various denominations at this place
Sunday morning offered prayer
that the President may recover.
A public meeting of citizens was
held at Milan Saturday afternoon
to express sympathy for President
Mckinley and wife, and to condemn
the attempt at assassination by the
anarchist, Czolgosz. A large crowd
was present and strong resolutions
we're adopted. The feeling here is
unanimous for the suppression of
anarchists and their literature.
At Franklin. Monday. at the aft
ernoon performance of John Robin
sons show, Nine. Alice Adair, one
of the performers, tell from flying
ladder at a height of about sixty
feet, breaking her arm and narrowly
escaping death. Her fall was some.
what broken by the web, which also
broke from the force of her weight.
The tent was crowded and the ac-
cident caused great excitement.
The indications are that the larg-
est acreage of wheat ever sown in
Dickson county will be sown this
fall. The favorable condItion of
the ground for the preparation of
the crop and the present price of
grain make this certainty. Much
ground has already been put in or
der and seeding will begin after
Sept. Is. A great deal of winter
oats are also being sown.
Judge John M. Taylor, of Licking
ton, stated that during the summer
he had spoken at number OF reun.
ions, and on no occasion had he
ever spoken in reference to his can
didacy. He was, he said, Demo-
crat, as everyone knew, and was a
candidate subject to the action of
the party in state convention. He
was running as such and on his
qualifications as lawyer to fill the
position.
While cutting dogwood timber at
Sylvia, six miles north of Dickson,
last Saturday, the choppers dis
turbed tarantula den in which a
number of the insects had been
reared, and in which one full-grown
specimen was captured. The indi-
cations are that number OF these
deadly insects are now inhabiting
the territory in which the one above
mentioned was found, but how they
came there is a mystery.
From Murfreesboro is the news
that the first bale of new cotton to
be ginned this season was brought
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to town Saturday by Charles M.
Haynes, and was ginned Saturday
morning by Messrs. ]. T, Rather &
Co. The new bale weighed AS
pounds and in quality was strictly
middllng. During the day the firm
of J. r. Hale & Sons also got out
bale of new cotton, that being the
second OF this season by few
hours.
Ben Shipley, a Bristol painter,
had his first experience as an aero
naut on Saturday afternoon. He
went up in balloon of enormous
size and passed over the city at an
estimated height of two and
quarter miles. When at the highest
point OF ascension Shipley made his
parachute leap. He fell fully 300 feet
before the parachute opened, after
which he came sailing down grace
fully, coming to earth on a grassy
knoll more than a mile from where
he started.
The Elks' Carnival IS on and will
claim the attention of Nashville and
the surrounding country for the
next ten days. At IL O'Clock Tues
day morning-the hour which the
dials that hang in the halls of the
antlered Elks all over America al
ways tell, and the hour when
boost is always given to the absent
brother-the grand Elks' parade
left the carnival grounds on its cir
cult through the city. The purple
and white caps of the 200 Elks in
the line made the parade winding
train of color aud emphasized the
fact that this was purely an Elks'
affair.
The town of Parsons was visited
Sunday night by mob of 100 men.
who came in from the country, shoot
ing pistols, swearing and making
violent threats against two citizens
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