Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1916-12-01
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King College football team, OF Bris.
toll has been presented with $50 in cash
as reward for saving the furniture
from a burning house.
Miss Noblett, Is years old, seminary
student, used gasoline to extinguish a
fire at her boarding house in Shelby
vile. and was burned to death.
Mrs. Mary |. Smith. OF Red Bank,
near Chattanooga. died Of burns She
was II years Of age. She had been
sick for some time and her clothing
caught are while size MSS sitting in
front OF an open fire.
Robbers entered the c. c. & o. depot
II johnson City, and secured lorty-fve
cents from the cash drawer. The lock
to the cash drawer was burned off by
means OF kerosene. There is no clue.
A compr, misc of charges OF back
dues alleged coming to Henry county
from former Judge NJ. H. Collision, has
been accepted by Judge D. t, Spalding
and Collision will pay the county $1,000
and costs
In federal court in Chattanooga, the
case against Berry Hensley charged
with violation OF the Mann white sla e
oct. was transferred to the Knoxville
division and will be tried there at a
aater term Of court
Mrs. James drummer and 6-year-old
son came near being killed by c. c,
& o. train at Johnson City. Mrs. Gun.
ner was struck and knocked down,
The child was thrown from her arms
and badly bruised.
John w. Bomar, of Sharon, Tenn,
suffered fractured skull when the
mule he was riding became frightened
at its shadow beneath a street light
ana ran. Mr.. BOmar was thrown vio.
lently to the ground and died within
short time.
Thieves who entered the home Of
Mrs. Ella Headrick and Mrs. Rebecca
Boatwright at Lexington, shot and
killed both women after they struggled
to keep them from stealing box con
tanning $4,000. The thieves get the
money and escaped,
Prof. ID. II. Altman, Johnson City, is
the owner of Migini violin. There
are only three of these in the United
States. It's value is now known to be
$4,000. The violin was made in 1917,
aud it accompanied Jenny Lind on her
first concert tour in America.
Carroll county voters are interesting
themselves more or less in the good
roads bonds issue election to be held
In that county Dec. II. 1t is proposed
to issue 100000 in road bonds and
the voters will have the frst chance
sf expressing their views On this CUES
ttea by ballot.
Admitting that he was wanted In
Ohio for crime committed years ago.
and that he was q deserter from the U.
8. Army, Fred King, railroad laborer,
Of Camden, grew dsepondent. laid
down by the side of railroad track
with his head over rail A locono
tive severed his head.
Three trainmen we're injured when
the Dixie Flyer, Chicago TO Jackson
Vile, Fla. jumped the track on the
N. C.. and st. L. Railroad near Wan.
hstchie, Tenn. No passengers were
hurt. Six Of the ten ears left the
track, but none turned over. Officials
gay spreading rails were the cause.
Petitions for injunctions to restrain
enforcement OF the Adams0n eight.
hour law were filed In Federal Court
In Memphis, by the Illinois Central
and Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Rail.
reads. Federal authorities and heads
OF the brotherhoods were named as
defendants.
Bishop Alpheus w. Wilson, 50, of
the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, died at his home in Baltimore,
Nd. Bishop Wilson had just returned
home from months tour OF the
South. He had been Bishop since
1852. and was a biblical scholar Of IA
tisnsl note,
DR.. w. Scott Farmer, OF Ceokeville,
has been elected superintendent Of the
Central hospital for the insane at Nash.
vile by the state board of control.
He succeeds Or. A. F. Douglas, who has
been superintendent and assistant
superintendent for fifteen years. DIR.
Farmer will assume charge OF the
asylum at once.
The commissioners OF he Tennessee
vocational reformatory for delinquent
girls, let the contract for the buildings
to be erected near Tullahoma. The
successful bid was $4,000. This re-
fsrnatory was established by the last
general assembly, the act creating il
being introduced by the Shelby county
delegation. $4,000 was appropriated
for the building and equipment.
The home coming OF the doctors and
dentists in connection with the general
alumni reunion will be held at Wander
tilt, In Nashville, on Thanksgiving Day.
4 three-day program on which appear
the names Of some of the most emf.
nsRt members OF these professions, has
been arranged TO be held for alumni