Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1916-08-03


the convict's fifteen-year sentence &C
companied the gift.
Marvin Camper, of Nashville, for
merly of McMinnville, has been ap
pointed assistant United States dis
trict attorney and will assume tn,
duties at once. He succeeds Morton
B. Adams, who resigned to.enter Law
firm in Chicago. District Attorne!
Douglass recommended the appoint
ment and Attorney General Gregor,
confirmed 1t.
The Methodist Advocate-Journal,t thu
official organ of the Southern Confer
ences of the Methodist Episcopa
Church, will continue to be published
at Athens for the next quadrennium
This was decided at a meeting of the
book committee of the church at Gin
cinnati. For some months it has beer
under consideration to move the paper
to Cincinnati and combine it with the
Methodist Book Concern publications
The Board of Mayor and Aldermen
Of Manchester has passed curfew
law. The law provides that the cur
few will be sounded at 9 O'Clock and
all persons under is years of age are
allowed fifteen minutes to get of the
streets. The only exception is that
they are allowed on the streets at a
later hour provided they are returning
from religious, educational exercises
or places of public amusement.
Deputy Collector Charles N. Ora.
cey, of Crookeville, and a posse Of
other revenue officers raided and de-
stroyed large illicit distillery, To-
Gated near Flynn's Lick, in Jackson
County. A complete "moonshine" out
flt, including large copper still and
500 gallons of "singlings," was de-
stroyed. This is reported to be one
of the most important raids made by
the revenue officers in that section
Of the state during the past few years.
]. w. Fulgham, one Of the three
TRUSTEES who escaped from the Nash
vile penitentiary in canoe, walked
into the Office of Warden Shaw sew
eral days later and said he had fin
ished his vacation and was ready to
finish out his term He could give
no information of the whereabouts of
Lloyd Logan and John Clouse, the
other fugitives. Fulgham was sent up
from Hardeman County for one to five
years for attempting forgery.
A committee of three, representing
the United Mine Workers of America,
with membership of over 100000,
visited the Pressmen's Home, near
Rogersville, with a view of gathering
data looking to the establishment of
similar institutions. They we're en-
tertained by President Geo. l.. Berry,
Of the Pressmen, and have expressed
complete satisfaction over possibili-
ties of locating in East Tennessee.
This Is the third committee that has
visited East Tennessee with a view
of establishing institutions.
Not only is Germany going to estab-
lish a submarine line between that
country, and the United States, but,
according to letter received by Prof.
Rudolph A.. Kratoch instructor in vio-
lin music at Intermont College, at Bris-
tol, from his brother in Germany, they
will shortly establish an air line of
Zeppelins as well. Prof. Kratoch's
brother writes him that he is coming
to America In Zeppelin and that
the craft will be due in America by
August 15. In his letter he seems to
be very confident of this first over
sea trip. aHh'is ~
With the three bullets In his body
from the pistol Of detective whom
he tried to kill ON downtown street !
in Memphis, Charles Reynolds, me-
gro, thought to have been crazed by
a drug, leaped from the operating ta-
BILE in the hospital where he had been
taken by the police, and, breaking the
glass door Of an instrument case,
seized surgeons knife. Advancing
ON the attendants, he created a panic
among them. The police patrol driver
the room and, knocking the
negro unconscious, averted further !
uc lSuucbpcC IIOOpb Will Uc IuOtcu 4
to the Mexican border "just as soon
as they are fully equipped and pre-
pared" according to a personal letter
from Major General Leonard Wood to
Governor Rye, received at the capitol.
Owing to the uncertainty OF the time
In which the remaining work Of equip
ping the various Tennessee units can
be completed, Major General Wood
was indefinite as to the exact date of
departure. Adjutant General Roman
declared that the work was progress
ing rapidly and that the troops would
be removed to the border soon whether
war is declared or not
Under an opinion furnished Comp
.roller John B. Thomason by Frank
NJ. Thompson, attorney general of the
state. assessment of many millions of
lollars' worth of property heretofore
ieemed as exempt by state and county
assessors will be made. One of the
most important conclusions expressed