The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-04-14
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Rost, Athens, under new maf1gesn ens
! made it's appearance. Clanda n
Taylor is the editor and publisher
Representative Sam r. Sells pre.
sented to the War Department the
request of A. D. Hughes, Of Johnson
City, that he be permitted to raise a
regiment of volunteers.
A resolution pledging support ID the
Government was adopted at mass
meeting in Chattanooga. From now
on there are only Americans and
traitors" read the resolution.
Andrew j. Armstrong, prominent
negro OF Columbia, is in custody upon
the charge of rebellion and treason,
The negro was placed in Jail in default
of $4,000 bond.
The Campbell County Court voted
$4,000 to be used in the erection OF
high schools. This amount Is to be
equally divided between Jacksboro
Jellico and LaFollette.
A train carrying 100 recruits for the
regular army from Fort Thomas KY,
to Douglas, Ariz., met in head-on col.
lision with an L. & N. freight train
near Gallatin, Tenn. Fourteen recruits
received injuries, but none was Sc.
riously hurt
The Senate passed the bill providing
for the establishment of ward for the
criminal insane at the state prison and
companion bill providing for the com,
mitment of the criminal insane to this
ward. This ward will cost about
$40, 1000.
Y. M. G. A. directors at Knoxville
| closed deal for lot on West Church
| avenue, on which will be erected fine
home. The purchase price was $22, 900.
The remainder of 100000 fund re.
Gently raised will be expended on the
home and for maintenance.
]. c. Napier, Nashville negro, who
was formerly registrar of the treasury,
called upon Governor Rye, pledging the
support of the race in Tennessee to
! the Government in the present situa-
ton. '"The negroes he said, Ystood
ready to do any service the Govern
ment might require of them"
l. Memphis police are holding Charles
Barnell, Spaniard, who has been
lettering about the Federal Building
and other places for several days, He
admits having been arrested in con-
nection with bomb plot several years
ago, when part of the capitol budding
in Washington was damaged.
A company of mounted scouts,
formed at Newport, ha9 applied b the
War Department for service and has
been accepted The .eopss nyawas
formed by Sergeant Howard III. d
Cincinnati, Ohio and recruiting began
only few days ago. Fifty have al
ready been enrolled.
The House passed the bill prohibit.
ing ousted officials from holding office
for a period of ten years after the
| Judgment of custer has been rendered
The bill applies to officials already
ousted, and will be followed up by a
companion bill which applies to those
who may be ousted in the future.
The House of Representatives has
adopted a resolution instructing the
Acknowledgement to bring suit against
the State of Arkansas and ceNtin
levee companies which the resolution
alleges have built levees on the Mis-.
! sissippi River resulting in the flooding
Of West Tennessee lands.
A man who gave his name as Egon
Schultz and claimed to be an American
citizen, of San Antonio, Texas, was
questioned by the police in Memphis
and will be detained pending an in
vestigation. Schultz is said to have
had maps of Tennessee and Arkansas
in his possession.
Compartment cars have arrived in
Bristol from Yellowstone National
Park, carrying eighty head of young
elk for use in stocking the Govern
ment's newly acquired mountain lands
extending from White Top to within
ten miles of Bristol. Due to the LONG
Journey, five of these elks were dead
in the cars.
According to officials at Fort Ogle
thorpe the only difference that will
result in the condition of the internes
German sailors at Fort Oglethorpe dur
ing actual war between this country
and Germany will be that the men will
become at once informed aliens ant
might be put to work under American
direction. The change would be mere
ly technical
VIM. H. Gass, President of the de
funct Knoxville Bank and Trust Com
pany, which failed for $1,0O0,0OO De
cember 16, 1912, and who was parolet
recently after serving one year of
two-year term, is said to be in Mem
phis visiting his daughter. Receiver
Green so far has paid depositors abou
so per cent of what they paid into til,
Institution.
The report that German spy hat
attempted to blow up the great waite
. works reservoir high on the mounta;,
above Jellico created considerable ex
element Later report gained cir
culation that the water supply ba,
been poisoned, and many people. .wer
afraid to drink the water. The re
ports were found to be without foun
dation
There has been no evidence in Eas