The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-02-03
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The Protestant Episcopal eonvoca.
ton of East Tennessee will be assem-.
bled in Knoxville on February S,
and s.
When the French steamship 0mnium
was torpedoed recently 10000 rail
road ties shipped by Memphis mir n
were lost.
Kingsport will soon have hand
some $4,000 depot, is the assurance Of
President Mark w. Potter, of the G.,
C. G O. Railway.
The Hawley Coal Company, of Mid.
dleboro, has been incorporated with
100000 capital. 1t will operate
mines on Stony Fork near Cumberland
Gap.
A. G. Mathews, of Memphis, head
counsel Of the Woodmen of the World,
jurisdiction of Tennessee, has an.
nounced that the State convention will
be held in Chattanooga March Is.
Gov Tom c. Rye has appointed Sid
R. Clark, of Trenton, to sit in the
place of Chief Justice M. M. Neil, of
the Supreme Court, during the Illness
of Judge Neil
Jeff Gray Rockdale manufacturer
has purchased 1000 acres Of land on
which he will establish private game
preserve. This will be one of the big
gest in the state.
The Jackson Gun Club and the low
ers of bird hunting are formally oppos.
ing the proposed legislation at Nash
vile which proposes to prohibit bird
shooting for three years.
George D. Burgess, of Memphis, was
reelected president Of the National
Lumber Exporters Association at the
closing session in Pittsburgh, Pa, OF
that organizations annual convention
The sum of $2,500,000 for improve
ments in the Greater Knoxville sub
urban territory, instead of the $4,000
originally proposed, may be asked of
the Legislature by the Greater Knox
vile General Committee.
The mid-year meeting Of the Board
of Missions, presiding elders and lay
leaders of the Holston conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
will be held at Maryville Church Feb
ruary 6, and 8.
The big pottery plants at Erwin goes
into operation Fifty men arrived
from the east to be employed In this
industry. These men found board and
lodging at Unaka Springs until houses
can be built in Erwin
The commission-manag plan OF
government is now being urged for
Johnson City. To effect tf 5fssf -: -
vision Of the charter would be neces.
sary. The city now is in charge of a
mayor, city manager and eight al.
dermen.
w. H. Taylor, deputy sheriff, went
to the home of Joe Browning, florist
in Memphis, to collect an account. He
ratified the front door and is said to
have refused to speak when Browning
asked who was there. Browning fired
three times through the door and killed
him. Browning is under arrest.
Four persons we're killed and several
were injured in a rearend collision
Sunday night between passenger
trains of the st. Louis Southwestern
and Rock Island railroads at Mounds,
Arkansas, a junction near Memphis.
A relief train was sent from Memphis.
Governor Rye accepted an invitation
rendered by Knoxville, to go on a
trade trip in April. Governor Rye
was much pleased with the invitation,
especially because the trade trip will
include the capitals of three states,
Atlanta, Columbia and Raleigh.
The family of J. W. Ridge, Chatta.
nooga, including himself, his wife and
four children, were poisoned by drink
ing buttermilk. Four physicians were
there for several hours before the un.
fortunate people were relieved. Their
ailment was pronounced ptomaine
poison. All of the patients recovered.
Guardsmen who return from the Dor.
der to find their jobs filed will receive
the assistance of the Federal Bureau
of immigration in obtaining other EN-.
ployment. Commissioner Caminetti
issued orders to all officials of the
service throughout the country to do
everything possible to help the unem.
ployed guardsmen.
General Funston announced the mus,
tering out stations to which the ma
tional guardsmen, designated in a
recent war department order to be re.
lieved of border duty, will be sent.
The list includes that the Tennessee
Ambulance company No. l, Memphis;
field hospital No. l, be mustered out
at Knoxville.
Hurrying his wife away from home
to catch train to visit the bedside
of dying mother, Luther Seal, Mem
phis, mistook a can of gasoline for
kerosene and ignited it while trying to
fill a cook stove. Flames enveloped
him and he died at a hospital. Mrs.
Seal was badly burned in attempting
to extinguish the flames.
John and Henry Simmonds were in.
stantly killed and man named Smith
dangerously if not fatally injured in
an explosion at the London mine near
Ducktown The three men attached
fuses to fifty-two holes, lighted them