The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-10-27
ALLEGED BAD MAN LEAVES.

/ Knoxville. - Walter Blevins, alias
Walter Curly, alleged Montana murder
er and bandit, who also Is said to be q
yeggman, held in connection with the
robbery of postoffices OF Johnson City
and Piney Flats. has been surrendered
by the federal authorities here to state
officers of Montana and is now en-
route to Anaconda, whore he will be
tried on charges of highway robbery
and murder.
Blevins, in company with two other
men, Is charged with having held up
and robbed parties in Is automobiles
returning from dance at country
club near Anaconda. One of the auto
mobile drivers refused to obey the COM
mand of the bandits, and 1t is charged
that Blevins shot and killed him.
He has been engaged in work In
Chattanooga and upper East Tennes-
see. U. S. District Attorney Kennerly
has a letter claimed to be written by
Blevins, in which he admits that ne
was member of the famous Harvey
Logan band.
| Blevins has secured saws and had at
tempted to break Jail in Knoxville and
| at Greeneville, where he also has been
confined. At Greeneville he also tried
to secure dynamite. Attempts were
made to secure habeas corpus writ
| on his behalf, but a hurried departure
frustrated these efforts.
Bristol.-Thomas H. Carrier, promi-
nent lumberman and brother of the
Carriers operating the Empire Chair
company of Elizabethtoh and Johnson
City, died suddenly at mis- home here,
due to pneumonia. He was Sc years
old.
| Lexington in the store of j.
M. Brasher, supposedly from a lamp
explosion, spread with such fury and
rapidity as to completely wipe out the
business part of SCOTS Mill, the second
largest town in the county, IA miles
southeast of this place.
Jackson.-With representatives from
many of the $50 churches in the West
Tennessee synod of the Cumberland
Presbyterian church present, that or
ganization opened its annual meeting
in the C. P. church here. Rev. James
McClesky of Memphis delivered the
| opening sermon.
noxville.-Authority to appoint "a
! students or graduates of the Univer-
sity of Tennessee for the second Off
GERS training camp was given Presi-
dent Brown Ayres, in telegram from
the war department. He asks all Ten
nesseans who want appointments to
make application Immediately.
Chattanooga-The monument erect
ed on Lookout Mountain in honor of
the soldiers of the sixties from Ohio
4 was dedicated by the state monument
commission, assisted by Gov James M
Cox, former Gov. Frank e. Willis and
a delegation of Ohio citizens. An ad-
dress of welcome was delivered by
Mayor Jesse M. Littleton of Chactanoo-
ga, while the marker was presented to
the state by former Gov. Willis and &C.
cepted by Gov. Cox. Acceptance on
behalf of the United States was made
by acting Chairman Joseph B. Cum
mings of the Chickamauga.C Chattanooga
national park commission.
Knoxville.-Ohio, Kentucky, West
Virginia and Tennessee members of
the Foreign Missionary society of the
Methodist Episcopal church, concluded
their forty-eight hannual convention
here, electing Mrs. A. J. Clarke of
Wheeling, w. Va, president; Mrs. F.
M. Bristol of Chattanooga, wife of
| Bishop Bristol, was made vice presi-
dent at large; Mrs. r. L Thomas Of
| Cincinnati, o., was elected correspond
ing secretary, and Mrs. G. G. Boyd Of
Covington, KY, was made disbursing
secretary. The organization is now
supporting IS missionaries and So Of
these ARE on the firing line" report
ed Mrs. Thomas.
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Chattanooga.-Cha was the
scene of an important Y. NJ. C. A. meet
ing of presidents, secretaries, commit
tee workers and other members of the
association throughout Tennessee this
week. The meeting considered Ten
nessee's participation in the campaign
of the National Y. M. G. A. for $35 ,000,-
900 to carry on the activities of the
army committee of the national asso-
citation both in the United States and
Europe.
Jackson.-The new membership
campaign of the Y. M. C. A. is moving
along nicely. It is believed 500 new
members will be enrolled.
Clarksville-The board Of directors
of the Southwestern Presbyterian uni
versity adjourned after a very salts
factory session.
Paris.-Her many friends in this, her
home town, are well pleased over the
announcement that Miss Mildred
White, daughter of Mrs. Alexander B.