The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-08-18

Wihchestot, were destroyed by lire
which started in the Powers store
Desperate efforts we're made to pre-
vent its spreading, which did $4,000
damage, covered by about $4,000 In
surance. The origin OF the FIRE is un
known.
Reports from Pineville state that the
strike movement among the miners
of southeastern Kentucky and north.
eastern Tennessee is rapidly growing
1t is asserted that twenty-five thousand
men are affected. They demand rec
ignition of the union and new wage
scale adjustment. It is also stated
that number Of the large mine
owners have issued notices that they
will shut down the plants rather than
recognize the union.
Out of $50 registered men examined
in Weakley County, but 81 had passed
the, physical test and 81 claimed no
exemption. Weakley County's quota
is c75 men, and the initial call was
$50 A greater part of these are
claiming exemption. Some ask to be
discharged ON account of physical
weakness, but most of them on &C.
count of occupation and dependents.
The outlook is that there will be an
other call in that county before the
necessary 275 men are secured.
Official announcement was made
that the Tennessee Central Railroad
Company had just inaugurated a daily
coal train between the mines on its
line in Fentress and Overton Coun-
ties and Nashville, thereby not only
affording an opportunity for the regular
and profitable operation Of the mines,
Lat practically assuring that in the
future Nashville will receive more
constant and larger supply of coal
from that region than it has ever re-
ceived in the past.
That the Central of Georgia, con-
trolled by the Illinois Central, is maxi
ing preparations for building an extern
sion northward from Chattanooga not
merely to Coalmont but on to a juno
ton with the Tennessee Central Rail-
road either at Johnson's Stand or
Crossville, is the substance of infor-
nation received in Nashville from a
trustworthy source. A corps of
twenty engineers has been engaged in
making survey for the proposed
road, which is to extend from Chatta-
nooga to South Pittsburg.
The amendments to the child-labor
law Of Tennessee, adopted by the last
general assembly for the purpose Of
conforming the state law to the ma
tional child-labor law, are at present
occupying the attention of Chief Fac
tory Inspector Louis L. Allen and his
assistants in the Department of Fac
tory Inspection Under ruling of
the former chief inspector, these new
regulations are to go into full force
and effect Septembers1, and the de-
partment announces that at that time
employers will be expected to be fully
In line with the law
At the Tennessee State Fair in Sep
TENDER is to be reproduced under the |
auspices Of the United States Govern !
ment a section of the Western Euro
pean war front, with German and |
allied trenches, no mans land and all
other incidental features, and a dem. |
onstration of the modes of fighting
now employed by the contending
forces is to be given, with all the
n StrlIT INF Of tron
fare. Four or five acres or more will
be devoted to this exhibition, which is
expected to be the most popular fea.
ture of the fair.
Otis Lee Pig, aged about % years,
committed suicide at his home near
Lewisburg. 1t is reported that for
several months the deceased had been
in mental distress, and had brooded
recently to an excess because of being
in the first army draft, his notification |
to appear and be examined having
been issued. The weapon used in TAX
ing his life was razor, and the |
wound inflicted extended from ear to |
ear, the jugular vein on both sides be-
lHS oCNoiOu' AiO q duu
is survivd by his wife.
All of the soldiers stationed at
Camp Jackson and Camp kirkland |
are to be entertained in the homes of |
Nashville residents on the afternoon
and evening of Saturday, August IS,
according to plans formulated at
meeting OF citizens. The object of the
plans adopted is to bring the soldiers
into personal contact in a social way
with the residents of Nashville, make
them feel at home and demonstrate
to them that they are honored as
members of the fighting force of the
nation and that their presence here is
appreciated.
S. P. Mcdonald, President of the
National Master Bakers Association,
announced that he had sent tele-
gram to Washington urging that a
Federal investigation be made into re.
ports that certain small mills in North
ern Texas and Southwestern Okla
homa were grinding soft wheat into
animal meal instead of conserving it
for human consumption. Mr.. Nc.
Donald, whose headquarters are in
Memphis, declared that such reports
had been made to him by correspond