The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-11-16
FROM ALL PARTS
OF TENNESSEE
Reports Of Interesting
Events Boiled Down
for Hasty Perusal.


forced to close down because the en-
ployes were i'll with influenza.
Lewisburg Marshall county is or
ganizing for the united war work cam
paign to be launched Nov. IL.
Huntsville. The. annual election of
officers of the Trousdale County Red
Cross Chapter was held, resulting in
the unanimous reelection of the in.
cumbents.
Nashville. - A mammoth school
building at the powder plant village,
just being completed at cost OF. $780,.
GEO, was destroyed by a fire of mystic.
rious origin.
Union City.--The T. R. Massey farm,
three miles southeast of here, was sold
at auction and brought $4,000. There
are 200 acres Of this land and it is
we'll improved
Manchester Since the opening of
the war savings stamps campaign at
Manchester total of $28,37766 worth
Ut war savings stamps have been sold
from the Manchester postoffice
Memphis.-Mrs Sam Phillips, chair
man of Tennessee for the Fourth Lib
erty loan, reports that total subscrip-
tons obtained by the women in the
state has amounted to approximately
$25,000000.
Bell Buckle.--Mr. and Mrs. John l..
Sutton have received letter from Col.
S. D. Butler, u S. Marine Corps, ex
pressing deep sympathy over the re-
cent death Of their son, John Madison
Sutton.
Cleveland The local chapter Of the
Red Cross of Cleveland took charge
Of the distressing conditions caused
by the influenza epidemic and opened
soup kitchen, where hot nourishing
soup was prepared and distributed to
the homes all over the city.
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Chattanooga. The feature of the
interallied conference of army sur
geons at Camp Greenleaf was de-
scription of the bombardment of hos
pital on the Chateau Thierry front as
witnessed by Col George 2. Brewer
of New York, who has Just returned
from france. M s = z
Jackson. Judge NJ r. Barham has
set a special term of criminal court
for Nov. IL in jackson, at which time
all the cases now on the docket will be
disposed of. Judge Barham adjourned
court in September in order that all
lawyers might assist registrants in
making out their missionaries.
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Chattanooga.--Lewis Pope, member
of the state board of control, says that,
there are now confined in the state.
prisons 1,016 prisoners, the smallest
enrolment for years. The decrease is
attributed to the effects of the war.
OF this number 600 are at yl Brushy
Mountain. He says only one case of
iriuenza has developed in any of the
state institutions and that was in. ,Ly,
ons View hospital for the insane. W 4.
Memphis.-All cotton gins in West
Tennessee closed during the week be-
ginning Oct. %, under the. terms of a
resolution adopted at a meeting Of
West Tennessee ginners, held at the
Chamber Of Commerce, An associa-
ton of cotton ginners was organized.
and in the future the ginners will act
through their association. George D.
Webb of Memphis was elected presi-
dent and Walter Goodman Of Memphis
was made secretary, ot< sF,,ss, IA
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Chattanooga.7-Thr Intervention
started in this city and carried on by
the United States government, through
King Alphonso of Spain, with the Aus.
TRAN government, the life Of Milada ia.
rusek, sentenced to die in Austria on
charge of espionage and rendering
assistance to the Czecho- Slovaks, will
probably be saved. Milada Jarusek-
was a resident Of New York and act!
lively engaged in the forming of re-
public, through the Czecho-Slovak or
garlization, in her mother country, 30.
hernia. While en- route home, in 1917,
she was arrested on charge of spying
on Count Won Bernstorff, who sailed
on the same boat, and operating under
instructions of Czech organizations in
the United States. She was court.
martialed in Austria and sentenced to
death. The matter Of staying the exc.
c:itionn was taken up by the Depart.
nert of State at Washington with
King Alphonso of Spain, and negotia-
lions are being carried on with the
Austrian government.
Lexington.-Dr j. M. Pickens, pie
siding elder Of the Lexington district,
Memphis conference, Methodist Epis.
copal Church South, announces that
the annual session Of the Memphis
/ conference, which was to have been
feld in Jackson beginning Nov g. has
been postponed two weeks, and will