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Richardson's House on Fire      A Deadly Assault      Crippled By a Circular Saw      Captain Fyffe                          Convicts At Work On Link In Dixie Highway   Chattanooga, Tenn., June 19, 1916   Ninety-eight state convicts, chained together by twos, were marched down the street here this afternoon on their way to the stockade at Suck Creek, where they will be employed building a link in the Dixie Highway connecting Hamilton and Marian counties.  They will start this work early tomorrow.  The procession today consisted of twelve white men and 86 negroes.  Capt. Pryor Watson, deputy warden at Bushy Mountain, met the train and took charge of the convicts, who are from the main prison at Nashville.  A crowd estimated at 500 had crowded into the Union Station to see the arrival of the gang.   The Kingsport Times (Kingsport, Tennessee) June 22, 1916         Agency of Chattanooga   Having secured the services of Mr. William G. Smith, of Chattanooga, Tennessee, as a resident Agent for the Telegraph in Hamilton and the adjoining counties of Tennessee, we commend him to the kind offices of our friends.   Mr. Smith is authorized to receive subscriptions and to receipt for advertising and other dues to the Georgia Telegraph office.   The Georgia Telegraph - February 19, 1850         City Of Chattanooga - 89,207 population   Washington, July- 20.—   Hamilton County, Tennessee, in which is included the city of Chattanooga, has a population of 89,207, according to census figures just made public.   This is an increase of 27,572 over 1900.     The Columbus Enquirer-Sun - July 21, 1910        Young Man Killed by Trolley Car Chattanooga, Tenn., November 18, (Special) Charles Dearing a prominent young man of this city was killed this morning at 6 o'clock at the corner of Eighth and Market Streets. He was crossing the tracks in front of an outgoing car on the Chattanooga Electric Rail-way when he fell.   The car struck him and before the motorman could stop, carried him several feet, completely crushing the life out of him.   The Atlanta Constitution - November 19, 1903     Help Soddy, Tennessee Miners To the United Mine Workers of Distrit of Alabama The miners of Soddy, Tennessee, are on a strike, in need, and must be helped. It is not an ordinary strike, defeat means destruction of their union. That's the issue.   As well then in symnpathy for them, as in self defense for ourselves, demands that these men, their women and children be fed abd sheltered, and that at once.   We cannot wait for meetings, or tribute now. Send by your local secretary to F. J. Chancy, Soddy, Tennessee.   Geo. W. Young, President Attest, J. L Clemo, Secretary Labor Advocate - July 8, 1899   Charges Murder Tennessee Man Investigates Death of Daughter. Chattanooga, Tenn, June 22. — U. M. Hallett, a highly respected citizen, has had a warrant taken out for the arrest of Walter W. Henning, charging him with the murder of Mrs. Henning.   Henning married Hallett's daughter at Soddy, Tennessee, on April 18, last. Shortly afterwards Henning departed, ostensibly for the west. Hallett received a letter from Henning dated from a point in California informing him that Mrs. Hallett had died suddenly.   Hallett notified the police, with the result that a few days ago the body of Mrs. Henning was found to have been buried there. An autopsy was held and it was stated by the examining physician that the woman had been killed by a criminal operation.   Henning was last heard from at Los Angeles. The sheriff rays he has wired the Los Angeles authorities to arrest him. The Idaho Daily Statesman - June 23, 1903   Gathering Colored Labor for California   Chattanooga - November 19:   F. M. Owenby has been engaged in this section for several months in organizing gangs of Negroes to be sent to California to supplant Chinese labor. He has been very successful, and by December 1, about 500 will congregate in this city to be sent West. He will also send several hundred in January. Chattanooga has been made the recruiting depot.   Coming to Tennessee   A gentleman who has just located in the city from Pennsylvania states that large numbers from this section contemplate moving south this winter, and Tennessee seems to be their preference.   Talk of boycotting   Deep indignation is felt in this city over the outrageous slanders hurled against the South by the raving editor of the Commercial Gazette of Cincinnati. There is talk of boycotting all Cincinnati merchants who advertise in the sheet.   An Injunction   An injunction was served on the owners of the Belt Railroad tonight to restrain them from extending their track to the wharf on Water Street. The injunction was gotten out by the Stevenson attorneys, and it will result in a long and bitter struggle.   The Daily American - Nashville, Tennessee November 20, 1884  Transcribed and contributed by:  Pam Rathbone       Chattanooga a Georgia Town The Chattanooga papers are discussing the question, whether their town belongs to Georgia or Tennessee.   The Representatives says it is a matter of controversy among old citizens, whether the territory on which it stands is rightfully the property of the State that claims and holds it or not, and that a determination exists with many to investigate and settle the question.    They contend that the Tennessee River is the proper line between the two States, from the mouth, of Chickamauga Creek, six miles above the city, to the mouth of Nick jack Cave, forty miles below, by water.   The Representative insist that it is naturally, if not legally, the proper boundary and says a large number of the citizens are for  annexation to the State of Georgia, with which she is  wholly identified in sympathy, topography and trade.   Sav. Rep   Columbus Ledger-Enquirer - December 18, 1858     More Victims    Assassination in Hamilton County Another bloody sacrifice has been offered up to the foul spirit of rebellion. Last Monday, Mr. Case, of Hamilton County, (Chattanooga) Tennessee, a member of the Senate of that State with two other Union men, were brutally assassinated by a rebel guerrilla named Frank Farris.   Than Senator Case, treason never selected a more guiltless victim. A mild, modest, quiet and unassuming gentleman, beloved of his family and a host of friends, his only offense was steadfast devotion to his county and unflinching adherence to her cause. His death will but strengthen his brethren's faith.   Cincinnati Daily Gazette - January 18, 1867       She Wore A Youth's Suit     A Policeman Caught on and Took Her Home Chattanooga, Tenn., March 7, 1894—(Special.)— A handsome young married woman was arrested on West Eighth street about 10 o'clock tonight, attired in a neat suit of men's clothes. She looked the picture of a gay youth of nineteen but was recognized as Mrs. Kittie Kimball. the wife of a well known railroad man on the Memphis and Charleston road.   Officer Way took her to the police station, but under the direction of the chief of police, who consented to keep the matter quiet, escorted her to her \home.   She had an appointment with a well-known young man of the town at the hour and place where she was shadowed by the officers.   The woman has pronounced Lothario tendencies, and rumor has it that she has been guilty of indiscreet flirtations and clandestine meetings with other men during her husband's absence.   Her husband is in entire ignorance of Mrs. Kimball's escapades and he believes her to be the purest and best of wives.      Atlanta Constitution - March 7, 1894  Transcribed and Contributed by:  Janice Rice           Tragedy In a Hotel   One Tennessee Politician Kills Another in Chattanooga     Chattanooga, Tennessee, February 12 – Robert E. Craig, trustee of Hamilton County, shot and killed A. M. Womble, in the corridor of the Russell house, this afternoon.   Womble had been in Craig’s employ as a deputy.  Early in December he was removed for causes not stated, but it is asserted there was nothing wrong in his in his affairs.  Mr. Womble did not seem to have any ill will toward Mr. Craig, and the two never had a quarrel before this afternoon so far as known.   What brought on the difficulty today is not clear.  Womble called on Craig at this room shortly after noon today and the fight commenced behind closed doors and was a terrible one.  Finally Craig fired one fatal shot at Womble in the apartment, who immediately ran out into the hall, pursued by Craig.  Half way down the stairs Womble fell exhausted from the wound.  Craig descended and, standing over him, snapped the pistol several times.  It failed to work and he broke open the weapon then closing it he shot at Womble twice, one ball entering the abdomen and passing almost through the body.  Either of the wounds received would have caused death and Womble expired in a few minutes, making an antemortom statement that Craig had invited him to his room, and then shot him from behind.  Intense excitement followed the shooting.  Both men were most prominent.  Craig was slightly injured in the fight and tonight is being guarded in his room.   Sioux City Journal – February 13, 1895         Tennessee River Bridge     Contract Awarded By the Southern Railroad Trustees for Its Construction   At the meeting of the Trustees of the Cincinnati Southern Railroad, held yesterday afternoon, the contract for the construction of the bridge across the Tennessee River was awarded to Clark Reeves & Company of Philadelphia, over six other competitors.  The contract price is $117,000.   The bridge will be an iron Whipple truss bridge, 1,804 feet long, and will cross the river in Hamilton County, about five miles northeast of Chattanooga, near Boyce’s Station.   The structure will rest on eight piers and the abutments on either side.  A draw, to be operated by hand and steam, will form the third span from the north end of the bridge, the round pier being 612 feet from the north shore.   The distance from low water mark to the tope of the crossties will be 64 feet.  The contract call for the completion of the work by the 1st of January, 1878.     Cincinnati Daily Gazette  -  March 3, 1877          Emigration From Tennessee     The Chattanooga Advertiser Says:   There have migrated from East Tennessee and Cherokee, Georgia, to Arkansas and Texas, the past fall at least 500 families, and the end is not yet, as, every day or so, wagon after wagon with movers may be seen plodding their way thitherward.   Hamilton County alone has sent out forty families, and a number are now down with the moving fever.     Constitution – November 18, 1859        A Difficult Surgical Operation    Special To The Constitution Chattanooga, May 16 – A difficult surgical operation was performed this afternoon upon the person of Mrs. J. A. Jones of Soddy, Tennessee.    She has been suffering for years with cancer of the breast, and has experienced no relief until this afternoon when two local physicians amputated the breast and cut out the cancer.   It was thought for a while that she would not be able to survive the terrible operation, but she revived and at this writing is doing remarkable well with fine prospects of recovering entirely.    The operation it is thought will effect a permanent cure.  As soon as the wound heals she will be up. The Atlanta Constitution – Tuesday Morning, May 17, 1883   Brigandage In Tennessee    A few nights since a band of robbers visited the town of Ooltewah, Tennessee, a village some fourteen miles from Chattanooga, and opened and robbed all of the seven stores in the place.   Not content with taking the easily portable property, they brought wagons along, and loaded them with the contents of the stores.   In one store they found a safe, which they blew open and rifled.    The place has not police, and the work of the brigands was not discovered until the morning, when they seem to have made their escape safely.   Officers have set out with bloodhounds to run the robbers down. Times Picayune – March 23, 1894   Caught On A Cowcatcher   The cannon-ball train on the Georgia division of the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway was late yesterday, and made thundering speed fro Atlanta to this city.  As the train swept round a curve into a cut near Ooltewah Junction, fifteen miles east of Chattanooga, an enormous bald eagle was seen on the track by Mr. W. M. Fortune, the fireman, who was at the moment peering through the forward window of the cab.    The pilot was on his eagleship before he could rise, struck him, tumbled him up on the frame, where he clutched a wooden beam with on of his great claws and held fast.  Before the bird had time to recover from the fright and shock of his collision with the cowcatcher Fortune had climbed along the footway to the pilot and was upon the noble emblem of the American liberty, when a lively tussle ensued.  The eagle fought viciously for his liberty and the fireman was equally determined on making him his prisoner.  The train was running at the rate of forty-five miles    an hour.  The man had to hold by on hand with all his power to the one of the iron guards below the headlight to keep his footing, as the engine swayed from side to side and bounded over the inqualities of the track in its headlong race against time, and managed the eagle with the other hand.  But his birdship was finally secured, after he had nearly torn Mr. Fortune’s overalls to shreds with his powerful talons, that are fully four inches long.  He was carried back over the footway fighting like a demon.   Once in the cab, Engineer Parks went to Fortune’s aid, and by hard work they succeeded in tying the “King of the upper ether” securely, thought their task was not easy one, as the eagle fought savagely with beak and claws as one of his captors was with reach.   When tied he was spread out on the cab floor and found to measure seven feet from tip to tip of the wings.  He stands fully two feet high when fully erect, and is altogether a splendid specimen of the monarch of American birds.   He was sold to Sam P. Bead, of the Bead House, for $12.50.    This is probably the first instance of the capture of an eagle by a railway train, and Mr. Fortune’s exploit in securing the gallant fellow clearly entitles him to rank as a man of great presence of mind and rare grit.   Chattanooga (Tennessee) Times Daily Inter Ocean – December 27, 1886   Deadly Duel   Two Neighboring Farmers Meet On a Tennessee Highway and Kill Each Other Chattanooga, Tennessee, April 20. – Five miles from Ooltewah, in James County, Tennessee, twenty miles from this city, a terrible tragedy was enacted yesterday afternoon, in which two men lost their lives at each others’ hand.   Only meager details have thus far been procured.   John Roy and Will Carson, two well known men, lived near neighbors; they were intimate friends when they met Tuesday morning, but got into a dispute over some land.   When they separated they were very angry, and each swore vengeance.  That they kept their word was shown with terrible truth.   In a few hours a negro man, walking toward White Oak Gap, on a public road, saw two bodies in the road, and supposed the men were drunk until he reached the space where they were lying, when he found they were dead.   They had met, renewed the quarrel and both were killed.  Roy lay within a few inches of Carson’s feet, with his pistol tightly grasped in his hand, and a bullet from the weapon has passed through Carson’s heart.  Carson’s pistol had fallen from his hand, but when it had been last discharged it sent a ball through Roy’s brain.  Columbus Daily Enquirer – April 23, 1887     Sunday Law in Tennessee    Chattanooga, Tennessee, January 4 – This city has been thrown into considerable excitement by the announcement that the saloon keepers, against whom the Sunday law is being rigidly enforced, had sworn out nearly one hundred warrants against those engaged in all the trades and professions who do business on Sunday.   The whisky men say they have been discriminated against and propose to test the law to its full scope.   The warrants include newspaper publishers, livery men and street-car drivers. San Jose Mercury News – January 5, 1886     A Coal Famine Feared At Chattanooga    Chattanooga, Tennessee, January 12 --  The cold of the past three days is the most extra ordinary spell of winter ever experienced in this section.   Yesterday morning it was 7 degrees below zero at the signal office and 9 below at other points in the city.   Last night at 10 o’clock it stood at zero and falling.  Previous to this spell the coldest temperature ever recorded here was 1 degree below zero.    The suffering through this section is intense.  Railroad traffic is virtually suspended. No freight trains have been running on the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia and Cincinnati Southern for three days, and passenger trains are entirely out of regulation time.  No mail has arrived from the East in this section of country for forty-eight hours until yesterday, when the passenger trains arrived arrived  from Cincinnati, two having been out forty-eight hours.  The blockade of freight is causing a coal famine and the prospects is very gloomy.   Three of the largest industries are already closed for the want of coal, and unless a supply arrives today the situation will be alarming.    The suffering among the poor throughout this section is very great.  Over five hundred distress cases were recorded by associated charity yesterday.  Fully 3,000 hand are out of employment on account of the cold weather.   The lowest temperature at the signal office this morning was zero, and in lower portions of the city it is two degrees below zero.  The weather is moderating this morning. Macon Weekly Telegraph – January 12, 1886   A Tennessee Ghost Story A Tennessee Ghost comes to a house in Hamilton County, and rocks the baby to sleep every night.   Now, then, by all the dwellers in the nether gloom, if there is a restless ghost of any old ancestor of ours would like to find steady employment at good wages in a quiet family and good neighborhood.   We can give the perturbed spirit all it wants to do in the silent line of general housework, with Sunday afternoon for itself, and one night out every week when it could go around and raise a ghostly racket with the neighbors, and haunt all the lonely houses in the neighborhood.   What a gem of a house-servant a ghost would be. Never "sass" back; always invisible.   The pie would come on the table as though it were sailing through the air; the carpet-sweeper would perform its noiseless functions without the howling accompaniment of "Gnah-nagnah-na-tha-wah— that wurthe place whayre the whisky is plenthy — whack I fol dhe rol loll"   And at night it could haunt all the objectionable neighbors until they fled the neighborhood, and property would depreciate seventy-five per cent, when we could buy it in and whack up with the ghost.   No light and no fire required for the ghost's room. No private watchman wanted on the block; no dog on the premises. When a burglar climbed in at the window, and felt the cold, clammy fingers of the ghost wriggling down the back of his neck ; when he drove a ten-inch bowie-knife clean through the ghost's bosom five times, and the spectre smiled sadly at him, and showed him where his throat had been cut clear off nine years before — "how the robber would drop his kit and wing his restless flight to realms beyond the farther limits of the city corporate.   And when the door bell rang, the ghost would just stick its head clear through the key hole and see who was there before the door was opened.   And there would be no sweethearts loafing about the kitchen Sunday nights — ah, no.   Truly, a ghost would be a great boon to the home, and if any of our readers know of a ghost out of a Job, send him at once to this office. —      The Argonaut. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume X, Issue 2026, September 15, 1883, page 2     Reunion At Glenn    Brothers Who Parted at Mission Ridge Met Again in Michigan   Glenn, Michigan, July 8. --  A remarkable family reunion has just been closed by the return to his home at Hill City, Hamilton County, Tennessee, of Godfrey Jerue, who, with his daughter, has been visiting his brother, Joel L. Lerue, of this place.   Godfrey had not seen Joel since 1863, when they parted at Moccasin Point, Tennessee, just before the battle of Mission Ridge, in which the brothers took part.   A sister, Mrs. Christiana French, of Sheperd, also came here to be with her borthers.   Godfrey had not seen her since 1858.   Grand Rapids Press - July 8, 1903   Tennessee's Oldest Citizen    (By Telegraph to the Herald)   Nashville, March 6, 1891. --  The oldest man in Tennessee is now an inmate of the Hamilton County Workhouse.   His name is Tobe Lewis, and he claims to be 137 years old, and has documents which show tht he is over 120.   He has been married nine times, and is the father of over forty children.   This distinguished gentleman is of African descent.   New York Herald - March 7, 1891      Posse Scours Country Seeking Bold Bandit      Tennessee Outlaw Who With Companion Staged Holdup Is Still at Large   Wounded Pal Is In Jail   (By Associated Press)   Chattanooga, Tennessee, October 20. – With James Oliver aged 20, in jail posses today still wee scouting the vicinity of Ooltewah, James County for Ed Martin, his alleged companion and accomplice in the killing of Deputy Sheriff McIntosh and the robbery of many travelers on the Dixie Highway, Saturday.   The two discharged soldiers, it is alleged barricaded the highway near Ooltewah early Saturday holding all travelers who approached, and finally capturing and holding for hours several citizens who came to investigate the killing of Deputy McIntosh, who was shot by one of the boys whom he attempted to arrest.    Oliver was wounded in an exchange of shots with a posseman and was only captured, according to the officers, when he feared he was bleeding to death.   Citizens who were held by the men were forced to take him to Ooltewah for medical attention.  His companion escaped.   Oliver was threatened with lynching at Ooltewah.  A rope was placed about his neck and he was strung up, but citizens desisted when he promised to give the name of his companion.   Deputy Sheriff McIntosh died in full view of persons attracted to the spot.  Attempts to reach him with medical aid were repulsed at the point of pistols.   Six men and a woman were huddled along the roadside, covered by the pistol of one of the bandits, while several of the hold ups wee in progress.   Fort Wayne News Sentinel – October 20, 1919   Georgian Railroads    The Georgians have now nearly completed a line of railroads extending from Savannah to Chattanooga, a town on the Tennessee River, in Hamilton County, Tennessee.   A new outlet is thus opening between the West and the Atlantic.     Times-Picayune - March 21, 1845       Fatal Affray      A man by the name of Evan Parker, of Hamilton County, Tennessee, was killed a few days since by Lemuel Harvey, of the same county.   The parties net in the public road, where an old quarrel about their land was renewed, Parker making the attack with a bowie knife, which Harvey wrested from his hand, and in turn inflicted the deadly wound.     Daily National Intellignecer - January 13, 1845           Tennessee Mining Troubles        Working People Denounce the Mine Owners and Censure the Governor   A largely attended meeting of working people with the federation of trades, representing 16 trades and callings, was held in Chattanooga, Tennessee, yesterday when it was unanimously resolved that the present trouble existing at Briceville is but the natural outcome of the long and persistent violation of law on the part of the mine owners in refusing to permit the miners to elect a check weigher to insure fair weight for coal moved and also of the un-American attempt to compel employees to sign and agreement not to affiliate with any labor organization.  This open violation of the laws of the state and attempt to intimidate the men were both brought to the attention of the state authorities and by then utterly ignored and left unredressed.     The governor was censured for taking an armed force to assist in the work of intimidation and opposing the miners, and the militia was condemned, the opinion being expressed that all laboring men, union or non-union, in their ranks, should return home, as they are acting contrary to every dictate and impulse that should exist in the hearts of fair and honest working citizens.   The meeting further passed resolutions indorsing the miners and condemning the authorities and mine owners.  The chairman of the executive committee was sent to Briceville to present the resolutions and state the feelings existing at Chattanooga.  A committee was appointed to publish the resolutions and request all labor unions in the state to take like actions.  It will also forward to Governor Buchanan the following petition:   At a formal and representative meeting of the labor unions in Hamilton County, the following resolution was unaminmously adopted:   Resolved:  That we the laborers and mechanics of Chattanooga and Hamilton County, in open meeting assembled under anspices of the federation of trades do hereby respectfully petition your excellency to call at the earliest moment a special session of the Legislature to consider the penitentiary and convict lease system.      Springfield Republican - July 20, 1891         Jesse Trierson Hanged    Chattanooga, Tenn. Jan 2 -  Jesse Trierson was hanged this morning for the murder of officer Musgrave, in December 1890. The Arizona Republican Sunday January 3, 1892 Transcribed and contributed by:  Barb Ziegenmyer   A Resurrection      A Tennessee Defaulter, Who Died and Was Buried, is Seen in Mexico   Chattanooga, Tennessee, September 8. --  Several years ago Marshal T. Polk robbed the State Treasury of Tennessee of several hundred thousand dollars while serving as State Treasurer.   He fled, but was subsequently arrested and returned to Nashville.  In due time he was reported to have sickened and died.  His body was shipped from Nashville to Boliver, Tennessee, where it was buried.   Now comes news that one Gamble, a prominent citizen of Anniston, Alabama, has just returned home from an extended visit in the City of Mexico, and while there he met Polk on the street and talked with him.  He made further investigations and found Polk in business in that city.   The affair has created no little excitement in this part of the State.  Gambale was well acquainted with Polk while he was treasurer of this State.     Macon Telegraph - September 7,  1887         Three Brakemen Dead      Result of a Freight Collision Near Chattanooga   Chattanooga, Tennessee, May 12. -- This morning before daylight two freight trains on the East Tennessee, Virginia, and Georgia Railroad collided in a fog.   Three colored brakemen were killed and engineer Thomas Gregory and James McClarin; Brakemen, S. S. Dobbs and Conductor F. D. Knight injured.     Wheeling Register - May 13, 1890     A New Cadet    The Chattanooga Times of Saturday says:   "The Times a few days ago announced that as Hamilton County was entitled to one more cadet in the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, an examination to fill the vacancy would be held by County Superintendent Buffaker yesterday.   The examination resulted in the appointment of Thomas B. Warner, a son of Dr. T. O. Warner of this city, and the official papers entitling him to the scholarship were given him by Senator Pyot yesterday.     Mr. Warner will leave here for Knoxville early in February, and will take a full course in civil and mining engineering."     Daily Journal and Journal and Tribune - January 6, 1890       Cholera Deaths in Ooltewah    Ooltewah, Hamilton County, seventeen miles east of Chattanooga, on railroad.  Population 1,102.   The "Knoxville Chronicle," July 25, reports two deaths from cholera at Ooltewah on July 22 and adds:     "This makes four or five deaths from the 'prevailing,' reported at that place during the past week."   The "Chronicle" also reports a false case at Ooltewah the 5th of August.          Public Health By American Public Health Association         Canned Goods Direct to the Consumer        The Hamilton County, Tennessee, Girls' Canning Clubs Exchange, located in Chattanooga.   A woman of business experience has charge of it and sells the products on a commission of 10 to 20 percent, depending on the character of the products being sold.   It is required that the products be put up in certain sized cartons and containers.  This requirement is teaching the women and girls of the county how to meet market demands.   The market was established in 1914, and, according to the women of Hamilton County, it has always been a success.       Kansas City Star - February 5, 1919             Asked Officers To Get Him      A Seventeen Year Old Boy Tires of Flight From the Law   Greenville, Texas. September 10. --  Sheriff W. P. Hayes of Hamilton County, Tennessee, passed through his city en-route to Chattanooga with Harry Isham,. a 17 year old boy, charged with killing Thomas Smith. in that city during June of this year.   Isham said that after killing Smith he went first to Atlanta, thence to New Orleans, and had made his way to Texas.   Arriving at Trenton he said he only had 5 cents, and being tired of flight, had the operator wire the officer at Chattanooga to come after him.   Forth Worth Star-Telegram - September 10, 1902         Back From A Long Chase        Sheriff Hayes of Tennessee Here With a Prisoner Caught in California     After following Luther Carrell, a convicted Murderer, almost across the United States, W. P Hayes, Sheriff of Hamilton County, Tennessee, brought the man a prisoner from the Union Depot ot police headquarters last night for safe keeping.     He is on his return with the prisoner to Meigs County, Tennessee, the scene of the young man's crime.   Sheriff Hayes said that Correll was captured recently in Los Angeles, California, by detectives Murphy and Haley, who received a reward of $400.00.     Carrell was arrested two years ago charged with shooting a comrade when both were boys.  The murder occurred while the two were hunting, and Carroll threw his victim's body into a creek.  Later he was sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary, but the case was appealed to a higher court and Carrell was admitted to bail.  He fled and went to Los Angeles.  Both the sheriff and prisoner looked travel worn after their long trip.   "I haven't had my clothes off but once this week." said the sheriff; "and it's a mighty little sleep a fellow gets watching a prisoner."       Kansas City Star - December 13, 1903           The Lee James' Reward Paid        Atlanta, September 7. -- Application was made last week to the Governor by L. P. Elliott, of Hamilton County, Tennessee, for the $150 reward offered for the capture of Lee James and his delivery to the sheriff of Bibb County.   The proofs were defective, but they have since been perfected, and today the money was paid over to Mr. Elliott.       Macon Telegraph - September 8, 1887           Domestic Dispatch        Death of a Noted Criminal       St. Louis, October 13. --  A special from Mansfield, Missouri, says:   R. P. Goodall, sheriff of Lacledo County, killed Bob Taylor this morning while attempting to arrest him, on board a passenger train, a few miles from Lebanon.    Taylor is one of three brothers who murdered the sheriff and his deputy of Hamilton County, Tennessee, on September 14 last.  He had been hiding in the vicinity of Lebanon for some time past, and Sheriff Goodall had been after him two weeks.  This morning the sheriff encountered Taylor on the train between Mansfield and Lebanon, and stepping up to him presented his revolver and demanded his surrender.  Taylor instantly drew a pistol, but sheriff was too quick for him and fired, killing him instantly.  The body was taken to Lebanon, and the sheriff has telegraphed to the authorities in Tennessee.  It is thought that another of the Taylor brothers was on the train, as the pistol that fell from the dead man's hands was picked up during the excitement by a man who passed into another car and was seen no more.  It is said that $16,000 reward has been offered for the arrest of the three Taylors.   Since the above was received a special has been received from Chattanooga, Tennessee, saying that the noted desperado named Taylor is surrounded near Rockwood, and that a posse has gone out to assist in his capture.  This is probably a brother of the man that was killed by Sheriff Goodall this morning.     Galveston News - October 19, 1882         Mother Murders Her Son in Tennessee          Chattanooga, Tennessee, October 29. --  The dead body of  Clifford Cawthorn, the 16 year old son of a widow, was found at his home last night, lying on  a bed in a pool of blood, his head hacked to pieces with a hatchet, which was lying near by.  The building was on fire and firemen discovered the body.   Mrs. Cawthorn, the mother, confessed today that she committed the deed and that it was her intention to kill the whole family.   She said the boy was bad and smoked cigarettes and she killed him for that reason.       Idaho Statesman - October 30, 1900           Earthquake in Tennessee           Houses Shaken and Windows Rattled in Chattanooga and Vicinity     By Publishers Press Direct Wire   Chattanooga, Tennessee, May 29. --  A distinct earthquake shock was felt her about 2 o'clock this morning, accompanied by a low, rumbling sound.     Houses were shaken and windows rattled in all the city and suburbs.   The shock lasted several seconds.  Many people were awakened and greatly frightened.       Trenton Evening Times - May 29, 1902             Postmaster Sentenced        Short Term Given After Report by Alienists       Associated Press   Chattanooga, Tennessee, December 11. --  Following a report of two local alienists, that John H. Millsaps, former postmaster at Daisy, Tennessee, charged with embezzlement of government funds, was mentally deficient.   Federal Judge Edward T. Sanford today sentenced the defendant to one year and a day in the federal penitentiary at Atlanta, reducing the penalty to the lowest allowed in such cases.   The alienists reported that Millsaps had suffered an attack of influenza while serving in the army during the war and instead of receiving treatment had been forced to wait on other patients, and as a result his mind had become confused.   Millsap's shortage totaled about three thousand dollars.       Montgomery Advertiser - December 12, 1922             Tennessee River Stops Car Line in Chattanooga          Chattanooga, February 11. --  The Tennessee River registered 33 feet this morning and still rising at the rate of two tenths of a foot hourly.   Much lowland is already converted and the water is now up to  Rossville Boulevard here.   Street cars on that line are out of commission.         Daily Herald - February 11, 1921             $50,000 Blaze at Chattanooga      Chattanooga, Tennessee, January 23. --  The compress of the Tennessee River Compress Building Company was burned tonight together with 1,200 bales of cotton.   Loss $40,000 to $50,000; insurance about $25,000.   The cotton was the property of the Howell Cotton Company of Dalton, Georgia, and L. P. Love & Company, buyers, insurance $35,600, which covers losses.   Entire loss in round numbers, $46,500.     Daily Journal and Journal and Tribune - January 24, 1895             Rioting in Open Court      A Quarrell Between Tennessee 'Squires Results in a Desperate Affray   Chattanooga, Tennessee, January 5. --  When the Hamilton County Court convened yesterday, Squires Springfield and Raulston ahd some hot words and clinched.   Instantly the 250 men in court started a riot. Clubs, chiairs, cuspidors and knives were used.  Windows were broken and the court room defaced.   Officers were compelled to restore order with their clubs and then court adjourned.       Kansas City Star - January 5, 1898                 One Hundred Years Hence      Wrong Date on Tennessee Ballets May Invalidate the Election   Republic Special   Chattanooga, Tennessee, November 28. --  A sensation has been sprung in the State politics and it may result in the vote of this (Hamilton) county, in the recent November election being contested.    Under the election laws of Tennessee, the date must be printed on outside of the official ballots.  The ballots used inthe election bore the date November 8, 1998, just 100 years hence.   Eminent lawyers say that the election can be contested and the vote thrown out.  The Democrats charge taht it is a Republican trick, while the Republicans say the mistake was purposely made by the Democrat to contest the election, had they not carried the county.   The certificates of election have not yet been issued to successful cadidates.  Informationcomes today taht the same mistake was made in a number of counties, and that the general result might be materially changed, were the counties contested and the votes illegally cast thrown out.         St. Louis Republic - November 29, 1898         Sweatbox  A Medieval Torture Still Recently Being Used in Tennessee    Although Hamilton County, Tennessee has not yet celebrated the centennial anniversary  of its evacuation by the Indians, she has, nevertheless, developed a means of torture that would have been an honored device in medieval ages.  It is known as the sweatbox, and until the recent investigation by the grand jury was in active use by the county workhouse authorities at Daisy, Tennessee, in subduing fractious prisoners.   By the system in vogue county prisoners are worked in gangs on the public roads, and consequently several penal settlements or workhouses are scattered throughout the country.  Daisy is in the northern end of Hamilton, at the base of Signal Mountain.  The sweatbox is a large box resembling a coffin case, about 8 feet square and 8 or 9 high.  In the top was a large hook, to which was attached a block and tackle.   The culprit was handcuffed and his feet chained together, the ball black hooked to the handcuffs, and with his hands elevated over his head he was drawn to the top of the box with a half inch grass rope.  There he was left hanging till he or she yielded and begged to be taken down.   The jury found a little Negro girl inside on their visit of inspection.  The child was barefooted, thinly clad, and crying with cold.  The finding of the jury has aroused the people, and it is safe to say that the sweatbox will not be perpetuated.   Cincinnati Enquire     Respository - February 14, 1897     Found Murdered With His Throat Cut      Chattanooga, January 8. (Special) --  A very sensational discovery was made today, a few miles below Dayton, Tennessee.  Two weeks ago Moses Houlton was reported to have been drowned in the Tennessee River by falling into the water from a boat.   Today his body was recovered about three miles below where the drowning occurred, and an examination of the same showed that the throat had been cut from ear to ear.   It has since been developed that Houlton, John Burkey and Richard Harwood were husking corn together on the ay of the murder on an island in Tennessee River.   In the evening when they finished work the trio got on a flatboat to cross the river and that was the last seen of Houlton.   A warrant was sworn out today by Peter Weaver, stepfather of the murdered man, for the arrest of Burkey and Harwood, chargin gthem with murder.     The excitement over the affair is intense.  A hearing in the case will take place tomorrow.   Houlton had $20 on his person when he was murdered and the money is missing.   Times-Picayune - January 9, 1889     Murdered and Placed on a Railroad Track      Chattanooga, April 22. -- (Special) --  J. L. Kinney was run over by a train in the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad yard in this city about a week ago, and his body cut in two.  At the time it was thought he had been murdered and his body placed on the track to cover up the crime.     Kinney's brother arrived in the city today, and has found that the unfortunate man's gold watch and over $100 which he had on his person just before his dead body was found, is missing.   Officers think there is no doubt now that Kinney was murdered, and they are working on a clue now which will probably lead to the arrest of the guilty parties.     Times-Picayune - April 23, 1888     Trains To Lookout Mountain -- Sales of Real Estate      Chattanooga, Tennessee,May 29. --  (Special) -- Today has been a gala day in Chattanooga.  The formal opening of the standard gauge railroad running to the top of Lookout Mountain took place, and before 9 o'clock 600 people were at the depot to take the train.  The crows did not diminish in size up to noon, although every train went out crowded.  It is estimated that at least 15,000 people passed over the new railroad.   Strangers were present from every state in the union.  Business was almost suspended.  Fifty thousand dollars' worth of lots were sold by the owners of the mountain.  The weather was beautiful, and tomorrow trains will be run again to accommodate those who were unable top visit the mountain today.   Every hotel in the city is crowded with people from the north.   Times-Picayune - May 30, 1888     Burning of the Commercial Office     Chattanooga, Tennessee, November 7. --  (Special.) --  A fire originated in the pressroom of the Daily Commercial at 6 o'clock the evening and instantly shot up through the elevator, soon enveloping the entire interior of the building.   The presses and type are ruined and a complete new outfit will have to be purchased before the paper can be issued again.  The loss of the Commercial Printing Company will reach $10,000; insurance $4,000.   The Western Union Company's office was located in the adjoining building and the office had to be abandoned tonight.  They will receive the Associated Press matter at one of their branch offices in the city.   The building is owned by J. W. Adams of this city and Dr. R. S. Rast of Cincinnati who lose probably $600 over the amount of insurance.   The Knights of Pythias Hall, the finest in the state, is ruined.   The fire caught from the fire box of the boiler.   Two printers were suffocated and one of them will probably die.    Times-Picayune - November 8, 1887     Descent of Mountaineers on the Negro Miners      Chattanooga, Tennessee, November 7. --  (Special.) --  There is great excitement at Soddy Coal Mines to night, twenty two miles north of Chattanooga, on the Cincinnati Southern Road.     Sheriff Connor and posse left for the mines at 8 o'clock in response to a telegram informing him that a big part of Mountaineers had come down from Walden's Ridge armed with shotguns to kill all the negros at the mines.   The sheriff's posse reached the seat of war at 9 o'clock, out on account of the fire in the telegraph office here tonight no tidings have been had from them.     It is feared that there was serious trouble before the arrival of the sheriff.  He cannot reach Chattanooga before midnight.   Times-Picayune - November 8, 1887     Burning of the European Hotel      Chattanooga, Tennessee, November 12. -- (Special.) --  The European Hotel is on fire.  It is located just opposite the office of the Western Union Telegraph Company, and will be totally destroyed, involving a loss of not less than $20,000.   The fire broke out as a Republican procession passed the hotel.  There were 5,000 people in line, jollifying over the election of Harrison and Morton, and the fire cut the line in two.  There are 15,000 excited people surrounding the burning building and the department are working like beavers to save the adjoining property, which is very valuable.   Times-Picayune - November 13, 1888     Mr. John P. Richardson's House on Fire      Chattanooga, Tennessee, November 12. --  (Special.) --  The fine residence located in the heart of the city and owned by Mr. John P. Richardson was badly damaged by fire this afternoon, involving  a loss of $2,500.  The insurance amounts to $8,000.  The adjoining property was in great danger for a while, but was saved by the heroic efforts of the fireman.   Times-Picayune - November 13, 1888     A Deadly Assault     Chattanooga, Tennessee, January 8, --  (Special.) This morning at 4 o'clock Charles O. Snyder, Republican member elect of the board of public works, got into a row with Pat O'Brien at the Palace Hotel bar, which the former called the latter vile names.  O'Brien struck at Snyder, which caused him to draw a long bladed knife, which he ran into O'Brien's abdomen a distance of four inches.   The wounded man was taken to his home in a critical condition.  On account of the prominence of the parties in the trouble every effort has been made to keep the particulars from the public.   Snyder was quietly arrested and subsequently released on $2,000 bonds.  He was the Republican candidate for mayor in 1888, and was defeated by a majority of 9 votes.   Times-Picayune - January 4, 1888     Crippled by a Circular Saw     This evening which operation a circular saw at the furniture factory of Temply & Shiff, Joseph Murray had his right hand cut off.     Times-Picayune - January 4, 1888     Captain Fyffe    At Chattanooga Capt. FYFFE, of the Lookout Mountain Guards, was tried by a justice of the peace this morning for and assault with arms on July 4.  A dummy line conductor swore that Capt Fyffe said he would run the train himself, and ordered a file of men to take charge of the engine.  The engineer testified that when Capt. Fyffe ordered him to go on, he (the engineer) said he would not run until the conductor gave him orders.  The magistrate decided that the case had been made out and held Capt. Fyffee in bond to the grand jury. Vernon Courier (Lamar County, AL), July 17, 1890  Transcribed and contributed by:  Veneta McKinney                                     Back Home Next