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Source:  Tennessee State Library & Archives Microfilm  — States Graphic — Brownsville, Tennessee — Volume 49 No. 32 — Friday, July 17, 1908

PLANTING DYNAMITE MINES; NASHVILLE, TENN. — The depredations of the night riders have caused the citizens of Tiptonville, in Lake County, to adopt extra ordinary means for their mutual protactions. Five hundred pounds of dynamite have been planted in the shape of mines at every place in the county likely to receive a visit from the riders, and a committee from the Law and Order League, named for the purpose, has been trained to set off the mines at the proper moment. The county jail in which suspects are imprisoned was surrounded last night, and the inmates given to understand that a dummy hanging to a telephone pole at a convenient distance was a representative of one of their number who had refused to talk when requested. Five hundred men have been arrested in the Fourth district for alleged night riding.

NEWS OF THE WEEK —

“Jack” FLEMING, who won renown during the U. S. Civil War by taking the Confederate cruiser Tallahassee out through Halifax harbor in 1864, eluding the northern fleet that was lying in wait, is dead at Ketch Harbor, N. H. He was 98 years old. FLEMING had been a pilot for over 60 years.

Eleven thousand volts of electricity more than five times the voltage ordinarily used on condemned criminals at Sing Sing, failed to kill James HAYES, 28 years old, a Westinghouse employee in the New Haven railroad yards at Stamford, Conn.

Harry K. THAW is to replace the bell ruined in the recent fire at the Appleby Manor Memorial church at Kittanning, Pa. THAW gave the original bell, and hearing of its destruction, has written asking the church authorities to its duplicate and send the bill to him.

LOCAL NEWS —

Mr. & Mrs. D. T. MORRIS are the parents of a new girl, born Monday morning.

Harry WHITEHEAD, who holds a good position with the Zeliner Shoe Co., of Memphis, is at home with his parents with a protracted case of malarial fever.

The judgement obtained by Miss Sallie ROAD, against Judge Henry W. BOND, of St. Louis, for several thousand dollars has been arrested and the case will come up for final disposition in the courts of St. Louis this fall.

John A. RYAN has returned from a visit to his aged mother at Shelbyville, Ind. He speaks in glowing terms of the prosperity and industry of that section. The recent panic temporarily crippled some of the big industries, but had no affect on the price of lands. Mr. RAYNES says land that sold for $75 to $100 an acre a short time back are now selling for $125 and $135. All factories and industries have started up again in full blast, and from what he could see, prosperity had struck the place in good shape.

Everette A. PUGH, aged 28 years, son of Mrs. Lelia PUGH, of Memphis, died July 11th at Denver, Colo. Fire, of incendiary orgin, caused at $35, 000 loss at Felsenthal, Ark., a small town in South Arkansas, Tuesday night. Several Merchantile Houses and a bank were destroyed and the residence of Ike FELSENTHAL was saved only by herioc efforts. The town was founded several years ago by the FELSENTHALS, who are cousins of the Brownsville FELSENTHAL family.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL —

A hundred daintily dressed happy little boys and girls, playing together on the green award make a pretty sight, such greeted the eyes of a wayfarer on West Main Saturday when little Hazel HARRALSON was celebrating her seventh birthday.

Announcement comes from Oshksh, Wisc., of the marriage of Miss MURRELLE, of Memphis, formerly of Brownsville, to Mr. Frank T. GILLON, a prominent young merchant of Oshkosh.

Mrs. T. D. WELCH, of Natchez, Miss., is visiting her aunt, Mrs. B. A. MANN.

J. R. STRATTON, of Gibson, is spending time with his son, H. W. STRATTON.

Mrs. J. A. ANDERSON, of Jackson, Tenn., is the guest of her brother, Jim KINNEY.

Mrs. Mamie BOND and little Miss Virginia BOND are visiting their aunt, Mrs. John D. CUMMINS, in Nashville.

Jim HICKS is confined to his room, and is quite a sick man.

Mrs. Lena ELCAN and children have returned home after a five months stay with Mrs. ELCAN’s mother, Mrs. HUTCHINSON.

Mrs. S. L. ANDERSON and two children of Memphis are guests of her parents, Mr. & Mrs. C. F. NEELY and sister, Mrs. S. J. SMITH.

Miss Frances FITZGERALD left yesterday to enter the South Mississippi Infirmary in Hattiesburg, where she will study to become a trained nurse.

Robert BAILEY has gone to Southwest Texas for his health.

Miss Lavinia COVINGTON, after a visit to her parents, Mr. & Mrs. W. F. COVINGTON, left Friday for Morberly, Mo., where she will assist in organizing a business college.

Miss Marion ANDERSON is taking an English course in the summer school at Harvard after which she will visit her uncle, Charles FORBES, of Culpepper, Va.