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Convicts
At Work On Link In Dixie Highway
Agency of Chattanooga
City Of Chattanooga
- 89,207 Population
Young Man Killed by Trolley Car
Help Soddy, Tennessee Miners
Charges Murder
Gathering Colored Labor for California
Chattanooga
a Georgia Town
More Victims
She
Wore A Youth's Suit
Tragedy In a Hotel
Tennessee River Bridge
Emigration From Tennessee
A Difficult Surgical Operation
Brigandage In Tennessee
Caught On A Cowcatcher
Deadly Duel
Sunday Law in Tennessee
A Coal Famine Feared At Chattanooga
A
Tennessee Ghost Story 
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
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