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Knoxville, Feb. 0—Herit. aged 9 years, and his wife, my were most brutally ~ mw two masked robbers in wants, neat here, last night about 7 o'clock. Sam a man of about B0 years of age and a grandson of the murdered man, got up to go to the mill, which is down 200 feet from the Ashe opened the door to go into their two men with red handkerchiefs over their faces and revolvers in their hands put past him into the room. Henry. Snodderly turned to see who the new comers were. Instantly there was a flack from one of the revolvers, and Snodderly fell to the floor, a fleeding corpse bullet entered the front lower part of his neck. A second later the revolver spoke again, and a bullet tit Mes, a and she fell, but reached the hall ad joining the room before she died. The assassins then carried Sam Gwince with their plotele and told him to open the drawers in the bureau, which was in the room. He did so, and the contents of the drawers were spread on the floor. The Tobbers attempted to search for money in the contents of the drawers and at the Same time cover Gwinne. He, however, maddened at the terrible sight before him, made a break for liberty. One of the robbers shouted,to the other one to shoot, but Gwinnes was by this time out of range. He ran about a quarter of a mile to the house of John Scodderi, son of the murdered man, ande gave the alarm. John came to the tomso_and kept watch over the corpses 4 father and mother until morning, were two grand children of Henry Snokteriy in the hours when the sheoting occurred, both under age. Terrified at the unusual sight before them, they fled in confusion, and one ran to the will, and, crawling under It, spent the night there, tortured by terror and the remembrance of the awful murder. ‘The other girl ran to a small outhouse near the house, and, concealing herself in it, passed a night of horror, suffering the same agonies that her sister was en during who lay crouched under the mill. The girls were nnne in their respective piaices it Worn. Seumilling ae once, murders seedandesbths Vittlewoney which they found among the contents of bureas drawers and left the house. They went to Snodderly’s barn and, saddling two horses, rode off. They are thought to be strangers in the neighborhood, and there is no vlew to their identity. Miscellanean: Lang Cravens, one of the oldest and best citizens of Obion County, died last week. He served as deputy sheriff almost continuously since the war, and made a most eficient officer. Tony Crara, one of the leaders in the citizens’ forces in the Inte miners’ war at Coal Creek, was tried last week, for the mumier of a negro, whom he killed during the time, and sentenced to twelve years in the penitentiary. Art an entertainment at the home of George B. Swift, in District No. 14 of Montgomery County, one night last week, Swift and his grown son, Joseph RB. Swift, had an altercation over some trivial matter, when the latter drew a knife and stabbed his father fatally just below the heart. Lewis B. Cannon was buried at Fal con last week, having lived 99 years, of which he passed in McNairy County. His mind remained good till death. He had never worn glasses, and bin bearing was unimpaired. Until a year ago when he received injuries from a fall, he was able to do good work on the farm. The citizens of Humboldt have closed y contract with ©. R. Camp of Chicago to have a series of Northern homesek ers to step off two days each month, be ginning in March and continuing for twelve months. Mr. Camp proposes to bring out from the North a class of peo ple who are decisious of buying farming lands in the South. The party will stop only in Oblon and Gibson counties in Tennessee. Tur jury in the celebrated Woods murder case, which was tried at Somer ville last week, brought in a verdict of “guilty of murder in the first degree, with mitigating circumstances,” against Jébd McCully and Alf Chambers. This, the darkest murder that was sever per bee in Payette, scood Fred at dyes’ bridge, over ’ river, ‘near Moscow. John, Perrill, another one of the’ murderers, is in jail awaiting his trial. Bob Burnett, the fourth one of the murderers, has not yet been caught. The United States Court of Appeals met at Nashville last week in the suit of the United States against W. J. Hill, sheriff of Davidson County, for the es cape of Boaten, the mail robber, from jail there several years ago. Judge Barr reversed the decision of the district court, which dismissed the suit on Hill's demurrer, and held that the case must go to trial. He also held,that if Hill was not liable for damages in the sum claimed, he was liable for the £ 1,000 ex ilied by the government in effecting a capture of jon. Teicnokelly, the first man to make in the South, died last week, aged 50, at his home neat Chatta_ hough, born in England , he early America, and was associated with Cooper, who oper ated the first locomotive in the new world, and Abram Hewitt of New York, in the firm of Cooper, Hewitt Co., mill men at Trenton, N. J., in He engaged in the rolling-mill business In M Lot and in 1850 moved to Atlanta made much of the steel armor used in constructing cruisers for the Confederate army. The Phenix Grain is the] name of a new enterprise Started at Union City. The concern is in full jon and is turning out about three prefet Bee daily, and a ready The caltpl vie is and gives res empley to about men. mill is running day and night, and it is almost male to A ‘Tue following old of McNatry
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Bolivar Bulletin
Bolivar, Tennessee, US
Fri, Feb 16, 1894
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