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VOL. VI, NO. 362. FOR BONDS! The Mass Meeting at the Court House. GREAT ENTHUSIASM. A Strong Committee Appointed to Start the Campaign. THAT OPINION OF SOLICITOR REEVE Attracts Great Attention Al) Over the Country. TALKS WITH PROMINENT LAWYERS. They Do Not Think There is Anything Wild Cat in the Scheme—A Card From Commissioner. Now for bonds ! Three weeks from tomorrow the elec tion occurs and Floyd cannot afford to let the bonds be defeated. And she will not. Last night the mass meeting was held in the city court room, and it was de cided to wage an earnest campaign. A committee was appointed which will be added to, and they will go right to work. They will meet in the county comissioner room at J 9 o’clock this morning, and begin adding to the com mittee, preparing circulars for distribu tion, fixing for a big barbecue on elec tion day, and other work in the interest of bonds. The people are interested and are going to see that 2,632 votes and more are polled for bonds. It requires two thirds of the last registration, not two thirds of the last vote as some suppose. A few minutes after 8 o’clock last night Mr. Halsted Smith moved that Col. T. W. Alexander be chairman and put the motion. It was carried unani mously. Mr. Alfred Harper was made secretary. Mr. W. A. Wright was requested to state the objectc of the meeting, which he did in his always felicitious manner. He said that every man, white and black should be interested in the matter of bonds for Floyd. There is a floating debt of about $37,000, and be sides this the proposed bond issue was made of small enouzh denominations to be used as a local currency. He said it had been suggested that this would solve the state bank question. Mr. Halsted Smith made some good suggestions as to how to be sure of carrying the question He wanted cir culars printed and sent out over the county. He also wanted figured out the difference between tax that would have tofbe paid if the bonds are not carriedjand if they are carried. He also wanted two good men at each precinct on election day to see that bonds were voted for. He moved that Col. Alexander, W. A. Wright and M. M. Pepper be appointed a committee to attend to this. Capt. Pepper thought Mr. Smith’s sug gestions were good. He also suggested that a big barbecue be held on that day, and that a finance committe be appoint ed to aid in the matter. Mr. J A. Spullock wished to hear from the chairman or some of the others as regards the law on the bond election. Col Alexander thought the committee mentioned should be larger. He also called attention to the fact that there must be separate ballot boxes—one for congressman and one for bonds. Mr. John M. Vandiver was for start ing a subscription list at once, and said he would give S2OO. The chairman said he thought the committee should first be appointed, and then let them prepar for expenses. Mr. Smith moved that Col. Alexan der, W. A. Wright,M M. Pepper, J. D. Moore and J. M. Vandiver be made a executive committee to map out the campaign, and that they be empowered to add to their number. Judge R. R. Harris moved that the committee be increased to thirteen, the five mentioned adding such men as they desired. Capt. Pepper moved that Judge Harris be added to the committee. Mr. Vandiver suggested that ten col ored citizens be made a committee to assist. Finally as amended, the motion pads, ed, giving the committee power to in crease the number and to make all the arrangements for furthering the inter ests of the bonds. The number was in creased to seven, and Capt. Pepper re fusing to serve, the following gentle men were named as the committee: R. R. Harris, J. A. Glover, J. D Moore, W. A. Wright, J. M. Vandiver, Halsted Smith and D. B. Hamilton. Crockett Campbell, colored, was put on the committee of colored citizens. 'The committee will meet at 9 o’clock this morning in the commissioi ers room. SOME INTERVIEWS With Prominent Attorneys on That Bond Decision, ■ What will be the effect of Solicistor Reeve’s decision? That question is being asked and answered all over the country. It is de clared that it will solve the state bank question. Some papers and people are arguing that it will result in the wildest of wildcat schemes; that it will be worse than what have beer called “wildcat state banks. ’’ The Baltimore American THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE and other papers state that it will result in the greatest of financial chroubles. Some Romans in discussing the ques tion yesterday took the view that the state should throw restrictions around the counties to prevent the idea being carried too far, though what restrictions were not mentioned. As it is, the con stitution of the state fixes the maximum limit of bond issue for each county to 7 per cent of the taxable property. It also states for what purposes bonds can be used. A Tribune reporter asked several prominent attorneys their opinions as to whether further restrictions should be placed, and if so v hat. Col. T. W. Alexander said: “I have not thought about that feature of it much, but it appears to me that the con stitutional restrictions are sufficient to make such issues absolutely safe. If more restrictions are wanted it can only be accomplished through constitutional amendments, and n:thing can be done at present. In the - meantime, other counties will watch Floyd. lam for bonds. ” Major R. T. Fouche said: ‘‘The con stitutional restrictions are sufficient to insure us against any wildcat schemes. If the law is followed, I do not see how any loss could come to anybody.” Judge Branham said: “It’s a matter that will regulate itself. If the bonds are not readily interchangeable with money they will not form much of a local currency. They could, it is true, be handled by many people, but about the only use a merchant would have for them would be to buy some produce, perha s. If he cannot put the nonas in his bank and have them credited to bis account as money, he can have little use for many of them. People want the best money that is to be had, aud they are going to have it. These bonds will do good; I am for them, but the matter of currency will regulate itself. If you have too many bonds, or if they are not freely accepted, they will be bought up and held as an investment. Suppose you owe a man in New York SIOO, and have SIOO in bonds,and the bank doesn’t take them as money. You must sell them to somebody for money. Suppose there are a hundred people in your fix wanting money to send off. Don’t you see that, somebody or somebodies Jmust take them as an investment? And so it will be over the state should every county issued such bonds. If too many bonds are issue it will simply result in them being shaved and bought up by in vestors. ” FURTHER DETAILS Os That Decision of Solicitor Reeve From a Western Paper. Floyd county, Rome and Capt. R. G. Clark are respossible'for the springing of a sensation in the money world . That decision of Solicitor Reeve in re ply to a letter from Capt. Clark is being discussed by the papers from Maine to California, and it is declared the state bank problem is solved. Here is a clipping on the subject from the Detroit News that gives additional information on the subject: Washington, October 11.—The Cleve land administration has solved the cur rency problem. The repeal of the bank tax is not necessary in order to increase local circulation. This is the construc tion placed upon an opinion just deliver ed by the solicitor of the treasury, at the request of Secretary Carlisle. The request for information came from Floyd county, Ga., in a letter ad dressed to the comptroller of the cur rency by R. G. Clark,a banker in Rome. Mr. Clark stated that the county com missioners proposed to issue county bonds bearing a low rate of interest, in denominations of $5 $lO and S2O, to be used for local currency. He asked whether such action would conflict with the United States banking laws. Solicitor of the Treasury Felix A. Reeve advise ! the secretary that any county has tle right to issue bonds when not in contravention to the con stitution of the state As to the state bank tax act of 1875, Mr. Reeve says that the word “county” is not enumer ated among the taxable bodies, and therefore county bonds are not subject to the 10 per cent tax. Mr. Reeve also held that the word “notes” could not be regarded as including county bonds. A talk with Solicitor Reeve by your correspondent this morning procured from him the further statement that whether the bonds issued by a county bore interest or not, his opinion would apply the same. Thsese bonds, he ad mitted, could be in denominations as low as sl, and could be used as a local circulating medium. It is declared here that the state bank problem is now settled, and that it will be an easy matter for the counties to provide the people with all the money they require. The only possible chance of conflict with the United States au thorities on this question would be in tne manufacture of these bonds or notes in a form resembling United States currency, as in the case of the Missis sippi bonds recently seized. This, it is said, could be easily avoided by warn ing the engravers not to imitate any work in use by the United States. A Card From Commissioner. Editor Tribune: Dear Sir: I frankly confess that I cannot understand why our populist friends throughout the county are circulating the report that the board in selecting a day for vote on bonds did so to help out Congressman Maddox; exactly the reverse is the case. We wanted to save all an extra trip to voting places as they could rote while there already to vote for congressman. I wish to say the board was elected from among the people and believe in equal rights to all and special favors to none in the broadest democratic sense. One word to those who may be inclined to oppose the issue of bonds. The expenses of the county have to be met; there is no way to avoid that; then why oppose the bonds, the easiest and best way of liquidating the debt. I should always support that plan or way that would make it the easiest on those who have the burden of taxation to bear, especial ly while in favoring them I would reap an equal benefit. ROME, GA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1894.—TWELVE PAGES. KNOCKED HIM DOWN. Miss Mary Loper, Who Was the First Woman in New Jersey TO DON AND WEAR DIVIDED SKIRTS, Was Assaulted by a Prominent Young Frenchman. SHE DID THE FITZSIMMONS ACT And the Gay, Young Parisian May Be Likened to Creedon —Licked in the First Round. New York, Oct. 16.—Miss Mary Lo per, who is credited with being the first woman in New Jersey to adopt the < vided skirts as a part of her regular at tire, was the victim of an attempted as sault made by Laurent Million, a young Frenchman, son of a wealthy family, who is now in the Bergen county jail charged with the crime. Miss Loper is known all over the country. She lives about a mile from Hackensack. Her costume at all times consists of a pair of boots or shoes, as the occasion re quires, the divided skirts, a short jacket aud a masculine hat. Miss Loper has considerable trouble over her radical notions about dress. She has been driven from the churches because she persisted in wearing the unconventional garments to the service. The story told by Miss Loper to Justice Cumming was that' she called at the Million house. There was no one at home but the son, Laureant. She says she did not know this, and entered the house as usual. In the conversation that followed, Miss Loper made a manly fight against her assailant. She hit the young man a number of blows and finally knocked him down. Her dress was somewhat torn. She got out of the room while Million lay ou the floor, and escaped be fore he recovered. FIELDEN GIVES UP. Lost Hopes sos Anarchy’s Success—Turned to Farming tor Happiness. Chicago, Oct. 16.—Samuel Fielden, the anarchist who was pardoned while serving p, life sentence for participation in the Haymarket riot in 1886, has con cluded to turn farmer. Since his re lease from the penitentiary, Fielden has been driving a beer wagon, and having I saved some money is looking around for a farm to purchase. Fielden said: "I will not change my views on eco nomic aud social questions, bnt I have not spoken at a public meeting for a long time, and do not expect to. I don’t expect it to come during my lifetime, so I might as well get some satisfaction out of life, and I think I can find it better and easier on a farm than in the unsatisfactory life that a working indi vidual must now endure in the city. The time was, of course, when I hoped for better things in tne condition of the people. That improvement was my millenium, but as I do not expect it to come during my generation, I will turn farmer.” THE SADDEST OF ALL. Fifteen Florida Fishermen Were Lost in the Storm Last Week. Apalachicola, Oct. 16. The sad dest feature of the recent storm was the loss of 15 fishermen, all white, on Sand island, about 10 miles from Apa lachicola. It was known that these men were caught in the gale, but until , Saturday it was hoped that they had es caped. Since the gale subsided search ing parties have been looking for them, and Saturday three members of the party were found dead. The corpses were swollen and so badly mutilated I that they could not be identified. The ! bodies were buried on Sand island, where they were found. There is no doubt now that the entire 15 lost their lives in the storm. Charges Against Kansas City Justices. Kansas City, Oct. 16.—The grand jury returned 10 indictments against Justice of the Peace R. W. Latshaw and two against Justice W. H. Browne for malfeasance in office. The evidence before the grand jury showed that Lat show assessed wholesale fines against keepers of disorderly houses and appro priated the funds to the amount of $lO,- 000. Browne was guilty of a like of fence. The indicted men sire prominent Democrats. A Meeting of Lumber Men. Jacksonville, Fla., Oct. 16.—There was a meeting of the manufacturers of yellow pine lumber, whose products are shipped from the ports of Jacksonville and Fernandina, at the board of trade rooms in this city. The meeting was for the purpose of organizing a branch of the Southern Lumber exchange, re cently organized in Savannah, Ga. Alabama Statesmen at Work. Montgomery, Oct. 16.—Senator Mor gan and Governor-elect Oates have ar rived from Washington to participate in the congressional campaign. Dis cord in the party has jeopardized two Alabama districts, but it is believed that with proper efforts the Democrats can carry all. Three Killed at a Crossing. Buffalo, Oct. 16. —John N. Scatch erd’s two daughters, Dorothy and Em ily, 11 aud 5 years of age, and Miss Em !ily B. S. Woods, his sister-in-law, were killed at a grade crossing of the New York Central belt line. Mr. Scatcherd is the well known Republican politician and the state committeeman from the Thirty- third district. THE SUNNY SOUTH Prospers and Grows Like the Oft-Quoted Green Bay Tree. ENCOURAGING ARE THE REPORTS New Industries Starting Up in All Sections. ADVANCED PRICES ONLY ARE NEEDED Over a Million and a Quarter of New Capital Invested in the South the Last Week. chatTaNOOgA, Oct. 16.-—The Trades man, in its report on the industrial Con jon of the south for the week ending 1 Oct,. 15, says: | Southern lumber interests are receiv ing needed attention. Organizations are being perfected with a view to pro mote better understandings between buyers and sellers, and to aid in obtain ing remunerative prices. Cotton is com ing into market in excellent condition. Coal and iron are in active and increas ing demand, and new textile mills and enlargements of existing ones continue to be reported. An advance in prices is only needed to make the south more prosperous than it ever has been. There are, reported. 38 new industries as established or incorporated during the week, together with nine enlarge ments of manufactories, and 15 impor tant new bu flings. Prominent among the new industries of the week are: A. company with $500,000 capital, organ ized to develop mineral lands in North Carolina; a $200,000 cotton mill at Win ston, N. C.; the Key West Light and Power company, of. Key West, Fla., capital $125,000; asloo,ooo improvement company at Mobile, Ala., and the Hor ton Deep Water and Artesian Well company, of Dallas, Tex., capital, SIOO,- 000. A $60,000 cotton mill is reported at Lincolnton, N. C.; a $50,000 cotton mill at Rock Hill, 8. C.; the Houston Pressed Brick company, capital, $30,000; has been chartered at Houston, Tex.; a boat building company with $25,000 capital organized at New Orleans, La.; a $20,000 manufacturing company at Galveston, Tex., and a SIO,OOO pencil company at Charlottesville, Va. Cotton compresses, three in number, are to be built at Temple, Tex.; cotton mills are reported at Jacksonville, Ala., and High Falls, S. C.; canning factories are to be built at Eagle Rock, N. C. and Memphis, Tenn.; flouring mills at Mag azine, Ark., and Roxie, Va.; a tannery at Buford, Ga.; tin plate mills at Bir mingham, Ala., and Louisville, Ky.; tobacco factories at Fulton, and Owens boro. Kv.; and woodworking plants at Lakeland, Fla., Gulf, N. C., New Al bany, and Greenwood, Miss., Winston, N. C., Dickson, Tenn., Hampton, and Petersburg, Va., aud Central City, and Matewan, W. Va. It also reports waterworks at Apa lachicola, Fla., and Abbeville, S. C. The enlargements for the week include a corn mill at Columbia, Tenn.; engine works at Bristol, Tenn,; a can factory at Roanoke, Va.; an oil mill at Forsyth, Ga.; a shoe factory at Piedmont, Ala.; cotton mills at Tuscaloosa, Ala., Char lotte and Raleigh, N. C„ and a tobacco factory at Statesville, N. C. Among the new buildings of the week as reported, are a bank building at Som erville, Tenn.; a business house at Har riman, Tenn.; a hall at Roanoke, Va.; a $36,000 hotel at Wheeling, W. Va.; a jail at Morganton, Ga., and warehouses at Louisville, Ky. MR. EASTMAN’S BILL. He Would Better the Conditions of Rail roads and Employes. Chicago, Oct. 16.—Sidney C. East man, a prominent Chicago lawyer, has drafted a bill to be presented to congress at its next session which will go far to wards terminating the ceaseless strife between railroad companies and their employes. The bill takes the form of amendatory clauses to the act entitled: “An act to regulate commerce,” which was approved Feb. 4, J 887-. The chief provision is for the licens ing of men employed in the more im portant branches of railway service, and provides a heavy monetary penalty for the companies that give work to an employe without a government license. Other provisions of the bill deal with the question of the duration of con tracts between men and employers, the settlement of certain classes of disputes, and the penalties attached to the diso bedience of the provisions of the pro posed act. Copies of the bill have been mailed to employers and employes, and a few of the recipients have written to Mr. Eastman giving their views on the subject. Mr. Eastman says that his object is simply that of a citizen who has the welfare of the entire people in mind. He is not connected with any labor or ganization or railway corporation. He thinks the bill will better the service and the pay of employes. GROVER WILL WRITE. No Danger of the President’* Failure to Support Senator Hill. Atlanta, Oct. 16.—The Constitution’s special correspondent at Washington writes as follows: “News received at the Democrat’o campaig.n headquarters from all sections oi tne country is ot the most encourag ing nature. The Democrats are certain to have a majority in the next house. The senate will also be held. In the house there will be a majority of about five. Many Republicans here concede a Democratic majority. “The greatest interest is centered in New York. Hill is practically certain to be elected. The talk that Mr. Clevo- xauu is encouraging me maepeiiuent movement is the merest bosh. At the proper time Mr. Cleveland will write a letter endorsing Hill, and advising all his friends and all Democrats to vote for him. I have this from absolutely reliable authority. Though the fight is a hard one, Hill will win and the Dem ocrats will hold their congressional strength in New York. “One in position to know put it this way to me tonight: ‘Mr. Cleveland is anxious that Hill should be elected simply because he leads the ticket and it is important to the party to win. All the Democrats employed under this administration having votes in Now York will vote the straight Democratic ticket, and loyally give Hill and his associates on the ticket their support. Mr. Cleveland will sig nify the Earnestness of his support of tJi§ ticket by a considerable contribu tion towards defraying the expenses of the campaign. He will make it evident that he qas no secret desire that Hill should be defeated.’ ” MAY SUE THE SENATOR. Mr. Squire of Washington Will Be Asked to Account for Trust Property. Minneapolis, Oct. 16.—A local paper says that in a few days papers will be filed in a lawsuit which will involve the title to real estate valued at nearly sl,- 500,000, and will call upon United States Senator Squire, of Washington, for an accounting of property intrusted to him. The plaintiffs are Colonel Wil liam S. King, of this city. Philo Rem ington’s famous antagonist in the his toric suit of years ago, and Philo Os good and John N. Goodwin, of Ilion, N. Y. A quarter of a century ago King and Remington were close friends. Years ago they invested heavily in Western real estate, one of the deals being the purchase of a large amount of property where Seattle now stands. When the financial crash came, this property was given to Remington to hold in trust. Subsequently Remington, -who died a few years ago, intrusted the property to Squire, his son-in-law. Squire, accord ing to the story published, never made an accounting of the old trust. The property, then worth a few hundred dollars, is now worth millions. LEFT NO TRACE. Not a Clue Found to the Virginia Express Robbery Friday Night. Washington, Oct. 16. Not the shadow of a tangible clue to the iden tity of the men who accomplished the remarkable feat of train brigandage in Virginia Friday night has yet come to light. Every rod of ground between the river and the scene of the robbery has been threshed over, with the result that the remains of a campfire, with a bag bearing the label of a Washington bakery, was discovered in the woods. The express officials, accompanied by Messenger Crutchfield, from whom the express funds were taken, have return ed here. Superintendent Moss, of the Adams express, said he had received no addi tional information. Another official who was with the detectives down the line, said no arrests had been made, and there was not as yet a trail. Mr. Crutchfield declined to talk of the rob bery. THE MOON PICTURED. The Beit Photograph Yet Made Just Out in California. San FRANcisco, Oct. 16.—Scientific camera artists on top of Mount Hamil ton have made the finest negatives of the moon ever registered on sensitive plates. Hills, valleys and craters that have never been noticed in direct obser vations through the telescope are per ceptible, and these men on Mount Ham ilton have been able to see lunar objects one-tenth of a mile in diameter in cer tain conditions. The negatives are five inches in diameter. It was found that an exposure of two seconds was sufficient for the brighter regions, and was even more than suffi cient for the intensely bright. An ex posure of four or more seconds was not too much for parts. The enlargements of the photographs were made at Prague by Professor Wei nek, who writes: I became convinced that such photo graphs were of sufficient size and ade quate sharpness to constitute an import ant advance over the earlier and excel lent results of Rutherford. Warren, Deda R and Draper. They show numerous de tails not discernible with the microscope By comparing these photographs with others made in the past and still others to be made in the future, astronomers expect to settle the interesting question as to changes of the moon’s surface. Prof. Holden is convinced that there are such changes. AT HEADQUARTERS. Both Parties in New York Are Active in Campaign Matters. New York, Oct. 16.—Senator Faulk ner, of West Virginia, was in confer ence during the morning with John Boyd Thatcher, at the Democratic state headquarters. Both gentlemen were said to be engaged on an important statement, which will probably be given out at once. At the Republican state headquarters the air was iull of acth ’.ty. The most of the work is being di rected to the preparations for the mon ster mass meeting next Wednesday night. U*e<l''r>y>iHinite tor livvvnge. Moundsville, W. Va., Oct. 16.—Au attempt to blow up the new Mounds ville waterworks with dynamite was made during the night. Five cartridges were exploded, shaking up the sur rounding country, but doing no very great damage. It is believed that a discharged employe is responsible for the outrage. PRICE FIVE CENTS. i ACROSS THE WATERS. The Russian Holy Synod Made an Extra ordinary Concession IN THE CASE Os PRINCESS ALII She Wanted to be a Member of Her Husband’s Church ANDTHECHURCH MADE CONCESSIONS She Considers the Religion She Renounces as Good Enough—China’s War News. The Czar in Greece. c Berlin, Oct. 16. —The Kreuz Zeitung says the Russian holy synod has made an extraordinary and highly important concession in the case of the adoption of the Greek faith by Princess Alix of Hesse. The princess refused to declare her former religion accursed, or that her conversion was due to the conviction that her own religion was not founded upon truth, as is required by the law of the Greek church. She merely made the declaration that she had joined the Greek church in or der that she might be of one faith with her future husband, and the synod ac cepted her declaration as sufficient. China Was Willing, but Japan Was Not. London, Oct. 16.—The Central News claims to have the highest authority for the statement that overtures looking to a declaration of peace between China aud Japan have been made, but that Japan rejected the proposals made, con sidering them inadequate. According to the Central News, however, there is every reason to believe that the pro posals were eminently satisfactory to China, and that her representatives sig nified the willingness of their govern ment to acquiesce in them. Japan’s Parliament Meets. London, Oct. 16.—The Star publishes a dispatch from Yokohama saying that a large number of Chinese prisoners had arrived there. The Japanese parlia ment, which was convoked for a seven days’ session to consider war measures, met at Hiroshima. Count Kusumoto was elected president, and M. Shimada vice president. Greece Take Care of the Czar. Athens, Oct. 16.—The government has ordered the strictest enforcement of the regulations in regard to passports to Corfu with a view of insuring the safe ty of the czar during his sojourn in Greece. Chinn Buys More Guns. London, Oct. 16. —A dispatch from Berlin states that a Hamburg firm has purchased 100,000 Albani rifles, at 4 francs each, from the Belgian govern ment, for export to China. STRANGE INFATUATIONS. A Preacher and His Wife Find More Con genial Partners and All Agree. Anderson, Ind., Oct. 16.—One of the most peculiar and, at the same time, sensational divorce suits ever filed in an Indiana court has just been disposed of by Judge Elliason granting Mrs. M. Smith a divorce from her husband, Rev. Dr. Smith, well known over Indiana. Two years ago, while preaching at Win chester, it seems that Rev. Smith be came infatuated with Mrs. Fred Helm, one of the leaders of his congregation. She likewise became infatuated. Mr. Helm strangely fell in love with Mrs. Smith, and the result was a trade in wives that raised quite a commotion, and necessitated Mr. Smith’s retire ment. All four moved to this city, where they applied for divorces one year ago. The case caused quite a scandal in re ligious and leading circles. Their pe titions were not granted. In this trial the testimony of Angels and the Deity were introduced by Mrs. Smith in a highly sensational way and manner, and some very ludicrous testimony brought out. Smith and Mrs. Helm are now in Ohio, where he is preaching. He is well known over both states, and the peculiar case is attracting much at tention. IRON TRADE ACTIVE. Pennsylvania Reports Progress All Along the Line—Work of a Week Harrisburg, Oct. 16.—Iron and steel mills in this locality are enjoying an era of unprecedented prosperity. At the Pennsylvania Steel works the produc tion of rails and Bessemer steel last week was the heaviest for years. The three furnaces in blast averaged nearly 300 tons daily. For three days the Bes semer mill averaged 120 blows every 24 hours. The rail mill made 4,000 tons of rails last week, the largest production of its history. On Thursday, 816 tons were turned out —nearly a ton to every two minutes. The company has contracts for 100,000 tons of girder rails from the Chicago Street Railway company, of Chicago, and another large contract from Covington, Ky. There are 4000 men employed in the steel works. browned in the Tennessee River. Knoxville, Oct. 16.- James Nelson, aged 26, son of Recorder C. C. Nelson, was drowned in the Tennessee river. Nelson was in a frail canvas sail boat. A heavy gust of wind capsized the boat and Nelson was seized with cramps, and another was added to the river list of victims.