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DEATH.
7Mrfattofrt4te-B«slgnerof the Build-
Narrow
•Escape of Ed Richardson.
Fire broke out at 3 o’clock Sat
urday morning in the Richardson
building, on Market stseet, anc.
within two hours the handsomest
store and office building in Chat
tanooga, Tenn., was a pile of
ruins. One threatening wall ov
erlooking Market street imperilec
the safety of passers-by and pro
hibited traffic for air entire square,
was leveled by the use of dyna
mite.
Boyd Ewing, receiver of the
East Tennessee Land Company
and ex-president of the Mountain
City Club, fell six stories and was
crushed to death.
S. M. Patton, architect, design
er of the building, is buried un
derneath hundreds of tons of deb
ris.
The building was six stories
high and the largest office block in
the city.
A law library of 500 volumes
was located on the fourth floor,
and together with many valuable
collections were lost. The loss on
law books alone is $100,000.
The fire originated in the boiler
room of the basement and was
preceded by a heavy explosion,
plainly heard for many blocks.
The ground site was originally
purchased for $110,000, while the
cost of superstructure exceeded
$150,000.
It was in the renaissance style.
There is about $175,000 insurance,
$91,500 of which was placed with
local firms and was carried on the
building. The greatest loss re
sulted from the total destruction
of valuable personal insurance,
railway and legal documents that
cannot be replaced. Only the
contents of safes stored in the
block'are saved.
The general offices of the Chat
tanooga Southern, and the Chat
tanooga, Rome and Columbus
railroads, the local office of R. G
Dunn & Co., the National Build
ing and Loan Company and num
erous large agencies, insurance,
mercantile and manufacturers
were located here.
Loss is Half a Million.
The total losses cannot be stated
in figures, but will fall not short
of $500,000. Other losses are the
Yager building, adjoining, $5,000,
occupied by C. A. Moross & Co.,
seed dealers, loss of stock $3,000.
The Third National Bank,
across the street, caught fire, but
the flames were extinguished with
out much damage.
The Richardson building was
the property of the American In
vestment Company, composed of
Susie and Charles Richardson, and
the estate of John Richardson, all
of New Orleans.
The watchman aroused every
occupant of the building, telling
each one thathe could not get
out, either by the elevator or by
the front stairway, and warning
each to go down by tKe back stair-
way.
Jackson and Nieland, who were
first aroused and first to realize
the extreme danger, made their
exit by the back stairway.
So rapidly did the fire spread
and in such an incredibly short
time was the whole building
ablaze that the other occupants of
the building were completely cut
off from .all stairways and fire es-
|capes. 1: - •
Ewing, Connable, Richardson
Patton were in rooms closely
joining, and discovering that
3 y were cut off appeared at the
and put out the distress
on ladder
•ut which lacked a
hing the men.
eaped from the win-
e ladder and was carried
down, badly burned and bruised,
but not otherwise injured.
Richardson did not leave until
Ewing, overcome by heat and
smoke, had dropped to his death,
and then he saved himself by the
help of a fireman.
Nieland called to Patton after
he started down the stair-way, and
Patton answered that he was com
ing; but nothing has been seen or
heard from him since, and it is be-
(lieved that he was burned in the
building.
Dropped From the Sixth Floor.
Before a window could be
reached, Ewing was overcome by
the dense smoke. Richardson
dragged Ewing to a window; hold
ing him out in order to. if possi
ble, revive him and prevent him
from being suffocated to death.
A ladder was raised, but was too
short to be of service. A rope
was called for, and an endeavor
was made to get one to the men,
but before it could be done Rich
ardson’s strength was completely
exhausted and the insensible form
of Boyd Ewing dropped to the
ground beneath, amid cries of hor
ror from many of his friends and
acquaintances who stood below.
Ewing fell on his head, his skull
being crushed, his neck broken
and almost all the bones in the
upper part of his body being
broken.
Friends of Joe V. Williams,
junior member of the law firm of
Murray & Rutledge, who had of
fices in the block, are searching
ror him. It was stated that he
slept in the building Saturday
night and had not been seen since
then. His office was on the third
floor.
Thirty-six Years to Complete a
Short Story.
HUNG AT TULLAHOMA, TENN.
Smith,
anci mciaenrauy menmoued their
mission while waiting for a train.
u Well, boys, I’m sorry for you,”
he said, “ but I guess I can help
you some. I saw your father
hanged. I was only twelve years
old then, and 'the sight was
stamped upon my mind indelibly,
Sons Make a Successful Search For for I was scared nearly to death.
Their Father’s Bones and the Wi
dow Gets a Pension.
Here is a short story that it has
Besides, the body was buried on
my father’s farm, and for many
I years afterward I used to shudder
and run as fast as I could when-
DEAD, YET ALIVE.
Strange History of J. B. Camp,
a Farmer.
DECLARED LEGALLY, TO BE DEAD.
■ often felt an irrepressible inclina.
tion to commit suicide. Final^
the physician put her into a hvl
notic state, when she confessed '
his presence, and before another
witness, that her husband had su
gested suicide within two month!*
He had insured her life for 50,000
marks.
He Has Entered Suitforthe Possession
of Property, Which was Divided
Out Among the Heirs.
taken history thirty-six years to ever I had to pass that spot.’
write:
At the beginning of the
great
The trio, led by the southern
er, quickly passed through the
civil war in 1861 Samuel W. Ken- little town, and just outside the
ney, a Pennsylvanian by birth, suburbs, on the northwestern side,
was engaged in business in Pulas- a halt was made.
ki, Tenn. He owned a farm of “ They hanged your father to
231 acres near that place and had that, sycamore tree there by the
and his family, after hiding seve- over every foot of the hillside.
$3,000 worth of cotton stored spring,” said the guide. “ His
there. He was a strong union body was buried about half way
man, and the southerners burned up that hill over there and the
his cotton and made it impossible grave wasn’t marked. You’ll
for him to live among them,
mob attacked his house, and
A
he
I never find it now.
But the two Chicagoans went
ral days in the woods, made
way northward and went to
old home in Pennsylvania.
their
their
A recent freshet had
washed
away part of the bank and un
dermined the hill so that part of
In September, 1862,
joined the command of
Kenney the ragged edge gave way be-
General neath the feet of Alexander Ken-
Mr. Joe Camp is dead—not lit
erally but legally.
Dead, yet the warm blood leaps
from his heart through the great
arteries of his being. The
shines—where it does shine—as
bright and tenderly as it does for
other living, breathing humanity.
He walks, talks, eats, sleeps,
laughs, cries and is subject to all
the emotions of any other person.
Yet in the eyes of the law he is
dead. What a strange state to
be in—dead yet alive. The story
of Mr. Camp’s life reads like a
chapter from some great romanti-
ways travels as if he was trying to
cist, a real adaptation from Verne. oateh a train which had just whist-
James S. Negley at Pittsburg and ney, and he saw protruding from
entered active service as a spy.
He went to Louisville, and thence
the bank the two lower leg bones
of a skeleton. The spy who dis
entered the confederate lines. He appeared thirty-four years ago had
was recognized and betrayed by
one of his old Tennessee neighbors
been found.
The remains
were brought to
and was arrested by Bragg’s forces Chicago and were interred in the
at Lynchburg.
From this point Samuel W.
Kenney disappeared. His family
knew that he had been captured
and believed he had been execu-
family lot at Dwight, Ill.-—Chica-
| go Times Herald.
CHA1KJIAS JONES’ CALL.
He
Clows
Urges Democrats to Celebrate Anni
versary of Jefferson’s Birthday.
Senator Jones, of Arkansas,
chairman of the democratic nat
ional committee, has issued the
following address:
Can Find no Fault.
The Northern cotton mill men
have tried hard to find disadvan-
ted but proof of that fact was un-1 tages in the Southern cotton man-
obtainable. In 1867 Mrs. Ken-1 ufacturing. They have been able
ney left Pennsylvania and re- to find but two disadvantages, and
moved to Dwight, Ill., where she these disappear upon investigation.
has resided ever since. Two sons They say that the warm climate of
now
grown to sturdy manhood, the South will not allow the op-
live in Chicago Alexandria, at j eratives to work as long as those
638 Monroe street, and John, at
2401 Parnell avenue.
in the North, and that the cloth is
.shipped to the northern market
wellt y yeais ago they made an j an( j jj. j g j us t as cheap to ship the
“ Washington, D. C., April
1897 —The attention of the dem
ocratic voters pf the United States
is called to the address recently
issued by Hon. Chauncey F. Black,
president of the National Asso
ciation of Democratic Clubs, in
which he appeals to all democratic
clubs and societies to assemble on
the 13th day of April next and in
some befitting manner celebrate
the one hundred .and fifty-fourth
birthday anniversary of Thomas
Jefferson, the author of the Declar
ation of Independence and the
founder, of American democracy.
“ There has never been a time
more fitting to recall the great
public services and patriotic anc.
wise thoughts of Jefferson, whose
last democratic sentiment (which
was contained in a reply to an in
vitation to visit Washington City
and join in a celebration on that
very fourth of July on which he
died) proclaimed to the world:
The palpable truth that the mass
of mankind has not been born with
saddles on their backs, nor a
favored few, booted and spurred,
ready to ride them legitimately,
c>y the grace of God.’
“ I take great pleasure in ap
proving the address of President
Black, and I now appeal to all
lovers of good government to as
semble in their respective voting
districts on the 13th day of April
next and join with the National
Association of Democratic Clubs in
its remembrance of Jefferson, who
uttered this sentence in his first
inaugural' address as president:
A wise and frugal government,
which shall restrain men from in
juring one another ; shall leave
them otherwise free to regulate
their own pursuits of industry and
Improvements, and shall not take
from the mouth of labor the bread n °
it had earned—this is the sum of
good government.
“Jas. K. Jones, Chairman.”
attempt to obtain a pension for
their mother, but failed, because
the department records at Wash
ington did not show that the miss-
ing spy of 1862 had been regu
larly enlisted, and there was no
proof of his death. Quite recent
ly, however, Congressman Wood
man of Chicago, found in the
war department an unofficial ref
erence to the execution of a north-
cotton. As to the warm climate
it can be said that southern work-
n and business men observe
longer hours than those in the
North. In Massachusetts there is
a law restricting the number of
hours that operatives can work in
a cotton mill, while in the South
there is no such restrictive legisla
tion. In case of a hot spell in
, _ . midsummer the cotton mill can be
ern spy named Kenney at Tullah- . A • .
J ventilated just as our mines are
oma, Tenn., Feb. 13, 1863. This
our
ventilated. As to the northern
proof was regarded sufficient, and | market: It is welUmowll that tte
a pension has just been granted to demand for cotton goods 4 mostly
the aged widow in Dwight.
Not long since Alexander Ken
ney and his brother John went to
in southern countries. The south
ern ports are now entered by
The
nearer the coun
tries that consume the cotton
goods than the North.—Americus
LAWYER SOLD DIVORCES.
, . steamers from all countries.
I ennessee to discover, if possible Jo ,, - , .,
, „ , ’ F ’ | South is much nearer the
any further facts about the fate of
their father. They visited Till-
lahoma and were most hospitably I TimTs-Recorder,
received by the town officials.- It
was suggested by the mayor that
ah aged woman who had lived in
the place ever since the war might
know something about the death
of the northern spy, and she was
visited.
“ There were only four
A Marietta Shyster Got Several Negroes
Before the Court.
A young lawyer at Marietta,
Ga., has started a new industry.
He has been issuing divorces to
ignorant’ negroes who were tirec
killed in Tullahoma" during the | of their charging them $25
men
war,' she said positively. “ Three
of them were confederates and
they were, buried in the town cem
etery. . The other one was a spy
who had been caught by Bragg’s were indicted h J % g rand i™7
for adultery. In defense they
men. I saw them taka him out of
the jail and put him into a. wagon
and saw him sitting on a coffin
They drove away with him, and I
heard that he had been hanged,
but I don’t know where.”
Can you Temember the name of
that spy? ” asked one of the Chi
cagoans.
“ Yes,” she replied slowly, “ his
name was Kenney.”
But this seemed to be as. far’ as
the search could be carried. There
were no town records which would
throw light upon the matter and
additional facts coul'd be
earned, Returning to the rail
way station, the two Chicagoans
fell into conversation with the
for the papers. ; Several of the ne
groes bought licenses and married
again on the strength of the di
vorces gotten, and two of them
showed their “ divorce papers
and this is how v the matter came
to light. A lawyer had forged
the name of the judge and the
clerk of the Superior Go’urt to the
papers he gave the negroes. One
of them came to the lawyer to
help him out of the scrape, and
the lawyer entered a plea of guilty
for the negro, on the charge of
adultery. So far three cases have
developed, and it is not known
how many “divorce papers” were
sold. j
Judge Gober of the circuit di
rected that the - sheriff serve* papers
on the lawyer to show cause why
he should nolr be disbarred, but
the sheriff could not find him and
he is still missing.
It was probably in 1884 that
the western fever struck Joe
Camp, then a young farmer of
Floyd. He had few ties to bind
him. One wife slept serenely in
death, another had been divorced.
So to the great praties of the west
he sped, and was immediately ab
sorbed in the vastness of its un
bounded plains.
Time passed on—a habit of
time’s—and no word came from
out the immensity of cow-boy-
land, of the wanderer. Two years
turned on eternity’s dial and the
needle pointed to 1888.
Now the pathos of the story _ is
shied into the arena. The pre
sumption, at first weak and vacila-
ting, grew stronger each day that
Joe was dead.
So his part of the deceased fa
ther’s estate, several hundred dol
lars, was divided among the heirs.
Mr. Nat Harris had succeeded Mr.
Freeman as administrator of the
estate, and on the theory that Joe
B. Camp was dead distributed the
money to the proper parties.
The shuttlecock of fate again
weaves a woof into the fabric of
this strange story.
Brown, rigged with the tinge of
perfect health showing beneath
the sun’s fierce discoloration, Mr.
Camp arrived in the city in 1892
He was as much astounded to learn
that he was dead as his relatives
and friends were to know that he
wasn’t.
When he applied for his portion
of the estate he was almost par
alyzed to learn that he had no
share, and in the eyes of the law
was dead. He at once institutes
suit against the heirs and the ad
ministrator for the recovery of big
property.
And the sequel seems near at
hand. Whether Mr. Camp is en
titled to the rights of a living man
or not will be decided by the
courts.
In city court it will be tried
next week, Judge Henry will pre
side, Judge Harris being disquali
fied. The plaintiff will be repre
sented by Messrs.' Rowell & Rowell.
That truth is stranger than fic
tion has again been demonstrated.
—Rome Tribune.
When the husband learned 0 f
this discovery he fled from Ham
burg, while the wife’s parents took
her to Dr. Krafft, at Elbing
stitute, Vienna.
igsln.
The Razorback.
The razorback is a breed of hogs
raised in the South, before
sun war, and still to be found in
localities. He is built
e the
some
JPH on the
Swiss cottage style of architecture.
His ears lay back with a devil,
may-care air. His tail has no curl
but hangs limp as a dishrag The
highest point of his corrugated
back is 10 inches above the root of
his tail. He ignores the slow,
stately walk of the Berkshire, and
goes in a lively 2.10 trot. He al-
HYPNOTIZED HIS WIFE.
And Suggested Suicide, the Husband Hav
ing Her Life Insured.
New
A Berlin cable to the
York Journal is as follows :
A fearful crime has been averted
at Hamburg. A young wife, mem
ber of one of the best families in
the city, consulted a physician
about a severe nervous disease.
Tne physician at first considered
ler insane, but soon discovered
that she was the victim of hypnot-
suggestions made by her hus-
oand, whom she loved ardently.
Some strange circumstances di
rected the attention of the physi
cian to these hypnotical experi- j
ments. The patient said that she I
led for the station and he had a
quarter of a mile to make to get
there. The thoroughbred razor-
back prowls around in the woods,
living on acorns, nuts and roots,
and if necessary can climb a tree
like a monkey. Occasionally he
crowds under a gate and assists in
harvesting his owner’s corn crop,
he will turn in and assist his
neighbor, often working at night
rather than see the crop spoil for
want of attention. He never
knew the luxury of a sty. He
wouldn’t get fat if he could, and
is only fit to kill on the day of
eternity. Crossing the razorback
with the blueblood stock makes no
improvement. The only success
ful way is to cross him with a lo.
comotive going thirty miles an
hour. He then becomes an im
ported thoroughbred and the rail
road company pays for him at the
rate of 50 cents a pound. The
ham of a razorback is almost as
juicy as the ham of an iron fire-
dog, but not quite as good eating
as sasafras bark. A man who is
authority on razorback says a razor-
back is the only bird of prey
that is amphibious in its habits
and can lift a gate off its hinges
without ruffling a feather—From
the Cottonwood Fall (Kan).
Leader.
YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE.
To Pastors of the Methodist Church of the
Dalton District.
Dear Brethren :—Please urge
every W. F. M. Society in your
charges to send delegates to the
annual meeting at Athens, G&-,
April 22-25. Our district is be
hind in this department, chiefly
says Mrs, Morgan Callaway, “be
cause our societies have not been
sending delegates to these annual
meetings.” Our district is now
without a district secretary. This
office must be filled by someone
who can give considerable time to
the work. Please urge this mat
ter upon the good women of y our
charges.
Be sure also to send delegates
from your Epworth League to
state convention which meets m
Atlanta the same date.
These societies in our churches
are capable of great results in the
rind of work which they ^ one
can do, and we must foster their
growth.
Let every pastor in the Dalteu
district put the full force of F 1
sonal energy to push forward
ery department of church w ° r >
committed to our hands.
thing less than this will doubtle^
embarrass us at the final judgm eD
With earnest prayers, I am
Yours sincerely,
p.F-
A. W. Williams,
N. B.:-
•Tam counting
fidence on every charge in the
trict to nav the assessment
' ^ It can be
’ A. W.W.
pay
missions in full.
Dalton, Ga., April 7th*