Mr. Robert B Bogart, one of the East Tennessee road’s best engineers, met a fearful death yesterday morning at Witt’s foundry, a station on the North Carolina division, seven miles east of Morristown. Bogart was pulling with engine 214, passenger … Continue reading →
Miss Priscilla Goodlin, of Blaine’s Cross Roads, Grainger County, was killed by lightening Tuesday evening. She was standing by the window when stricken by the bolt. The other members of the family were severely stunned but were not injured. Miss … Continue reading →
Robert Davidson, was accidentally shot and killed at the Y Z postoffice, Grainger County, Tuesday last. He and a couple of friends had been hunting. Davidson was sitting on a bed at his home working with his gun, when one … Continue reading →
Mr. Wm Jones, who for the last twenty years has been employed in various capacities about the East Tennessee shops, died suddenly yesterday morning about 7:10 o’clock near the passenger shed. He was carrying two buckets of water from the … Continue reading →
Morristown, March 4 – A singular circumstance recently came to light at Ball’s Point, in Grainger County, this state. Mrs. Elizabeth Singleton, who was supposed to have been kidnapped during the war, when she was too young to remember much … Continue reading →
Morristown, January 17 – Mr. Thomas Reade one of Grainger county’s wealthiest and most prominent citizens and father of Mr. J S Reade, secretary and treasurer of Morristown mills, died at his home in that county yesterday. Knoxville Journal — … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →A large force is now at work on the Morristown and Cumberland Gap railroad. The track for sometime has been completed to the Holston river about five miles from Morristown. At this point a fine iron bridge is being erected … Continue reading →
The remains of Mr. Harry Aiken were brought to the city yesterday. The body was brought to the city in charge of Mr. George Aiken of Selma, Alabama, who is a brother of the deceased. The accident in which Mr. … Continue reading →
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