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EAST TENNESSEE NEWS August 20, 1883
Monday, August 20, 1883



On the 15th  inst., in the Penitentiary, Sue Burton, a colored convict,

stabbed Mollie Denwood, an other colored convict, to death with a pocket

knife.



Johnson City Enterprise: A few days since Mr. Pry, while in the woods near his

house, two miles northeast of town, found a land terrapin with the inscription

“Abram Hoss, 1821,” plainly engraved upon its back. Mr. Hoss was one of the

early settlers of Johnson City, and has been dead many years. The terrapin was

found near the farm formerly owned by Mr. Hoss.



Crazed By Religion---Elisha Helton, of Morristown, Tenn., passed through the

city Sunday evening, under the charge of Messrs. J.E. Bell and J. Ragle, who

were conveying him to the State Insane Asylum. Mr. Helton was considerably

exercised some time since about his future welfare in another life, and been

converted. Afterward he applied himself the study of the Bible with such

persistency that his mind became unbalanced to such an extent that, like

Abraham, he was willing to sacrifice his children as an offering to the Lord,

and made several attempts to do so. The unfortunate man is now a raving

maniac, but it is hoped by his friends that his mind may yet be restored to

its normal condition. ---Nashville World.



Runaway---On or about the 28th of July, 1883, my son Charley A. Hitch. I

therefore order publication made in the county paper, that any person or

persons hiring or harboring him without my consent may expect to suffer the

penalty of the law. This August 13th, 1883. S.K. Hitch.



Mr. Houston Hitch and Mrs. Lizzie George, widow of the late S.H. George, were

married a few days ago, Sam F. Cowan officiating.



Miss. Lizzie Tipton was suddenly called from her educational work at Black

Mountain Station to her home in Tuckaleechee, to witness the death of her

little sister. The deceased was the daughter of Col. W.H. Tipton.



Dr. M.L. Currier and Miss. Linda Tedford were married on the morning of the

16th inst., and left on the 8 A.M. train for their new hom in the west. Mrs.

J.M. Greer and daughter, Miss. Cora, accompanied Dr. M.L. Currier and bride to

their home in Missouri, via the Louisville Exposition.



Mrs. Cansler, an aged widow, living about three miles east of town, died on

the 10th inst.



The Cumberland Falls Station Murder---James Cliborn and two brothers, James

and Joseph Randal, were murdered at Cumberland Falls Station, on the

Cincinnati Southern Railroad, on Sunday night, 12th inst., by Frank Stagle and

an accomplice, name unknown. The men were employed in getting out cross-ties

for the Cincinnati Southern Railroad, and were camping in the woods. They were

killed while asleep, with an axe. Cliborn’s head was split open and Randal’s

head almost severed from his body. After committing the deed they threw two of

their victims over a cliff one hundred feet high; it is supposed that Cliborn

would have shared the same fate had not the assassins been frightened away.

Cliborn survived just long enough to reveal the name of one of the villains

and explain where his murdered companions were, and died while pronouncing the

name of the accomplice. The murdered men were hard working citizens, and the

Randal brothers had the preceeding day drawn a large sum of money from the

bank, which furnished the incentive to the premeditated assassination. Stagle

was captured at Monticello, Ky., by Sheriff Sheppard of Pulaski County. His

accomplice is still at large. It is thought that Judge Lynch will take charge

of the captured assassin and relieve the slower processes of the law. Later:

It is reported that Stagle was hung and his body riddled with bullets, at

Somerset, Ky., by a mob.





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