Chattanooga Daily Times from Chattanooga, Tennessee • 5

7' THE DAILY TIMES: CHATTANOOGA TENN WEDNESDAYt NOVEMBER 28 1894 COLDBLOODED MURDER IS SEXTON IIALE GUILTY? hristmas sod ustour colored residing at 13 Louisa street are In destitute eireumstancelk tind should be given help by the citizens They are old tmie Virginians and hayePtived in this city since-the war Mrsaindsay is the niother of twenty children a larger faqlily: than any yet known t'the public la dill vicinity She was separated from seven of these during the-war and the others are not in a positikmto help her Our Dress Goods Baruains are recognizecl as true bargains at FIRST SIGHT The Oneita Union Suits for ladies and children we sell at 5o 75 and $100 per slut just received extra fine Grey Wool Union Suits for ladies' at $225 and $300 per suit Non-Shrinking Natural Wool Vests and Pants at 50c worth 7 5c Everything inChildren'sUnderwear Plain Jersey CLOAKS AND CAPES A few good things in Capes came this morning in spite of the mild weather Wraps are selling Don't buy a Cloak or Cape before seeing us KID GLOVES ETC We are having great success with Foster Lacing and Centimere Kid Gloves every pair fitted to the hand and warranted Black Cashmere and Fleeced Silk Gloves and Silk Mitts Ladies' Misses' and infants Wool Mitts at ioc to 5oci a pair I a' T- 7 HOSIERY- New lot just in Splendid values in Fleeced Cotton Plain Cotton and Cashmere Wool Cdildrens' Double Heel and Double Knee Hose for school use at 20 to 35c The famous Onyx fast- black Hose for ladiesat 25 and 35c ART MATERIALS A rush in this department all the time for Stamped Linens Flosses Fancy Ornaments Zephyrs Saxony yarns etc etc El) 9 Ribbed in suits or separate RI 805 Market Street Pm Cal Wholesale Agts iallffiatallnti 77-114 n4 cts First Battles says: There is perhaps no more truly great man living than DL Moody" OVERTHROW of the MOLLY MAGUIRES The great achievement of James From archives of the Pinkertons and other articles and pictures Fifteen Cents a Copy Stso a Year wen oak VnMIN -to1 1111441Nag mt 4 and The Tariff i L3r 2 Horrible Discoveries in Connection With Grave Robberies si if The Work of Ghouls in Graveyards to Be Probed inf Court Probably This Morning ARREST OP COiNTIC SEXTON HALE fmgpomomE The Officers Believe They Rave Evidence to Prove That Ile Is 'Connected -With at Gang of Grave Robbers and That Physicians and teal Students Are Implicated The mystery surrounding the recent grave robberies at the potters' field is to be unraveled and the probability is that some very sensational facts will be developed The evidence at the trial of Jones and Hurst for robbing the grave of a pauper buried two weeks ago was such as to lead the justice to make the statement in connection with his decision that he believed that not only the prisoners were guilty but that they were in league with one in authority It now seems that his theory was not merely a speculative one One week ago last Saturday Charles Gowen a brother of Mrs 1 Vaughn was buried in the potters' field Mrs- -Vaughn lives at Grove street and the body was taken from her house and buried in a new suit of clothes A considerable quantity of jewelry the property of the dead man was placed in the grave with him When the facts of the reAlent-robberies were made public Mrs Vaughn became alarmed On Monday she went to the cemetery and asked the county sexton to open the grave of her brother Ele did not seem willing to open the grave but finally in the presence of Mitchell the assistant county sexton the grave was opened -When the coffin was reached it was found that although the lid had been screwed tightly originally the screws were now loose and the lid half off On raising the lid it was found that the body had been removed and nothing Aviv left but the pillow's placed under the head of the dead man by his sister This grave was the one in regard which the county sexton at the trial of Jones and Hurst swore that not even the flowers had been disturbed As soon as the sister found that the grave bad been robbed she came to the city and swore out a warrant before 'Squire Hill against the county sexton Hale charging him with stealing the body and another against Jones on the same charge Late Mondaypight Deputy Sheriffs Holland and Wessman went to the home of the sexton and arrested him The trial was'set for this morning it 9 o'clock and the sexton was admitted to bail in the sum of $500 Hodge McLean a lawyer 'signing the bond Jones failed to make bond and is still in jail The body-stealing in this cemetery has reached an interesting point and the fact that other evidence than that collected for the first trial has been secured makes the case doubly interesting The officers believe they have evidence sufficient to prove that the county sexton is at the head of a gang that has been systematically robbing the graves Someone the officers also say is wearing the new suit in which Gowen was buried and the jewelry which was buried with him In regard to the affair the sexton says that be knows only that the bodies are gone and that he does not think it is duty to watch the graves night and day The officers in the case say they are hot on the trail of the men who now have the clothing and jewelry and that today some arrests may be made which will implicate certain physicians and medical students The facts the officers further claim are sufficient to at least Point to two physicians as having been implicated la the grave robberies The officers claim that the sexton end 'Jones with possibly others are supplying the physicians of Nashville and other cities with the bodies of paupers buried here for dissection purposes It is believed by the prosecutors and will be proven If possible that this grave robbery is carried on on a large scale Street car drivers and others who are constantly exposed to all kinds of weather and cannot find time to lay by should ever bear in mind this plain fact that Dr Bull's Cough Syrup cures coughs and colds It is unequaled 22 POUNDS SUGAR Today for cash only 50c tea for 25c 40c coffee for 33c )c coffee for 23e 2e coffee for 18e Arbuckles coffee Best 3-pound tomatoes $1 dozen BestIllinois cord $100 dozen Best New York corn $125 dozen California peaches $200 or 3 for 50c California apricots 173 per domen California pears 4-00- or 3 for 50c New mixed nuts 121-2 to 20c New raisins large and fine 3 pounds for 25 cents New figs 3 pounds for 25c Mince meat 10c Apple butter 10c Best creamery butter 30c Tennessee butter 23c Tennessee Creamery butter 23c -Lettuce celery cauliflower spinage Malaga grapes apples oranges etc Dressed turkeys oysters etc Order early DEWEE'S SD CO Vet HAVE THEM Pine Turkeys Oysters Cranberries Celery All as cheap as ean be found elsewhere in the ceuntry We are headquarters for Thanksgiving delicacies Order now DIVINE GROCERY CO WHAT THE PEOPLE SAY If you want to save money Buy Soddy coal If you want a hot fire Burn Soddy coal If you don't like soot Use Soddy coal If you want fire all day Keep Soddy coal If you need fire all night Call for Soddy coal If you want 2000 pounds Send for Soddy coal If you want bushels Try the Soddy coal If you want your money to stay at home Put it in Soddy cool Office 116 West Eighth Telephone 357 WANTED We can give employment to two or three good men to solicit life Insurance for the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York RIX RAWLINGS Managers I Office: MountainCitY Club McElree's WINE CARD111-- 1 3 A '4Tonie for Women )111 DI- Keep oult alley at Home -Soddy coal is mined in Hamilton counA4 and is owned by Chattanooga people 4Viblen you buy Soddy coal your money re- ns in Soddy coatis Just -11 good and in may respeeta better than foreign coals 11 6 West Eighth street telephone 331 One Colored Boy Kills Another at a Slaughter Pen Ned Jackson 14 -Years Old Plunges a Knife Into John Ballenger Pune- turing the Heart DEATII ALMOST INSTANTANEOtS 'the You Haul lilerderer Escape but ia Finally Captured the Knife With Which He CouLnlitted the Awful Deed Detztar Still in His Posseasiou Trial Today Yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock one of the most revolting murders in the criminal history of Chattanooga was committed by Ned Jackson a 14-year-old colored boy bits victim being a colored boy of about the same age John Ballenger and Ned jackeon were boys employed at the slaughter pen near St Elmo to helpthe butchers in Mug cattle Their duties are to carry hides etc and make themselves generally useful about the premises and they are paid for their work -with odd scraps of meat and ox-tails which they sell on the market after supplying their families Yesterday afternoon Jacksou was loung- ing about the place and Ballenger was helpinget butcher named Powell who was butchering cattle He was to receive for his work an ox tail and it was thrown on a near-by bench until the work could be finished While Ballenger was at work Jackson slipped lip behind and picking up the tail from the bench ran out into the field adjoining the pen hotly pursued by Ballenger who had diseovered his lose Tue lave argued for about live minutes' and then Jackson drew a knife and plunged it into his companion's neck Both then turned and ran hi opposite directions Ballenger ran only a few feet when his strength evidently deserted him and he fed face downward to the ground The men in the slaughter pen immediately ran to him and found him almost dead with an ugly stab in the left of hie neck just above the collar bone and one-half an inch left of the breast bone An exsmination made by the coroner who arrived shortly ofter the killing revealed the fact that the blade had gone inward and downward about four inches penetrating the lunge and entering the base of the heart The blood flowed copiously from the wound showing that death was almoct instantaneoute As soon ns the coroner arrived on the scene the body was left in the field surrounded by a crowd of negroess and men employed at the slaughter pen and the jury held the inquest in a house near by The 'first witness examined was Will Marion a colored dray driver who does work for the company on whose premises the murder was committed He testified that he was et the pen when Powell a butcher was killing some cattle assisted by the dead boy The boy -svas to receive an ox tail for his servieeeand Powell threw it on a bench for him While he was at work the tail was stolen by Ned Jackson who ran with it to the open field adjoining the pen Ballenger followed him and the two talked for some time Finally Jackson struck at Ballenger and ran Ballenger ran toward the pen but fell within a few feet of the place where the murder was committed The boy who struck the blow ran toward St Elmo and disappeared When the men from the pen reached the body life was extinet (Jeorge Olden a 12-year-old boy saw the killing He said Ballenger asked Jackson to give him his tail which Jackson refused to do Ballenger asked him three times for his property when Jackson struck him with a long straight knife Bethran Ballenger toward the pen and Jdekson toward St Elmo Ballenger fell a few feet froth where he eves struck and Jackson jumped the fenee and disappeared e' No threats had been made- by either of the boys and the murder was unprovoked Mattie Ballenger mother of the murdered boy testified that she lives at 13)7 Williams street and that her boy worked at the slaughter pen receiving as coma pensation for his services whatever ment the butchers did not use He has worked for the company five years There had been no quarrel between the bays at any time previous to the murder Gus Bonier an employe of the company saw the murder from the porch se the house In which the cattle are slaughtered Jackson had been overtaken by Ballenger when the witness saw them Both boys were talking it seemed quietly and did not appear to be angry In about five minutes Jaeleeon struck Balleneer and both turned end ran Within a few feet of the spot where the blow had been etruck Ballenger fell and the crowd of men in the house ran out They found Ballenger dead with the blood spurting from his neck The murderer jumped the fence at the Kest side of the field and escaped In fact no effort was made to catch him as those who witnessed the trouble were excited and did not notice his hasty dtparttre With the eviderce before them the jury rendered a verdiet that the deconapd esme to his death at the hands of Ned Jackson and that the assault was unpr-1- yoked aril murderous Friends of -Ur? murdered boy then sent word to St Elmo that the murderer had escaped and fled- in the direction of his home in St Elmo Constable Rosteborough caught him as he was going throueh the woods with it basket on his arm and erreeted him In the baeket was found the knife with which the killing was done It is four Inches in length and strnight The boy yas brought to the city and locked up in the county jail He had little to say concerning the matter except that the dead boy had been "jumping on him" for some time and had tried to quar- rel with him The body of the murdered boy was sent to the home of his mother on Williams street and will be buried by the county today the mother being unable to pay the expenses of burial The ease against Jeekson will be tried this nfternoon at 3 o'clock by 'Squire Bates of 'the Seventeenth district A Chance for Charity Henry Lindsay and his wife Hannah mml Awarded Highest Fair Gold Fair Li 14IF MOST PERFECT MADE A pure Grape Cream of Tartar Powder Free from Ammonia Alurn or any other adulterant In all the great Hotels the leading Clubs and the homes Dr Price's Cream Baking Powder holds its supremacy 40 Years the Standard er 0147N il 1: l'- 1' SS lit it' -AVI ''j top: 1 ''iri- --1 Qt 4 -A 1 10: -I i'- I CREAM 44r4 1 1 3 'i 4 II ill "A t' ru- 4 ri AALLd COMING! But that makes no difference- with our sales Come in and let us show you why our trade is always good We give the best bargains in Shoes ever seen in this city We are still giving Ilarps and Dons to the boys and girls who buy Shoes from us New styles coming in wery day Chattanooga Shoe Co 803 Market Street tw ke A The largest and best Winter Wheat Fleur Mill Plant in the world '4b5 UNDINE Crushed riliddlipgs Flour The only Flour of its kind and the best of arty kind It is made by a secret process known to but two persons 1100000 has been Offerea for the Knowledge No Viour has ever been sotd hero that gave the satisfaction that trta dine does JORDAN Co Collinsville Ala SOUTHERN DEPARTMENT Milburn Wagon Company B2SS Cliford Co Filarisapers New Car Grocers' Delivery 'Wagons at Manufacturers Prices OLD -WAGONS TAKEN IN EXCHANGE Backache This trouble arises from some kidney or rheumatic affection In either case nothing is so effective Stuart's Gin and Buchu It purifies the blood and gives a good healthy flow of urine and imparts vigor and tone to the kidneys and bladder If you feel unwell have a don't-care kind of feeling and are generally out 4if sorts your kidneys liver or blood needs stimulating Stuart's Gin and Buchu Is the remedy will not disappoint you For all kidney ladder and other urinary tErles STUART'S GIN AND BUCHU I remedy of established merit Atlanta take pleasure in certifying that 6-MART'S GIN AND BIJ CHU has made a cure of me I find it the best kidney remedy I have ever used MEIII1ETT Cincinnati 0--After a thoronzh and earelni trial I find STUART'S GIN AND BUCHU to be a reliable diuretic and kidnev tonic IL STAUFk'ACHEIL gold by all druggists The good done by Paine's Celery Corn- Makes pound ig readily seen Women in the healthier Well clearer state of the skin that invariably loll" int use Try it HARRY WISE eta CO Cot 7th and Market Sta Li '7 Ali 1 01 0 tik ko liV tr 3 3 SHOE i THE BEST NO SQUEAKING 5 CORDOVAN f'- FREN4184ENAMELIED CALF on' 44 k5 so a19 POLICE3 sous ti ::::7 L-I 11 49 v52 WORKNotiEN -4- EXTRA FINE '7 'tlt $217) BoYgScHtoISHOEI LApies z- SE NO FOR CATALOG-US We 11DOUGLAS tq- BROCKTON PLASS You can save mane' by PurebaAing Douala hoes Because we are the largest manufacturers of advertised shoes in the world and guarantee the value by stamping the name and price On the bottom which protects-rya against high prices and the middleman's profits Our shoes equal custom work in style easy fitting and wearing qualities We have them sold every Where at lower prices for the value given than any other make Take no sulistitutc If YOUg dealer cannot supply you we can Sold by it 8CHVARTZ BRO CHARLES HARTWIG TAILOR FALL STOCK NOW READY FOR YOUR INSPECTION Cortz 8t all Cherry Stz VariDertal Eloct 4 --2 It4 7104k 4111 4-44' 4 --'4 Atp- I 11 -'a po -a7- Z'Atlii4- -7 ---5 tt4i rIr4 1''t i t': 4 1 AP '461 CT: -6e 'd111-111' rN A' id $3 SHC 4i! oall-rstAr 'i-F-- 44 R5-1fr4 140 THREE CAIDIDATES Who Waitt to Succeed Snpt Hutta ker ot the CoutitySehoola Supt Huffaker W4I1 not hold his position as superintendent of schools undisputed There are already several candidates in the field Those who have already announced their candidacy are 5 Hubbard Pyott and Sangster Mr Hubbard is a man of wide experience in teaching and was formerly professor of mathematics and languages in Woodberry college in Cannon county Mr Pyott is also a teacher of experience and success Mr Sangster is well known as a lawyer and politician Of course these aspirants are all republicans Supt Huffaker's term ot office expires in January and the county court will then be called upon to re-elect him or el41 a successor The court is republic-in by three or four majority and if Supt Huffaker is re-elected it will be because partisan lines are not drawn and the conrt believes that the best interests of the county schools will be subserved by his continuance in office EVEN THE TALLY SHEETS HAS SHRRIVP nynn FORWARDED TO SECRETAY MORGAN The Secretary of State Now Has Every- Pomsible Figure In Connection With the Vole in Hamilton County and the l'ablie Now Won- ders What He Will Want Next Sheriff Hyde haseknow complied with the requirements asked for by Secretary of State Morgan even in their most exacting details He has all along contended and does still contend that the now somewhat famous section of the state law No 1073 in no way required him to forward to -Nashville any other records than the law calls for namely a copy of the poll books or lists In this position he has been sustained by a large number of legal minds including a number of leading democrats But Sheriff Hyde despite the probable correctness of his position determined with pardon- able pride to ward off even the possibility of a suspicion of unfairness and be thereupon wired Secretary Morgan asking if be wanted also the original tally sheets or certified copies of them Secretary Morgan yesterday morningreplied that he might send either as he thought proper Sheriff Hyde thereupon at once forwarded to Secretary Morgan a complete copy of the tally sheets of the recent election duly SWOLTI to The sheets form a tabulated list by wards and districts of all voters in the recent election: Mr Hyde's letter to Secretary of State Morgan as forwarded yesterday is as follows: Hon Mor-gan Secretary of State Nashville Tenn: Dear Sir---In compliance with your request for a certified copy of the tally sheets of the election held in this county Nov 6 1894 I have the honor to enclose herewith a tabulated list by wards and districts of all voters voting in said election I have made affidavit instead of certificate that this statement is true and I trust it will afford you the information sought I cannot think you construe the law to mean that I am to Redd you any osiginal election papers or that I am to actually 'copy the check marks of the "tally sheets" I hate- already supplied you with a certified copy of the names of all the voters voting in said election by wards and districts If this information is not satisfactory I would suggest you appoint someone to make a personal investigation of the election returns of this county There is nothing to conceal Your representative shall have free access to the returns and such clerical assistance as he may want to make the investigation Respectfully Sheriff Hamilton County FIGURING ON BASE BALL Is Chattanooga to have a League Club Neat year "If Chattanooga wants base ball next season" said Nicklin yesterday "it is time she were speaking out" This is in a great measure true The question of leagues for next season is mow being agitated in the various cities and unless Chattanooga gets a "move on her" she will be left out in the cold As published in brief in the telegraphie columns of The Times yesterday the organization of the new Central league is well under way and Chattanooga is not yet "in it" At the Nashville meeting the applications of Nashville Memphis Atlanta Little Rock Evansville 4and Terra Haute were accepted As it is to be an eight club league there are thus only two more cities that can il-ome in It is reported that Lexington Ky Paducah Kk Springfield 111 and Decatur Ill are desirous of entering the new league There is no doubt however that Chattanooga can get in if she wants to but aetion will have to1)e taken very soon The salary limit of the new league was placed at $130 While the new organization is received with favor by same of the local "fans" others think better of the old Southern league and prefer that Chattanooga go into it As stated yesterday it is reported that a southern league composed of the cities of New Orleans Mobile Montgomery Atlanta Chattanooga Charleston Augusta and Savannah will be a go Another report is that a six dub league comprising the cities of Charleston Columbia Augusta Atlanta Macon and Chattanooga will be arranged Pure blood is absolutely necessary In order to enjoy perfect health Hood's Sarsaparilla purifies the blood and strengthens the system Tomorrow's Foot nail Gnme The Chattanooga toot ball eleven have been hard at work daily practicing for tomorrow's Thanksgiving game with Birmingham at the ball park They are becoming more proficient every day and some of Os new tricks they promise to spring on their opponents will gain the home boys many yards during the game The players on the team are the strongest and best In or about Chattanooga and they are putting up a game and one which will take a very strong eleven to beat A big crowd is likely to be present and the boys say their colors will not trail in the dust when the game is over Another From Kentucky Cbeney's Expeetorant cured my nephew a little 4-year-old boy of a severe case of croup No other medicine did him any good lie is now well and hearty Send me by express one dozen bottles MITATEN Adairsville Ky Freight Depot to Be Cloxed Thanks-a-lying Day Thursday Nov being Thanksgiving Day the freight depots of the various railroads will be closed on that day There will be a delivery at each depot until 10 a in for the purpose of deliv2ring perishables JACKSON Seey of Local Agents' Association No Better Evidence Needed Manufacturers merchants bankers steamboats railroads churches school teachers -lawyers botels housekeepers all use Soddy coal Why? Because it is mare economical: you get full weight it costs less burns longer makes more heat less soot slate or ashes It goes right to your door for $250 a tonof twenty-five bushels Office 11G West Eighth telephone 357 Horse Blankets Fine line horoe blankets' and winter lap robes Chattanooga Saddlery and Buggy Company 006 Market Street lie CJIRDEEllOr CI10118 are the beit that money tan buy If you are not already selling the "CHANCELLOR" be progressive and order them Don't wait until your customers call for them but get the cigars that will win and increase your trade BUKOFZER Magazine for December "r-V -71ttA Christmas Number i kyiNtN I Napoleon's His Marriage Love-Letters to Josephine his extraordinary Campaigns in Italy and gypt with FOURTEEN PORTRAITS of Napoleon as be appeared at the tlme of After Palatings mostly from Life by The Battle of the Pyramids Gerard Laurent The Crossing of the Alps David Dalbe Appiani Chataignier The Battle of Marengo Gros Delaroche The Battle of Rivoll And other Famous Painters Recently published memoirs documents etc for the first time render possible a true complete life of Napoleon Much is new and the history is accurate reads like a romance and is completed in eight months It is magnificently illustrated with the collection of the Hon Gardiner Hubbard made during fourteen cream of all collections in the world Eighty portraits of Napoleon at different periods of his career mainly painted from life and 100 other portraits and pictures The Eight Napoleon Numbers MO CONAN DOYLE AitthorYg I MOODY Professor who rho MOODY irt --mmo Professor Drummond who story connected with Napoleon FARRAR The Christ-Child in Art with many pictures HunAN DOCUI1ENTS --'ortraits at various ages of Farrar bloody Sankey and Bret Haste MCCLURE 30 Lafayette Place New York City -7 iiriazleru 40301 67 'SkaiS Our full i giving are nearly all in and we are bin" people eo le th benefit w- it -----1-- of the reductions in the tariff HERE ARE A FEW OF THE CHARGES: Austrian China $225o now $185o Austrian China $25 co now $2o00 Austrian China $28 and $30 now $2500 French China $3500 now $3o and $325o All new shapes and decorations Remember on Annual week in December SILVA te ABBOTT China Merchants THE TITLE GUARANTEE AND TRUST COMPANY WALNUT STREET OPPOSITE COURT HOUSE.