Blount County TN Archives News.....News Articles April 14, 1905
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THE MARYVILLE RECORD April 14, 1905
Friday, April 14, 1905



Charles Best, a young man who left here last week for Colorado, is reported as

having committed suicide at Grand Junction. He left here on Monday and left

Knoxville Tuesday. The next heard from him was a telegram from the undertaker

announcing his death and wanting to know what disposition to make of the body.

He sold his farm south of town some time ago as he was suffering from a

general collapse, and lately decided to try the Colorado climate as he was on

the verge of a nervous collapse. He left his wife and children with relatives

and went west. It is supposed that the effort of the trip was too much for his

feeble condition and unbalanced his mind. A friend of the family out there who

looked after matters wrote that Best had just taken the train for another

point when he shot himself as the train was about to start. He was taken from

the train and left at Grand Junction and lived till the next morning,

Saturday. The conductor said that the atmosphere seemed to affect many people

that way and a weak person was almost sure to become unbalanced.



John Miller, an old soldier down near Carpenter’s Campground, was found dead

in the yard Thursday morning. He had been to town on Wednesday and came home

late in the evening. When last seen, he was in his usual state of health. The

folks in the house were a little surprised at not finding him in the next

morning, and on investigation found him midway between the house and the barn,

half frozen and unconscious, he having lain out all night. He was immediately

taken into the house and a doctor summoned and everything possible done to

resuscitate him, but he never regained consciousness, and died late Thursday

afternoon. It is supposed that he suffered a paralytic stroke and fell in the

yard and then became so chilled with the exposure that his weakened vitality

could not overcome the shock.



Ellejoy---Quite a number of our people attended the funeral of Rev. James B.

Seaton at Wildwood Sunday.



It is reported that James Seaton of Jefferson City, a brother of Granville

Seaton of this city, was run into by a train at that place Wednesday and

severely injured. He was considerably stove-up in the New Market wreck last

fall.



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