Jan. 12, 1888: The Comet reported, âThe Johnson City Foundry and Machine Works are crowded with work. They are at work on a large lot of bridge castings for the C.C. & C. railroad and an order for car wheels from Pulaski City, VA.â
Jan. 12, 1893: The Austin Weekly Statesman, a newspaper in Austin, Texas, carried a remarkable story with a dateline of Johnson City, Tenn., and a date of January 4.â Last night a mob of 500 masked men entered the jail at Bakersville, N.C., and took Calvin Snipes, who murdered Isaac Osborne, a prominent citizen of Mitchell county (sic), in a dense forest about half a mile away and lynched him. Eleven of the sheriffâs posse were killed in their efforts to defend the prisoner. About twenty-five of the mob were killed, and among the dead and wounded are some (of) the most prominent men in the county. The facts which led up to the terrible affair are as follows: Aaron Wiseman and Calvin Snipes were partners in an illicit distillery in Mitc
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