The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-07-10
OYER THE STATE.

first degree. The case was of course
appealed.
In Rutherford county ono day last
week John Beasley and Azaria kimbro
started fishing and took drink OF
some horse medicine, containing AGO.
mite, mistaking it for whiskey. Beasley
died.
Jackson and Madison county people
are arranging to hold a great fruit fair
in that city during August,
Wm. Orr, of Pillowville, was found |
dead in his bed the other morning at
his bOardingho house at saw-mill near
Trimble, ObiOn county, His death IL
supposed to have been caused from
over heat,
A young man whose occupation has
been that of hauling wood to town mar
ried $l7 900 girl at Tullahoma the other
day.
Heck Pettus, a 3-year-old boy, was
bitten by a copperhead snake at Crow
son Mills, Lawrence County, last week.
Copious draughts of whisky saved his
life.
Tho Clarksville Tobacco Leaf Chroni-
Gle states upon the authority OF sub
scriber that spirits of turpentine is
sure antidote for snake bites. The bite
of a copperhead Is rendered harmless II
tho parts are bathed thoroughly with
turpentlHe,
West Tennessee people along the line
proposed for the canal connecting the
Tennessee River with the Big Hatchie,
and thence to the Mississippi, are in
dead earnest about the project, and are
anxious for the surveying commission
ers to got to work.
Ur. ], NJ. Roberts, Pension Examiner
at Mountain City, has been removed.
Mr.. Roberts WAS one of ALT Faylpr's ap-
pointees. lie was. convicted on his own
confession in the Federal Court at
Knoxville some years ago Ofdefrauding
the Government in a pension case, which
fact was known by Taylor, when he had
him appointed. Commissioners Haum
having learned the fact removed him.
Some weeks ago the people of Kenton,
a live little city just across the line dl-
viding Gibson and ObiOn Counties, de-
cided to settle the dust question, and at
once raised the money for the purchase
and erection of wind mill and the
sinking of well, etc. The work is
complicated, and the pressure Is sufti
cient to force the water over two-story
houses. The way to settle question is
to settle it.
The poor-house question which has
beep troubling the County Court OF
Rutherford County tor several years
has been finally settled by the purchase
of the John Wade farm, near RuokeI
Station, by the county. The considers
ton paid tor the farm was 5000. 1t Is
the intention of the County Court tC
make the institution partially, and Il
possible, wholly self-suppOrting. a
neat and substantial building for tbs
inmates will be erected as soon as
possible, and special attention will bt
given to securing healthfuf and com
Portable QUARTERS.
Mrs. Jane Davis died in tho utmos
squalOr in Kansas City, Mo-, last Mon
day, from starvation. She had saved
during her lifetime $1,000, which she ha!
on deposit in a local bank. She becam
; tooAAl to work some weeks ago and re
r fused to touch penny of her money Ii
, ! the bank, She would not even sem
q her son, who lives in Omaha, enough
money to visit her. Her friends dis
covered her condition too late to be
any assistance to her and she died from
starvation.
The Tennessee State Teachers Assoc
alton and the Southern Teachers AS
ISOLATION, are in session at the Inn o.
Lookout Mountain.
j George w. Tanner, a well-tO-dO farm
or, residing some four miles north
e South Pittsburg, became enraged at hi
n 2O-year-old son, George Tanner, Jr., 8
: the breakfast table last Monday morn
@ ing. Some words passed between tn
q two and the young man arose from tn
I table and left the house. The lathe
:. followed him into the yard, picking u
- his shot gun as he went out. Whe
within few feet of the boy he raised tn
,. gun and fired. The boy knocked u
b the gun and the contents went harm
g lessly; into the air. He then broke an
g ran, but he had gone but few fee
, when the father fired again. The bo
: fell, probably mortally wounded, wit
Il sixteen turkey shot in his neck, arr
and Shoulder'
= Mr.. James L. Buford, Trustee {
. williamson County, died last MOnda
: after a short illnoss at his home j
IL Franklin. He was one of the mo-
II popular men in his county, and at I'll
" last election led the ticket. He was
bravo Confederate soldier, and lost
Is leg at the battle of BentOnville, n.
# He married Miss Gillespie, whom
= leaves surviving him, with two daugl
, ters and one son.
DIR. James McGill, Appointment cit1ze
and physician of Bedford county, wa
thrown from his horse and killed la
~ Monday. He was graduate OF
Philadelphia medical college and Ina
, the reputation of being an excelleI
physician.
% Clarksville suffered a $4,000 fire La
= Tuesday night. The Banner Tobacco
Warehouse, owned by Merriwether
g Co., with 1 800 hOgsheads of tobacco, an
|; Draper Bros, stable and twenty-tw
h mules were destroyed. The Tobacco
10 DESTROYED was valued at $I5O,OO but wa
II fully covered by insurance.